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Information for Librarians
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Print resources such as the American Library Directory: A Cassified List of Libraries in the United States and Canada, with Personnel and Statistical Data. [Ref. Z731 .A53]; Interlibrary Loan Policies Directory [Ref. Z713.5.U6 M67]; and Bowker Annual of Library and Book Trade Information [Ref. Z731 .A47] are available in Pius Library. For additional resources search the Saint Louis Universtiy Libraries Catalog using subject headings such as Libraries--United States--Directories, or Libraries--United States--Periodicals.
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Associations - General
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Associations - Law
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Associations - Medical
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Associations - Special
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Bibliographies and Comprehensive Sites
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- Digital Reference Primer
http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/~b-sloan/primer.htm
Provides basic information readings about digital reference in addition to relevant Web sites, links to directories of digital references services, and discussion groups on the topic.
- Digital Reference Services: A Bibliography
http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/~b-sloan/digiref.html
Collected and written by Bernie Sloan, Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, this bibliography contains print and Web-based items about the "topic of online or virtual or digital reference services". (text from site 12/02/00)
- DLIST: Digital Library for Information Science and Technology
http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/
Provided by the School of Information Resources and Library Science and Learning Technologies Center, University of Arizona, this is an Open Access, inter-institutional repository for full-text materials related to library science and information technology.
- Electronic Sources of Information: A Bibliography
http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/BIBLIO.HTM
Compiled by Marian Dworaczek, Head, Acquisitions Department, University of Saskatchewan Library. Also includes a Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information.
- The Google Print Controversy: A Bibliography
http://www.escholarlypub.com/digitalkoans/2005/10/25/the-google-print-controversy-a-bibliography/
Compiled by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. from the University of Houston, this article list focuses on the legal issues involved in the Google Print project.
- ILL Web
http://www.illweb.org/
A gateway to both print and electronic resources for interlibrary loan and document delivery.
- Managing the 21st Century Academic Library: A Bibliography
http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/~b-sloan/future.htm
Complied by Bernie Sloan, University of Illinois. Many items are available on the Web and link to them.
- Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals
http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/oab.pdf
Compiled by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. from the University of Houston and published by ARL, this bibliography covers the open access movement in articles and reports from 1999 through August 1004.
- Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html
Compiled and published by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. from the University of Houston Libraries, this bibliography lists "selected English-language articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet." (text from site 2/23/02)
- Subject Index to Information on Electronic Information Sources
http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/SUBJIN_A.HTM
Compiled and copyrighted by Marian Dworaczek, this indexes a Bibliography listing references (web sites and articles) about all aspects of electronic information sources in libraries including producers, delivery, user issues, serials issues, e-mail, etc.
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Books, Reviews, and "Best" Lists
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- ALA Editions: Beyond Information
http://www.ala.org/ala/ourassociation/publishing/alaeditions/ alaeditionspublishing.htm
- Booklist Center
http://home.comcast.net/~dwtaylor1/
Bills itself as "The World's Largest Selection of Book Lists." This, basically a "list of lists," divides publically accessible book lists (books that have won awards or books considered the best in a particular discipline) into 62 subject groupings. Includes Pulitzer, Caldecott, Newbery, Coretta Scott King, Nebula, and Hugo award lists.
- Booklist: Includes Reference Books Bulletin
http://www.ala.org/ala/booklist/booklist.htm
- CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/choice/home.htm
Home page for CHOICE. For password edition of CHOICE Reviews Online go to http://www.ChoiceReviews.org/rev170choicescripts/
- New York Review of Books
http://www.nybooks.com/
- New York Times Book Review
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/
A subscription is required for some content.
- RUSQ SOURCES Internet Database
https://members.ala.org/rusa/membersonly/reviews
From the Reference and User Services Association of ALA, this database contains reviews appearing in Reference and User Services Quarterly since 1998. New reviews are added quarterly.
Available to members of RUSA with username and password.
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Catalogs: Supplies
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Continuting Education
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MLA Continuing Education Committee
http://molib.org/continuingeducation/ |
Controlled Vocabularies & Glossaries
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Databases
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Library, Information Science & Technology Database (LISTA)
http://www.epnet.com/thisTopic.php?topicID=210
Indexing and abstracting database only. Provided free by EBSCO. |
Directories
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- Library-Oriented Lists & Electronic Serials
http://www.aladin.wrlc.org/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?p=about&c=liblists
"a compilation of electronic discussion lists, distribution lists and serials which are of interest to library professionals and staff." (text from site 4/12/04)
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E-Prints
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E-LIS: E-Prints in Library and Information Science
http://eprints.rclis.org/
Provided by RCLIS (Research in Computing, Library and Information Science) and DoIS (Documents in Information Science), this database contains published and unpublished technical and scientific papers, reports, and proceedings in the areas of "computing, ... librarianship, information science and technology and related application activities" that are freely available electronically. (text from site 8/20/04). |
Guides
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NN/LM: National Network of Libraries of Medicine
http://nnlm.gov
A resource for librarians and health educators that includes links to collections of full-text e-journals and a directory of U.S. health libraries. |
Journals - Full-text Available
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- e-journals.org: Providing links to the world's electronic journals
http://www.e-journals.org/
Provides links to electronically available journals by discipline in addition to a list of featured journals. Many journals have tables of contents only or require a subscription (personal or institutional) to access the full-text.
- NewJour
http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour/
A finding tool to locate journals and newsletters available electronically on the Internet. Includes an alphabetical list in addition to a search utility. Records located are announcements posted on the NewJour mailing list that include a link to the journal's or its publisher's home page. Some journals provide tables of contents with selected full text. A subscription may be required to access full text.
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News
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- ALiNUS
http://www.snhu.edu/5501.asp
An Internet gateway to over 600 Academic Library Newsletters in the United States that can be searched by academic institution name or newsletter name. An alphabetical list by institution is also available.
- American Libraries
http://www.ala.org/al_onlineTemplate.cfm?Section=American_Libraries& Template=/TaggedPage/TaggedPageDisplay.cfm&TPLID=14&ContentID=12155
Includes weekly news + Archive, Internet Librarian and Technically Speaking columns, Walt Crawford's columns for a year, and a Datebook in addition to the table of contents to current and back issues of the print American Libraries.
- Arts & Letters Daily
http://aldaily.com/
From the Chronicle of Higher Education, this site provides three major sections: Articles of Note, New Books, and Essays and Opinion. In addition, links on the left side connect to major news services, major newspapers, magazines, columnists, book reviews, weblogs, radio news stations, radio music stations, a Nota Bene section, and more.
- C&RL News
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/collegeresearch.htm
The online version of C&RL News.
- CENDI Publications Archive
http://www.dtic.mil/cendi/pubarc.html
CENDI is an inter-governmental working group made up Senior Scientific Technology and Information Managers from 10 programs from nine agencies. This site contains links to Activity Reports, Publications, and Power Point presentations dealing with imaging, indexing, controlled vocabularies and metadata, reference linking from databases, etc.
- Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large
http://cical.info/
"Citations and personal commentaries about the intersections and interactions of libraries, messages, people, media, and technology." (text from site 6/18/04)
- College and Research Libraries
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crljournal/collegeresearch.htm
The online version of College & Research Libraries. ALA username and password required.
- College Libraries' Newsletters- A Webliography
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/aboutacrl/acrlsections/collegelibraries/collpubs/collegelibraries.htm
From CLS: The College Libraries Section of ACRL and ALA, this contains links to electronic versions of college library newsletters.
- Current Cites
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/
An annotated bibliography of selected current aricles, book, and electronic documents about information technology.
- D-Lib Magazine
http://www.dlib.org/
- The Kept-Up Academic Librarian
http://keptup.typepad.com/academic/
"Helping Academic Librarians "Keep Up" with News and Development in Higher Education." Provides links to articles from many newspapers, magazines, higher education trade publications, and colleges and universities themselves.
- LibraryStuff
http://www.librarystuff.net/
" The library weblog dedicated to resources for keeping current and professional development" by Stephen M. Cohen. (text from site 6/18/04)
- Peter Scott's Library Blog
http://blog.xrefer.com/
News about conferences, databases, services, software, vendors, and more.
- The Library Today
http://www.loc.gov/today/
Latest news, events, and features from the Library of Congress.
- LISNews.com: Library & Information Science News
http://www.lisnews.com/
- The ResourceShelf
http://www.resourceshelf.com/
From Gary Price, MLIS, George Washington University, this site lists new Web sites of potential interest including fast facts, lists, reports, etc.
- Wired News (technology in schools)
http://www.wired.com/culture/education.html
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Libraries & Museums
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Organizations: Other
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- BioOne
http://www.bioone.org/bioone/?request=index-html
Now in active development, BioOne facilitates "collaborationbetween scientific societies, academe and the commercial sector, BioOne brings to the Web a uniquely valuable aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals. Most of these titles are published by small, under-capitalized societies and, until now, have been available only in printed form. BioOne will provide integrated, cost-effective access to a thoroughly hyperlinked information resource of interrelated journals focused on biological, ecological and environmental sciences." (text from site 8/1/00)
- Northeast Document Conservation Center (NDCC)
http://www.nedcc.org/
Founded in 1973 to help address the paper deterioration problem, its mission is "to improve the preservation programs of libraries, archives, museums, and other historical and cultural organizations; to provide the highest quality services to institutions that cannot afford in-house conservation facilities or that require specialized expertise; and to provide leadership to the
preservation field." (text from site 1/06/01) Its Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access is available in an online version as well as print.
- SPARC
http://www.arl.org/sparc/
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
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Last updated November 15, 2007.
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