Thursday, February 24, 2005

RedLightGreen

In my humble opinion, this site, RedLightGreen, should be bookmarked by every librarian or information professional because it leads the user to reliable sources of information already vetted by other librarians. The site "helps you locate the most important books and other research materials in your area of interest, and find out whether what you need is available at your favorite library [including ours!]. "

I searched for "legal research" and the results were presented in an interesting cluster-style with topics, authors and languages on the left-hand side. "Search results
are ranked in order of relevance to your search term AND based on how many copies of a title are out there, so you're more likely to find what you're looking for in your library."

You can create a *free* account by signing in with your email address and password. Once you do, you can format citations any way you want: MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian. Plus, you have the choice of either emailing the list or printing it.

http://www.redlightgreen.com/