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DLIST- Digital Library of Information Science and Technology
"The objective of DLIST is to serve as a repository of electronic resources in the domains of Library and Information Science (LIS) and Information Technology (IT).
Materials include: Papers ; Data Sets ; Instructional Material ; Pathfinders ; Reports ; Bibliographies

Accent on Images: The Language of Illustrated Books
"This exhibition showcases illustrated books in modern foreign languages from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries selected from the rich and varied special collections of the Libraries of The Claremont Colleges."
From the Special Collections of the Libraries of The Claremont Colleges and curated by Judy Harvey Sahak.

Acronyms and Initialisms for Health Information Resources (English or French)
"Acronyms for global information and data resources in health, medical, and veterinary sciences."
Compiled by Marie-Lise Shams

Adaptive Technology for the Internet:
Making Electronic Resources Accessible to All
By Barbara T. Mates, 2000
American Library Association, Online Version

"African Americans and the Age of Information"
"The above essay is a chapter in his book Western Technology and the African American Predicament (forthcoming)."
By Bruce Cosby, Ph.D., Social Science Dept., Erie Community College

• See also his essay "Notes On Africa, Technology, and the Information Age" - (dead link)

American Library Association

• American Library Association v. U.S. - Opinion of the Court - (dead link) (May 31, 2002)
  Children's Internet Protection Act ruled unconstitutional.
• American Libraries Online
• Office for Intellectual Freedom
  • Children's Internet Protection Act - (dead link) [.pdf]
  • State Privacy Laws Regarding Library Records

Association of Research Libraries - Membership Meetings Proceedings

The Bath Profile:
An International Z39.50 Specification for Library Applications and Resource Discovery.
The Bath Group: Participants at the Bath, UK Meeting, August 1999

Bibliography on Digital Watermarking
From The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies

Book History Online (BHO) - (dead link)
International Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries
"BHO is a database in English on the history of the printed book and libraries. It contains titles of books and articles on the history of the printed book worldwide. It is based on ABHB, the Annual Bibliography of the History of the printed Book and Libraries."

Booklist
From the American Library Association - includes Reference Books Bulletin

Building Digital Collections: Technical Information and Background Papers
"The information on this page documents technical activities related to the American Memory Collections produced by the National Digital Library Program (NDLP) at the Library of Congress. This page is updated and expanded periodically."

Buildings, Books, and Bytes - (dead link) (etext)
Libraries and Communities in the Digital Age
Published by Benton Foundation, November 1996.

Cataloguing and Indexing Group in Scotland - (dead link)

• Cataloguing the Hybrid Library - (dead link) (September 2001)
  Papers and presentations from the seminar held at the National Library of Scotland.

Changes in LIS Education: A Bibliography - (dead link)
"This bibliography represents my attempt to gather relevant literature related to changes in LIS education over the past fifteen years, for North American schools accredited by the American Library Association. This bibliography contains entries that treat the topic from the perspectives of both practitioner and educator."
By Bernie Sloan

CiteSeer.IST - (dead link)
Computer and Information Science Papers
"...is a scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science. CiteSeer aims to improve the dissemination and feedback of the scientific literature and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness in the access of scientific and scholarly knowledge."

Collection Management and Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resource - (dead link)
"This resource stems from the research project undertaken in late 1997/early 1998 which resulted in the report The Publishing of Electronic Scholarly Monographs. While remaining both selective and primarily in the area of scholarly monograph publishing (as opposed to scholarly journals), this resource contains more material than the original bibliography and has been divided into two complementary areas: Collection Management and Scholarly Electronic Publishing."
By C J Armstrong

CRS Report for Congress
- Congressional Research Service

• Restructuring EPA's Libraries: Background and Issues for Congress
  By David M. Bearden and Robert, January 2007.

Digitising History - (dead link)
A Guide to Creating Digital Resources from Historical Documents
By Sean Townsend, Cressida Chappell and Oscar Struijve

Documents in Information Science (DoIS)
"DoIS (Documents in Information Science) is a database of articles and conference proceedings published in electronic format in the area of Library and Information Science. At the moment we hold about 939 articles and 75 papers..."

Earthquake (02/28/01) Damage to Washington Libraries

• University of Washington
  • Engineering Library
  • Fisheries-Oceanography Library - (dead link)
  • Physics-Astronomy Library
  • Suzzallo Graduate Library
  • Undergraduate Library - (dead link)
• Washington State Library - (dead link) (Olympia - 7 miles from epicenter)

EDNER Project Issues Papers
"EDNER Key Issues papers are intended to distil formative evaluation questions on topics which are central to the development of the UK's higher and further education Information Environment. They are presented as short check-lists of key questions and are addressed to developers and practitioners."

Electronic Green Journal

• Information Technology and Global Ecological Crises: Soul and the Sustainability of Librarians - (dead link) (December 2001)
  "Based on presentation for the Task Force on the Environment during American Library Association annual meeting in San Francisco, July 2001."
  By Cate Gable

Guides to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging
By the Research Libraries Group (RLG), Digital Libraries Federation, and the Council on Library and Information Resources.

Hennen's American Public Library Ratings (HAPLR)
"HAPLR ratings are based on data from the U.S. Federal-State Cooperative Service."
By Thomas J. Hennen Jr.

Holdings Statements for Bibliographic Items
Download free pdf version.
"This new standard replaces both the Serial Holdings Standard Z39.44 and the Non-Serials Holdings standard Z39.57."

How Much Information?
"This study is an attempt to measure how much information is produced in the world each year. We look at several media and estimate yearly production, accumulated stock, rates of growth, and other variables of interest."
By the School of Information Management and Systems, University of California at Berkeley

Indiana University - Center for Social Informatics (CSI)

• CSI Working Papers
  • Locally Controlled Scholarly Publishing via the Internet: The Guild Model
    By Rob Kling, Lisa Spector, and Geoff McKim
    No. WP-02-01

Information Retrieval (etext)
By C.J. van Rijsbergen.
2nd ed., London: Butterworths, 1979.

InfomationWeek 500
"...analyzes and ranks the most innovative corporate users of information technology. Below you'll find research and analysis from the InfomationWeek 500 for past years, including the lists, stories, charts, our benchmarking tool, and more."

Innovations in Teaching And Learning in Information and Computer Sciences (ITALICS) - (dead link)

International Computer Science Institute (ICSI)
"ICSI currently has a major focus on two areas: Internet research, including Internet architecture, related theoretical questions, open-source routing, and network security; and Human Language Technology, including both speech and text processing. Additionally, there are significant efforts in theoretical computer science and algorithms for bioinformatics, video encoding, and studies of the Information Society."

• Publications
  "Researchers at ICSI regularly publish their work in conference proceedings, academic journals, technical reports, and occasionally entire books. Many of these papers are available to download in PDF format."

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)

• Libraries Completely Missing - Tsunami and Sri Lanka's East Coast

Internet Librarian 2006: Presentation Links
Monterey, CA - October 23-25, 2006.
"This page features links to World Wide Web sites, PowerPoint slideshows, and other electronic resources used in support of presentations at Internet Librarian 2006 and Internet@Schools West 2006. Links are provided solely at the discretion of presenters..."

Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information
Getty Research Institute

ITpapers
"ITpapers is the Yellow Pages of White Papers, with links to over 20,000 White Papers (over 30,000 by the end of 2001). A free service, ITpapers enables visitors to find links to precisely the White Papers they need, quickly and easily, with summaries and visitor reviews guiding their selection."

Librarea - (dead link)
"Librarea is a world within the Active Worlds environment that enables real librarians to build real virtual libraries."

Library and Information Statistics Tables (LIST)
...For the United Kingdom.
Compiled by Sally Maynard, Loughborough University

Library History Database
The British Isles to 1850
"A comprehensive series of files covering libraries, institutional, commercial and private in the British Isles from the late medieval period to the year 1850. The total number of libraries listed exceeds 25,000, with over 120,000 references to primary and secondary sources. Files include: all types of library searchable by type and by country; circulating libraries; subscription libraries; workplace libraries; country house libraries; private libraries"
By Robin Alston, Professor Emeritus, London University

Library Juice
"Library Juice is a news digest for librarians, library and information science students, and other interested people. It includes announcements, many web resources, calls for papers, and news affecting the library world. Much of the material has a social-responsibilities or intellectual freedom focus. It is not a discussion list but a digest of material from a variety of sources."
By Rory B. Litwin

Library of Congress
For LC online cataloging material see cataloging resources

• Services for Researchers
  • Collaborative Digital Reference Service
• Virtual Programs & Services
  Library of Congress Digital Reference Team
  • Luminary Lectures @ Your Library
    "Fresh perspectives on Librarianship"

LISZEN
Library & Information Science Search Engine
LISZEN a search engine of over 500 library blogs.

MALMAD - Israel Center for Digital Information Services - (dead link) "Its purpose is to serve as a joint framework (consortium) for the acquisition, licensing and operation of information services to all the Israeli universities."

• Israel Library Network Sites
• ULI - Israel Union Catalog - (dead link)
• ULE - Central List of Electronic Journals
• ULS - The Israel Union List of Serials - (dead link)

Managing the Digital Future of Libraries: Proceedings - (dead link) (English or Russian)
Conference proceedings from the Moscow, April 2000 international meeting, includes over 50 papers from speakers representing over 20 countries

Management Information Systems Conference
13th Annual, Feb. 27-March 1, 2000
"Learning With a Byte in the Wild Wild West."
"The links include session abstracts, contact information, and in some cases, the session presentation itself."

Mathematical Reviews' Abbreviations of Names of Serials - (dead link)

National Academy Press (free online versions)

• 2005
  • Building an Electronic Records Archive at the National Archives and Records Administration: Recommendations for a Long-Term Strategy
    By Robert F. Sproull and Jon Eisenberg, Editors, Committee on Digital Archiving and the National Archives and Records Administration, National Research Council, 2005.
• 2003
  • Information Technology for Counterterrorism: Immediate Actions and Future Possibilities
    Committee on the Role of Information Technology in Responding to Terrorism, John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson, and Herbert S. Lin, Editors, National Research Council, 2003.
• 2002
  • Technical, Business, and Legal Dimensions of Protecting Children from Pornography on the Internet: Proceedings of a Workshop
    Committee to Study Tools and Strategies for Protecting Kids from Pornography and Their Applicability to Other Inappropriate Internet Content, Board on Children, Youth, and Families, National Research Council, 2002.
  • Youth, Pornography, and the Internet
    Dick Thornburgh and Herbert S. Lin, Editors, Committee to Study Tools and Strategies for Protecting Kids from Pornography and Their Applicability to Other Inappropriate Internet Content, National Research Council, 2002.
• 2000
  • Building a Workforce for the Information Economy
  • The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age
    Committee on Intellectual Property Rights and the Emerging Information Infrastructure
  • LC21: A Digital Strategy for the Library of Congress
    Committee on an Information Technology Strategy for the Library of Congress, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council, 2000.
  • Making IT Better:
    Expanding Information Technology Research to Meet Society's Needs.
• 1999
  • Being Fluent with Information Technology
    Committee on Information Technology Literacy, National Research Council, 1999.

National Coalition Against Censorship

• Internet Filters: A Public Policy Report

National Library of Medicine [NLM] Classification
Fifth ed. 1994, Revised 1999.
"This edition incorporates all additions and changes as of 1999, including Index entries for several hundred new terms, published from 1994 to 1999 in the NLM Medical Subject Heading Annotated Alphabetic List(MeSH)."

National Public Radio (NPR)

• National Public Radio - Bridging the Digital Divide in the Classroom (Audio or Text)
  "Technology expert Mario Armstrong talks about what two schools are doing to ensure kids have access to the technology they need to do well in school. He describes the challenge of bringing new technology to low-income students."
  - National Public Radio, News & Notes, January 3, 2007.
• If a Library is Bookless, What is In It?
  Talk of the Nation, February 27, 2006.

Nature Magazine - Webdebates

• Future e-access to the Primary Literature
  "The topic of this Nature forum ó the impact of the Web on the publishing of the results of original research ó has, since the emergence of the Internet, filled volumes in the reports of conference proceedings and reams of individual articles ... The main aim of this forum is to bring some of the substance of this Brownian motion of Internet issues to a broader grassroots audience and debate the implications for the future dissemination of scientific information..."

Northeast Document Conservation Center (Andover, MA)

• Preservation 101 - (dead link)
  An Internet Course on Paper Preservation
• Preservation of Library & Archival Materials: A Manual - (dead link)
  3rd ed., Revised and Expanded
  Edited by Sherelyn Ogden. 1999.

ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science - (dead link) "...is designed to be a hypertext reference resource for library and information science professionals, university students and faculty, and users of all types of libraries. The primary criterion for including a new term is whether a librarian or other information professional might reasonably be expected to encounter it at some point in his (or her) career, or be required to know its meaning in the course of executing his or her responsibilities as a librarian." - (dead link) By Joan M. Reitz, Assistant Professor/Instruction Librarian, Ruth A. Hass Library, Western Connecticut State University

Overdue - (dead link)
A Comic Strip About a Library
"It's a daily strip, but currently our Sunday comics look like every other day - black, white, and small."
By Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum

Oviatt Library Quake Damage
California State University Northridge University Library
January 17, 1994 Northridge Earthquake.
Sections include: What Happened ; Photographs ; Federal Depository Library Conference Presentation.
By Mary Finley

Preservation of Library & Archival Materials: A Manual - (dead link)
3rd ed., Revised and Expanded
Edited by Sherelyn Ogden. 1999.

The Publishing of Electronic Scholarly Monographs and Textbooks
Electronic text by C J Armstrong, Centre for Information Quality Management and Ray Lonsdale, Dept. of Information and Library Studies, University of Wales Aberystwyth

The Relationship Between Digital and Other Media Conversion Process: A Structure Glossary of Technical Terms
By M. Stuart Lynn and the Technology Assessment Advisory Committee (TAAC) of the Commission on Preservation and Access.

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP)
"A nonprofit organization dedicated to providing free legal assistance to journalists since 1970."

• Homefront Confidential
  How the War on Terrorism Affects Access to Information and the Public's Right to Know.
  6th edition, September 2005, RCFP White Paper.

Research Strategies (etext)
Finding Your Way through the Information Fog
"The following online book is a substantial revision of: William Badke, The Survivor's Guide to Library Research. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1990."

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
"This bibliography presents selected English-language articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet."
By Charles W. Bailey, Jr.

Scientific and Technical Reports - Elements, Organization and Design
"This revision of Z39.18-1987 brings the standard on report writing into the electronic age by including de facto document type definitions (DTDs) to describe the structure of reports so the document can be electronically processed using document imaging, OCR, compression/decompression, and optical media storage of full text."

A Simple Book Repair Manual
"The web version of the Simple Book Repair Manual was created by members of Preservation Services, Dartmouth College Library."

Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information
By Marian Dworaczek

The TEI Guidelines - (dead link)
Sperberg-McQueen, C.M.. and Burnard, L. (eds.) (2002). TEI P4: Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange.

UKOLN
"A centre of expertise in digital information management, providing advice and services to the library, information, education and cultural heritage communities."

• NOF-digitise Technical Advisory Service - (dead link)
  • Information Papers
    "This series of papers is intended to address key areas affecting the successful developments of digitisation projects."

The USA Patriot Act and Patron Privacy on Library Internet Terminals
By Marry Minow, Library Law Consultant with librarylaw.com
LLRX.com Feature - Published February 15, 2002

United Nations - Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

• UNESCO Archives Portal
  An International Gateway to Information for Archivists and Archive Users
  "gives access to websites of archival institutions around the world. It is also a gateway to resources related to records and archives management and to international co-operation in this area."

United Nations - International Telecommunication Union

• World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
  Geneva 2003 - Tunis 2005.
  Includes: Outcome Documents ; WSIS Implementation and Follow-Up ; Phase II Documents ; Phase I Documents.

United States Dept. of Education - National Center for Education Statistics

• Academic Libraries: 2004 (November 2006)

University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science

• Public Libraries' Response to September 11, 2001 [power point]
  By Leigh Estabrook, Director, Library Research Center, University of Illinois

University of Washington Center for Urban Horticulture Miller Library
[2001 a bad year for UW libraries! - first earthquake damage now arson.]

• Fire Updates - Post-Fire Photos - (dead link) May 21, 2001 victim of arson by the environmental terrorist group Earth Liberation Front (EFL)
• "Fire bombs do not contribute to legitimate debate"
  Seattle-PI Op-ed piece by researcher Toby Bradshaw whose research was the target of the arsonist. For additional editorials see University of Washington News and Events - 06/01/2001

Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk
Resources & News for Information Professionals & Researchers
Another wonderful resource compiled and edited by Gary Price.

Writing for the Web: A Primer for Librarians
Interactive essay by Eric H. Schnell, Prior Health Sciences Library at The Ohio State University

 

Discussion Lists (very small sample)

Library-Oriented Lists & Electronic Serials - (dead link) By Washington Research Library Consortium

List of Mailing Lists on Archives, Records Management, Museums and Related Subjects - By Bekir Kemal Ataman

LISZEN
Library & Information Science Search Engine
LISZEN a search engine of over 500 library blogs.

AFRICANA-L
Information Technology in Africa
"The purpose of this list is to discuss problems and issues related to information technology planning, distribution, access and policies that promote and/or retard use on the African continent. Participants share experiences of the most cost-effective ways of bringing Africa to the 'global electronic village'."

Archives & Archivists
"An electronic mail list & World Wide Web site for the international archival community founded and coordinated by the late Donna B Harlan & John B Harlan"

Digital-Preservation Announcement and Information List
A UK focused mailing list

Electronic Resources in Libraries (ERIL)
"...is a forum for librarians who are involved with selection, acquisition or management of electronic resources at their institutions."

Law-Lib Electronic Discussion List

padiforum-l
"...is a moderated discussion list for the exchange of news and ideas about digital preservation issues. Subscribers are encouraged to post digital preservation news, including announcements of forthcoming events, to padiforum-l. Discussion on all aspects of preserving access to digital information is also welcome."

Web4Lib Electronic Discussion
An electronic discussion for library-based World-Wide Web managers

XML4Lib Electronic Discussion
"An electronic discussion on XML and its use in libraries."

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