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Librarian, Ballard Carnegie Library, Seattle, Washington c. 1907 The reference desk or information desk of a library is a public service counter where professional librarians provide library users with direction to library materials, advice on library collections and services, and expertise on multiple kinds of information from multiple sources.
The refdesk is supposed to be a place to get help finding information about legitimate questions, not a place to discuss nonsense like how long it would take to walk from the earth to the sun. (not making that up it was a real refdesk thread that got a lot of replies) Beeblebrox 17:25, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
WP:RD/ALL redirects here. You may also be looking for Wikipedia:Resolving disputes, Wikipedia:Redirect or Wikipedia:Deletion review.. This page lists all the recent questions asked on the Wikipedia reference desk by category.
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Refdesk - free and family-friendly web site that indexes and reviews quality, credible, and current web-based resources; DeepDyve - big archive of literary and scholarly journal articles; free five-minute full-text previews.
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