About.Com
formerly known as the Mining Company
http://miningco.com/
A human filtered compilation of web resources. Formerly known asThe Mining Company. Under the main hierarchy are sub-hierarchies, which can be browsed via drop-down menus. Guides are standardized and contain annotated resource lists, "best of the net" sections, and features sections that highlight specific areas of the topic. Best of all, there is a biography of each maintainer, allowing users to judge the authority of the maintainer.
(Last checked 11/05/04)

Academia: A Monthly Online Magazine of Academic Titles and Information
http://www.ybp.com/Academia/Academiahome.htm
This publication, which is aimed at academic librarians, was recently taken over by Yankee Book Plan.
(Last checked 11/05/04)

ACRLog : the ACRL Blog
http://acrlblog.org/
(Last checked 11/05/04)

Alibris
http://www.alibris.com/
Books you thought you never find.
(Last checked 11/05/04)

Amazon.Com Books
http://www.amazon.com
Lists more than 1 million titles, including the latest reviews from the New York Times Book Review, National Public Radio, Wired Magazine, and the Atlantic.
(Last checked 11/05/04)

American Libraries Online
at www.ala.org/alonline/
(Last checked 08/31/05)

BarnesandNoble.Com
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/
World's Largest Bookseller Online. Claims an inventory of over 1 million titles. Provides search engine.
(Last checked 11/05/04)

Bell and Howell Books on Demand
http://wwwlib.umi.com/bod
Books on Demand makes 150,000 out-of-print titles available to library patrons-and the new online catalog makes it easier than ever to locate what your patron wants. Search fields including keyword, author, title, subject, ISBN, and BOD catalog number make finding titles as simple as clicking a button. With hard-to-find books dating from the 15th century to the present, researchers are sure to uncover the information they need in Books on Demand. And each year, 3,000 to 4,000 titles are added to the list. Patrons find materials covering thousands of topics and subject areas, ranging from a Latin Bible printed by Gutenberg to a departmental publication from the University of Michigan published just last year. In addition to the new Books on Demand online catalog, you can get a comprehensive author guide to the collection on microfiche, and numerous print subject catalogs are available free of charge. For yours, call 800-521-0600 or 734-761-4700, x2731.
(Last checked 11/05/04)

BestWebBuys.Com
http://www5.bestwebbuys.com/
Provides a single search engine for identifying sources to purchase books.
(Last checked 11/05/04)

Beyond Bookmarks
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/CTW.htm
Beyond Bookmarks: Schemes for Organizing the Web is a clearinghouse of World Wide Web sites that have applied or adopted standard classification schemes or controlled vocabularies to organize Web resources. Beyond Bookmarks is compiled and maintained by Gerry McKiernan, Coordinator, Science and Technology Section, Reference and Instructional Services Department, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011.
(Last checked 11/05/04)

Biblia's Warrior Librarian Weekly
http://warriorlibrarian.com/
(Last checked 11/05/04)

Biblio.Com Out of Print Service
http://www.biblio.com
Welcome to biblio.com, the online marketplace for buying and selling used, rare, and out-of-print books. We take pride in bringing together over 1600 professional, independent booksellers from around the world, to offer you over 10 million high quality used books to choose from. So, whether you're looking for antiquarian books, first editions, signed books, or just great used books at even better prices, you've found the right place!
(Last checked 11/05/04)

BiblioFind
http://www.bibliofind.com
An aggregated inventory of over 750 sellers of old, rare, and used books in the U.S. and abroad. If your search turns up empty, the database can keep your query on file for up to six months and send you an automatic e-mail notification if the elusive volume crosses its transom.
(Last checked 11/05/04)

BookPrice.com
http://www.booksprice.com/
(Last checked 11/05/04)

Borders.Com
http://www.borders.com/
(Last checked 11/05/04)

Boston College
Reference & Collections Blog
http://gateway.uvic.ca/blogs/refdesk/archives/2007_05.html
(Last checked 11/05/04)

The Catalog of the Future
http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/ACRL/Events_and_Conferences/caudle.PDF
(Last checked 11/05/04)

Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large
http://cites.boisestate.edu/
(Last checked 02/03/05)

Code4Lib Journal
http://journal.code4lib.org/
(Last checked 11/05/04)

Collection Development and the Internet
http://www.loc.gov/acq/colldev/handbook.html
(Last checked 11/05/04)

Computers in Libraries
http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/default.shtml
Includes selected articles and industry news.
(Last checked 11/05/04)

Counter
http://www.projectcounter.org/
The use of online information resources is growing rapidly. It is widely agreed by producers and purchasers of information that the use of these resources should be measured in a more consistent way. Librarians want to understand better how the information they buy from a variety of sources is being used; publishers want to know how the information products they disseminate are being accessed. An essential requirement to meet these objectives is an agreed international set of standards and protocols governing the recording and exchange of online usage data. The COUNTER Codes of Practice provide these standards and protocols and are published in full on this website.
(Last checked 11/05/04)

Universal Currency Converter
http://www.xe.net/ucc/
(Last checked 11/05/04)

Currency Converter
http://www.x-rates.com/calculator.html
Need help with that overseas expense report? This fast and easy currency converter is based on U.S. dollar rates as cited by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York at approximately noon (ET) on the given date.
(Last checked 11/05/04)

D-Lib Magazine
http://www.dlib.org/
(Last checked 11/05/04)

E-JASL: The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship
http://www.icaap.org/SouthernLibrarianship
E-JASL: The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship (formerly the Journal of Southern Academic and Special Librarianship), an independent, professional, refereed electronic journal dedicated to advancing knowledge and research in the areas of academic and special librarianship, is accepting journal articles on all subjects.
(Last checked 11/05/04)

E-Streams
http://www.e-streams.com/f_home.htm
Electronic reviews of Science & Technology References covering Engineering, Agriculture, Medicine and Science. E-STREAMS is a collaborative venture between H. Robert Malinowsky of the University of Illinois at Chicago and YBP Library Services, Inc.
(Last checked 11/05/04)

ExLibris
http://marylaine.com/exlibris/
A weekly e-zine for librarians from Marylaine Block.
(Last checked 11/05/04)

Fact Finding on the Web: A Look at Some Powerful Reference Tools
http://www.llrx.com/columns/fact.htm
Covers the SIC Manual, Chemfinder, Roget's Internet Thesaurus, Bartlett's Quotations, How Far Is It, Geographic Name Server, etc.
(Last checked 11/05/04)

First Monday
http://firstmonday.org/issues/
(Last checked 11/05/04)

Index Morganagus
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/~emorgan/morganagus/index.html
Developed by Eric Lease Morgan, a Systems Librarian for the North Carolina State University Libraries, the eponymous Index Morganagus is a full-text index that collects, organizes, and disseminates articles from over 80 library-related electronic serials. Each electronic serial in the browseable list of indexed titles links to its corresponding Website. The search engine for the index supports Boolean operators and truncation, as well as phrase, compound, and case-sensitive searching. Advanced users have the option to control other query variables--such as number of results allowed or output format--through the manipulation of radio buttons. Extensive help is available online. Mr. Morgan has created a valuable resource for researchers, library students, librarians, and information professionals. Source: Scout Report for the Social Sciences, September 8, 1998.
(Last checked 11/05/04)

Information Today, Inc.
http://www.infotoday.com/
Contains links to Information Today, Computers in Libraries, etc.
(Last checked 11/05/04)

ISBN.nu
http://www.isbn.nu/
ISBN.nu provides access to (FREE) a searchable database with information on over 3 million book titles. At the moment the searchable database is "powered" with data from Books-in-Print/Bowker. In the next few weeks ISBN.nu will switch to data provided by Baker & Taylor. B&T will also provide info on over 750,000 out-of-print titles. After retrieving basic title info, a second click allows you to compare pricing/shipping info from 10 new and used online bookstores on a single page. Click one more time and you're now able to order the material from any of these vendors. Want More? In the future many entries will contain brief annotations, table-of-contents, etc. The BETA interface allows you to search the database by: words in the title, author name, subject, and ISBN . You can also limit your search by publication date and/or publisher. A full-text search will soon be available. Using the MyISBN.nu option allows you to personalize the interface to reflect shipping costs depending on shipping location (a currency converter can be configured to assist searchers outside the U.S.) and the delivery service you select. ISBN.nu is being developed by Seattle based writer (Fortune, Wired, New York Times, Seattle Times) industry commentator, and database guru, Glenn Fleishman.
(Last checked 11/05/04)

Journal Abbreviation Sources
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/JAS.htm
(Last checked 11/05/04)

Liblicense-L List Archives
http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/ListArchives/
(Last checked 11/05/04)

Librarian's Datebook
http://www.hsl.unc.edu/libcal.htm
Beginning with 1998 through nine years in advance, this site lists conferences, meetings, seminars, workshops, and institutes pertinent to librarians. Cancellation of any event is noted. There are links to the event Web pages with location information generally included.
(Last checked 11/05/04)

LibrarianInBlack.net
http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/
(Last checked 08/21/06)

Library Autonomous Zone
http://gort.ucsd.edu/mtdocs/laz/
Covers: Civil Liberties, Copyright, The Digital Divide, Digital Library Issues, E-voting, Fair Use Issues, Fugitive Publications, Government Information, Media Regulation, Open Access Resources and Issues, The P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act, RSS & blogs, Technology & Society, and more.
Last checked 08/21/06)

Library Issues
http://www.libraryissues.com/
Library Issues highlights key issues in academic librarianship. Its intended audience is faculty and academic administrators and librarians who work with them. LI's short articles present the various facets of controversial topics, not campus-specific solutions. LI strives to clarify not persuade, to present facts not opinions, to facilitate communication not advocate positions.
(Last checked 11/05/04)

Library Journal News Archive
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6280981.html?nid=2673
(Last checked 11/05/04)

Library Journal Digital
http://libraryjournal.reviewsnews.com
Founded in 1876, Library Journal has brought a new "look & feel" to its digital version. Items in this e-zine include LJ's Hot Picks, News (divided into This Week, People and Calendar), View, Infotech (which covers industry news), Multimedia (covering the web, CD-ROMs, audiobooks and video), BestSellers and Job Search. This site contains a fair amount of coverage and is well organized; at no point will the reader feel lost. Missing from this site is Library Hotline, which in the printed version often provides the best tidbits.
(Last checked 11/05/04)

Library Journal Newswire
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6280981.html
(Last checked 03/16/06)

Library Juice
http://www.libr.org/Juice/
Library Juice is a current awareness newsletter for librarians and other information professionals, published weekly by editor-librarian Rory Litwin. Each issue of Library Juice compiles recent news, articles, and announcements gleaned from a wide range of mailing lists related to librarianship, information science, intellectual freedom, and social responsibility. The Website posts the current issue of the newsletter and maintains an archive of all past issues.
(Last checked 11/05/04)

Library Link of the Day
http://www.tk421.net/librarylink/
(Last checked 03/01/05)

Library Literature Link
http://www.epnet.com/
A new www site sponsored by EBSCO Publishing indexes 30 library periodicals including American Libraries for the past five years. Select Library Reference Center from the EBSCO home page.
(Last checked 11/05/04)

Library News from Topix
http://www.topix.net/news/libraries
(Last checked 04/13/06)

Library of Congress Classification Scheme Outline
http://www.tlcdelivers.com/tlc/crs/lcso0001.htm
(Last checked 11/05/04)

Lib.sigs
http://www.laughinglibrarian.com/libsigs.htm
Quotations from librarian signature files.
(Last checked 11/05/04)

Libweb
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Libweb
Library Servers via the world wide web. A comprehensive list of links.
(Last checked 11/05/04)

LISFeeds.com
http://www.lisfeeds.com/
The one place for library news headlines.
(Last checked 11/05/04)

LISNews.com
http://www.lisnews.com/
Created in November 1999 by librarians Blake Carver and Steve Galbraith, this (usually) twice-daily updated metasite links to a large variety of news stories from around the world that relate to library and information science. In addition to scanning the list of latest stories featured on the main page, users can browse for past news in over 50 categories. In the future, the site will also feature user-submitted columns and editorials. Readers are welcome to submit ideas for stories. A fine current awareness resource for librarians.
(Last checked 11/05/04)

LOCKSS
http://www.lockss.org/lockss/Home
LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) is an international non-profit community initiative that provides tools and support so libraries can easily and cost-effectively preserve today’s web-published materials for tomorrow’s readers.
(Last checked 11/05/04)

Michigan Libraries Wiki
http://mlcnet.org/wiki
Courtesy of MLC.
(Last checked 11/05/04)

MLA Forum
http://www.mlaforum.org/
Articles from Michigan librarians.
(Last checked 11/05/04)

Open Access News
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html
(Last checked 11/05/04)

Open Directory Library Weblogs
http://dmoz.org/Reference/Libraries/Library_and_Information_Science/Weblogs/
(Last checked 11/05/04)

Page2RSS
http://page2rss.com/
Convert any web page to RSS feed.
(Last checked 11/05/04)

Portico
http://www.portico.org/
(Last checked 11/05/04)

Publishers' Catalogue Home Page
http://www.lights.com/publisher/
Publisher's Catalogue Homepage has links to over six thousand publisher homepages. You can browse the index to locate a publisher of titles in your subject area or locate a publisher's homepage via the site's search engine.
(Last checked 11/05/04)

PubList
http://www.publist.com/
PubList uses sources such as R.R. Bowker's Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory to provide bibliographic data for more than 150,000 publications and hyperlinks to some publishers. A private company, founded by Frederick Bowes III, "PubList.com's goal is to provide publishers with a new way to use the Internet to reach and serve world wide audiences in a more efficient and cost effective manner." From the Homepage, users can browse categories such as publisher, title, and subject or search all fields by keyword; the Search page allows custom searches of selected fields. Among other information, returns include frequency of publication, format, contact information for publishers, availability of reviews, and document delivery service listings when applicable. Each periodical listing also includes a link to the source records. Source: Scout Report, August 14, 1998.
(Last checked 11/05/04)

The Researching Librarian
http://www.researchinglibrarian.com/
This site was created for librarians--new or experienced--who find themselves needing to perform research for purposes of publication, promotion, tenure, or other reasons. I hope that it also might be useful for other audiences and needs. Intended as a supplement to the print and electronic resources available in library collections, this site gathers links to selected web resources useful for research: freely searchable citation and full-text databases, funding information, relevant journals, statistics and statistical methods, useful research tools, current awareness sources, and conference papers and proceedings.
(Last checked 11/05/04)

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Webblog
http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm
Last checked 12/21/04)

Searcher : The Magazine for Database Professionals
http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/default.htm
A unique publication that explores and deliberates on a comprehensive range of issues important to the professional database searcher. The magazine is targeted to experienced, knowledgeable searchers and combines evaluations of data content with discussions of delivery media. Searcher includes evaluated online news, searching tips and techniques, reviews of search aid software and database documentation, revealing interviews with leaders and entrepreneurs of the industry, and trenchant editorials. Whatever the experienced database searcher needs to know to get the job done is covered in Searcher. The MSU Libraries has a subscription to this magazine starting with Volume 3, (1995). Current issues are in the Periodical Reading Room and older volumes are bound under the call number Z699.A1 S4 and located in the Main Library Stacks.
(Last checked 11/05/04)

Second Life, Binary Footprints, and Libraries
http://binaryfootprint.blogspot.com/
Blogging about Second Life and libraries, education, and training.
(Last checked 02/05/07)

Serials in Cyberspace
http://www.uvm.edu/~bmaclenn/
(Last checked 11/05/04)

SPARC: The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
http://www.arl.org/sparc
This web site provides information, links and resources helpful to those in search of specific information about SPARC, its partners and projects, as well as those tracking scholarly communications issues in general.
(Last checked 11/05/04)

Springer
http://www.springeronline.com
Springer recently gobbled up Kluwer. This web page offers access to Library Zone newsletter under Librarians.
(Last checked 12/21/04)

Ubiquitous Librarian
http://theubiquitouslibrarian.typepad.com/
(Last checked 12/21/04)

Web4Lib Archives
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive.html
Can be sorted by date, subject, author, or thread. Web4Lib also maintains a mailing list for World Wide Web based library managers. Issues discussed include Web resource selection as it relates to overall collection development, cataloging and metadata information as it relates to Web resources, and training of staff in use and creation of Web resources. Web4Lib is not a moderated list, but only subscribers may post messages. To subscribe: send e-mail to: listserv@library.berkeley.edu In the body of the message type: subscribe Web4Lib your name.
(Last checked 08/21/06)

University of North Carolina, School of Information and Library Science
http://ils.unc.edu/library/
Provide a list of new acquistions, plus a searchable index to past master's theses.
(Last checked 08/21/06)

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