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- Minnesota Opportunities for Reference Excellence - The goal of Minnesota Opportunities for Reference Excellence continues to be improving the overall quality of reference service, which includes the reference interview, print and electronic sources, and Readers' Advisory.
- Cooperative Reference Service Policy Manuals - Guidelines to help libraries create cooperative agreements to share reference services between institutions.
- Management by Wandering Around: Reference Rovering and Quality Reference Service - Describes the business concept of management by wandering around and details how it can be used in providing patrons with better reference assistance.
- Guidelines for Behavioral Performance of Reference and Information Services Professionals - Criteria list to be used to evaluate the reference skills of library staff.
- Librarians also Help on Web - Article from Central Michigan Life detailing the virtual reference services from the Park Library of Central Michigan University.
- Smithsonian American Art Museum - Art information specialists at the National Museum of American Art, using print and electronic reference sources, provide assistance with art reference questions at this site.
- Dictionary.com - Free online dictionary search, translator, word of the day, crossword puzzles and word games, and vocabulary learning resources for many languages.
- Best Information on the Net - Internet resources selected by librarians at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa. Includes a reference desk, a hot paper topics file, sites for many academic disciplines, and internet training resources.
- Digital Reference Services Bibliography - List of more than 400 references to articles about online or virtual reference services by Bernie Sloan from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois.
- Sites for Reference Sources - Collection of links that library staff would find useful in conducting reference work.
Wikipedia Articles
- Digital reference services - Digital reference is a service by which library reference service is conducted online, and the reference transaction is a computer-mediated communication.
- A Practical Reference to Religious Diversity for Operational Police and Emergency Services - A Practical Reference to Religious Diversity for Operational Police and Emergency Services is a publication of Australasian Police Multicultural Advisory Bureau.
- Digital reference service - Digital reference service is helping to change the face of reference services across libraries. This service has had a huge impact on libraries.
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service - The National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) is a program that disseminates publications from the United States Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs (OJP) agencies, as well as the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), Office on Violence Against Women, National Institute of Corrections (NIC), and Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS). NCJRS also maintains a criminal justice library and reference center, and serves as a resource for law enforcement and criminal justice agencies and researchers.
- Virtual reference - ==Virtual Reference Services==