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Guide to Reference is a selective guide to the best reference sources, organized by academic discipline.

An editorial team of reference librarians and subject experts have selected and annotated some 16,000 entries, both print and web-based, free and subscription. Users in libraries subscribing to Guide to Reference can set up a profile to create and save lists and notes to use in their reference and research work. This subscription database, published by the American Library Association, is updated on an ongoing basis.

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"Guide to Reference is easy to navigate and the ability to browse categories and search keywords and classification demonstrates an informed design process meant to assist LIS students learning new resources, reference librarians searching for answers, and librarians developing a collection. Essential for large public and academic libraries as well as libraries supporting LIS programs."

Stephen Fadel
University of Maine
(Booklist Starred Review)

 

"ALA's online Guide to Reference unlocks a hundred years of reference scholarship devoted to identifying, describing, and organizing the best sources for finding authoritative information on any subject. It blends traditional print reference tools with timely Internet resources and makes them available to any subscriber, anywhere at any time."

Peter Z. McKay
George A. Smathers Libraries
University of Florida

 

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