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The Web is always moving, always changing. As some Web sites come, others go, but the most effective sites have been well established. A Subject Guide to Quality Web Sites provides a list of key web sites in various disciplines that will assist researchers with a solid starting point for their queries. The sites included in this collection are stable and have librarian tested high-quality information: the most important attribute information can have.The sites in this volume are arranged into 16 major categories: Arts and Humanities; Books, Electronic, and Print; Business; Computing; Education; Health and Medicine; History and Culture; Home and Recreation; Law; Libraries, Museums, and Museum Studies; Mathematics; News; Physical Sciences; Reference (General Information); Social Sciences; and Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism. Although the scope of the book is broad, it touches upon subjects useful to a variety of researchers: from grade school, high school or college students to business professionals, teachers, and professors.

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Library Journal Review

Burden (director, library svcs., DeVry Univ., Tinley Park; "A Brief Bibliography" in Knowledge Management Lessons Learned: What Works and What Doesn't) has assembled some 4200 links arranged by subject. Sites were evaluated according to ease of navigation, authority, currency, relevance, and scope; cross-references are used throughout, including See and See Also pointers. The list of subjects covers everything from architecture to terrorism and counterterrorism, indexed at the end by entry name and subject. While the listings are current, lasting relevance is a major concern for a guide of this nature-websites change quickly, and within the next few months, some of the links may no longer work. As something of a precaution, the author has included here not only site URLs but also the name of the publishing organization. This might at least allow users who discover a broken link to search for the name of the organization and find the information. BOTTOM LINE Even if the links become outdated, the topical information providers listed here could serve as a nice print analog to any library's online resource list.-Diane Fulkerson, Univ. of West Georgia, Carrollton (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

CHOICE Review

The decision to publish a Web site directory in print, as an expensive hardcover in particular, is puzzling in this day and age. These guides predominated in the 1990s, but they dated quickly and did not reach users where they already were: online. Inappropriateness of format is not the only problem here, however. Within 16 chapters, ranging from "Arts and General Humanities" to "News" to "Mathematics" to "Terrorism," sites based on personal research by Burden (DeVry Univ.), colleagues' recommendations, and mentions in library-oriented publications are organized into subcategories. At minimum, titles and URLs are given; for many other entries, the book reprints informational blurbs found on the sites themselves. This means that sometimes the annotations are pure advertising ("our prices are very reasonable"). Critical evaluations appear rarely. Standard, reliable resources appear alongside others of dubious authority, and some are fee-based. The resulting eclectic list reads like an extended bookmark file, and overall, the volume's promise of "quality web sites" does not hold true. Why does Frank Zappa's music rate its own tiny category? Why is Illinois the only state government included in its section? What value do satirical 9/11 trading cards have for researchers? Summing Up: Not recommended. S. L. Johnson Eastern Illinois University

Booklist Review

Compiled by the director of library services at the Tinley Park, Illinois, campus of DeVry University, this volume presents more than 4,200 key websites in 16 disciplines, touching on subjects of use to patrons and researchers from grade school to postgraduate. Sites included were evaluated for arrangement, authority, currency, relevance, and scope. Each chapter, or discipline, is arranged alphabetically by subdiscipline, with sites arranged in each alphabetically by the title of the site. Each entry contains the site name, URL, and an annotation of varying length. The lack of subdisciplines listed either in the front of the book or as guidewords makes this a hard volume to use without familiarity with the content, and it is also difficult to find where new entries begin on the page. Considering the volatility of websites, this volume would be better as an online resource with regular updating, and with better finding aids included.--Marcus, Sara Copyright 2010 Booklist

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Paul R. Burden is the director of library services at the Tinley Park, Illinois campus of DeVry University.