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Information for Librarians
 

Print resources such as the American Library Directory:  A Cassified List of Libraries in the United States and Canada, with Personnel and Statistical Data. [Ref.  Z731 .A53]; Interlibrary Loan Policies Directory [Ref. Z713.5.U6 M67]; and  Bowker Annual of Library and Book Trade Information [Ref. Z731 .A47] are available in Pius Library.  For additional resources search the Saint Louis Universtiy Libraries Catalog using subject headings such as Libraries--United States--Directories, or Libraries--United States--Periodicals.

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Bibliographies and Comprehensive Sites on Particular Topics
 
  • DLIST:  Digital Library for Information Science and Technology
         http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/
    Provided by the School of Information Resources and Library Science and Learning Technologies Center, University of Arizona, this is an Open Access, inter-institutional repository for full-text materials related to library science and information technology.
  • Electronic Sources of Information:  A Bibliography
         http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/BIBLIO.HTM
    Compiled by Marian Dworaczek, Head, Acquisitions Department, University of Saskatchewan Library.  Also includes a Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information.
  • The Google Print Controversy:  A Bibliography
         http://www.escholarlypub.com/digitalkoans/2005/10/25/the-google-print-controversy-a-bibliography/
    Compiled by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. from the University of Houston, this article list focuses on the legal issues involved in the Google Print project.
  • Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals
          http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/oab.pdf
    Compiled by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. from the University of Houston and published by ARL, this bibliography covers the open access movement in articles and reports from 1999 through August 1004.
  • Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
         http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html
    Compiled and published by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. from the University of Houston Libraries, this bibliography lists "selected English-language articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet."  (text from site 2/23/02)
  • ShareILL
         http://www.illweb.org/
    A gateway to both print and electronic resources for interlibrary loan and document delivery in a Wiki format.
        
Books, Reviews, and "Best" Lists
 
  • ALA Editions:  Beyond Information
         http://www.ala.org/ala/ourassociation/publishing/alaeditions/ alaeditionspublishing.htm
  • Booklist Center
         http://home.comcast.net/~dwtaylor1/
    Bills itself as "The World's Largest Selection of Book Lists."   This, basically a "list of lists," divides publically accessible book lists (books that have won awards or books considered the best in a particular discipline) into 62 subject groupings.  Includes Pulitzer, Caldecott, Newbery, Coretta Scott King, Nebula, and Hugo award lists.
  • Booklist:  Includes Reference Books Bulletin
         http://www.ala.org/ala/booklist/booklist.htm
    Most content available to subscribers only.
  • CHOICE:  Current Reviews for Academic Libraries
         http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/choice/home.htm
    Home page for CHOICE.  For password edition of CHOICE Reviews Online go to http://www.cro2.org/
  • New York Review of Books
         http://www.nybooks.com/
  • New York Times Book Review
         http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/
    A subscription is required for some content.
  • RUSQ SOURCES Internet Database
         https://members.ala.org/rusa/membersonly/reviews
    From the Reference and User Services Association of ALA, this database contains reviews appearing in Reference and User Services Quarterly since 1998.  New reviews are added quarterly.
    Available to members of RUSA with username and password.
        
Catalogs:  Supplies
 
Continuting Education
     
Controlled Vocabularies & Glossaries
 
Databases
  
Directories
 
  • ALA Mailing Lists
         http://lists.ala.org/wws
    Browse for ALA-affiliated listservs and/or manage your membership in these lists.
  • MOLLi: Missouri Online Library List
          http://www.sos.mo.gov/library/libdir.asp
    Search for a library in the State of Missouri, by name, institution, type, and/or location.
        
E-Prints
 
  • E-LIS:  E-Prints in Library and Information Science
         http://eprints.rclis.org/
    Provided by RCLIS (Research in Computing, Library and Information Science) and DoIS (Documents in Information Science), this database contains published and unpublished technical and scientific papers, reports, and proceedings in the areas of "computing, ... librarianship, information science and technology and related application activities" that are freely available electronically.  (text from site 8/20/04).
         
Guides
 
Journals - Full-text Available
 
  • e-journals.org:  Providing links to the world's electronic journals
         http://www.e-journals.org/
    Provides links to electronically available journals by discipline in addition to a list of featured journals.  Many journals have tables of contents only or require a subscription (personal or institutional) to access the full-text.
  • NewJour
         http://library.georgetown.edu/newjour/
    A finding tool to locate journals and newsletters available electronically on the Internet.  Includes an alphabetical list in addition to a search utility.  Records located are announcements posted on the NewJour mailing list that include a link to the journal's or its publisher's home page.  Some journals provide tables of contents with selected full text.  A subscription may be required  to access full text.
         
News
 
  • American Libraries
         http://www.ala.org/al_onlineTemplate.cfm?Section=American_Libraries&      Template=/TaggedPage/TaggedPageDisplay.cfm&TPLID=14&ContentID=12155
    Includes weekly news + Archive, Internet Librarian and Technically Speaking columns, Walt Crawford's columns for a year, and a Datebook in addition to the table of contents to current and back issues of the print American Libraries.
  • Arts & Letters Daily
         http://aldaily.com/
    From the Chronicle of Higher Education, this site provides three major sections:  Articles of Note, New Books, and Essays and Opinion. In addition, links on the left side connect to major news services, major newspapers, magazines, columnists, book reviews, weblogs, radio news stations, radio music stations, a Nota Bene section, and more.
  • C&RL News
         http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/collegeresearch.htm
    The online version of C&RL News.
  • CENDI Publications Archive
         http://www.dtic.mil/cendi/pubarc.html
    CENDI is an inter-governmental working group made up Senior Scientific Technology and Information Managers from 13 agencies.  This site contains links to Activity Reports, Publications,  and Power Point presentations dealing with imaging, indexing, controlled vocabularies and metadata, reference linking from databases, etc. 
  • Cites & Insights:  Crawford at Large
         http://cical.info/
    "Citations and personal commentaries about the intersections and interactions of libraries, messages, people, media, and technology."  (text from site 6/18/04)
  • College and Research Libraries
          http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crljournal/collegeresearch.htm
    The online version of College & Research Libraries.  ALA username and password required.
  • College Libraries' Newsletters- A Webliography
         http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/aboutacrl/acrlsections/collegelibraries
          /collpubs/collegelibraries.htm
    From CLS: The College Libraries Section of ACRL and ALA, this contains links to electronic versions of college library newsletters.
  • Current Cites
         http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/
    An annotated bibliography of selected current aricles, book, and electronic documents about information technology. Edited by Roy Tennant.
  • D-Lib Magazine
         http://www.dlib.org/
  • The Kept-Up Academic Librarian
         http://keptup.typepad.com/academic/
    "Helping Academic Librarians "Keep Up" with News and Development in Higher Education."  Provides links to articles from many newspapers, magazines, higher education trade publications, and colleges and universities themselves.
  • LibraryStuff
         http://www.librarystuff.net/
    " The library weblog dedicated to resources for keeping current and professional development" by Stephen M. Cohen. (text from site 6/18/04)
  • Peter Scott's Library Blog
         http://xrefer.blogspot.com/
    News about conferences, databases, services, software, vendors, and more.
  • The Library Today
          http://www.loc.gov/today/
    News, events, and features from America's library, the Library of Congress.
  • LISNews.com:  Library & Information Science News
         http://www.lisnews.com/
  • The ResourceShelf
         http://www.resourceshelf.com/
    From Gary Price, MLIS, George Washington University, this site lists new Web sites of potential interest including fast facts, lists, reports, etc.
  • Wired News (technology in schools)
         http://www.wired.com/culture/education.html
         
Libraries & Museums
 
Organizations: Other
 
  •  Northeast Document Conservation Center (NDCC)
         http://www.nedcc.org/
    Founded in 1973 to help address the paper deterioration problem, its mission is "to improve the preservation programs of libraries, archives, museums, and other historical and cultural organizations; to provide the highest quality services to institutions that cannot afford in-house conservation facilities or that require specialized expertise; and to provide leadership to the
    preservation field." (text from site 1/06/01)  Its Handbook for Digital Projects:  A Management Tool for Preservation and Access is available in an online version as well as print.
  •  SPARC
         http://www.arl.org/sparc/
    The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
         
Publishers and Book Sellers
 
SLU Employment and Benefit Information
 
Statistics
 
Web Site Reviews
 
  • Best Free Reference Web Sites 2006
        http://www.ala.org/ala/rusa/rusaourassoc/rusasections/
        mars/marspubs/marsbestref2006.cfm
    From the MARS Best Free Reference Web Sites Committee.  Lists for other years are also available: 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, and a Combined Index.
  • C&RL News Internet Resources
         http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/internetresources.cfm
    Electronic version of the Internet Resources essay published in each issue of C&RL News.  Archives go back to January 1998. Also check out the Internet Resources Wiki, that contains updatable Internet Resources articles from C&RL News.
  • Scout Report
         http://scout.wisc.edu/Reports/ScoutReport/Current/

Last updated December 7, 2007.


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