Description: While the Internet has been called "the world's library" for its enormous store of information, its maze of material has kept researchers from gaining quick and easy results. For those with no time for wild goose chases through cyberspace comes this handy guide to quality research and reference sites.

With the skeptical eye of a journalist and a librarian's sensibility, author Shirley Duglin Kennedy has compiled and profiled more than 500 ready-for-reference sites. She also examines the best subject directories, offers tips on the various search engines at your fingertips, explains how E-mail discussion lists and news groups can aid in reference, evaluates and categorizes each site, and suggests when to use such often forgotten tools as gophers, veronica, and jughead.

As an Internet trainer in libraries, Kennedy knows firsthand the frustration librarians feel when applying their professional research skills to the Internet. This book offers tips and tricks designed to help librarians satisfy their patrons on the spot.

Anyone can surf the 'Net, but utilizing the information superhighway as a practical information-gathering tool is another matter entirely. Kennedy wades through the rising sea of information -- and misinformation -- and delivers the goods. When there's not time to mess around, reach for Best Bet Internet.

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