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Locating Fair and Balanced Sources (Internet Public Library)
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General
Portal
Library of Congress Research and Reference Services
Library of Congress Reference Shelf
Library of Congress Alcove 9: An Annotated List of Reference Websites
Refdesk
Refdesk Reference Shelves on the Net
Refdesk Essential Reference Tools
Refdesk Quick Reference
Refdesk Indispensable Links
InfoPlease
LibrarySpot
Martindale’s
Wolfram Alpha
Bartleby
Project Gutenberg
Bibliomania
Wikipedia’s Reference Desk
Wikipedia’s Reference Works Category
Wikipedia’s General Reference Portal
Dictionary
reference : something (as a sign or indication) that refers a reader or consulter to another source of information (as a book or passage) — Webster See also Oxford, OneLook, Free Dictionary, Wiktionary, InfoPlease, Word Reference
Thesaurus
Roget’s II (Thesaurus.com), Merriam-Webster Thesaurus, Visuwords
Encyclopedia
Reference work A reference work is a compendium of information, usually of a specific type, compiled in a book for ease of reference.Reference work. — Wikipedia
Ready reference are reference materials used in answering reference questions that can be answered by a reference librarian in one or two minutes by providing a fact or piece of information found in a single source shelved for convenience in a separate location near the reference desk rather than in the reference stacks Reference work. — Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science
Preservation
Library
WorldCat (OAIster) Library of Congress, UPenn Online Books, Open Library
Participation
Education
Course
OER Commons: Open Educational Resources
Open Education Consortium
Occupation
Reference Librarian (US Occupational Outlook Handbook)
Article
General Reference Works (David Nordloh, American Literary Scholarship)
Google Scholar
Book
Government
Library of Congress Research and Reference Services
Library of Congress Reference Shelf
Library of Congress Alcove 9: An Annotated List of Reference Websites
Document
Expression
Fun
Reference Librarianship in Star Wars
Jedi Master ‘Madame’ Jocasta Nu
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Library of Congress Reference Desk Updates
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