Communicating Professionally: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians, Edition 3

Catherine Sheldrick Ross is Professor Emerita at the University of Western Ontario. She has taught graduate courses in reference services, readers’ advisory work, and research methods in the MLIS and PhD programs at Western. She has presented more than fifty workshops to library professionals in the United States and Canada. Together with Patricia Dewdney, she has written two previous editions of Communicating Professionally and is a four-time winner of the Reference Services Press Award. She has published extensively in the areas of reference services, readers’ advisory, and the ethnography of reading for pleasure. With co-authors Lynn (E. F.) McKechnie and Paulette M. Rothbauer, she has published Reading Matters: What the Research Reveals about Reading, Libraries, and Community.

Kirsti Nilsen taught introductory and advanced courses in reference, as well as government information, collection development, special libraries, and information policy while a professor in the MLIS program at the University of Western Ontario and, earlier, as an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto, where she completed her PhD. Her library experience includes employment at MIT and the University of Rhode Island, and as special librarian in a corporate libraries. She was a coauthor on the first and second editions of Conducting the Reference Interview with Catherine Ross, with whom she is also co-author of the third edition of Communicating Professionally. In addition, she is the author of The Impact of Information Policy and coauthor of Constraining Public Libraries: The World Trade Organization's General Agreement on Trade in Services, and author of many articles.