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A librarian's hardest reference question comes from someone certain they already know the answer
Verifying a quotation means finding the original page and not the secondhand source
AI chat answers pull more traffic away from encyclopedia sites than any rival encyclopedia did
Britannica ended its print edition in 2012 after 244 years
APA and MLA disagree about almost everything a first year paper needs and departments pick one
Citation chaining backward through a bibliography finds better sources than keyword search
Chicago style offers notes and bibliography for humanities and author date for sciences
A dictionary entry needs pronunciation and part of speech and usage labels not just a definition
Datasets get cited with a version number and an access date because they keep changing
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is peer reviewed and free and most departments cite it
An encyclopedia entry opens by defining its subject because the genre is descriptive and not argumentative
Gale and Oxford reference works behind a paywall are still what public libraries buy
A hospital information desk can tell you where a department is and cannot give medical advice
Citing a work you only read in translation is acceptable if you name the translator
Directory assistance 411 still exists and costs a few dollars per lookup
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