Reference and User Services Quarterly

*Reference and User Services Quarterly*
Discipline	Library science
Language	English
Edited by	Kathleen Kern
Publication details
Former name(s)	Reference Quarterly
History	1961–present
Publisher	American Library Association (United States)
Frequency	Quarterly
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	Ref. User Serv. Q.
Indexing;
CODEN	RUSQFU
ISSN	1094-9054;
LCCN	98643583
OCLC no.	37395409
Links
	Journal homepage;

Reference and User Services Quarterly is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering library science. It is the official journal of the Reference and User Services Association and is published by the American Library Association. The journal was established as the Reference Quarterly in 1961 under the editorship of William Katz.^[1]^[2] A silver anniversary series appeared in 1986.^[3]^[4] The journal was retitled and obtained its current name in 1997.

In 1985 the journal appeared twice in the set design for the movie, Back to the Future, next to the bed of Marty McFly.^[5]

The journal is available electronically via EBSCO, Academic OneFile, and WilsonWeb, as well as its own website.

References

^ Bill Katz Dies; Author, Reference Expert, Teacher." Library Journal. October 22, 2004.
^ Krieger, T. (1985). RQ: 1960 to 1985. Reference Quarterly, 25, 121–136.
^ Front Matter. (1986). RQ, 25(4).
^ Hansen, Andrew M. “RASD: Serving Those Who Serve the Public.” RQ 34, no. 3 (Spring 1995): 314.
^ RQ as Movie Star." Reference Quarterly, V.25 (winter, 1985): 283.