Reference and User Services Association
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The Reference and User Services Association is a professional division of the American Library Association that focuses on improving reference, user services, and resource sharing in libraries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Reference and User Services Association canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3500885 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Reference and User Services Association Context triple: [American Library Association, hasDivision, Reference and User Services Association]
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A.
Association of Research Libraries
The Association of Research Libraries is a nonprofit membership organization of major research libraries in North America that collaborates to influence public policies, advance scholarly communication, and improve research library services.
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B.
Library Association
The Library Association was a major professional body and publishing organization for librarians and information professionals in the United Kingdom, known for producing influential cataloguing standards and library science literature.
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C.
Canadian Association of Research Libraries
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries is a national organization representing Canada’s major research libraries, promoting collaboration, advocacy, and leadership in support of research and higher education.
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D.
OCLC
OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) is a global nonprofit cooperative organization that provides shared technology services, original research, and programs to help libraries catalog, manage, and share their collections worldwide.
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E.
Canadian Library Association
The Canadian Library Association was a national professional organization that represented and supported libraries and library workers across Canada through advocacy, standards development, and professional services.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Reference and User Services Association Target entity description: The Reference and User Services Association is a professional division of the American Library Association that focuses on improving reference, user services, and resource sharing in libraries.
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A.
Association of Research Libraries
The Association of Research Libraries is a nonprofit membership organization of major research libraries in North America that collaborates to influence public policies, advance scholarly communication, and improve research library services.
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B.
Library Association
The Library Association was a major professional body and publishing organization for librarians and information professionals in the United Kingdom, known for producing influential cataloguing standards and library science literature.
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C.
Canadian Association of Research Libraries
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries is a national organization representing Canada’s major research libraries, promoting collaboration, advocacy, and leadership in support of research and higher education.
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D.
OCLC
OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) is a global nonprofit cooperative organization that provides shared technology services, original research, and programs to help libraries catalog, manage, and share their collections worldwide.
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E.
Canadian Library Association
The Canadian Library Association was a national professional organization that represented and supported libraries and library workers across Canada through advocacy, standards development, and professional services.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
division of the American Library Association
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library association division ⓘ professional organization ⓘ |
| abbreviation | RUSA ⓘ |
| activity |
develops guidelines for reference services
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develops standards for library user services ⓘ offers professional development for librarians ⓘ organizes programs at ALA conferences ⓘ publishes professional guidelines and recommendations ⓘ sponsors awards for excellence in reference and user services ⓘ |
| affiliation | ALA divisions ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| field | librarianship ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
adult services in libraries
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collection development ⓘ information literacy ⓘ information services in libraries ⓘ interlibrary loan ⓘ reader advisory services ⓘ reference collection management ⓘ reference services ⓘ resource discovery ⓘ resource sharing in libraries ⓘ user services ⓘ |
| goal | to enhance access to information for library users ⓘ |
| hasCommittee |
awards committee
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conference program planning committee ⓘ standards and guidelines committee ⓘ |
| hasSection |
Business Reference and Services Section
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Collection Development and Evaluation Section ⓘ Emerging Technologies Section ⓘ History Section ⓘ Reference Services Section ⓘ Sharing and Transforming Access to Resources Section ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mission |
to improve reference and information services in libraries
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to promote resource sharing among libraries ⓘ to support excellence in user services in libraries ⓘ |
| nonProfitStatus | nonprofit professional association ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | American Library Association ⓘ |
| sector | library and information science ⓘ |
| serves |
academic libraries
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public libraries ⓘ reference librarians ⓘ school libraries ⓘ special libraries ⓘ user services librarians ⓘ |
| website | https://www.rusaupdate.org/ ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Reference and User Services Association Description of subject: The Reference and User Services Association is a professional division of the American Library Association that focuses on improving reference, user services, and resource sharing in libraries.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
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administeredBy
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Reference and User Services Association
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subject surface form:
American Library Association
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction
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presentedBy
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Reference and User Services Association
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Reference & User Services Quarterly
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associatedOrganization
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Reference and User Services Association
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Reference & User Services Quarterly
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isOfficialJournalOf
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Reference and User Services Association
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