The Librarians’ Internet Index started in the early 1990s as one librarian’s bookmarks and has grown into a “publicly funded Web site and weekly newsletter serving California, Washington state, the nation, and the world.”

The New York Public Library’s Best of the Web

The Toronto Public Library’s Virtual Reference Library

The Best Free Reference Web Sites 2005 is the seventh in an annual series from the American Library Association’s Machine-Assisted Reference Section (MARS) of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA). Sites from 1999 to 2004 are listed in a Combined Index.

The Scout Project is compiled by librarians, faculty, and students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It has three parts: Research and Education, General Interest, and Network Tools.

Neat New Stuff I Found on the Web This Week by Marylaine Block, a librarian-turned-writer, speaker, trainer, and consultant on the Internet

ResearchBuzz focuses on “search engines, new data managing software, browser technology, large compendiums of information, Web directories” and other technical or technique-oriented aspects of Web searching. Its author, Tara Calishain, co-wrote Google Hacks and other books about Web searching techniques.

If you find a site using a major search tool like Google, how can you determine whether you can rely on its information? Recently some intentionally planted misinformation was discovered on Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia created and edited by Web users. The best advice is to verify what you find in another source.

Librarians at the University of California at Berkeley offer suggestions for Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask.

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