The reference desk or information desk of a library is a public service counter where professional librarians provide library users with direction to library...

The Physicians' Desk Reference (PDR), renamed Prescriber's Digital Reference after its physical publication was discontinued, is a compilation of manufacturers'...

meanings of reference described in this article. Another sense is "consult"; this is reflected in such expressions as reference work, reference desk, job reference...

This form of reference work expands reference services from the physical reference desk to a "virtual" reference desk where the patron could be writing...

and co-worker Dina Merrill as Sylvia Blair, reference desk worker Sue Randall as Ruthie Saylor, reference desk worker Neva Patterson as Miss Warriner Harry...

A reference interview is a conversation between a librarian and a library user, usually at a reference desk, in which the librarian responds to the user's...

admission, etc. Reference design, in engineering Reference desk, in a library Reference question, a concept in Canadian public law Reference work, a dictionary...

reference librarians at the library reference desk, but the services of both are occasionally combined. The circulation desk is in most cases staffed by library...

about using or editing Wikipedia. Help desk – Ask questions about using or editing Wikipedia. Reference desk – Ask research questions about encyclopedic...

maintains materials budgets. Reference – Staffs a reference desk answering questions from users (using structured reference interviews), instructing users...

clarifying a confusing word. Reference work Library reference desk Ross, Catherine Sheldrick (2002). Conducting the reference interview : a how-to-do-it...

credenza desk (often simply, credenza) is a modern desk form usually placed next to a wall as a secondary work surface to that of another desk, such as...

A standing desk or stand-up desk is a desk conceived for writing, reading or drawing while standing up or while sitting on a high stool. Several writers...

The New York Public Library Desk Reference, in its fourth edition as of 2014, is a one-volume general reference work. According to the OCLC (2005 report)...

Hot desking (sometimes called "non-reservation-based hoteling") is a work office organization system where each space is available for any worker, rather...

Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A secretary desk or escritoire is made of a base of wide drawers topped by a desk with a hinged desktop surface, which is...

lap desk is a desk set in the lap. In the European tradition, it can be considered a modern form of the portable desk. As an antique the lap desk is a...

The candy desk has been a tradition of the United States Senate since 1965, whereby a Republican senator who sits at a particular desk near a busy entrance...

The desk on a frame (or desk on frame) is usually an antique form made up of two pieces of furniture. The first piece is a fairly large and closable portable...

A pedestal desk or a tanker desk is usually a large, flat, free-standing desk made of a simple rectangular working surface resting on two pedestals or...

Roving reference, also called roaming reference, is a library service model in which, instead of being positioned at a static reference desk, a librarian...

March 19, 2007. "Georgia State Fossil". State Symbols, State Fossil. e-Reference Desk. March 30, 2014. Archived from the original on March 2, 2012. Retrieved...

portable desk had many forms and is an ancestor of the portable computer, the modern laptop an atavistic grandchild of the 19th-century lap desk. All desks were...

A desk pad, sometimes called a desk mat or a blotter, is a table protector used when work such as painting or writing would otherwise damage the table...

television productions before portraying Ruthie Saylor, a reference-desk worker, in the 1957 film Desk Set starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Randall's...

a public library has its own reference desk. At a smaller library, circulation and reference may occur at the same desk. The Internet has had a significant...

A typewriter desk (also sometimes called a typewriter table or typing table) is a desk form meant to hold a typewriter at the proper height for the typist's...

is necessary. High-touch areas include: medicine, wealth management, reference desk, real estate, and legal. Stock trading done by humans, as opposed to...

of portable desk, made up of two chests, the bottom one usually having drawers (called a taquillón) and the top one having a hinged desk surface which...

A plantation desk is an antique desk form. It is thought to have been originally used as a mail desk by postmen. The form is known to have been used on...