Best Free Reference Websites Twelfth Annual List

摘要

Welcome to the twelfth annual "Best Free Ref erence Websites" list. In 1998, the Machine Assisted Reference Section (MARS) of RUSA appointed an ad hoc task force to develop a method of recognizing outstanding reference websites. The task force became a formal committee at the 2001 ALA An nual Conference, and now it is appropriately named the MARS Best Free Reference Websites Committee. Like previous lists, the 2010 list of winning sites is being published in this year's fall issue of RUSQ and added to the Library of Congress's online catalog. A link to this year's list is on the MARS webpage along with a link to the Best Free Reference Websites Combined Index, which provides in al phabetical order all entries in the current and previous eleven lists. Succinct and insightful annotations for the Best Free Reference Websites List entries were written by committee members in the years the particular websites were selected for the lists. These annotations provide guidance for using the websites as reference tools.