[WEB4LIB] Looking for Internet Website Reference Sources

[Popp, Mary F.]

Hi!  In addition to all of the good sites already mentioned, you will
want to take a look at the MARS Best Free Websites at:

http://www.ala.org/MARSmainTemplate.cfm?Section=MARS

The lists are under the Publications Section of the site.

Compiled by a committee of librarians from MARS (the Machine Assisted
Reference Section) of RUSA (in ALA), this annual list identifies the
best ready reference free web sites.  The 2004 list has just been
published and earlier lists are also found at the web site.  There is a
combined index of titles from 1999-2004.

The sites are chosen based on clear criteria
(http://www.ala.org/ala/rusa/rusaourassoc/rusasections/mars/marspubs/mar
sbestrefcriteria.htm

All titles are cataloged by the Library of Congress.

If you are interested in the work of MARS and would like to be a part of
the work of the MARS Best Committee, please contact me.

Mary
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Mary Pagliero Popp, Library Information Technology
(Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect of MARS)
Library E456, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405
812-855-8170    FAX: 812-856-4979  popp at indiana.edu





-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Sarah Hood
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 6:01 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Looking for Internet Website Reference Sources


Dear Fellow Web4libbers:

I am a reference librarian/webmaster at a small academic library and I
am looking for a source(s) which will give me the 'latest and greatest',
as it were, in Internet websites under various subject listings, such as
History, English & Lit., Women's Studies, etc. - topics that are
oriented for the college student conducting research. Some of my
websites are dated and so I"m having to do some virtual weeding. But I
would like to replace some of what I weed with other good sites. 

Most of what I'm finding is rather serendipitous: hearing about a new
website on the news, from a colleague. I'm fairly new to the profession
and am not sure where to turn for a reliable, up-to-date source of the
latest and greatest reference websites. 

Any suggestions. 

Thanks, 
Sarah Hood

Sarah Hood
User Services Librarian/Webmaster
J. Drake Edens Library
Columbia College
(803) 786-3703
(803) 786-3570