"Co-published simultaneously as The reference librarian, numbers 91/92, 2005." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Getting it right : the evolution of reference collections / Margaret Landesman -- Out of the stack and into the Net : international perspectives on academic reference resources / Gaynor Austen, Carolyn Young -- Electronic vs. print reference sources in public library collections / Jeanne Holba Puacz -- Digital versus print : the current state of reference affairs in school libraries / D. Jackson Maxwell -- Reference publishing in the age of also / John M. Morse -- From the womb to the Web : library assignments and the new generation / Necia Parker-Gibson -- Cyberplagiarism and the library issues and solutions / Jennifer Sharkey, Bartow Culp -- Structures and choices for ready reference Web sites / Steven W. Sowards -- Federated search tools : the next step in the quest for one-stop-shopping / Stephen C. Boss, Michael L. Nelson -- Internet reference sources in the humanities / Dennis Dillon -- Science reference on the Internet / Lori Bronars -- Medical reference sources on the Internet : an evolving information forum and marketplace / Gary A. McMillan -- Web-based reference resources for the social sciences / Brian Quinn -- Briefcases and databases : Web-based reference sources for business librarians and their client communities / Gail M. Golderman, Bruce Connolly -- Internet reference sources in education / Linda C. Weber -- Best free reference Web sites : a selected list / Lori Morse.
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