Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 18:45:03 +0530
From: "Thapar, Amit"
Best Free Reference Web Sites Combined Index
http://www.ala.org/ala/rusa/rusaourassoc/rusasections/mars/marspubs/MARSBEST...
"an index of the web sites included in the 1999-2004 annual lists issued by the Mars Best of Free Reference Web Sites Committee of the Machine-Assisted Reference Section(MARS) of the Reference and User Services Association(RUSA) ofALA to recognize outstanding reference sites on the World Wide Web." Includes links to theoriginal reviews.
Extreme Makeover, Library Edition
http://www.oclc.org/nextspace/001/1.htm
This article from OCLC's newsletter takes off from an OCLC report on perceptions of libraries http://www.oclc.org/reports/2005perceptions.htm and discusses how libraries might "re-brand" themselves.
FreeFullText.com
http://www.freefulltext.com/
"provides direct links to over 7000 scholarly periodicals which allow some or all of their online content to be viewed by ANYONE with Internet access for free." Could be a handy place to check when somebody needs an article you don't own iimmediately.
Wikinews
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page
This little sister to the Wikipedia bills itself as "the free news source you can write!" -- preferably following its code of ethics and standards of fully referenced objective journalism (available at the About Wikinews page).
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