Reference Reviews

James Rettig

James Rettig's "Rettig on Reference" column ran from October 1997 to September 1999 on gale.com. During that time he reviewed more than 490 print, CD-ROM and online reference products.

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Reference books have given me delight at least since I was in eighth grade and my parents gave me a copy of World Almanac, that inexhaustible treasure trove for serendipitous browsing. In a course on bibliography and research methods in literature during graduate study in English literature at Marquette University, I discovered my affinity for reference books. It made sense, then, that I chose to study next at the library school of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Since then I have worked as a reference librarian at Murray State University and the University of Dayton, as head of the reference department at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and as a ssistant dean of university libraries for reference and information services at the College of William and Mary.

I currently serve as university librarian at the University of Richmond.