http://www.bu.edu/library/workfiles/news/newscms.html
"The News Content Management System (CMS) allows users to publish news items on the BU Web--in this case the libraries' website." (September 5, 2007)
Simmons GSLIS
Global Memory Net
http://www.memorynet.org/
"...intended to be an effective gateway to the world cultural, historical, and heritage image collections from selective collaborative institutions in the world. Much of these unique collections of great value to education and research are not currently accessible due to distance, form, and technical barriers." (April 3, 2007)
GSLIScast
http://gslis.simmons.edu/podcasts/
"Audio content from the Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science."
(April 17, 2007)
GSLIS gateway
http://my.simmons.edu/gslis/
"Audio content from the Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science." (April 17, 2007)
http://my.simmons.edu/gslis/resources/publications/il_current.shtml
"A community newsletter of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science." Read September 2006 and March 2007 issues and found them worthwhile. September issue focused on Katrina including an excellent article by Chuck Patch of the Historic New Orleans Collection (HNOC) museum. (April 17, 2007)
Notable Women of Simmons College
http://my.simmons.edu/library/notablewomen/
"
The mission of the Notable Women of Simmons College project is to animate the lives of early college women through their scrapbooks and other memorabilia, ...as an entrée into a rich understanding of the social conditions and historical period in which these women lived." (April 3, 2007)
Prison Book Program - Books Open Doors
http://www.prisonbookprogram.org/
"...grassroots organization that exists for one purpose - to send free books to prisoners. ...since 1972." (April 23, 2007)
Room to Read
http://www.roomtoread.org/
"Room to Read was founded on the belief that "World Change Starts with Educated Children" - and that education is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty. We strive to provide children access to education, one child at a time, one school at a time, and one village at a time." (April 23, 2007)
Ruth Mitchell Wunderly Scrapbook, 1915-1918
http://gslis.simmons.edu/wunderly
"Part of the Notable Women of Simmons digital scrapbook project, this site shows RMW's life through pictures and writings." (April 3, 2007)
Blogs - Library
herzogbr.net Blog-
A Hitchhiker's Guide to Fear and Loathing at a Public Library Reference Desk
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/
(April 13, 2007)
Terry's Worklog
http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/blog/
"On my work (programming, digital libraries, cataloging) and other stuff that perks my interest (family, cycling, etc)."
I have heard Terry speak twice now at IUG meetings and I was very impressed with his straightforward assessments and systems approach/knowledge. (August 24, 2007)
Copyright
Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/
"... legal doctrine is emerging that will determine the course of civil
rights and technological innovation for decades to come. ...Lawrence Lessig
is the Founder and Director of the Center for Internet and Society."
The Center is assisting Carol Loeb Shloss' suit to post her Joycean scholarship
to the web as recognized fair use. (July 24, 2006)
Digital
Digital Research Archive, Boston University
http://digilib.bu.edu/dspace
"The Digital Research Archive (DRA) is an open access repository powered
by DSpace designed as a place to capture, store, index, preserve and redistribute
in digital formats the intellectual work of Boston University faculty, staff,
students and the University's research materials collected by its libraries."
(May 26, 2006)
e-Service Journal
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/esj/
Available from 2001, vol. 1 thru Project Muse. "...multidisciplinary
journal that publishes innovative, peer-reviewed research on the design, delivery,
and impact of electronic services using a variety of computing and communication
technologies." (July 24, 2006)
Portico: An Electronic Archiving Service
http://www.portico.org/
"The mission of Portico is to preserve scholarly literature published
in electronic form and to ensure that these materials remain accessible to
future scholars, researchers, and students." (November 14, 2006)
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html
"presents selected English-language articles, books, and other printed
and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic
publishing efforts on the Internet. Most sources have been published between
1990 and the present...." (June 13, 2005)
Fun
- Stuff
Daily Report
http://www.zeldman.com/
"So what is the Daily Report?
It’s a daily periodical of web design news, tips, and opinions, and a
window into zeldman.com and our other projects.
Why write about the web?
The web is like a shiny new doll. Some kids hug it and comb its hair, some
rip its clothes off to see what’s underneath, and some try to sell it
to other kids. We track who’s doing what.
Why the “we?”
Writing as “we” instead of “I” lends our prose a certain
dubious and jocular authority." (August 1, 2002)
http://www.textbased.com/~minimalist/
"This is a collection of good-looking websites that are built with minimalism
in mind, the idea of beauty through 'less is more'." (August 1, 2002)
Mr. Hudson and the Library
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2007/10/music_weekly_featuring_mr_huds.html/
Link did not work on: (February 1, 2008) Try Internet Archive?
Verse Daily
http://www.versedaily.org/
"Verse Daily is an independently owned daily publication of top-notch
poetry on the worldwide web. By republishing from fine literary magazines
and books of poetry one new poem each day, Verse Daily is working hard to
promote poets and their publishers while providing a wealth of excellent poetry
to the public free of charge." (August 1, 2002)
Word Counter
http://www.wordcounter.com/
"Wordcounter ranks the most frequently used words in any given body of
text. Use this to see what words you overuse (is everything a "solution" for
you?) or maybe just to find some keywords from a document." Insert text
and it counts words by frequency of use! (March 13, 2003)
Higher
Education
IMS - Global Learning Consortium, Inc.
http://www.imsproject.org/
"IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. (IMS) is developing and promoting
open specifications for facilitating online distributed learning activities
such as locating and using educational content, tracking learner progress,
reporting learner performance, and exchanging student records between administrative
systems." (February 25, 2003)
Kairosnews - A News Site and Online Community for Discussing Rhetoric,
Technology and Pedagogy
http://kairosnews.org
"Kairos would like to announce Kairosnews, a daily news service for those
interested in rhetoric, technology and pedagogy." (August 7, 2002)
The Node Learning Technologies Network
http://thenode.org/
Comprehensive understanding of Internet applications for education. (Feb 5,
2002)
OpenUW - Free Online Courses (University of Washington)
http://www.outreach.washington.edu/openuw/
A series of free courses presented by UW Educational Outreach" (March
10, 2003)
Quia
http://www.quia.com/
"Quia Web (located at http://www.quia.com/web) is one of the world's
most popular educational technology Web sites. It pioneered the "create-your-own"
concept, giving instructors the ability to create customized educational software
online, built around their own course materials and made available to students
over the Web. The idea proved so popular that more than 300,000 educators
have registered to use the service. Today, Quia Web offers much more, including
assessment and analysis tools and classroom management features, like class
pages, calendars, and grade books. All features are intuitive and learn-as-you-go—no
special training is ever required." (January 29, 2003)"
Higher
Education - Conferences,
Workshops, Institutes, etc.
International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society
http://technology-conference.com/
" The full International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society is
a four day event run at the turn of the calendar year. ...symposium is to
be held at roughly the mid way point between the annual conferences." (December
19, 2005)
MIT Communications Forum
http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/
"For more than twenty-five years the Communications Forum has played a unique
role at MIT and beyond as a site for cutting-edge discussion of the cultural,
political, economic and technological impact of communications, with special
emphasis on emerging technologies." (October 6, 2005)
NECASL - New England Consortium on Assessment and Student Learning
http://www.wellesley.edu/NECASL/index.html
" NECASL is comprised of seven selective liberal arts colleges in New England ....an innovative assessment project exploring how students learn and how they make important decisions about their academic programs." (March 29, 2009)
Higher
Education - Organizations
Educause
http://www.educause.edu/
"The mission of EDUCAUSE is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent
use of information technology. ...The current membership comprises more than
1,800 colleges, universities, and education organizations, including over
180 corporations." (March 8, 2003)
NEASC - New England Association of Schools and Colleges
http://www.neasc.org/
"Accreditation, like the institutions it serves, increasingly relies on data and evidence as the basis of its work." From http://cihe.neasc.org/downloads/Data_First_Cover_MemoFORTHEWEB2.5.09.pdf (March 29, 2009)
Reinvention Center, The
http://ws.cc.stonybrook.edu/Reinventioncenter/
"Envisioning undergraduate education .... focusing on undergraduate education
at research universities. The Center was born of the excitement and intense
national and international interest generated by the Boyer Commission Report,
Reinventing
Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America's Research Universities
(1998). ... Research universities
make up only 3% of the 3,600 colleges and universities in the United States,
but graduate 33% of the nation's baccalaureate
recipients." Conferences held in November 2004 and 2002. Another
in 2006? Learned about from Sharon Prado. (October 25, 2005)
Teaching, Learning, and Technology Roundtables (TLTRs)
http://www.tltgroup.org/programs/TLTR/home.htm
"Not sure if your institution has the equivalent of a TLT Roundtable? Ask
yourself whether it has a single formal or informal body including representatives
from the faculty, library, academic support services, administration, etc.
that performs the functions described above." (mAY 12, 2004)
Higher
Education - Publications
Syllabus
http://www.syllabus.com/
"Syllabus, the only monthly magazine that focuses exclusively on the use of
high tech in higher education." (March 8, 2003)
Indexes
and Databases - Usage Statistics
ScholarlyStats
https://www.scholarlystats.com/
"...Oline portal for library usage statistics. ScholarlyStats has been
developed to provide information professionals with a single point of access
to their vendor usage statistics." (November 14, 2006)
Library - General
BiblioFuture - Librarians' Book Club
http://culaw2.creighton.edu/library/lbc/
"Get yourself a copy of the current book and subscribe to the discussion
list." (March 4, 2002)
Collaborative Facilities
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~collab/
"Collaborative Facilities is a project designed to collect, organize,
and disseminate information about model "collaborative facilities"
on college and university campuses. The project is sponsored by the Coalition
for Networked Information (CNI). Collaborative facilities integrate the services
of information technologists, librarians, instructional technologists, multi-media
producers, and many others to serve a wide range of faculty and student needs."
(May 31, 2002)
Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/index.html
"The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites
and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide
free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public in
accordance with our Terms of Use." (March 13, 2002)
Librarians Guide to the Internet
http://www.star-host.com/library/
"Helping librarians and other information seekers find resources and
services on the Net since 1993," maintained by Allen C. Benson,
copyright 2003. Site noted by Tracy Thrasher Hybl: "more sources for
free eBooks online." (July 17, 2006)
The Librarian's Yellow Pages
http://lyponline.com/
"since 1994 ...the definitive buyer’s guide for the library community ....With thousands of carefully categorized listings of suppliers, the product or service you seek is always as close as your desktop." (July 27, 2009)
Library in Crisis - description of a 46 minute video
http://www.filmakers.com/indivs/LibraryCrisis.htm
"Now this venerable institution is under siege, these scholars suggest,
from a variety of forces: the internet, digital technology, copyright law
and that most contemporary bugaboo, globalization." (September 27, 2002)
Library Terms That Users Understand
http://www.jkup.net/terms.html
"The purpose of this site is to help library web developers decide how
to label key resources and services in such a way that most users can understand
them well enough to make productive choices." (December 30, 2002)
Library Lookup
http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/stories/2002/12/11/librarylookup.html
"The links listed on these pages are bookmarklets -- little bits of JavaScript
code. You "install" one by dragging it to your browser's link toolbar. After
you've "installed" your bookmarklet in this way, you can look up books at
your local library. Let's say you're on a book-related site (Amazon, BN, isbn.nu,
All Consuming, possibly others), and a book's info page is your current page.
...The bookmarklet will invoke your library's lookup service, feed it the
ISBN, and pop up a new window with the result." From Susan Wishinsky
via ask@bu.edu query! (January 27, 2003)
LISNews - Top Librarian Personalities On The Web
http://www.lisnews.com/article.php3?sid=20020303191829
"See what Rory, Jessamyn, Walt, Marylaine, Gary, Karen, Eric, Roy, Peter,
Steven, The New Breedsterz and Greg did to put their personalities ahead of
the rest." (March 4, 2002)
Massachusetts Regional Library Systems Policy Collection
http://www.cmrls.org/policies/index.html
"The Library Policy Collection includes samples from a variety of settings
across Massachusetts. These policies have been approved by each library's
governance board and reprinted or linked with permission. For more examples,
contact your Regional Library System." (April 30, 2002)
Overdue - a cartoon strip about libraries by Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum
http://www.barnacle.org/overdue/
"Idealistic, bleeding-heart librarians offer many chances for comedy."
Since Feb. 16, 2002. (March 8, 2002)
"One Book" Reading Program Promotions - Center for the Book,
Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/loc/cfbook/one-book.html
"One Book" projects (community-wide reading programs), initiated by the Washington
Center for the Book in 1998, are being introduced across the U.S.A. and around
the world. ...Though we recognize that one book projects exist in schools,
we are unable, at this time to include them in our listing. We are only able
to post information for one book projects that involve broad community participation
of a city, town, county or region. " (June 16, 2006)
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html
"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. Most sources have
been published between 1990 and the present." (June 11, 2002)
Teaching, Learning and Technology Group
http://people.morrisville.edu/~drewwe/wireless/libwireless.html
American Association for Higher Education (AAHE). (Feb 5, 2002)
Wireless Librarian - Libwireless Discussion Group
http://culaw2.creighton.edu/library/lbc/
"To discuss libraries and all types of wireless technologies." (March
8, 2002)
Library - Access
(Cataloging, too)
MetaMap
http://mapageweb.umontreal.ca/turner/meta/english/index.html
The MetaMap is a pedagogical graphic which takes the form of a subway map.
Its aim is to help the information science community to understand metadata
standards, sets, and initiatives of interest in this area. (April 25, 2003)
Program for Cooperative Cataloging, Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/
"The Program for Cooperative Cataloging is an international cooperative
effort aimed at expanding access to library collections by providing useful,
timely, and cost-effective cataloging that meets mutually-accepted standards
of libraries around the world." (July 24, 2006)
Library - Access: Resource Sharing (ILL)
ILL Policies and Technology Directory - OCLC
http://www.oclc.org/oclc/ill/illpolicies.htm
The ILL Policies and Technology Directory provides users of OCLC ILL with a web-based, central source for entering and retrieving policies, billing, system, and contact information for member libraries worldwide. (February 25, 2003)
http://www.oclc.org/oclc/union/refcard.htm
pdf format: http://www.oclc.org/oclc/union/union_list_refcard.pdf
Although the Union List system was initially designed to enhance serials resource sharing, it is not limited to holdings information for serials. You can create local data records (LDRs) for any bibliographic record in WorldCat using the ANSI/NISO standard Z39.71-1999, "Holdings Statements for Bibliographic Items." (June 14, 2002)
Prospero - An Open Source Internet Document Delivery (IDD) System
http://bones.med.ohio-state.edu/prospero/
"Prospero is an open source Internet Document Delivery (IDD) system. It allows libraries to send and receive documents in electronic format from Prospero or Ariel ® workstations. It also converts Prospero / Ariel ® files (TIFF images) into Portable Document Files (PDF) and then places them on a Web site for direct patron access." (June 28, 2002
WorldCat Resource Sharing User Guide
http://www.oclc.org/us/en/support/documentation/resourcesharing/using/userguide/WCRS_UserGuide.pdf or http://www.oclc.org/us/en/support/documentation/resourcesharing
Source: OCLC email update. " Please send any comments or questions about this user guide to Peter Insabella at insabelp@oclc.org." (September 3, 2008)
Library - Assessment
BLC: Output Measures Task Force Workshop Presentations
http://www.blc.org/task_forces/FY03/output_measures/om_program.html
Workshop of May 27, 2003:
1) Jo-Ann Michalak, Director, Tufts Tisch Library: Local Assessment
at Tufts University;
2) Edward Oberholtzer, Social Sciences Bibliographer, Tufts Tisch Library:
Local Assessment at Tufts University;
3) Daniel O'Mahony, Documents Librarian, Brown University, Rockefeller
Library: Brown University's Experience with LibQual+ (Requires
Powerpoint);
4) Brinley Franklin, Director, University of Connecticut Libraries: ARL
E-Metrics Project (Requires Powerpoint) (September 8, 2003)
Undergraduate Research Project - University of Rochester (includes anthroplogical
research on undergraduate research behavior)
http://docushare.lib.rochester.edu/docushare/dsweb/View/Collection-2795
"Documents and reports on the undergraduate research project conducted
by the University of Rochester's River Campus Libraries." Provided in
email and learned about this work at 2006 SLA convention presentation (http://www.bu.edu/library/intranet/management/sla2006.html).
This book was also recommended: Contextual Design : A Customer-Centered
Approach to Systems Designs (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies)by Hugh Beyer, Karen Holtzblatt. (August 1, 2006)
Library
- Blogs, Personal - individual librarians who maintain blogs
Ex Libris - Marylaine Block
http://marylaine.com/exlibris/index.html
"A weekly e-zine for librarians from Marylaine Block, your 'librarian
without walls'." (January 27, 2003)
S* - SHUSH
http://www.shush.ws/
"To provide a conservative home for librarians as well as critical thinking
on library issues of the day and to begin serious discussion on the nature
of The Library and Its future." A conservative librarian's blog by Greg
McClay. (January 13, 2004)
TheoLib - Jack Ammerman
http://digilib.bu.edu/blogs/theolib/
"Exploring issues in theological librarianship." Jack Ammerman focuses
on technology, digital issues, and librarianship. (May 26, 2006)
Walking Paper
http://www.walkingpaper.org/
"... director of the North Plains Public Library. Located about 20 miles
outside of Portland, this small town of 1755 people. ... job is very part
time." (December 8, 2006)
Library
- Blogs & Publications of a more formal nature
Academia - An Online Magazine and Resource for Academic Librarians
http://www.ybp.com/Academia/Academiahome.htm
"Published by YBP Library Services." (September 19, 2002)
American Libraries Online
http://www.ala.org/alonline/index.html
"THE MAGAZINE OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION." (June 19, 2002)
ASSOCIATES - The Electronic Library Support Staff Journal
http://associates.ucr.edu/
"ASSOCIATES (ISSN 1077-6613) (OCLC#30846821) was established in
1994. It is intended as a journal written for and about library support staff.
Articles may be about any theme, fiction, fact or poetry (or anything else),
as long as libraries form the central thesis or background." (June 11,
2002)
Cites and Insights: Crawford at Large
http://cites.boisestate.edu/
"Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large is a Web-based print
zine providing annotated citations (cites) and commmentary (insights) on a
range of topics related to the intersections and interactions of libraries,
media, technology, messages,and people." (March 10, 2003)
Current Cites
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/
"A team of librarians and library staff monitors information technology
literature in both print and digital forms, each month selecting only
the best items to annotate for a free publication. The resulting issue of
10-15 annotated citations of current literature is emailed to a mailing list
and is redistributed on other electronic fora. The individual citations are
also individually indexed so that you can dynamically create your own Bibliography
On-Demand. The items that are freely available on the Internet are also retrieved
and indexed so that you can perform an Article Search of the full-text of
these items." (June 11, 2002)
Info Careeer Trends - Lisjobs.com's Professional Development Newsletter
http://marylaine.com/exlibris/index.html
"ICT addresses topics relevant to practicing information professionals.
...This is not another publication telling you how to run your library. Instead,
ICT addresses issues of personal professional development, providing you with
information on furthering your own library career. The focus is on librarians,
rather than on libraries. " (September 17, 2002)
The Information Literacy Land of Confusion
http://lorenzen.blogspot.com/
"Blog of librarian Michael Lorenzen discussing library user education,
library instruction, librarianship, information literacy, and search engines.
Also covers other observations on life in general." Entry also in Library
- Information Literacy. (November 27, 2006)
Journal of Digital Information - JoDI
http://jodi.tamu.edu/
"Publishing papers on the management, presentation and uses of information
in digital environments.... Free to individuals and libraries." (June
11, 2002, updated link on April 25, 2005)
Journal of Electronic Publishing
http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/
"Electronic publishing is changing the world we live in....In this environment
of change and uncertainty, the publisher faces many challenges: details such
as Web design, server management, pricing (and collecting the revenue!) as
well as the big policy questions. The Journal of Electronic Publishing
is for the thoughtful forward-thinking publisher, librarian, scholar, or author
-- in fact, anyone in this new business -- facing those challenges. We aim
to range widely in our coverage, but the emphasis will be on the broader issues
that should shape policy, and on professional, scientific or academic publishing,
both books and journals." This journal will be moving to Columbia University
Press and leaving the University of Michigan in 2003. (June 11, 2002, updated
December 3, 2002)
LibLib.com - Counterpoise Magazine, CRISES Press, and Librarians at Liberty
http://liblib.com/
"This LibLib site connects the twin concepts of Libraries and Liberty.
It promotes local acquisition and cataloging of alternative press
materials by libraries in order to provide public access to
the vast range of facts, ideas, points of view, lifestyles and values systematically
ignored by mainstream publications and products." (March 19, 2003)
Library Notes (from Morningstar)
http://library.morningstar.com/tracking/NotesArchive.aspx
"Morningstar.com Library Edition E-Newsletter by David Valentino."
Linked from http://library.morningstar.com/tracking/default.aspx - found it
to include practical, helpful practioner articles. (May 25, 2006)
Library Stuff - Steven M. Cohen
http://www.librarystuff.net/
"The library weblog dedicated to resources for keeping current and professional
development" (updated November 29, 2003)
RBB - Reference Books Bulletin (Booklist)
http://www.ala.org/booklist/v96/004.html
Somewhat dated Reviews (http://www.ala.org/booklist/v96/rbb/44.html)and
Reference on the Web (http://www.ala.org/booklist/v96/rbb/45.html),
including Donald's "Surfing History" from Booklist, February 1,
2000. (Jan 3, 2002)
LISNews
http://www.lisnews.com/
"Site devoted to current events and news in the world of Library and
Information Science...not always traditionally library oriented." (March
4, 2002)
NewBreed Librarian
http://www.newbreedlibrarian.org/
"NewBreed Librarian is a bimonthly publication intended to foster a sense
of community for those new to librarianship, whether in school or just out."
(April 23, 2002)
Shy Librarian
http://www.shylibrarian.com/ - a print publication
"THE SHY LIBRARIAN will strive to weave proven marketing, community relations,
and public relations practices into the fabric of librarianship. The Shy Librarian
"promotes libraries, librarians, and books" and is 64 ad-free pages
long. The Shy Librarian also includes many reviews of new professional books
for librarians, as well as books for children and young adults." (June
17, 2002)
The Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk
http://resourceshelf.freepint.com/
"Resources and news for information professionals, compiled & edited
by Gary Price, MLIS." (July 3, 2002)
Library - Collection
Development - Sites useful for 90-General Fund
HoBo - the site formerly known as History of the Book @ Oxford
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~hobo/hobo/about.html
HoBo currently aims to provide comprehensive coverage of all UK seminars, lectures and conferences related to the history of the book; it also includes some European and (in the case of the annual SHARP conferences) American events. (December 17, 2002)
Public Library of American Public Library Deaccession
http://www.deaccession.org/
"Over a two year period, the process of deaccession (withdrawing or discarding books from a collection) was researched and documented. During a period of cross-country travel, public libraries serving the cities with the highest literacy rate for each US state were visited and their de-acquisition processes recorded. This website and its accompanying exhibition in May 2007 represents a searchable catalog of otherwise uncontextualized information about the nation's libraries."
(April 30, 2007)
Library
- Conferences
4th International Evidence Based Library & Information Practice
Conference
http://eblip4.unc.edu/
"... transformative role of evidence-based practice in the profession."
(January 31, 2007)
Library
- Dissertations
NDLTD - Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
http://www.ndltd.org/
"To improve graduate education by allowing students to produce
electronic documents, use digital libraries, and understand issues in
publishing
To increase the availability of student research for scholars and to
preserve it electronically
To lower the cost of submitting and handling theses and dissertations
To empower students to convey a richer message through the use of multimedia
and hypermedia technologies
To empower universities to unlock their information resources
To advance digital library technology." (March 19, 2003)
Library - Education
and Professional Development
Fast Track MLIS - University of Pittsburgh (Distance Ed)
http://fasttrack.sis.pitt.edu/
The University of Pittsburgh's FastTrack MLIS Program (FT/MLIS) is designed
for adult students who cannot attend the on-campus program in Pittsburgh.
The ALA-accredited degree program is Web-based, and the courses are taught
by faculty from the on-campus program. The 1999 U.S. News and World Report
ranked the University of Pittsburgh's MLIS program third in the country. (October
10, 2002)
libraryevents.com - Library Events for Library and Information Professionals
http://www.libraryevents.com/index.html
"Current up to date listings of Library Events - trade shows, exhibitions,
training courses and association meetings for librarians and information professionals.
...shows libraries how to publicize their own customer events; shows library
suppliers how to publicize their training courses, sales events, trade shows
and exhibition attendances." (March 19, 2003)
MindLeaders Course Groups - thru OCLC and NELINET
http://institute.oclc.org/bin/catalog.asp
"MindLeaders ONLINE COURSES ~ NELINET has joined with the OCLC Institute
in its partnership with MindLeaders, a leader in distance education, to bring
you low-cost access to online technical education. More than 800 technical
courses are available in four topical course groups, from traditional desktop
applications to systems administration and Web development." (November
16, 2002)
WeSearch University
http://www.websearchu.com/
"WebSearch University is a valuable, intensive learning opportunity where
intermediate to advanced Web searchers can improve their skills and learn
new search tactics, strategies, and tools. ...Smart searchers go back to school
at WebSearch University to update their skills and ensure their mastery of
the intricacies of Web searching." (December 3, 2002)
Library
- Government Documents
Free Government Information (FGI)
http://freegovinfo.info/
"Free Government Information (FGI) is a place for initiating dialogue and
building consensus among the various players (libraries, government agencies,
non-profit organizations, researchers, journalists, etc.) who have a stake
in the preservation of and perpetual free access to government information."
(August 3, 2006)
Library
- Grants
MBLC - Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners: Grants
& Related Programs
http://mblc.state.ma.us/grants/
"The Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners administers both state and
federal grant programs for libraries of all types throughout the Commonwealth.
Here you will find information about State Aid to Public
Libraries, The Public Libraries Fund,
the Public Library Construction Program, the
federal Library
Services and Technology Act (LSTA), and Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation grants to libraries." (November
6, 2006)
Library - ILL
Library
- Information Literacy
How to Write a Term Paper - GaleSchools.com
http://www.gale.com/warehouse/term_paper/
"This guide is designed to support you as you use electronic and print
resources. ...'The purpose of research is not simply to retrieve data, but
to participate in a conversation about it' (Brent 109)." (February 13,
2007)
The Information Literacy Land of Confusion
http://lorenzen.blogspot.com/
"Blog of librarian Michael Lorenzen discussing library user education,
library instruction, librarianship, information literacy, and search engines.
Also covers other observations on life in general." Entry also in Library
- Blogs. (November 27, 2006)
LILI - Librarians in Information Literacy Instruction, Colleges of the
Fenway
http://www.colleges-fenway.org/lili/
" Our mission is to support Fenway Librarians in promoting the integration
of information literacy throughout the curriculum by developing teaching skills,
creating new resources, and sharing information, techniques, and materials."
(December 20, 2005)
National Forum on Information Literacy
http://www.infolit.org/
"Created in 1989 as a response to the recommendations of the American
Library Association's Presidential Committee on Information Literacy."
(November 3, 2006)
Library
- Institutional Repositories (IR)
LITA Regional Institute - Institutional Repositories
http://docushare.lib.rochester.edu/docushare/dsweb/View/Collection-2193
"Documents for LITA Regional Institute on IRs." From Arlyne, who
saw Susan Gibbons from University of Rochester make a presentation about IRs
at 2006 SLA. (July 14, 2006)
Library
- Job Hunting
Exchanging Jobs
http://www.exchangingjobs.org/
"a free matching service for people who work in libraries and the information
field. Our specialties include one-day job shadowing and job exchanges that
can last for days, weeks, or even months." (May 15, 2003)
Google - Process to become a Google Researcher
https://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=apply
"As a Researcher, you work from your own home and computer to answer
questions for Google Answers. You earn 75% of the price set for a question
that you answer. To be successful as a Researcher, you must be able to provide
high quality answers in a timely manner. ." (April 29, 2002)
GSLIS New England Jobline
http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/career/jobline/
"...a service of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science
at Simmons College. Positions are available in the following areas:"
Academic, Public, School; Special, and Archive Position Listings. (August
23, 2005, checked again on October 26, 2006)
Librarian Job Board
http://www11.brinkster.com/amwlkaw/index.asp
"I created this site because of the need I felt to help others in my
profession find a job. I knew with a little work I could create a librarian
job board that was useful, fast and free. If you would like to discuss this
site with me, please do." Formerly Special Librarian Job Board. (March
7, 2003)
Library Job Postings on the Internet
http://www.libraryjobpostings.org/
Copyright (c) 1995-2002 by Sarah L. Nesbeitt. Librarian & Assistant Professor,
Booth Library, Eastern Illinois University. (Feb 25, 2002)
Lisjobs.com - Jobs for Librarians and Information Professionals
http://www.lisjobs.com/
"Lisjobs.com is a comprehensive guide to online job resources for librarians
and information professionals. The site is entirely designed and maintained
by Rachel Singer Gordon." (Feb 25, 2002)
Massachusetts Regional Library Systems Job Description Collection
http://www.cmrls.org/JobDescriptions/index.html
"We hope this collection will be useful to you as you create and update
job descriptions in your library." (October 3, 2006)
Library - Organizations
ALA - American Library Association
http://www.ala.org/
"The voice of America's libraries."
ALAWON - ALA Washington Office Electronic Newsline
http://www.ala.org/washoff/alawon/
"ALAWON is a free, irregular e-mail publication of the ALA Washington Office."
(March 8, 2003)
ARL
http://www.arl.org/
Membership organization comprising the leading research libraries in North
America. (Feb 5, 2002)
ARL Collections and Access Issues
http://db.arl.org/CAsort/
"This survey invited ARL libraries to submit examples of library
programs and collection management activities. It is not a census of how
many libraries are pursuing any specific activity. As of the last update
on September 6, 2002, 60 institutions are represented with 154 examples.
For a summary of these responses, see "Collections & Access for the 21st-Century
Scholar: Changing Roles of Research Libraries" (http://www.arl.org/newsltr/225/),
A Report from the ARL Collections & Access Issues Task Force, ARL 225
(December 2002)." (February 18, 2003)
ARL Expenditure Trends in Private University Libraries, 1986-2001
http://www.arl.org/stats/arlstat/graphs/2001/2001t4_priv.html
"LibraryMaterials; Serial Expenditures; Monograph Expenditures; Total
Salary Expenditures; Operating
Expenditures; Total Expenditures" (October 30, 2002)
ARL New Measures Initiative
http://www.arl.org/stats/newmeas/newmeas.html#alcts02
"At the October 1999 Membership Meeting, the ARL Statistics and Measurement
Committee and the ARL Research Library Leadership and Management Committee
initiated the ARL New Measures Initiative in response to the following
two needs:
1) Increasing demand for libraries to demonstrate outcomes/impacts in
areas important to the institution. 2) Increasing pressure to maximize
use of resources - benchmark best practices to save or reallocate resources."
(August 19, 2002)
ARL & Open Access
http://www.arl.org/info/openaccess/
http://www.arl.org/scomm/open_access/
"The current environment clearly favors commercial interests and
limits the effective use of intellectual property for education and research.
...disseminate information about open access and how the current trends
in intellectual property and copyright issues impact higher education
and academic research." (August 30, 2004)
ARL - Preservation Statistics
http://www.arl.org/stats/pres/
"Published annually since 1988-89. The latest edition includes data
tables on personnel, expenditures, conservation treatment, preservation
treatment, and preservation microfilming. An in-depth analysis of data
by size of library is also provided." (July 30, 2002)
ARL - Scholars' Portal, Access & Technology Program
http://www.arl.org/access/scholarsportal/
A project to follow. Yavarkovsky is on this group. (Jan 30, 2002)
ARL Statistics - Interactive Edition
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/arl/
"The current ARL statistics include data on collections, staffing,
expenditures, library services, and library and university characteristics
for the 112 ARL university libraries." (July 25, 2002)
ARL Supplementary Statistics
http://www.arl.org/stats/arlstat/#sup
"ARL Supplementary Statistics 2000-01, a compilation of data from
119 ARL libraries. Since 1992, this publication has charted the increasing
expenditures of electronic materials in ARL
member institutions. Supplementary Statistics publications
from prior years are available at [this web site]." (July 26, 2002)
ARL Workshops - Profesional Development
http://www.arl.org/arl/workshops.html
"Professional development and/or training opportunities in the form
of workshops, conferences, seminars, and institutes." Includes online
programs. (October 30, 2002)
Northumbria Int'l Conference on Performance
Measurement in Libraries and Information Services
http://www.arl.org/stats/north/video.html
"The theme of the 2001 Northumbria conference was 'meaningful measures
for emerging realities.'" Keynote presentations available in streamlined
video format and PowerPoint slides are available, too. (April 25, 2003)
Project SAILS - Standardized Assessment of Information Literacy Skills
http://sails.lms.kent.edu/
"to develop an instrument for programmatic level assessment of information
literacy skills that is valid and thus credible to university administrators
and other academic personnel. We envisioned a tool to measure information
literacy that:
- Is standardized
- Contains items not specific to a particular institution or library
- Is easily administered
- Has been proven valid and reliable
- Assesses at institutional level
- Provides for both external and internal benchmarking" (December
5, 2002)
BLC (Boston Library Consortium)
http://www.blc.org/
Membership organization comprising the leading research libraries in North
America. (September 8, 2003)
Central Buying Fund Decision-Making Model for E-Resources
http://www.bpl.org/brls/
"The Boston Regional Library System is a State program funded through
the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. The Regional program provides
support services to its members, which include public, school, academic, and
special libraries located within the cities of Boston, Chelsea, and Malden."
(April 30, 2002)
Center for the Book, Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/loc/cfbook/
" The Center for the Book was established in 1977 to use the resources and
prestige of the Library of Congress to promote books, reading, libraries,
and literacy." (June 16, 2006)
"One Book" Reading Program Promotions - Center for the
Book, Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/loc/cfbook/one-book.html
"One Book" projects (community-wide reading programs), initiated by the
Washington Center for the Book in 1998, are being introduced across the
U.S.A. and around the world. ...Though we recognize that one book projects
exist in schools, we are unable, at this time to include them in our listing.
We are only able to post information for one book projects that involve
broad community participation of a city, town, county or region. "
(June 16, 2006)
CRIARL - The Consortium of Rhode Island Academic and Research Libraries
http://www.criarl.org/
"CRIARL is a consortium of 17 academic and research libraries. The majority
of members are academic; a smaller number are academic and research; and an
even smaller number are research. ...The Consortium was founded in 1972. In
1979, CRIARL was incorporated as a Rhode Island non-profit corporation and
granted tax exempt status as a 501 C-3 organization by the IRS." (October
18, 2003)
Fenway, Colleges of the - Lili - Librarians in Information Literacy Instruction
http://www.colleges-fenway.org/lili/
"Our mission is to support Fenway Librarians in promoting the integration
of information literacy throughout the curriculum by developing teaching skills,
creating new resources, and sharing information, techniques, and materials."
(March 9, 2006)
International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI)
http://www.ispi.org/
"Founded in 1962, the International Society for Performance Improvement
(ISPI) is the leading international association dedicated to improving productivity
and performance in the workplace. ISPI represents more than 10,000 international
and chapter members throughout the United States, Canada, and 40 other countries.
ISPI's mission is to develop and recognize the proficiency of our members
and advocate the use of Human Performance Technology." Note: active in
performance based Instructional System Design. (January 28, 2003)
Libraries for the Future (LFF)
http://www.lff.org/about/
"Libraries for the Future is a national nonprofit organization that champions
the role of libraries in American life and helps individual libraries become
more effective community institutions of the future. Founded in 1992, LFF
mobilizes private and public support for libraries, schools, and community
partners to achieve equal access to the information and knowledge essential
for a democratic society." Could this be a Bill Gates vehicle? (October
29, 2003)
Massachusetts Center for the Book (MCB)
http://www.massbook.org/index.html
"The Massachusetts Center for the Book (MCB) is an affiliate of the Center
for the Book in the Library of Congress. We work with the national center
and within a network of more than 40 other state-center affiliates to promote
reading and literacy and to emphasize the central role of libraries in a civic
society. MCB sponsors programming that will expand the circle of Commonwealth
readers and that will deepen our understanding of and appreciation for the
past, present, and future of the book and of the book arts in Massachusetts."
(February 4, 2003)
NELINET
http://www.nelinet.net/
NELINET is a non-profit membership cooperative formed in 1966 as a program
of the New England Board of Higher Education. NELINET incorporated in 1979.
...Nearly 700 academic, public and special libraries in the six New England
states. (September 23, 2002)
Trend Guage Blog
http://forums.nelinet.net/blogs/
"High quality library-oriented information that keeps you abreast
of trends, best practices, and emerging standards in the world of information
content and technology." (September 15, 2006)
NERCOMP - North East Regional Computing Program
http://www.nercomp.org/
"NERCOMP workshops and conferences offer quality low-cost professional development
geared to meet the needs of you and your staff. They bring together audience
and experts to discuss the use and mangagement of computers, networks, telecommunications,
and information technology in libraries, education,
academic research, and administration." NERCOMP is an affiliate of Educause
(see Education - Organizations). (August 19, 2002)
OCLC
http://www.oclc.org/
"Our singular mission: to serve libraries around the world." (January 30, 2008)
OCLC WorldCat FAQs
http://www.nelinet.net/oclc/wc_faqs.htm/
NELINET site: "If you are not a current subscriber to FirstSearch WorldCat then your library’s holdings will not be included in the WorldCat view that is exposed on the Web." ((September 15, 2006, reviewed January 30, 2008)
Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World
http://www.oclc.org/reports/sharing/default.htm
"...based on a survey (by Harris Interactive on behalf of OCLC) of the general public from six countries—Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States—and of library directors from the U.S." Cathy DeRosa to speak to BLC about this report on Tuesday, February 19, 2008. (February 12, 2008)
WorldCat Selection
http://www.oclc.org/selection/
"Streamlines your selection and ordering process for new library materials and delivers the corresponding WorldCat records." (January 30, 2008)
Library
- Patriot Act
SAFEGUARDING OUR PATRONS' PRIVACY: What Every Librarian Needs to
Know about the USA PATRIOT Act & Related Anti-Terrorism Measures http://www.arl.org/patriot/ and http://www.arl.org/patriot/patriot.pdf
" This teleconference (December 11, 2002)
will provide libraries and their governing institutions with an analysis of
the implications of the recent anti-terrorism measures." (October 26,
2007)
Library - Reference
Roving Librarian - Harvard College project
http://hcl.harvard.edu/news/stories/libinloker.html
“Roving Librarian, Research Assistance for the Undergraduate Student
on the Run.” "Using a wireless laptop, Reference Librarians take
HOLLIS, the Harvard Libraries portal, Research Guides, and Finding Aids –
many of the primary undergraduate research tools -- out of the library and
into non-academic spaces where students spend time." (April 23, 2003)
Teaching Librarian
http://pages.prodigy.net/tabo1/
“As an information services librarian in an academic library, ...exploring
how I can expand my role as a teacher at the reference desk (regardless of
whether that desk is real or virtual). ...This website, which is my own personal
site ...has been created so that I can develop, present, and later revise
my own thoughts on how to make the most of educational opportunities with
students."
Topics: Automation, Digital Reference, Evaluation, Instruction, Roving Reference,
Scholar's Tolbox. (May 12, 2003)
Library - Reference,
Digital
Bernie Sloan’s Digital Reference Pages
http://people.lis.uiuc.edu/~b-sloan/digiref.html
"September 20, 2004. The more than 700 items listed in this bibliography
relate to the topic of online or virtual or digital reference services, i.e.,
the provision of reference services, involving collaboration between library
user and librarian, in a computer-based medium. These services can utilize
various media, including e-mail, Web forms, chat, video, Web customer call
center software, Voice over Internet Protocol ( VoIP ), etc." (July 24,
2006)
The Collaborative Reference Database Project of the National
Diet Library of Japan
http://www.ndl.go.jp/en/publication/cdnlao/049/491.html
"We believe that a database that accumulates case data, in other words,
records of inquiries, answers and know-how on reference, will be valuable
and useful to support reference librarians and to enable users themselves
to find information they need. ... promotes library cooperation in reference
service that will be conducted focusing on the database." (February 8,
2007)
Dig_Ref
http://www.vrd.org/Dig_Ref/dig_ref.shtml
"Forum for the growing number of people and organizations answering the
questions of users via the Internet." Archives are linked and accessible.
Busier list than livereference listed below. (May 12, 2003)
Instant Messaging in Libraries
http://www.iamalibrarian.com/
"Promoting Instant Messaging in Libraries! Click on a state to see if
your library has IM." (August 24, 2006)
livereference - Group on live reference services for librarians (list)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/livereference/
Members: 786; Founded: Jun 27, 2000; Group Settings:
· Open membership
· Unmoderated
· All members may post
· Archives for members only (May 12, 2003)
Live Ref - A Registry of Real-Time Digital Reference Services
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/LiveRef.htm
"A categorized listing of libraries that offer real-time Library reference
or information services using chat software, live interactive communications
utilities, call center management software, customer interaction management
software, Web contact center software, bulletin board services, interactive
customer assistance system, or related Internet technologies." (May 12,
2003)
Statistics, Measures, and Quality Standards for Assessing Digital Reference
Library Services: Guidelines and Procedures
http://quartz.syr.edu/quality/Field_Test_Draft.pdf
Field Test Draft, March 8, 2002. (June 11, 2002)
VRD - Virtual Reference Desk
http://www.vrd.org/
"A project dedicated to the advancement of digital reference and the
successful creation and operation of human-mediated, Internet-based information
services. VRD is sponsored by the United States Department of Education."
(May 12, 2003)
Library - Reserves
& Ereserves
Applying Fair Use in the Development of Electronic Reserves Systems -
http://www.arl.org/access/eres/eresfinalstmt.shtml
"...new statement developed by Georgia Harper (University of Texas System)
and Peggy Hoon (north Carolina State University) for the library association
members of the Shared legal Capability (ALA, AALL, ARL, MLA, and SLA). Duane
Webster's memo describes the background for the development of this statement."
Found abstracted in Current Cites. (November 29, 2003)
Library - Serials
(Crisis)
Directory of Open Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org/
"Lund University Libraries Head Office will during the spring 2003 build
a Directory of Open Access Journals to increase the visibility and ease of
use of open access scientific journals. The project is funded by Open Society
Institute - Budapest and also supported by SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing
and Academic Resources Coalition)." (February 19, 2003)
Show Me the Money
http://www.hshsl.umaryland.edu/information/news/exhibits/money/index.html
"The exhibit compares the cost of print and electronic resources to a
variety of goods and services from our everyday lives." University of
Maryland, this web site graphically portrays science journal costs. (September
30, 2002)
SPARC (ARL) - Publishing Resources for Journals and Repositories
http://www.arl.org/sparc/core/index.asp?page=h16
Products that offer technical infrastructure options. (Feb 5, 2002)
Sticker Shock - a graphic portrayal of the high cost of science journals,
from Cornell
http://www.englib.cornell.edu/displays/stickershock/
A graphic portrayal of the high cost of science journals, from Cornell: "This
display was inspired by a similar exhibit at the Health Sciences and Human
Services library at the University of Maryland. Designed by the Cornell University
Engineering and Computer Science Library team of Gregory Tomso (Reference
Assistant), Jill Powell (Reference Librarian), and John M. Saylor (Director)
with technical help from Kristina Buhrman (Web Support Specialist)."
(September 30, 2002)
Library - Statistics
Library Statistics Program - NCES (National Center for Education Statistics)
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/libraries/
"...initiated and funded a nation-wide library statistics program in
1989 that includes surveys on academic libraries, public libraries, school
library media centers, and state library agencies. NCES works collaboratively
with the Bureau of the Census and the U.S. National Commission on Libraries
and Information Science (NCLIS) to plan survey content and to collect, process,
and disseminate the data." (March 24, 2005, reviewed October 26, 2006)
Library Statistics Program - Academic Libraries - NCES (National
Center for Education Statistics)
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/libraries/academic.asp
"The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) collects data biennially
from about 3,700 postsecondary institutions in order to provide an overview
of academic libraries nationwide and by state." (October 26, 2006)
Library
- Technology
CUFTS
http://cufts.lib.sfu.ca/
"CUFTS is an open source (GPL) OpenURL link resolver designed for use
by library consortia." (January 27, 2003)
Library
- Web Sites
Libr.org
http://libr.org/
"Libr.org is a domain managed by Rory B. Litwin for library related websites
with a social and political orientation." (January 27, 2003)
Open
Access
ATA - Alliance for Taxpayer Access
http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/
"A diverse and growing alliance of organizations representing taxpayers,
patients, physicians, researchers, and institutions that support open public
access to taxpayer-funded research." (October 27, 2006)
ATA Actions: Taxpayers Commend Precedent Set by NIH Public Access
Policy
http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/ata5.html
"asks NIH-funded researchers to voluntarily deposit their peer-reviewed
research articles in PubMed Central" (October 26, 2006)
ARL - Issues in Scholarly Communication - Open Access
http://www.arl.org/scomm/open_access/index.html
"In early 2002, an ARL task force recommended that ARL’s long-term goal
in the area of intellectual property be to promote “open access to quality
information in support of learning and scholarship.” As part of this effort,
ARL is working to develop and disseminate information about open access and
how the current trends in intellectual property and copyright issues impact
higher education and academic research." (February 19, 2003)
Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org/
"Creative Commons offers a flexible range of protections and freedoms
for authors and artists. We have built upon the "all rights reserved"
of traditional copyright to create a voluntary "some rights reserved"
copyright. We're a nonprofit. All of our tools are free." (January 24,
2005)
Directory of Open Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org/
"Lund University Libraries Head Office will during the spring 2003 build
a Directory of Open Access Journals to increase the visibility and ease of
use of open access scientific journals. The project is funded by Open Society
Institute - Budapest and also supported by SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing
and Academic Resources Coalition)." (February 19, 2003)
DSpace - Durable Digital Depositary (MIT)
http://www.dspace.org/
"DSpace provides stable long-term storage needed to house the digital
products of MIT faculty and researchers. ...easy (web) acess ....Digital distribution
and long-term preservation for a variety of formats including text, audio,
video, images, datasets and more. ...the opportunity to provide access to
all the research of the institution through one interface." (February
21, 2003)
From Current Cites: "Smith, MacKenzie, Mary Barton, and Mick Bass, et. al.
'DSpace: An Open Source Dynamic Digital Repository' D-Lib
Magazine 9(1) (January 2003) (http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january03/smith/01smith.html).
-One of the more interesting developments in the emerging topic of institutional
repositories (see The Case for Institutional Repositories: A SPARC Position
Paper which we cited in the July issue of Current Cites) has been the
partnership between the MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard Labs, which has
created DSpace, an open source repository package. This piece describes the
DSpace system, discusses its implementation at MIT and its dissemination to
other institutions, and sustainability issues. Anyone interested in establishing
an institutional repository should give DSpace serious consideration. Those
who are not, but are active in developing digital libraries, would also do
well to pay heed to their technical architecture and implementation. - RT"
(March 7, 2003)
Lund University launches Directory of Open Access Journals
http://www.arl.org/sparc/core/index.asp?page=f71
"Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ, http://www.doaj.org), ...contains
information about 350 open access journals, i.e. quality controlled scientific
and scholarly electronic journals that are freely available on the web. The
service will continue to grow as new journals are identified. ...further development
of DOAJ will continue with ...the enhanced feature of allowing the journals
to be searched at the article level." (May 13, 2003)
MIT OpenCourseWare
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
"MIT OCW is a large-scale, Web-based electronic publishing initiative
funded jointly by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation, and MIT. Its goals are to: 1. Provide free, searchable,
coherent access to MIT's course materials for educators in the non-profit
sector, students, and individual learners around the world. 2. Create an efficient,
standards-based model that other universities may emulate
to publish their own course materials. We expect MIT OCW to reach a steady—though
never static—state by summer 2007. Between now and then we will be publishing
more MIT courses, adding features such as extensive metadata tagging, launching
a comprehensive ongoing evaluation process, developing and enhancing our content
management and publishing technologies, and evolving our internal staffing
and workflow. In this early pilot stage, we will benefit enormously from your
feedback as we strive to make MIT OCW as rich and useful as possible. (February
21, 2003)
Open Access News
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html
Daily blog by Peter Suber. "The open access movement: Putting peer-reviewed
scientific and scholarly literature on the internet. Making it available free
of charge and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. Removing
the barriers to serious research." (May 23, 2005)
Open WorlCat
http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/open/default.htm
"The Open WorldCat program makes records of library-owned materials
in OCLC's WorldCat database available to Web users on popular Internet search,
bibliographic and bookselling sites." (August 3, 2006)
Public Library of Science
http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/
"The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a non-profit organization of
scientists committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature
a public resource. We are working to establish online public libraries of
science that will archive and freely distribute the complete contents of every
published scientific article ...giving any scientist, physician, student -
or anyone with access to the internet, anywhere in the world - unlimited access
to the latest scientific research. Facilitate research, ...by making it possible
to freely search the full text of every published article.... Enable scientists,
librarians, publishers and entrepreneurs to develop innovative new ways to
access and use the information in this immensely rich but highly fragmented
resource. (March 3, 2003)
Science Commons
http://science.creativecommons.org/
"Science Commons is a new project of Creative Commons and will launch
early 2005. The mission of Science Commons is to encourage scientific innovation
by making it easier for scientists, universities, and industries to use literature,
data, and other scientific intellectual property and to share their knowledge
with others. Science Commons works within current copyright and patent law
to promote legal and technical mechanisms that remove barriers to sharing."
(January 24, 2005)
SPARC Open Access Newsletter
(formerly Free Online Scholarship (FOS) Newsletter)
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/archive.htm;
a sort of home page: http://www.arl.org/sparc/soa/
(May 23, 2005)
Political - Freedom
Electronic Privacy Information Center
http://www.epic.org/
"EPIC is a public interest research center in Washington, D.C. It was
established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties
issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values."
EPIC has a very good site summarizing developments around the Department of
Defense's Total Information Awareness (TIA) project at http://www.epic.org/privacy/profiling/tia/
. (February 18, 2003)
Publishers
- Digital/Electronic Books - see also Digital
Electronic Text Center - University of Virginia Library
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/
"to build and maintain an internet-accessible collection of SGML and
XML texts and images; to build and maintain user communities adept at the
creation and use of these materials." (November 29, 2003)
IPL Books Collection - Internet Public Library
http://ipl.si.umich.edu/div/books/
"...contains over 20,000 titles that can be browsed by author, by title,
or by Dewey Decimal Classification." (November 29, 2003)
Online Books Page
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
"Celebrating 10 years listing free books on the Web. ...The Online Books
Page was founded, and is edited, by John Mark Ockerbloom. He is a digital
library planner and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. He is solely
responsible for the content of the site." (November 29, 2003)
Project Gutenberg
http://www.promo.net/pg/
"Project Gutenberg is the Internet's oldest producer of FREE electronic
books (eBooks or eTexts). ...as of November 8th 2002): ...for a total of 6267
Total Project Gutenberg eBooks." (November 29, 2003)
University of California Press eScholarship Editions
http://escholarship.cdlib.org/ucpress/
"Over 650 online editions are available here through a partnership with
the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship
program. Over 350 of the titles are available to the general public; the rest
are for University of California faculty, staff, and students only."
Substantial linking assistance information, including to individual free titles,
with a list of same. (February 18, 2003)
Scholarship
Alternative Peer Review
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/APR-1.ppt
Wideranging and detailed powerpoint "Presentation [entitled] Alternative
Peer Review: Quality Management for 21st Century Scholarship. Prepared
for the Workshop on Peer Review in the Age of Open Archives, held May
23-24, 2003 at the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste, Italy."
From http://www.lisnews.com/article.php3?sid=20030617111558
(June 19, 2003)
Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/bsuva/
Electronic publications including the society's journal, Studies in Bibliography.
(March 9, 2006)
Systems and Computers
- Digital / Electronic Publishing
The Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing
http://www.digitalpublishingguide.com/c3/guide.pl
"The best resource available today for those who need concise information
on all aspects of the digital publishing process. Comprehensive ...the Guide
covers ...creating, processing, producing, protecting, and preserving content
in digital form, whether that content is ultimately delivered as print, e-book,
or on the Web." (January 29, 2003)
Locally Controlled Scholarly Publishing via the Internet: The Guild Model
http://www.slis.indiana.edu/csi/WP/WP02-01B.html
"Model that has been quietly adopted and developed in a number of disciplines
-- the research publication series called working papers or technical
reports that are sponsored by academic departments or research institutes.
Many of these manuscript series are available to readers, online, and free
of charge." (June 11, 2002)
Systems and Computers
- Ergonomics
HealthyComputing.com
http://www.healthycomputing.com/
"Positioning or using your computer improperly can lead to various injuries,
from the short term discomfort of headaches to potentially debilitating conditions
like Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. HealthyComputing.com's assembled the world's
foremost experts to provide unbiased information on computer-related health
and safety. Developed through the joint efforts of nearly a dozen leading
ergonomists, physicians, and physical therapists, HealthyComputing com is
the premier source for office ergonomics." (July 3, 2002)
Systems and Computers
- Hardware
T-Mobile Sidekick
http://www.t-mobile.com/promos/sidekick.asp
"It's your wireless everything." (March 7, 2003)
Systems and Computers
- News & Trends
Vinton G. Cerf, Sr. - Vice President for Internet Architecture and
Technology, WorldCom
http://www1.worldcom.com/global/resources/cerfs_up/
"At Cerf's UP we will try to keep you current on developments in the
Internet, networking technologies and related regulatory and policy issues
affecting the Internet's evolution." (March 10, 2002)
Lighthouse on the Web: latest (Australian)
http://www.shorewalker.com/pages/lighthouse_index.html
"The Shorewalker site exists to promote practical, user-oriented Web
site management. Its core is Lighthouse on the Web, a collection of essays
which began as columns in Australia's two leading capital city broadsheet
newspapers." (May 29, 2002)
NewsFactor Network
http://www.newsfactor.com/
"...publishers of enterprise I.T. news in the U.S. ...timely industry
news about Information Technology (I.T.), along with reliable, objective analysis.
The network currently includes the following publications: NewsFactor.com
TM, CRM Daily TM, Wireless NewsFactor TM, DataStorageToday.com TM, TechExtreme.com
TM, Enterprise Linux IT TM, Enterprise Windows IT TM, NewsFactor Sci-Tech
TM, and NewsFactor's CIO Today Magazine TM. NewsFactor Network also includes
the FreeNewsFeed.com TM service and these daily e-mail newsletters: Today's
Top Tech News TM, the CRM Daily Alert TM, and the Wireless Industry Alert
TM. " (November 29, 2003)
Systems and Computers
- Software
OpenOffice.org
http://www.openoffice.org/
"To create, as a community, the leading international office suite that
will run on all major platforms and provide access to all functionality and
data through open-component based APIs and an XML-based file format."
(June 26, 2002)
Systems and Computers
- Software - Library Applications
askal - open source software for an ask a librarian service
http://apocalypse.unomaha.edu/ask/
"The service should, to the extent possible, be:
Self-managing - requiring the absolute minimum of coordination, oversight
or management;
Embody simplicity of design - being as easy as possible for both customers
and service personnel to utilize;
Measurable - providing both quantitative and qualitative measures of effectiveness
and allowing customers to express their feelings about the service they received;
and
Scalable - adapting easily to growth or to fluctuations in usage of the service."
(January 28, 2003)
oss4lib - open source systems for libraries
http://oss4lib.org/
"Our mission is to cultivate the collaborative power of open source software
engineering to build better and free systems for use in libraries. Toward
this end, we maintain a listing of free software and systems designed for
libraries (the physical, books-on-shelves kind), and we track news about project
updates or related issues of interest." (January 28, 2003)
Web
Zen Garden
http://www.csszengarden.com/
"A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS -based
design." (July 17, 2006)
Tor
https://tor.eff.org/
"Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet." (October 12, 2007)
Web
- Browsers
Mozilla 1.5
http://www.mozilla.org/start/1.5/
"...an open source Internet client suite designed for standards compliance,
speed and portability. This page is provided to help you get the most out
of Mozilla. If you plan to change your home page, bookmark this page now."
(November 29, 2003)
Opera
http://www.opera.com/
"Opera has been hailed as the fastest browser on earth by users and press
worldwide. Opera uses less memory and less space on your hard drive than competing
browser applications, making you more productive on the Web. ...Features such
as multiple document interface (MDI), mouse gestures, keyboard shortcuts,
Hotclick translation, presentation tool, zooming, integrated search, and so
many more were first introduced in Opera, and now they are being copied by
other browser makers." (January 28, 2003)
Web - Products,
Services, and Software available via the Web
askSam Web Publisher
http://www.asksam.com/wpbrochure.asp
"askSam Web Publisher is a product designed to let you create and publish
documents and databases on the Internet. Manuals, catalogs, price lists, databases,
research notes, marketing materials... whatever you want to publish."
(June 14, 2002)
Free Lists
http://www.freelists.org/
"FreeLists, a service providing free, commercial-grade Internet mailing
lists to all interested. Our lists are all internet and technology-related
[covering a broad array of topics]. Thus, we provide a free focal point for
technology-inclined individuals and groups on the Internet. We do it all without
the support of advertisements, ensuring the highest-quality mailing list experience
for you and your users. Why a mailing list? Email is the most commonly used
medium on the internet (moreso than even the Web). Email can be accessed by
more people, is less resource-consuming, easier, and more reliable than most
other means of communication." (December 30, 2002)
Hiptop Nation
http://hiptop.bedope.com/
"(If you don't know about Danger, Inc. and the hiptop, the rest of this won't
make much sense) I (Mike Popovic) started this site soon after the T-Mobile
Sidekick was released to the public. As a (non-Danger employee) beta tester
of the Sidekick I had started up my own beta-testing weblog and lots of folks
loved the idea of blogging and sharing pics from their hiptop. I modified
the weblog software I'd been using and made a communal weblog and dubbed it
'Hiptop Nation'." (March 7, 2003)
InBoxer
http://www.inboxer.com/
"...your organization is responsible for every email that is sent by your
employees. ...(New privacy laws in 30 states now add urgency to email monitoring.
See privacy / identity theft.) ... InBoxer's categories for privacy / identity
theft, harassment, medical terminology, and email abuse are based on years
of research and ...provide broad coverage of the most important risks." (October
11, 2006)
Mail Archive
http://www.mail-archive.com/
"The Mail Archive provides a simple service - keeping searchable archives
of public internet mailing lists. You'll find it easy to peruse, and easy
to archive your own public mailing lists here. ...Full web indexing plus a
search engine aid in perusing the archives. Additionally, people can trivially
archive their own mailing list (or any other public mailing list) at the site.
Simply subscribe archive@mail-archive.com to the list - and that's it! ...The
Mail Archive is a public service for public use. Do you administer or subscribe
to a public mailing list over the internet? You are welcome to archive it
here." (December 30, 2002)
What is My IP?
http://whatismyip.com/
" WhatIsMyIP.com is the easiest way to determine your IP address."
(May 12, 2004)
Web - Search Engines
Alexa Web Search
http://info.alexa.com/
"Alexa is gathering Web information and learning from content and paths
to create the Alexa Service....In May of 2002 Alexa released Alexa Web Search
and Alexa Toolbar version 6.5. By partnering with Google, Alexa has built
a new kind of search engine, one that helps users collaborate and find the
best sites, with less effort." (May 8, 2002)
Google - search tricks
How to search by publication in Google News: source:name of pub keywords
Example- source:new york times bowling
How to find phone numbers, addresses, etc. - the
commas are very important
* first name (or first initial), last name, city (state is optional)
example: arthur, snow, warwick
* first name (or first initial), last name, state
example: e, snow, rhode island
* first name (or first initial), last name, area code
* first name (or first initial), last name, zip code
* phone number, including area code
* last name, city, state
* last name, zip code (March 24, 2003)
Google Labs
http://labs.google.com/
"Welcome to labs.google.com, Google's technology playground. Google labs
showcases a few of our favorite ideas that aren't quite ready for prime time.
Your feedback can help us improve them. Please play with these prototypes
and send your comments directly to the Googlers who developed them."
(March 10, 2003)
SurfWax
http://www.surfwax.com/
"On waves, surf wax helps surfers grip their surfboard; for Web surfing,
SurfWax helps you get the best grip on information -- providing the "best
use" of relevant search results. SurfWax's patent-pending design is the
first to make searching a "visual process," seamlessly integrating
meaning-based search with key knowledge-finding elements for effective association
and recall. ...The Nautilus is our metaphor for knowledge search -- a cohesive,
spiraling matrix that embodies a powerful, integrated capacity to search--sort--extract--relate
information within an elegantly-simple "natural interface" to navigate
the unstructured and vast Internet as well as enterprise intraNets. Surfwax
offers multiple seamless dimensions for information search and retrieval (patents
pending), including FocusWords, SearchSets, SiteSnaps, ContextZooming, and
InfoCubby (see Browser Requirements)." (January 28, 2003)
Web - Trends
Alliance for Digital Progress (ADP)
http://alliancefordigitalprogress.org/ADP/
"Formed to fight attempts to force the government to design and mandate
technology solutions to digital piracy." "coalition of companies
including Apple Computer, Microsoft, Dell Computer, Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard
and Intel..." at LISNews.com.
(January 27, 2003)
Web - Web Help
NYPL Online Style Guide
http://www.nypl.org/styleguide/css/guidelines3.html
"CSS: Style Sheet Guidelines (3)
The NYPL Style Guide cannot possibly teach you all there is to know about CSS." (December
13, 2002)
Web Colors - Non-Dithering Colors by Hue
http://www.lynda.com/hexh.html
"These are the so-called "Web-Safe" colors that should be
viewable by all. The WebSite--devoted to color issues in part--goes on to
explain that "Web Safe" is probably a dated concept now that 8-bit
processors are the norm (not that I really understand what any of this is
about, but I like the chart);" email from Tim Lewontin. (January 23,
2004)
Web
- Weblogs
Walker Web Watch -
http://mba.vanderbilt.edu/walker/weblog/weblog.htm
Walker Management Library, Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt
University. Sample of using a weblog in a library situation. (March 10, 2003)
Web
- Wikis
MediaWiki
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
"MediaWiki is free server-based software, that is licensed under the
GNU General Public License (GPL). It's designed to be run on a large server
farm for a website that gets millions of hits per day. MediaWiki is an extremely
powerful, scaleable software and a feature-rich wiki implementation, that
uses PHP to process and display data stored in its MySQL database." (February
21, 2007)