Web sites about libraries

Library associations:

• ALA Web page from the American Library Association.
• ALA-LHRT: Library History Round Table Web page.
• ALA-ACRL: Association of College and Research Libraries Web page.
  • SPARC initiative: fairly priced online serials.
• Michigan Library Association Web page.
• Michigan Library Consortium.
• ARL (Association of Research Libraries) including ARL online statistics.

Selected library OPACs and Web servers:

• Library catalogs in Michigan:
  • MSU's online catalog by Web now including College of Law and Library of Michigan holdings.
  • State MeLCat OPAC (formerly InMich), or by IP address (http://136.181.125.166).
  • Lansing Community College (LCC) Library.
  • ANSWER, the catalog of the Library of Michigan (state library).
• Catalogs across the country or the world:
  • The Library of Congress on the Web.
  • LibDex: search engine covering library home pages (replaces Hytelnet and WebCats).
  • LibWeb: Library servers via WWW world-wide.
  • Lib-Web-Cats, a directory of libraries worldwide.
  • Innovative Interfaces, Inc.: corporate home page and other III online catalogs.
  • COPAC: unified online catalog for libraries in the U.K. and Ireland.
  • UNESCO Libraries Portal.
  • The European Library (successor to Gabriel).

Center for Institutional Cooperation: the academic consortium of the "Big Ten":

• CIC home page.
• Links to library home pages in the CIC.

Miscellaneous library tools:

• An outline of the LC call number system.
• LC's New Chinese Romanization Guidelines.
• Journal Abbreviation Sources list.

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