Guide to Reference
The American Library Association's selective guide to the best reference sources, organized by academic discipline. This subscription database of some 16,000 entries is updated on an ongoing basis.
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Guide to Reference Free Booklist Webinar: Twenty-first Century Reference Collections

Tuesday,
January 12, 2010
4:00 Eastern / 3:00 Central / 1:00 Pacific

Reference collections are changing, driven by technology and new patterns of use. Join Booklist's Mary Ellen Quinn, Editor of Reference Books Bulletin, and a group of library and publishing... experts as they talk about how the traditional reference collection is being transformed. Panelists include:
• David A. Tyckoson Associate Dean, Henry Madden Library, University of California Fresno
• Diana McDermott Vice President, Director of Marketing and Sales, M. E. Sharpe
• Vince Burns Executive Editorial Director, ABC-CLIO
• Jaime Hodge Managing Editor, World Book Online
• Darcy McCanless Professional Development Specialist, Encyclopaedia Britannica

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Guide to Reference The Machine-Assisted Reference Section (MARS) of RUSA has released its "Best Free Reference Websites List" for 2009.

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Guide to Reference Webinar for LIS Instructors: Tips for integrating Guide to Reference into your teaching

Thursday, December 3, 2009
3:00-4:00pm Central Time

Learn how your colleagues are effectively and efficiently integrating this valuable resource into their teaching to help provide practical job preparation. This webinar will familiar...ize you with the major features and benefits of Guide to Reference so you can easily incorporate the online resource into your own teaching—with free access. Click to reserve your seat today!

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Webinar panelists will address:
• What your students need to prepare them for reference work
• How Guide to Reference makes teaching sources easier
• How to sign up for free access for you and your students, including through online course management systems
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November 17, 2009 at 10:51am
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CHICAGO—The Business Reference and Services Section (BRASS) seeks applicants for the 2010 BRASS Gale Cengage Learning Student Travel Award, a cash award to assist a current library school student ...
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Guide to Reference Meet the Guide to Reference General Editor and Editorial Review Board...

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, and Reference Services Review. He is generally interested in issues of cooperative collection development and, while still in Pennsylvania, pursued those interests in the Philadelphia Consortium of Special ...
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Guide to Reference Registration is now open for the fall session of "The Reference Interview," one
of the Reference and User Services Association's (RUSA) online courses. http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/rusa/development/referenceinterview/index.cfm

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Reference Interview is a comprehensive course focusing on the methods of evaluating reference service, behavioral aspects of reference service, and the different types of questions that can be used to help patrons identify what they need. ...
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Guide to Reference Are you a LIS reference instructor? Help Guide to Reference better understand the needs of LIS reference instructors. We are surveying LIS professors who teach reference courses to better understand instruction needs and how the Guide can be used most effectively in LIS programs.

Click this link to take our short, six-q...uestion, survey.

Thanks in advance for your participation.

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September 21, 2009 at 9:08am
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Guide to Reference How LIS programs can get free access to Guide to Reference for class use...

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The American Library Association is pleased to provide free, ongoing access to LIS faculty and students for their teaching and coursework.*
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The Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) has released its list of programs scheduled for the 2010 ALA Annual Conference, June 24-29, 2010 in Washington, D.C.
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Guide to Reference Subscriber testimonial: ""Our subscription to the Guide to Reference has been immensely helpful in surveying the scope of materials available. It's easily navigable through subject trees and the reviews provide the information needed to gauge the suitability of particular works for meeting reference needs.... (con'd)

September 11, 2009 at 8:28am
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... More importantly, the broad range of materials covered in the Guide alerts the user to resources, both paper and digital, otherwise overlooked without exhaustive monitoring of multiple other sources—a real time-saver."

Paul Donovan
State Law Librarian
Vermont Dept of Libraries
September 11, 2009 at 8:29am
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Guide to Reference Choice on Guide to Reference: "Essential. All research libraries." Read the review in the September 2009 issue of Choice, or in Choice Reviews Online at http://www.cro2.org/default.aspx?page=reviewdisplay&pid=3482077

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Guide to Reference Guide to Reference got a starred review in Booklist! Read it at http://www.booklistonline.com/default.aspx?page=show_product&pid=3587700

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Booklist Online, featuring over 120,000 book reviews, as well as audiobook, video, and database reviews, is the counterpart to Booklist magazine, published by the American Library Association.
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Guide to Reference Visit our exhibit booth during the ALA Annual Conference for a Guide to Reference demonstration or to meet the editors. (Conference registration or exhibits only pass is required.)

Time:9:00AM Tuesday, July 14th
Location:McCormick Place West, Hall F
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Guide to Reference Visit our exhibit booth during the ALA Annual Conference for a Guide to Reference demonstration or to meet the editors. (Conference registration or exhibits only pass is required.)

Time:9:00AM Monday, July 13th
Location:McCormick Place West, Hall F