Reference Services Review: Volume 27 Issue 4

Assuring integrity of information utility in cyber‐learning formats

James L. Morrison, Linda L. Stein

Electronic networks are changing business operations worldwide. Universities must prepare students to handle the rapidly expanding range of commercial information in cyber…

Internet resources for the Kosovo crisis

Geoffrey Husic

The Internet has had an unprecedented impact on the ready availability of information to the public. The conflict in Yugoslavia and Kosovo is an excellent example of how…

Partnership in electronic learning

Veronica Calderhead

Urban high schools in the USA are in a difficult position – they need to provide essential and fundamental education in core content areas, while also ensuring that students…

Digital library: keywords

Sarah B. Watstein, Pascal V. Calarco, James S. Ghaphery

This article identifies and defines some of the more commonly used terms and phrases which have been used to describe the evolving online/electronic/virtual/digital library…

Web‐based tax research services in academic libraries

Deborah L. Harrington

Tax research services are now available on the Web. Other formats include print, online, and CD‐ROM. Academic librarians are faced with choosing between the formats in the face of…

“Wired travelers”: travel and tourism Web sites

Judith Bernstein, Susan C. Awe

Because of the amount of data and multimedia content available, searching the Web is a monumental task. Online commercial sites are growing, and travel is the fastest growing…