Ready Reference Sites...

To a librarian, the term "ready reference" means those research tools that provide quick and accurate answers to specific questions--almanacs, dictionaries, statistical sources, etc. The American Library Association has a comprehensive and eclectic list of ready reference sites for 2004 here, archives for past years here.

A new service, answers.com, is now freely available from guru.net and provides "ready reference" answers instead of the standard search engine return of link lists.