Reference in the Spotlight | Resources, Services, and Titles

by LJ Reviews
Nov 28, 2022 | Filed in Reviews+

Long live reference! LJ’s annual feature celebrates the resources and librarians that help patrons find facts, plan new ventures, write papers, and learn everything about anything from atoms to zoogeography. In this supplement, librarians across the nation highlight research-ready databases that make a daily difference in the search experience of students, scholars, and general users. A team of reference librarians detail how they help incarcerated patrons. Reviewers and editors showcase a cornucopia of reference titles, over 870+ of them, ranging from print titles to new databases and updated ebook collections.

Long live reference! LJ’s annual feature celebrates the resources and librarians that help patrons find facts, plan new ventures, write papers, and learn everything about anything from atoms to zoogeography. In this supplement, librarians across the nation highlight research-ready databases that make a daily difference in the search experience of students, scholars, and general users. A team of reference librarians detail how they help incarcerated patrons. Reviewers and editors showcase a cornucopia of reference titles, over 870+ of them, ranging from print titles to new databases and updated ebook collections.

An index to the full supplement is here.

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