Best Free Reference Web Sites $$$$ Ninth Annual List

摘要

Welcome to the ninth annual Best Free Reference Web Sites List. In 1998, the Reference and User Services Associations (RUSA) Machine-Assisted Reference Section (MARS) appointed an ad hoc task force to develop a method of recognizing outstanding reference Web sites. The task force became a formal committee at the 2001 ALA Annual Conference. This is the ninth Best Free Reference Web Sites list produced by the group. Past lists and all future lists will be published in each year's fall issue of Reference & User Services Quarterly. The annotations also are included in electronic resource records for the sites in the Online Catalog of the Library of Congress. An online version of the list appears on the MARS publications portion of the RUSA Web site along with a new combined index to sites included in previous lists. A subject index is being created; links to it will be included on the Web page in the future.