World-Wide Web Resources
Library and Information Science

New Sites Added Since July 28

  • Information Access Alliance

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  • General Resources
  • UK Libraries Library and Information Science Resources

  • Book Arts Web Resources, from the King Library Press, University of Kentucky Libraries.

  • BUBL Information Service, access to selected Internet resources covering a wide range of subject areas, with a special focus on Library and Information Science.

  • Conference Planner, includes conference announcements and links to travel resource sites.

  • ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center), database of abstracted references to journal literature and documents in educational fields. Includes coverage of library-related publications. Links to selected full-text. Indexing abstracting from 1966 - ; selected fulltext ERIC documents available from 1993 - . Also available from EBSCOhost Web. Accessible via campus computers. Also available off-campus for UK faculty, students and staff; follow these proxy server access instructions or ask for passwords at any campus library.

  • ERIC Clearinghouse on Information and Technology, fulltext of ERIC documents in the fields of library science and educational technology. Available through the Syracuse University Information Institute. Free to all.

  • Friends Of Libraries USA, provides programs and publications to 2,800 member groups, which in turn teach citizens nationwide to develop local library Friends to raise funds, be advocates, and promote libraries.

  • Index Morganagus, full-text index of library-related electronic serials.

  • Internet Library for Librarians, portal for librarians to locate Internet resources related to their profession.

  • Keeping Up, site to help "library and information science professionals develop and maintain a program of self-guided professional development."

  • Librarians in the 21st Century, profiles of library jobs and links about becoming a librarian, trends in the profession (including censorship, digital libraries, Internet filtering, outsourcing, and electronic publishing), and career resources.

  • Libraries and Archives on the Internet: guide to library websites.

  • Library and Related Resources, resources available on the web maintained by libraries, museums and centres of research, as well as publishers. Includes library and information science resources; library and related organizations; library projects, reports & bibliographies & documentation; library related email lists and ejournals; and LIS Training and Professional Development resources. From the University of Exeter Library.

  • Library Clip Art

  • Library Events for Library & Information Professionals

  • Library of Congress Classification Outline

  • Library-Oriented Lists and Electronic Serials

  • Library Related Conferences

  • Library Support Staff.com, annotated links to resources aimed at paraprofessionals.

  • National Science Foundation's Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering

  • Pica, The Dutch Centre for Library Automation Pica. Cooperative, not-for-profit organization for libraries and other information providing institutions. Its objective is to improve the efficiency of information supply by promoting cooperation between the participating institutions.

  • PICK, gateway to librarianship and information science resources on the Internet

  • QTECH Web, from the Technical Services Units of Queen's University Libraries, Kingston, Ontario. With links to technical services resources.

  • Readmore, Inc., serial subscription service.

  • Resources for Book Collectors

  • Soaring to Excellence, national teleconference series for library assistants.

  • SPEC Kits, from Systems and Procedures Exchange Center, Association of Research Libraries. "SPEC Kits examine current research library practices and policies and serve as resource guides for libraries".

  • Special Collections Resources on the Web, from the University of Houston Libraries.

  • Telecommunications Act of 1996: a guide to resources.

  • Theological Libraries, links to theological libraries.

  • UNESCO Libraries Portal, includes links to Libraries, Professional Groups, Training, Preservation and Access initiatives, Reference Resources, Conferences and Meetings, and other Librarianship Resources.

  • United States Book Exchange

  • Vandergrift's Special Interest Page, intended as a means of sharing ideas and information with students and others interested in youth literature, genre fiction, women's studies, and related topics.

  • Virtual Library Users Group, Kentucky.

  • Web4Lib, electronic discussion list concerned with issues relating to the creation and management of library-based World-Wide Web servers and clients.

  • Women's Studies Core Lists, to assist women's studies librarians and collection development librarians in building women's studies collections. From the Association of College and Research Libraries, Women's Studies Section.

  • World List of Departments and Schools of Information Studies, Information Management, and Information Systems.
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  • Acquisitions, including Vendors
  • AcqWeb, lots of information and pointers for acquisitions, collection development, and librarianship in general (from Vanderbilt).

  • Alfred Jaeger, Inc., supplier of periodicals back volumes/issues.

  • Baker & Taylor, Information and Entertainment Services.

  • Blackwell's Online Bookshop.

  • Brodart Co.

  • Collections & Services Policy Manual, from The Center for Research Libraries.

  • EBSCO Information Services

  • EBSCO Publishing

  • FAXON

  • Ingram Book Group, featuring weekly updated information of interest to the book industry community. Ingram is the world's largest distributor of trade books, and also distributes periodicals, multimedia, and spoken audio.

  • Librarian's Yellow Pages: buyers' guide for librarians.

  • Library Materials Budget Survey for FY2000. From ARL.

  • License Depot for Electronic Resources, from FAXON.

  • Newsletter on Serials Pricing

  • PubList, source of information on more than 150,000 of the world's periodicals.

  • Publishers and Bookstores

  • YBP Library Services
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  • Associations, Conferences, Councils, and Networks
  • AICHAW, The American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works.

  • American Association of Law Libraries

  • American Association of School Librarians

  • American Indian Library Association

  • American Library Association

  • ARLIS-NA, Art Libraries Society of North America.

  • ASERL, Association of Southeastern Research Libraries.

  • ASIS, the American Society for Information Science.

  • Aslib, The Association for Information Management.

  • Association for Image and Image Management

  • Association for Information Systems

  • Association of College and Research Libraries

  • Association of Independent Information Professionals, an international association of owners of information businesses.

  • The Association of Moving Image Archives

  • Association of Research Libraries

  • Bibliographical Society of America

  • Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA), promotes the development of library and information services for African Americans and other people of African descent.

  • CSNA, Classification Society of North America.

  • Coalition for Networked Information

  • Council on Library and Information Resources

  • EDUCAUSE, the Association for Managing and Using Information Resources in Higher Education.

  • Information Access Alliance

  • IATUL, International Association of Technological University Libraries.

  • IFIP, International Federation for Information Processing.

  • International Association of School Librarianship, forum for people interested in promoting effective school library media programmes.

  • International Council on Archives

  • Kentucky Council on Archives

  • Kentucky Library Association

  • Kentucky SOLINET Users Group

  • Library Administration & Management Association

  • Library & Information Technology Association

  • Library Association, United Kingdom.

  • Library Events for Library & Information Professionals

  • Medical Library Association, Network of Health Information Professionals.

  • Microcomputer Users Group for Libraries in North Carolina, contains current information about workshops offered by MUGLNC as well as links to sites on the Internet about personal computers, librarianship, and libraries and other information providers in North Carolina.

  • Music Library Association

  • NAGARA, The National Association of Government Archives and Records.

  • National Commission on Libraries and Information Science

  • North American Serials Interest Group

  • Professional Organizations, in the Information Sciences (from the School of Library and Information Science at San Jose State University).

  • Public Library Association

  • Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, ACRL.

  • REFORMA, committed to the improvement of the full spectrum of library and information services for the approximately 22 million Spanish-speaking and Hispanic people in the United States.

  • SAALCK, State-Assisted Academic Library Council of Kentucky.

  • SHARP, society for the history of authorship, reading & publishing. The history of books and printing in chronological or alphabetical listing.

  • The Society of American Archivists

  • SOLINET, Southeastern Library Network.

  • SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition, is an alliance of libraries that fosters expanded competition in scholarly communication.

  • Special Libraries Association

  • Tennessee Library Association

  • Texas Library Association

  • Theatre Library Association

  • Virginia Library and Information Network

  • Western European Specialists Section of ACRL.

  • WLN
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  • Bibliographic Search Services and Utilities
  • Bell & Howell, formerly UMI.

  • CARL, Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries.

  • Gale Group

  • ISI, Institute for Scientific Information.

  • LEXIS-NEXIS

  • OCLC

  • Ovid Technologies, formerly CDP Online and BRS.

  • Research Information Systems, developers of Reference Manager and Reference Update.

  • Research Libraries Group

  • SilverPlatter

  • SIRS, Inc., educational publishing company that provides full-text CD-ROM databases, integrated library automation, and computers to schools and libraries.

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  • Career Resources
  • African Americans in Library Professions: The Kentucky Connection.

  • ARL Career Resources, designed to assist member institutions in developing an efficient, diverse, energetic, and successful workforce in order to carry out their mission of information exchange, library administration, and policy development. Announcements can be selected by category of service or by geographical region. Current vacancy announcements are categorized by specialty and are updated regularly. Each announcement is written by the individual institutions according to a template supplied by ARL.

  • Art Libraries Society of North America JobNet

  • Career Services Online, from Special Libraries Association.

  • Employment Resources, compiled by the UK School of Library & Information Science.

  • Employment Resources for Librarians, from The Networked Librarian.

  • General Career Resources

  • Information Professional's Career Page

  • Kentucky Library Job Hotline

  • Law Library Job Opportunities Services, from the American Association of Law Libraries.

  • LibJobs: An employment service list for library professionals from IFLA.

  • LITA - Jobs in Library and Information Technology

  • Library Job Opportunities by State

  • Library Science School Ratings, from U.S. News & World Report.

  • LISjobs.com, Jobs for Librarians and Information Professionals.

  • NEWLIB-L, discussion list for librarians new to the profession who wish to share experiences and discuss ideas, issues, trends, and problems faced by librarians in the early stages of their careers. However, this list is also of interest to those who are considering becoming librarians, and to those established in the profession who might wish to mentor newcomers. The list is currently open to all librarians--academic, public, special, etc. To subscribe, please send a note to: listproc@usc.edu with the message: "subscribe newlib-l Your Name" (please do not put in the quotation marks into your message, and replace "Your Name" with your name as you wish it to appear.)
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  • Cataloging
  • Beyond Bookmarks: Classification Schemes for Organizing the Web.

  • Catalogablog, A blog (Web log) devoted to "library cataloging, classification, metadata, subject access and related topics," from David Bigwood, Assistant Manager for Library Services (and Cataloger) at the Lunar and Planetary Institute. Includes links to a list of standards and another of MARC tools.

  • Cataloger's Toolbox

  • Cataloging Foreign Language Material, resources for catalogers.

  • Cataloging Internet Resources: A Beginning, by Eric Lease Morgan, North Carolina State University.

  • CORC, Cooperative Online Resource Catalog. From OCLC.

  • Cataloging Internet Resources, from OCLC.

  • CONSER, Cooperative Online Serials Program.

  • CSNA, Classification Society of North America.

  • CyberStacks, centralized, integrated, and unified collection of significant WWW and other Internet resources categorized using the Library of Congress classification scheme.

  • Metadata Initiatives, guide to schema and proposal resources. From the University of Michigan.

  • Proceedings of the OCLC Internet Cataloging Colloquium

  • QTECH Web, from the Technical Services Units of Queen's University Libraries, Kingston, Ontario. With links to technical services resources.

  • Remote Access Electronic Serials, Report of the Task Force on Cataloging Remote Access Electronic Serials. From Yale University Library.

  • The Role of Classification Schemes in Internet Resource Description and Discovery, from the UKOLN Metadata Group.

  • Technical Processing Online Tools, maintained by the Library Technical Services departments of the UCSD Libraries.

  • Technical Services Studies, from the University Library System, University of Pittsburgh.

  • Top 200 Technical Services Benefits of Home Page Development, maintained by Barbara Stewart, Latin American Cataloger, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

  • Understanding MARC Bibliographic: Machine-Readable Cataloging. Provides readers with brief a history of MARC and USMARC formats; defines common terms and concepts; summarizes frequently used USMARC tags, indicators, and subfield codes; and offers cataloging examples.
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  • Centers and Institutes
  • Center for Advanced Information Technology, University of California, Davis.

  • Center for Research Libraries, with access to its catalog. Use the CRL Quick Search for access to all the major tools used to gather information about CRL's holdings.

  • Digital and Preservation Services Outreach Center, OCLC.

  • ISSN International Centre

  • The National Serials Data Program, features both a downloadable and an interactive ISSN application form. Use of the form is limited to U.S. publishers. Also includes the text of NSDP's printed "ISSN is For Serials" brochure; a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) list; special instructions about ISSN for electronic serials; information about AmIS, the American ISSN Friends group; and the text of the brochure, "What's in a Name?" developed by the Serials Section of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS), a division of the American Library Association. This brochure contains guidelines on the presentation of titles, title changes, numbering, & bar coding.
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  • Children, Young Adult and School Librarians Resources
  • Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site, consists of a large collection of book reviews and ideas for how to use them in the classroom. Users will also find resource collections (book titles, activities, related links) for specific curriculum areas and selected themes. In addition, the site contains a number of professional resources including a quarterly children's literature newsletter.

  • Children's Literature Web Guide

  • Child_Lit, unmoderated discussion group convened for the express purpose of examining the theory and criticism of literature for children and young adults.

  • Children's Book Council, nonprofit trade association of children's book publishers and producers of related literacy materials for children.

  • The Children's BookWatch, reviews available from Midwest Book Review.

  • Children's Literature - Electronic Journals and Book Reviews, from the University of Calgary.

  • Children's Literature Web Guide

  • Children's Software Revue

  • CM: Canadian Review of Materials, from the Manitoba Library Association. Electronic journal that reviews books, videos, audio tapes and CD-ROMs for children and young adults.

  • de Grummond Children's Literature Collection, finding aids for over 100 of the full list of 1200 plus authors and illustrators represented in the de Grummond Collection, with biographical sketches on most. The Published Books Collection numbers 55,000 volumes dating back to 1530, focusing mostly on American and British children's literature with the catalog available via a telnet connection. In addition, there are links to children's literature web sites.

  • Do We Really Know Dewey?, offers students the opportunity to acquaint themselves with the Dewey Decimal system, including its originator, classifications, and call number formulations.

  • International Association of School Librarianship, forum for people interested in promoting effective school library media programmes.

  • The Lion and the Unicorn, a critical journal of children's literature. Accessible from campus machines or off-campus for UK faculty, students and staff by following these proxy server access instructions.

  • The Scoop, The Children's Book Review Newsletter. Reviews the recent releases in children's books from major U.S. publishers. Contains activities for children and resources for parents and educators.

  • Vandergrift's Special Interest Page, intended as a means of sharing ideas and information with students and others interested in youth literature, genre fiction, women's studies, and related topics.

  • Young Adult Librarian's Help/Homepage, is designed to gather resources on and off the Web to help librarians serving teens. It contains over 170 links.

  • Young Adult Library Services Association, includes links to best YA books of the year
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  • Communications and Networks
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  • Copyright Information
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  • Digital Libraries
  • ARL Materials on Digital Libraries, at SunSITE.

  • Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE, sponsored by The Library of the University of California, Berkeley and Sun Microsystems, Inc. Provides information and support for those building digital libraries, museums, and archives.

  • The Computer Science Technical Report (CS-TR) Project: A Pioneering Digital Library Project Viewed from a Library Perspective." The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 7, no. 2 (1996). By Greg Anderson, Rebecca Lasher, and Vicky Reich.

  • The Data Documentation Initiative: project to develop an XML document type definition for data documentation.

  • Digital and Preservation Services Outreach Center, OCLC.

  • The Digital Future Coalition (DFC), "committed to striking an appropriate balance in law and public policy between protecting intellectual property and affording public access to it."

  • Digital Libraries: A Selected Resource Guide, from the September 1997 issue of Information Technology and Libraries.

  • Digital Libraries Initiative, Phase II

  • Digital Library Resources, from Academic Info.

  • Digital Library Federation, "fifteen of the nation's largest research libraries and archives have agreed to cooperate on defining what must be done to bring together--from across the nation and beyond--digitized materials that will be made accessible to students, scholars, and citizens everywhere, and that document the building and dynamics of United States heritage and cultures."

  • DigLibns Electronic Discussion, for the discussion of issues relating to digital librarianship.

  • D-Lib, the Digital Library Forum and D-Lib Magazine. For researchers and developers of advanced digital libraries.

  • eLib: The Electronic Libraries Programme. Higher Education Funding Bodies in the UK invited proposals for projects which would "transform the use and storage of knowledge in higher education institutions". Money was allocated to the "Electronic Libraries Programme," managed by the Joint Information Systems Committee on behalf of the funding bodies.

  • E-Serials: Publishers, Libraries, Users, and Standards.

  • Integrated Document Access Project, project to identify and evaluate current attempts to provide integrated access to both print and electronic publications. The overall aim of the project is to design and provide a test framework for such systems. From the University Of South Australia for the Council of Australian University Librarians and the National Library of Australia.

  • License Depot for Electronic Resources, from FAXON.

  • New Horizons in Scholarly Communication, highlights trends effecting the process of creating, retrieving and using information for instruction and research at the university level. From the Librarians Association of the University of California.

  • Standards for Libraries & Publishers, from FAXON.

  • SunSITE Servers, international links.
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  • Document Delivery and Interlibrary Loan
  • Ariel, RLG's document transmission system.

  • Ariel System FAQ

  • Center for Research Libraries, with access to its catalog and specialized databases.

  • Gale Group

  • Ingenta Library Gateway, online article delivery service, a table of contents database, and a keyword index to nearly 20,000 periodicals.

  • Innovative Internet Applications in Libraries, provides guide to explore how libraries are using the Internet to improve service.

  • Interlibrary Loan Application Standards Maintenance Agency

  • ISI, Institute for Scientific Information.
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  • Electronic Reserves
  • Electronic Reserves Clearinghouse, links and materials on the web. Established as a resource for designers of electronic reserves systems.

  • Issues & Innovation in Electronic Reserves, from Transforming Libraries.

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  • History
  • Library and Book History Resources

  • Margaret I. King Papers, 1893-1966, Finding Guide, for materials located in Special Collections and Digital Programs, University of Kentucky Libraries. Lexington, Kentucky.

  • Women in the History of American Librarianship

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  • The Internet
  • ALA/LITA Internet Resources Interest Group

  • ALA Resolution on the Use of Internet Filters

  • Ariadne, a print and Web magazine of Internet issues for librarians and information specialists from the University of Abertay Dundee and the United Kingdom Office for Library and Information Networking.

  • BCK2SKOL, the Electronic Library Classroom 101. Beginner's course on the Net and its various tools targeted toward librarians and other information professionals.

  • Beyond Bookmarks: Classification Schemes for Organizing the Web.

  • Cataloging Internet Resources: A Beginning, by Eric Lease Morgan, North Carolina State University.

  • Cataloging Internet Resources, from OCLC.

  • Consulting & Networked Publishing Services, from the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia.

  • CyberStacks, centralized, integrated, and unified collection of significant WWW and other Internet resources categorized using the Library of Congress classification scheme.

  • DRAWeb

  • Evaluating Web Sites for Educational Use

  • Gates (Bill and Melinda) Foundation, Libraries resources.

  • Health Sciences Internet Librarianship Resources, from Ohio State.

  • Internet Library for Librarians, designed to provide a one-stop shopping center for librarians to locate Internet resources related to their profession.

  • Hytelnet, utility which gives an IBM-PC user access to telnet-accessible library catalogs, FREE-NETS, BBSs, Gophers, and WAIS sites.

  • ICONnect, designed by ALA for school library media specialists, teachers, and students to learn "the skills necessary to navigate the information superhighway."

  • Innovative Interfaces.

  • Innovative Internet Applications in Libraries, provides guide to explore how libraries are using the Internet to improve service.

  • Integrated Document Access Project, project to identify and evaluate current attempts to provide integrated access to both print and electronic publications. The overall aim of the project is to design and provide a test framework for such systems. From the University Of South Australia for the Council of Australian University Librarians and the National Library of Australia.

  • Internet Learning Center, a collection of columns on the Internet written by Emory Daniels.

  • Internet Public Library, from the University of Michigan.

  • Library Solutions Institute & Press, Internet training materials and seminars.

  • The Library Web Manager's Reference Center, from Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE.

  • Metadata Initiatives, guide to schema and proposal resources. From the University of Michigan.

  • National Survey of Public Libraries and the Internet: Progress and Issues. From the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science.

  • Online Catalogs with Web Interfaces

    Project Aristotle: Automated Categorization of Web Resources. Clearinghouse of projects, research, products and services investigating or which demonstrate the automated categorization, classification or organization of Web resources. A working bibliography of key and significant reports, papers and articles, is also provided. Projects and associated publications have been arranged by the name of the university, corporation, or other organization with which the principal investigator of a project is affiliated. (From Cyberstacks at Iowa State University.)

  • Project Earl, Electronic Access to Resources in Libraries. Consortium of UK Public Library Authorities and other organizations which aim to make available the advantages of the Internet to all library users and other members of the public.

  • PURL, the Persistent URL Home Page. From OCLC.

  • Public Library Internet Access Policies

  • Remote Access Electronic Serials, Report of the Task Force on Cataloging Remote Access Electronic Serials. From Yale University Library.

  • The Role of Classification Schemes in Internet Resource Description and Discovery, from the UKOLN Metadata Group.

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

  • Web Page Development Resources

  • WebCat, from SIRSI. Provides interactive, online public access catalog on the World Wide Web.

  • WebCat-L Archives, from the discussion list. Deals with web-based library catalogs.

  • webCATS: Library Catalogues on the World Wide Web. guide you to "every online public-access library catalogue." Browse by geographic location and type (including medical, government and religious libraries).

  • WebPAC Demonstration, from Ameritech Library Services.

  • Web Voyage, Public Access Catalog for Voyager. From Endeavor Information Systems.

  • WWW Search Engine Evaluations

  • Writing for the Web: A Primer for Librarians.
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  • Library Instruction
  • Bibliographic Instruction, guide page maintained at Middle Tennessee State.

  • GOvernment DOcuments Round Table Education Committee Handout Exchange
  • International Journal of Knowledge Management
  • Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship, a quarterly publication of the Science and Technology Section, Association of College and Research Libraries.
  • The Public-Access Computer Systems Review

  • Instruction Section of ALA's ACRL.

  • Library Research: A Hypertext Guide, from Cornell University.

  • Library Instruction Roundtable [LIRT]

  • LOEX, Clearinghouse for Library Instruction.

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  • Library Schools
  • Directory of Accredited Library Schools, from the ALA.

  • Library and Information Science Schools on the Internet

  • Library Science School Ratings, from U.S. News & World Report.

  • LIS Schools on the Internet

  • World List of Departments and Schools of Information Studies, Information Management, and Information Systems.

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  • Link Servers & OpenURLs
  • Generalizing the OpenURL Framework Beyond References to Scholarly Works: the Bison-Futé Model. By Herbert Van de Sompel and Oren Beit-Arie, D-Lib Magazine, Vol. 7, no. 7/8, July/August 2001.

  • 1cate, OpenURL Link Server, from Openly Informatics, Inc.

  • OpenResolver: a Simple OpenURL Resolver. By Andy Powell, Ariadne, Issue 28, 22-June-2001.

  • The OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services Standards Committee AX, National Information Standards Organization.

  • SFX: Context-Sensitive Reference Linking, from Ex Libris.

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  • Online Library Systems, including Vendors
  • ALEPH, online library and data base management system. Developed by ALEPH-YISSUM, Jerusalem and distributed by EX LIBRIS.

  • America's Conference on Information Systems

  • Ameritech Library Services

  • CARL, Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries.

  • CNIDR Research & Development
    • CNIDR Isite, an integrated software package including a text indexer, search engine and Z39.50 communication tools to access databases. Isite includes the CNIDR ZDist, Isearch and Search API distributions.
    • CNIDR Reference Desk, links to various reference databases, including Z39.50 databases using CNIDR's HTTP to Z39.50 gateway software, available with the Isite software.
    • Stateful Gateway Experiment, experimental stateful Z39.50 gateway.

  • DRA, Data Research Associates.

  • Dynix, an online library system from Ameritech Library Services.

  • Endeavor Information Systems

  • GEAC Computer Corporation Ltd.

  • Horizon, from Ameritech Library Services.

  • Innovative Interfaces

  • Integrated Library System Reports, journal that tracks and reports current integrated online library system trends.

  • Library Catalogs Arranged by Vendor, worldwide guide from Hytelnet.

  • NOTIS, an online library system from Ameritech Library Services.

  • OCLC

  • SIRSI
    • WebCATS, provides interactive, online public access catalog on the World Wide Web.

  • Smith Automation Systems, Inc., producer of turnkey Internet servers. Information on electronic commerce and electronic data interchange issues.

  • VTLS

  • webCATS: Library Catalogues on the World Wide Web. guide you to "every online public-access library catalogue." Browse by geographic location and type (including medical, government and religious libraries).

  • Workstation Security, These pages address the security issues libraries face with their publicly accessed computers when they offer Internet access. Monica King, a public librarian in Louisiana, describes the hardware, software, and policy solutions her library system implemented. The areas covered include: hardware security; security software; and browser selection. Also a useful bibliography that points to other resources.
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  • Planning & Management
  • The Influence of Technology: Redesigning an Academic Library Reference Department, from Brown University Library.

  • Library Administration & Management Association

  • Office of Management Services, from ARL.

    SPEC Kit Detailed Summaries, Systems & Procedures Exchange Center.

  • Strategic Planning Clearinghouse, from the University of Pittsburgh Library System.

  • Transforming Libraries, focuses on how libraries are using technology to transform library services and operations. From ARL's Office of Management Services.
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  • Preservation
  • Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

  • AICHAW, The American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works.

  • Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books: A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology. From Conservation Online, Stanford University.

  • Conservation Online (CoOL), resources for conservation professionals.

  • Cornell University Department of Preservation and Conservation

  • Digital and Preservation Services Outreach Center, OCLC.

  • Historic Preservation Resources

  • National Trust for Historic Preservation

  • Preservation Resources, from OCLC.

  • Preserving Digital Information: Final Report, from RLG, Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information.

  • Preserving Research Collections, published by the Association of Research Libraries, the Modern Language Association, and the American Historical Association on behalf of the Task Force on the Preservation of the Artifact.
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  • Publishers and Bookstores
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  • Reference
  • IFBA, Informationsmittel für Bibliotheken. Selected reviews of reference works and bibliographies from this German review journal, abstracted and translated into English by a team of American and British librarians.

  • Studies in Bibliography On-Line. The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia and the University Library's Electronic Text Center announce their plans to create Studies in Bibliography On-Line. This service -- available free of charge on the Internet -- will include the full text of the nearly one thousand articles in the 49 annual volumes of Studies in Bibliography (1948-1996) in a searchable and browsable database.
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  • Scholarly Communication
  • Create Change, from ARL / ACRL / SPARC. "Seeks to address the crisis in scholarly communication by helping scholars regain control of the scholarly communication system...."

  • Generalizing the OpenURL Framework Beyond References to Scholarly Works: the Bison-Futé Model. By Herbert Van de Sompel and Oren Beit-Arie, D-Lib Magazine, Vol. 7, no. 7/8, July/August 2001.

  • Institutional Repositories: Partnering with Faculty to Enhance Scholarly Communication. By Richard K. Johnson. In D-Lib Magazine (vol. 8, no. 11), November 2002.

  • Issues in Scholarly Communication, from the Association of Research Libraries.

  • New Horizons in Scholarly Communication, highlights trends effecting the process of creating, retrieving and using information for instruction and research at the university level. From the Librarians Association of the University of California.

  • Scholarly Communication Crisis, from the University of Connecticut Libraries.

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

  • SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition, is an alliance of libraries that fosters expanded competition in scholarly communication.

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  • Technical Resources
  • Apple Library Users Group

  • Wireless Libraries, applications of wireless technologies to library environments. Includes an ongoing bibliography of articles on the topic and links to related WWW sites.
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  • Z39.50
  • CNIDR Isite, an integrated software package including a text indexer, search engine and Z39.50 communication tools to access databases. Isite includes the CNIDR ZDist, Isearch and Search API distributions.

  • CNIDR Reference Desk, links to various reference databases, including Z39.50 databases using CNIDR's HTTP to Z39.50 gateway software, available with the Isite software.

  • CNIDR Stateful Gateway Experiment, experimental stateful Z39.50 gateway.

  • Z39.50 Access Project (ZAP), from the University Library System, University of Pittsburgh.

  • Z39.50 in a Nutshell, from NLM.

  • Z39.50 Maintenance Agency, Library of Congress.

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  • School of Library and Information Science, University of Kentucky.

    • To request a purchase for the Library & Information Science collection in the University of Kentucky Libraries, use this form.

    This page was last updated 5 January 2007. To suggest additions or corrections to this list, send mail to Paula Hickner at Paula.Hickner@uky.edu.

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