"10 Reasons Why the Internet Is No Substitute for a Library" corrects a well-intentioned but horribly misguided notion; article is from American Libraries
AACC Position Statement on Library and Learning Resource Center Programs focuses on the importance of information literacy
Academic Libraries of the 21st Century a discussion and information site at our siste university, Texas A&M Kingsville
Academic Library Peer Comparison Tool statistics for benchmarking
ACRL - Assoc. of College & Research Libraries
ALA - American Library Association homepage
ALiNUS gateway to over 300 online newsletters from academic libraries
ASIS - American Society for Information Science
Attributes of a Trusted Digital Repository: Meeting the Needs of Research Resources RLG-OCLC report
conservation of library materials
Book Repair Manual, Simple from the Dartmouth Library
Building Digital Collections from the Library of Congress
CCLI - Calif. Clearinghouse on Library Instruction
Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) filtering software at schools and libraries
Collection Development--RLG Conspectus
Coll.Dev.List
Counterpoise Quarterly Journal of the American Library Association's Social Responsibilities Round Table; the only review journal that makes alternative points of view widely accessible to librarians, scholars, and activists
Creating a Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections report from First Monday
Current Awareness Application of New Technologies in Libraries "a weekly list of journal articles references pertaining to the application of new technologies in libraries"
Decision Criteria Worksheet for Electronic Acquisitions from the New England Law Library Consortium
Deconstructing the Philanthropic Library: The Sociological Reasons Behind Andrew Carnegie's Millions to Libraries
Dewey, Melvil father of modern librarianship
Dictionary of Library and Information Science, Online
Digital Library Colloquium from the Carnegie Mellon Libraries; videos of many of the colloquia
Directory of Library websites and catalogs throughout the World includes a Library Technology guide and automation news
Educational Resources: Library Science
Extending the Cooperative: OCLC Annual report 2000-2001 40,000 member libraries in 82 countries
Free Pint world community of business information searchers
Full text index of 80 library-related serials
Gabriel Gateway to Europe's National Libraries - services, online exhibitions, conferences
GATS and Libraries
Global Reference Network "collective of libraries and librarians formed to provide professional input on issues such as digital reference "Best Practices" and policies"
Gov. Docs. Processing & Cataloging Toolbox from Godort
Gov. Docs. Processing & Cataloging alternative address
Great American Public Libraries: HAPLR Ratings 2000 from the ALA
Handbook of Federal Librarianship
Hennen's American Public Library Ratings based on data from nearly 9000 public libraries
How Much Information 2003? "an attempt to estimate how much new information is created each year...Print, film, magnetic, and optical storage media produced about 5 exabytes of new information in 2002 ["equivalent in size to the information contained in half a million new libraries the size of the Library of Congress print collections"]. Ninety-two percent of the new information was stored on magnetic media, mostly in hard disks"
IFLA International Federation of Library Associations - "the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users."
IFRRO (International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations)
IIL - Institute for Information Literacy
International Council on Archives "Headquartered in Paris, the International Council on Archives is a decentralized organization that serves as the professional organization for the world archival community. The Council has branches in all parts of the world (with the exception of North America), and has over 1500 members in over 170 countries and territories... Persons working in the field of archival management will want to take a thorough look at the publications section located here" (Scout Report)
International Society for Knowledge Organization
The Invisible Library books that appear only in other books
IS - Instruction Section of ACRL & ALA
ISSN online
Keeping Our Word: Preserving Information Across the Ages --Presented by the University of Iowa Libraries, this virtual exhibition "celebrates the myriad efforts made over time to preserve information." The exhibit chronicles the development of writing surfaces from cave paintings to digital media, highlighting the preservation issues related to clay, papyrus, vellum, paper, and electronic records. In addition, the exhibit considers the historical role of archivists and librarians as keepers of the word (Scout Report)
KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION, see Topic Maps in XML
Librarians for Peace
Librarians in Movies
Librarians'Index to the Internet
Librarians Turn Over a New Leaf
LIBRARIES --page of links
Libraries and the Patriot Legislation ALA recommendations on how libraries should react to implementations of the Patriot Act
LIBRARY HUMOR page of links
Library Juice biweekly; news affecting the library world
Library of Congress Authorities you can browse and display authority headings for Subject, Name, Title and Name/Title combinations. You can also download authority records in MARC format for use in a local library system
Licensing Electronic Resources guidelines from the ARL
Licensing Principles from IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations)
The Lipstick Librarian "And you wonder, "who is that exquisitely attired woman and are my tax dollars paying for it?""
LIRT - Library Instruction Round Table
Luminary Lectures at the Library of Congress; transcripts of many past lectures
Morganagus "a full-text index of library-related electronic serials"
MSRRT Newsletter: Library Alternatives news, commentary, and networking info for activist librarians; reviews of alternative press publications and alternative media
New Technology Announced something called BOOK
NFIL - National Forum on Information Literacy (Breivik)
Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science
Patriot Act and Libraries suggestions from the ALA on how to handle visits from authorities
Periodical Prices, 2002 report from American Libraries
Preservation, Gateway for Resources and Information on contains selected and annotated references to literature on preservation-related topics, links to websites, projects, organizations and discussion groups
Preserving Access to Digital Information Australia
Progressive Librarians' Guild "formed in January 1990 by a group of librarians concerned with our profession's rapid drift into dubious alliances with business and the information industry, and into complacent acceptance of service to the political, economic and cultural status quo"
Resources for Library Assessment: Tools for a New Era ACRL
Sample Licensing Policy for Your Library
Scholarly Work in the Humanities and the Evolving Information Environment "formally examined how humanities scholars conduct and collate their research.. results are powerfully suggestive of ways in which academic libraries can adapt to and develop in a rapidly changing environment"
SCIP - Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals
Scout Portal Toolkit "allows groups or organizations to catalog and disseminate their collections or resources via the World Wide Web without a significant outlay of technical resources or expertise. SPT's metadata tool comes packaged with Dublin Core fields which can be modified easily to fit a collection's specific needs. Other features include a flexible interface (through separation of PHP and HTML), privilege settings, and workflow management features"
Spanish in Our Libraries moderated online discussion list and newsletter from 200 librarians in public, prison, and school libraries - includes Spanish-language versions of common library forms, flyers, and signs as well as the Dewey Decimal classification system; book summaries; guides to the language and to library Spanish; programming ideas; and a lot more
Standard License Agreement developed for academic libraries
Status of Technology and Digitization In the Nation's Museums and Libraries 2002 Report from the Institute of Museum and Library Services
Street Librarian for activist librarians
Taking the Lead: The Case for Proactive Information Literacy Training, by John Ferguson of Richland College Library, 8/20/01
THECB - Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
TLT Group - Teaching, Learning, & Technology, affiliate of AAHE
TOPIC MAPS, see XML
Unabashed Librarian newsletter; overriding commitment to "serve the user" (paper format only)
UNESCO Libraries Portal worldwide libraries and librarianship
UT Austin, GSLIS -Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Visual Resources Association "devoted to advancing knowledge, research, and education in the field of visual information resources"
World Trade Organization, Libraries and the to help librarians understand the effect of international trade treaties on libraries around the world
Xanadu Project "Since 1960, we have fought for a world of deep electronic documents-- with side-by-side intercomparison" -- posits "deep hypertext" built on the assumption of perpetual change and re-use (site suggested by Michael Seiferth)
XML page of links
XML4Lib an electronic discussion of XML and its use in libraries; aimed at librarians
"XML: Libraries' Strategy Opportunity" by Dick Miller in the Library Journal - how this code can unlock data from ILS and MARC... A seminal article about the new "lingua franca" of the emerging information age, XML ("XML is becoming the de facto Internet standard for representation of information content")
XML MARC a free program for converting MARC records to XML documents, from Stanford Univ.
"An XML and CSS Teaser" by Mark Ohrenschall, from NOAA
Your Right to Know: Librarians Make It Happen librarians protect and enhance the right to free speech