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On the Web
- 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.
- Information Institute of Syracuse (IIS) - IIS is the umbrella organization for a number of digital education information services, including The Gateway to Educational Materials, The Virtual Reference Desk, the Educator's Reference Desk, and the ERIC Database. The site includes information about the institute, staff and projects with external links to further information.
- Librarians also Help on Web - Article from Central Michigan Life detailing the virtual reference services from the Park Library of Central Michigan University.
- Kentucky Virtual Library - Online catalogs and databases, online tutorial and help with internet-based research, a virtual reference desk, and access to Kentuckiana digitized collections, serving Kentuckians and supporting the Kentucky Commonwealth Virtual 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.
- Virtual Reference Desk - Includes a list of electronic resources recommended by Central Michigan University library staff for reference assistance.
- Dictionary.com - Free online dictionary search, translator, word of the day, crossword puzzles and word games, and vocabulary learning resources for many languages.
- University of Tennessee-Martin Andy Holt Virtual Library - Focus is on the humanities and fine arts, with access to local and world library catalogs, electronic journals, databases, virtual reference desk, digitized documents, and departmental resources. Partners with the physical Paul Meek Library to provide face to face services.
- The Virtual Reference Desk - Reference index from Purdue University
- The Internet Research Clinic - Useful resources and links for UK based media librarians and information researchers.
Wikipedia Articles
- Library reference desk - The reference desk or information desk of a library is a public service desk where professional librarians offer help to library users.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library - Gale Virtual Reference Library is an electronic database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
- Physicians' Desk Reference - The Physicians' Desk Reference (PDR) is a commercially published compilation of manufacturers' prescribing information (package insert) on prescription drugs, updated annually. While designed to provide physicians with the full legally mandated information relevant to writing prescriptions (just as its name suggests), it is widely available in libraries and bookstores, widely used ...
- Virtual reference - ==Virtual Reference Services==
- Cave Automatic Virtual Environment - A Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (better known by the recursive acronym CAVE) is an immersive virtual reality environment where projectors are directed to three, four, five or six of the walls of a room-sized cube. The name is also a reference to the allegory of the Cave in Plato’s Republic where a philosopher contemplates perception, reality and illusion.