Using the world wide web at the reference desk

Computers in Libraries

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 61-65

  Dickstein, Ruth ^a   Greenfleld, Louise ^a   Rosen, Jeff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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EID: 0003160554     PISSN: 10417915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
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References (12)

1. Janice Simmons-Welburn, "New Technologies and Reference Service." RQ 33, 1 (Fall 1993); 17.
2. Don Lanier and Walter Wilkins, "Ready Reference Via the Internet. "RQ 33, 3 (Spring 1994): 365.
3. Paul Healy, "Untangling the Web: the World Wide Web as a Reference Tool." RQ 34, 4 (Summer 1995): 443.
4. Scott A. Melendorff, "Pounding the Pavement with Purpose: Utilizing the Information Superhighway for Daily Work Tasks." RQ 35, 2 (Winter 1995): 232.
5. Sara Ryan, "Using the Internet for Reference," p. 12 in The Internet Searcher's Handbook: Locating Information, People and Software, New York: Neal-Schuman, 1996.
6. The URL for Yahoo! is http://www.yahoo. com; Lycos is http://www.lycos.com; and Excite is http://www.excite.com.
7. The URL for AltaVista is http://altavista. digital.com; Infoseek is http://infoseek.com; and WebCrawler is http://www.webcrawler. com. AltaVista and Yahoo! have recently joined forces. Yahoo! provides the subject categorization of the Web, and AltaVista provides the keyword searching. Yahoo! pages have links to AltaVista and searches on AltaVista.
8. Peter Morville, "Using the Internet for Research." p. 28 in The Internet Searcher's Handbook: Locating Information, People and Software. New York: Neal-Schuman, 1996.
9. Ryan, The Internet Searcher's Handbook, p. 12.
10. Jeff Rosen and Carl Snow, "Internet Resources for Ready Reference." College &Research Libraries News 57, 12 (Jan. 1997): 14-17; also at http://www.ala.org/acrl/ resjan97.html.
11. The URLs for the libraries mentioned are: University of Tennessee-Knoxville-http:// www.lib.utk.edu/refs; Purdue University-http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/vlirary/index.html; University of Texas at Austin-http://www. lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Reference.html; University of Arizona-http://dizzy.library. arizona.edu/libresources/referen.html.
12. Gregory F. Pratt, et al., "Guidelines for Internet Resource Selection." College & Research Libraries News 57, 3 (Mar. 1996): 134.