An increasing number of libraries are cataloging the Universal Resource Locators (URLs) which reference librarians have bookmarked so that patrons searching the catalog will be led to useful sites on the Web. One reason for doing so is that the number of useful sites is increasing so rapidly that it is becoming difficult for patrons to work their way through a long list of bookmarks; and it is becoming impractical to create icons on PCs for hundreds of useful Web sites.
Reference librarians report that patrons react very positively to the inclusion of URLs in the patron access catalog, and that use of Web sites which have been cataloged has risen dramatically.
