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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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"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

 

"A core resource in the field of librarianship, no scholarly librarian can provide effective research service without ALA's Guide to Reference . . . a brilliant, well-organized and invaluable work."

Jenny Mendelsohn
University of Toronto Libraries

 

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