Outstanding reference sources 2000

摘要

Last January a group of dedicated librarians closeted themselves in a conference room over a three-day weekend to engage in the annual ritual of compiling a list of outstaanding reference sources published during the previous year. Spending several days immersed in some of the best books of the year is a bibliophile's dream. It was the privilege for members of the Reference Sources Committee of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) to review hundreds of high-quality reference works in the process of whittling a list of excellent titles down to the award winners.