She wrote of the need for a public library with a reading room and reference department, supported by local taxes.

I inquired at the desk and was directed to the reference department.

There is rarely any real contact between areas and reference departments in the matter of book provision.

"Your request is not exactly in the scope of the reference department, but I shall be only too pleased to assist you."

To its east is a glass wall that looks into the reference department of the school's library.

The little brown tabby belonged to Wilma Getz, who worked in the reference department of the library.

The library often hosts community events and the reference department participates in Ask-a-Librarian.

In the reference department she inaugurated a new service for one of the country's oldest public libraries - a telephone information service.

A reference department had been established in 1899.

His father was the chief of the reference department of the New York Public Library.