Credo Reference Is an MLA Platinum Winner: Q&A with the Editors
Infobase’s award-winning academic resource Credo Reference just brought home another award—Platinum distinction in LibraryWorks’ 11th annual Modern Library Awards (MLAs)! Each year, the MLAs recognize the top products and services in the library industry in a truly unbiased format. We wanted to follow up this latest great honor with a conversation with Kristin Klinger, Infobase’s platform owner, and Kathy Cacace, the acquisitions manager for Credo Reference, to get their thoughts on what makes this resource a winner. What do you think makes Credo Reference stand apart from the competition? Kathy Cacace: One of the things that I think sets Credo Reference apart is its mission: Credo Reference is a reference solution. To support that mission, we are laser-focused on acquiring encyclopedias, handbooks, and other reference resources from top publishers. Other products that contain hundreds of thousands of eBooks may be overwhelming to users just beginning their research. And they may not support easy searching and browsing like Credo Reference’s books, whose entries stand on their own. How does Credo Reference meet the needs of today’s early researchers? KC: There are so many ways to get information online today, and we know that Credo Reference lives in an information ecosystem alongside
