They evaluate Internet resources and can often offer advice for a wider range of materials than will be found within the library walls. Many of these guides are available online . Examples are chronologies, electronic and Internet databases, dictionaries, almanacs, and yearbooks. Examples are bibliographies, indexes, and abstracts. Sources which provide critical overviews .
Examples are encyclopedias, literary and film criticism collections, and topical handbooks.
A number of electronic sources are also available, check the subject guide for reference databases the library provides only to UWEC students and staff. In addition, the Online Reference Shelf contains both freely-available reference sources that our librarians have selected and links to other online reference collections. Besides these resources, the Reference Department contains collections of special materials which are frequently used by faculty and students. Access is through the online catalog searching by corporation as subject. Smaller atlases are shelved in the Reference stacks.