 It was the first to include listings of websites and was the first to be issued in electronic form.The online Guide's last general editor was Denise Beaubien Bennett, engineering librarian at the University of Florida's Marston Science Library.ALA Publishing, in collaboration with the Guide to Reference Editorial Review Board, announced that, due to the "current business climate", the Guide to Reference online product had ceased taking further subscriptions and would be closed down on March 31, 2016.