The World Wide Web is here: Is the end of printed reference sources near?

Reference and User Services Quarterly

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 422-425

  Koutnik, Chuck ^a  

^a Appomattox Regional Library System   (United States)

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References (13)

1. Otto Friedrich, "Machine of the Year: The Computer Moves In," Time 121 (Jan. 3, 1983): 22.
2. Don Lanier and Walter Wilkins, "Ready Reference via the Internet," RQ 33 (1994): 360.
3. See, for example, Philip Davis, "Welcome to the World Wide Web," Computers in Libraries 15 (Jan. 1995): 51-55; and Paul D. Healey, "Untangling the Web: The World Wide Web As a Reference Tool," RQ 34 (Summer 1995): 441-42.
4. See, for example, Philip Davis, "Welcome to the World Wide Web," Computers in Libraries 15 (Jan. 1995): 51-55; and Paul D. Healey, "Untangling the Web: The World Wide Web As a Reference Tool," RQ 34 (Summer 1995): 441-42.
5. The U.S. Commerce Department grant was from the Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program, which provides seed money for innovative, practical technology projects.
6. Thomas P. Slavens, Reference Interviews, Questions, and Materials, 3d ed. (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1994).
7. G. Ibid., vii.
8. An answer key to Slavens' questions was made available to the author by Scarecrow Press. The answers were reviewed to verify that all questions used in the study could be answered by print sources.
9. This is because Slaven lists a variable number of questions in each category. For instance, 360 questions are listed in the bibliography category, while only 103 are listed in statistical sources. Using my method of selection, more questions were chosen from the former category.
10. Kay Larson, "Internet News," Footnotes: The Official Newsletter of the State Library of Iowa 10, no. 10 (Oct. 1995): 5.
11. All time studies in this article are based on 100 of the 104 questions studied. Four questions were not included because the time was mistakenly not kept, or there was suspicion that the time was recorded incorrectly.
12. Sharyn J. Ladner and Hope N. Tillman, "Using the Internet for Reference," Online 17 (Jan. 1993): 50.
13. Jean Shrier, "Reference Perspective," Public Libraries 34 (Mar./Apr. 1995): 75.