Library
Science Related Links
General
- 100 Top Library Sites
provides links to both libraries and library and information science organizations.
URL updated 9 September 2004.
- Internet Library
for Librarians is "a comprehensive Web database designed to provide
a one-stop shopping center for library staff to locate Internet resources
related to their profession. It provides links to about 3,000 Internet
sites. All the Internet resources that are included in this site have been
reviewed. Each entry has a full description of the goals and/or scope of
the resource, as well as the contact information if provided." The
site is produced by InforWorks Technology Company and is updated monthly.
- Librarians' Index to the Internet (lii.org).
"By librarians, for everyone." It indexes resources on a wide
variety of topics.
- Librarians'
Resource Centre. This is a "selective collection of resources
compiled to facilitate our informational research and retrieval."
Major sections are public services, professional development, and technical
services. Sponsored by the Special Libraries Association Toronto Chapter.
URL updated 7 September 2005.
- LibraryLand:
Index to Resources for Librarians. "LibraryLand's focused search
engine allows you to search the contents of web documents at major sites
dedicated to the practice of librarianship." This site is no longer
being maintained, but the old page is still available. URL updated 31
October 2001.
- National Center for Education
Statistics (NCES) Electronic Catalog. Search for NCES publications
on libraries and download them as pdf files. Added 17 May 2004.
- National Center for
Education Statistics Library Statistics Program reports on academic,
school, state, and public libraries. Added 17 May 2004.
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Academic
Libraries
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Archives
and Records Management
- Archive Builders specializes
in "manual and digital corporate archives and records management."
Their Web site includes a variety of resources on digital imaging. Added
21 April 2001.
- Mid-Atlantic Region
Archives Conference. MARAC "is a professional association of individuals
interested in the preservation and use of archival and historical research
materials."
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Automation
- Auto-Graphics: Library
and publishing services offered by Auto-Graphics.
- Brodart: Automation systems,
custom library furniture and other library related supplies.
- Contec Data Systems: A library
systems software company.
- Data Trek: Library automation
and electronic information management.
- Endeavor Information Systems:
Client/server automation systems.
- Gaylord Brothers: Manufacturer
and distributor of library supplies, equipment, furniture, shelving, security
systems.
- Geac: Unix and client/server services.
- Innovative Interfaces: Software and
hardware for automating all types of libraries.
- Kelowna Software: Specialists in
automation systems for school libraries. URL updated 9 September 2004.
- Lex Software Systems: Offering
"Lexifile" automation software which is billed as simple and
easy to learn. URL updated 9 September 2004.
- OCLC Online Computer Library Center.
OCLC is the world's the largest bibliographic utility. Added 21 August
2001.
- Sirsi-Dynix: Information management systems
for libraries and businesses.
- Top Technology
Trends is published by LITA's Top Technology Trends Committee. Added
28 March 2001.
- VTLS: An overview of the Virginia
Tech Library system's services.
- WebJunction provides librarians
and others "resources on technology planning, marketing, Internet
software, policies, etc." Added 21 January 2004.
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Cataloging
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Collection
Development
- Acquisitions Tools.
URL updated 14 September 2004.
- Advanced Book Exchange (abebooks.com)
provides access to "the bookshelves of thousands of used, secondhand,
rare, and out-of-print booksellers around the world." Added 30
January 2002.
- Allreaders.com
is a comprehensive book search engine that allows users to search for titles
using a multitude of criteria. Users can also submit their own reviews
of books. Added 29 November 2000.
- Awards
for Children's and YA Books by State is based on a list originally
compiled by Melissa Depper for the PUBYAC discussion list. URL updated 30
April 2007.
- Children's Literature. Includes
reviews, teaching materials, and a 300,000 record MARC database.
- ElephantBooks.com is a source
for out-of-print, rare, and used books. Added 12 February 2002.
-
Evaluate
Web Pages, by Jan Alexander and Marsha Ann Tate, is intended to "help
students evaluate information found on the World Wide Web." URL
updated 30 April 2007.
- Government Publications Network
(a service of Bernan Associates)
-
WHSmith Book Shop. A
source for over 1.4 million books and journals; based in the UK. URL
updated 30 April 2007.
- Publishers Catalogs.
A site listing publishers from around the world.
- ResourceShelf highlights
Web sites suitable as online reference points. URL
updated 30 April 2007.
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Consortia
- MINITEX Library Information
Network. MINITEX "is a publicly supported network of libraries
in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota working cooperatively to improve
library service."
- PALINET is a cooperative membership
organization of libraries, information centers, museums, archives, and
other similar organizations in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland,
New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. It was formed in
1936 to promote library cooperation and resource sharing; it is an OCLC
regional network.
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Current
Awareness and Forums
- Emerald
Library Link. "is a comprehensive online resource designed specifically
for the LIS community." URL updated 7 September 2005.
- Emerald
Now "is a bi-monthly newsletter containing free reviews and full
text articles, journal access and spotlight interviews in the areas of
marketing, quality, HR and general management." URL updated 7 September
2005.
- LISNews.com: Information Science News
"is is a place to check up on the news that relates to library and
information science."
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Databases
- DataStar: Accesses
information to companies, particularly European companies. URL updated
9 September 2004.
- Dialog: Includes general information
about Dialog. Also on-line commands, blue sheets and frequently asked questions.
- LEXIS-NEXIS Communication Center:
A guide to Lexis-Nexis. Includes current news, products offered, customer
service and employment information.
- OCLC: Everything and anything about
OCLC!
- OVID is a subscription service providing
access to electronic medical, health, and life sciences information. URL
updated 14 September 2004.
- POWER Library Information Center.
POWER Library is a collection of databases made available to Pennsylvania
public libraries, school library media centers, and the State Library by
Commonwealth Libraries. Requires username and password.
- Questel-Orbit: Information
Property Group is a subscription service providing access to patent,
trademark, and other business-related information. URL updated 14 Setember
2004.
- Search Engine Watch.
This site provides a comprehensive review of World Wide Web search engines.
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Government Documents
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Intellectual
Freedom
- Access to Library
Resources and Services Regardless of Gender or Sexual Orientation,
adopted by ALA in June 1993, last amended June 2004.
- Access to Resources
and Services in the School Library Media Program, adopted by ALA in July
1986, last amended January 2005.
- American
Library Association Banned Books Week Resource Guide.
- American
Library Association Privacy Toolkit.
- CIPA Web Site provides information
about ALA's activity regarding the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA)
and the Neighborhood Internet Protection Act (NCIPA).
- Intellectual
Freedom Principles for Academic Libraries, adopted by ALA in July 2000.
- Libraries
& the Internet Toolkit: Tips and Guidance for Managing and Communication
About the Internet is published by the American Library Association,
Office for Intellectual Freedom.
- Library-Initiated
Programs as a Resource, adopted by ALA in January 1982, last amended July
2000.
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Restricted
Access to Library Materials, adopted by ALA in February 1973, last amended
June 2004. URL updated 2 May 2007.
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Management
-
A
Communication Handbook for Libraries, American Library Association,
"was designed to help librarians and others develop and maintain effective
relations with the media and win support for libraries and their programs."
URL updated 2 May 2007.
- Americans with Disabilities
Act ADA Home Page, U.S. Department of Justice, provides resources to
assist organizations in complying with the Americans with Disabilities
Act. Added 1 August 2001.
- Library Media & PR
offers "strategies, techniques, resources, tips & tools for library
communicators." Lots of nice library-related clipart. Added 29
November 2000.
- Planning
and Building Libraries. Provides links to Web resources on interior
design, lighting, barrier-free design, security, etc. URL updated 14
September 2004.
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Preservation
- American Institute for Conservation
of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC). Provides a forum for the exchange
of ideas on the conservation of art and historic artifacts. URL updated
31 October 2001.
- Conservation Center for Art and Historic
Artifacts. CCAHA is non-profit regional conservation laboratory located
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It specializes in the treatment of art and
historic artifacts on paper.
- Columbia
University, Preservation Division is one of the oldest preservation
departments in the United States. URL updated 14 September 2004.
- Conservation OnLine.
CoOl provides links to a variety of full-text resources on preservation
and conservation.
- "Copyright
Resources Project: Working with Copyright-Protected Materials in a Digital
Environment," developed by the Pacific Film Archive, provides
a toolbox on copyright clearance procedures, including case studies on
obtaining permission from different entities. URL updated 2 May 2007.
- Cornell University,
Library Dept. of Preservation and Conservation. Information regarding
the various preservation activities at Cornell. URL updated 31 October
2001.
- Fact,
Fiction & the New World The Role of Books in the Making of America
contains images from a humanities exhibit from Texas Humanities Resource
Center Austin, Texas.
- Guides to Quality in Visual
Resource Imaging (July 2000) are a resource for organizations "that
are turning to digital conversion to provide greater access to their visual
resources and help preserve the original materials."
- Independent
Media Arts Preservation, Inc. (IMAP) provides a variety of resources
on the preservation of video, audio, and digital media. Added 16 July
2006.
- Indiana University at Bloomington,
Preservation Department Home Page. Interesting information about the
Minolta Digital Scanner, being used as alternative to preservation microfilming.
- Image
Permanence Institute is a university-based non-profit research laboratory
devoted to preservation of recorded information. Added 16 July 2006.
- The
Library Binding Institute (LBI) provides information on both library
binding and hardcover binding. Added 16 July 2006.
- LBS. This firm manufactures bookbinding
materials used by library binders
- Northeast Document Conservation Center.
Provides all levels of conservation treatment for paper artifacts and serves
institutions of all sizes, corporations, and private individuals.
- Northwestern
University Library Preservation Program. URL updated 7 September
2005.
-
PALINET Digitization & Preservation "is categorized into best practices,
vendor information, grant information, techniques, bibliographies, and
descriptions of member projects." URL updated 2 May 2007.
-
Preservation and Emergency Preparedness. Useful leaflets from Utah State
Archive on care of library materials, information on obtaining more in-depth
preservation documents, and advice on planning for emergencies. URL updated 2
May 2007.
- Preservation Technologies, provides
mass deacidification services.
Regional
Alliance for Preservation (RAP) provides calendars of educational opportunities,
bibliographies, and a searchable database of preservation publications.
Added 16 July 2006.- University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign Book Repair and Binding Unit includes many well-illustrated
step-by-step procedures for various conservation treatments.
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Professional
Organizations
- American Association of
School Librarians. (AASL) A division of ALA.
- American Library Association: (ALA) The
oldest and largest organization for library professionals.
- New Members Round Table (NMRT) is for
people who have been members of the ALA for less than 10 years.
- Office for Accreditation
provides leadership in the development of standards for accreditation and
develops and maintains procedures for the implementation of the ALA accreditation
function.
- Task
Force on External Accreditation is proposing the establishment of an
external accrediting agency that would replace ALA in this role. URL
updated 14 September 2004.
- University
Libraries Section, Association for College and Research Libraries (ACRL),
"advances university librarianship, university library service, and
the development of university libraries in institutions with graduate programs."
URL updated 7 September 2005.
- Association of Rural & Small
Libraries is for libraries "with a limited budget and a
diverse clientele." URL updated 2 July 2004.
- American Society of Indexers:
Membership information and publications.
- Association for Library and Information
Science Education (ALISE): The primary professional organization for
library and information science educators.
- Association of Research Libraries.
ARL's "mission is to shape and influence forces affecting the future
of research libraries in the process of scholarly communication."
- CENDI "is an governmental
interagency Working Group composed of senior Scientific and Technical Information
(STI) managers from major programs in several U.S. federal agencies."
- Chinese-American Librarians Association
(CALA). An affiliate of ALA. URL updated 31 October 2001.
- Classification
Society of North America "is a nonprofit interdisciplinary organization
whose purposes are to promote the scientific study of classification and
clustering (including systematic methods of creating classifications from
data), and to disseminate scientific and educational information related
to its fields of interests." URL updated 7 September 2005.
- Council on Library and Information Resources
"works in partnership with libraries, archives, and other information
providers to advocate collaborative approaches to preserving the nation's
intellectual heritage and strengthening the many components of its information
system."
- Digital Library Federation "is
a partnership of research libraries dedicated to creating, maintaining,
expanding, and preserving a distributed collection of digital materials
accessible to scholars and to a wider public." URL updated 14 September
2004.
- International Association of School
Librarianship (IASL).
- Medical Library Association: (MLA) Includes
exchange of information, employment opportunities, and publications relating
to the field of medical librarianship.
- Music OCLC Users Group (MOUG)
"maintains resources and conducts activities that are of help to librarians
who deal with music materials in any capacity."
- National Board for Professional Teaching
Standards is "developing a new system of advanced, voluntary certification
for teachers."
- National Information Standards Organization.
NISO develops and maintains technical standards for information services,
libraries, etc.
- Pennsylvania Library Association
"is the state's oldest and most diverse professional library organization
serving libraries, library employees, library trustees, and Friends of
the Library groups."
- Pennsylvania School Librarians Association
"provides school librarians/media specialists with educational opportunities
and current information through publications, workshops, seminars and conferences."
- Professional Associations
in the Information Sciences: An index of websites maintained by professional
organizations from the School of
Library and Information Science at San Jose State University. URL updated
2 July 2004.
- Society of American Archivists.
SAA "is North America's oldest and largest national archival professional
organization."
- Special Libraries Association: (SLA) An
overview of the Special Libraries Association and its functions.
- United States National Commission on
Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS), was established in 1970
to appraise the role and adequacy of libraries in the United States. It
advises the federal government on a wide variety of issues relevant to
libraries and library services.
- Urban Libraries Council.
ULC is an association of large public libraries "organized to solve
common problems, better understand new opportunities and conduct applied
research which improves professional practice."
- Western Pennsylvania
School Librarians Association is a regional affiliate of Pennsylvania
School Librarians Association.
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Public Libraries
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School Library
Media Centers
- 50 States'
Certification Requirements is maintained by the University of Kentucky
College of Education.
- American Memory Learning Page
from the Library of Congress
"was created to assist educators as they use the American
Memory web site to teach about United States history and culture."
- ATN-Book Lists (Suggested Readings)
consists of recommended reading lists created by members of the LM_NET
and by other international K-12 librarians, initially as part of the All
Together Now project.
- Book Adventure is a free
reading incentive program created by the Sylvan Learning Foundation
and designed to encourage children in grades K-8 to read.
- CAREO
(Campus Alberta Repository
of Educational Objects) has "as its primary goal the creation
of a searchable, Web-based collection of multidisciplinary teaching materials
for educators."
- Texas
School Libraries: Standards, Resources, Services and Students' Performance
(2001), prepared by Ester G. Smith on behalf of the Texas State Archives
and Library Commission, "demonstrates the positive impact of Texas
School Libraries on students' pass rate on the statewide standardized test."
- Booklists for Young
Adults on the Web, compiled by Maggi Rohde "from the many YA-related
web pages created by librarians, educators and others serving young adults."
- Busy Teachers' Web Site
K-12 is designed "to provide teachers with direct source materials,
lesson plans / classroom activities with a minimum of site-to-site linking,
and to provide an enjoyable and rewarding experience for the teacher who
is learning to use the Internet."
- "Do We" Really
Know Dewey? was developed for students by students, specifically, a
group of students at Nettleton Intermediate Center Jonesboro, Arkansas.
- Educational
Leadership is a journal "intended primarily for leaders in
elementary, middle, and secondary education."
- Enchanted Learning
"produces children's educational web sites and games."
- Fathom Archive is provided by Columbia
University and "offers access to the complete range of free content,"
including lectures, articles, interviews, exhibits and seminars.
- iLumina
Digital Library is "a digital library of sharable undergraduate
teaching materials for chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, and computer
science."
- Internet School
Library Media Center (ISLMC) school libraries page. Contains "information
on selection, cataloging and classification, management ,and other topics
of interest to school librarians."
- Jan Brett's Home Page. Children's
author/illustrator Jan Brett has a teacher's pack for interested teachers
and librarians.
- K12 Practitioners' Circle
is "an information service for education practitioners" provided
by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). It provides access
to a variety of NCES and U.S. Department of Education resources.
- Mazza Collection: Art from
Children's Books is "the first and largest teaching gallery specializing
in the original art of children's picture books." From Findlay University.
- MERLOT--Multimedia Educational Resources
for Learning and Online Teaching.
- Mikids.com gathers "links for
students and teachers in the Kindergarten through 8th grade school system
for use in their curriculum and for fun!"
- National Center for Education
Statistics Students Classroom "offers a wide range of topics and
activities."
- Oklahoma
School Librarian's Resource Page. "offers school librarians a
list of website resources dealing with issues related to libraries, books,
technology, and teaching." A service of Oklahoma State University
Library.
- Pennsylvania Training &
Technical Assistance Network (PaTTAN; formerly Western Instructional
Support Center (WISC). PaTTAN provides
a wide array of resources and services in support of special education
in school districts in western Pennsylvania.
- Plymouth
(Michigan) Central Middle School Library Media Center. Links on this
page "guide middle school students in the selection of reading material.
Many of these sites include student book reviews."
- The
Praxis Series "Assessments provide tests and other services that
states use as part of their teaching licensing certification process."
- Resource Guides for School
Library Media Program Development are compiled by American
Association of School Librarians staff and members.
- Science, Math, Engineering, and Technology
Education (SMETE) Digital Library is "a dynamic online library
and portal of services by the SMETE Open Federation for teachers and students."
- School Libraries Online, the
official site of the International Association of School Librarianship,
has over 600 pages of information for school librarians.
- YALSA
Professional Development Center has "tools to help you in your
work with young adults."
- Yourhomework.com provides
"free services for teachers to post homework assignments for their
students. Easily integrate assignments, teacher email, class web page,
and homework help to harness the power of the web for your class."
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of Library Science Home Page
Links last checked May 2007.