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Abbey Newsletter - Nonprofit corporation set up to encourage preservation of library & archival materials. Archived newsletter articles from February 1981 to October 2003. Searchable through Conservation OnLine: Resources for Conservation Professionals.
About.com - Subject Directory. Other selective Internet subject guides or directories include, in alphabetical order, Apple Learning Interchange, Best Information on the Net, BUBL LINK Catalogue of Internet Resources, Educator's Reference Desk, Infomine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections, Internet Public Library, Internet Scout Project, Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators, Librarians' Internet Index, Martindale's The Reference Desk, Merlot, Refdesk.com, Intute (with a Virtual Training Suite), Les Signets de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, and WWW Virtual Library. (For more subject directories see Digital Librarian's 's Internet Subject Directories.)
Academia: A Monthly Online Magazine of Academic Titles and Information - Baker & Taylor site lists academic bestsellers and upcoming titles (by subject).
Academic Technology Podcasts - Stanford University Libraries && Academic Information Resources "series of podcasts related to teaching and learning with technology." Episode 18 is a podcast of an "interview with [student] Jocelyn Jiao and [librarian] Phyllis Kayten about the Research Process Using Green Library's Information Center Resources" and comes with a transcript (June 29, 2007).
AcqWeb - Directory of acquisitions and collection development resources. There is a useful Directory of Publishers and Vendors which is organized alphabetically and by subject. ACQNET, is a managed listserv for acquisitions librarians.
AddALL: Book Searching and Price Comparison - Allows you to search and compare book price at over 40 bookstores. Other bookstore comparison services include SearchBiblio, Best Book Buys and A1 BookMall. Used, rare and out-of-print bookstore comparison services include BookFinder, Bibliofind, Used Book Search, Advanced Book Exchange and Alibris. On AABA, the homepage of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America, you can find dealers by specialty. European resources include Zentrales Verzeichnis Antiquarischer Bücher (ZVAB), Bibliopoly, a multilinqual online database of rare books for sale from the stock of leading and specialised dealers, Antiqbook from the Netherlands Antiquarian Booksellers' Network, WorldBookDealers and Libri@ntichi. The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America offers a book search.
Ahmet Ertug - Photographer. See his Photographs of Libraries
Alert Collector - Selected columns from Reference & User Services Quarterly.
ALiNUS: Academic Library Newsletters in the United States - "Internet gateway to more than 600 online academic library newsletters published by US institutions of higher education."
All Facts Considered; The Essential Library of Inessential Knowledge (2010) by Kee Malesky, Librarian for National Public Radio. Hear NPR host Scott Simon and Kee Malesky in 'All Facts Considered' By NPR's Longtime Librarian, Weekend Edition Saturday, October 23, 2010, (8 min 26 sec). You can also hear an interview - All Facts Considered with Kee Malesky - on the Madeleine Brand Show, October 19, 2010.
American Association of Law Libraries
American Library Association
ALA Divisions, Units & Governance,
NewsReleases,
Links to Library Web Resources,
American Libraries which is searchable, has a news archive and Job Listings.
ALA Editions - Features ALA publications and provides the full-text of Adaptive Technology for the Internet: Making Electronic Resources Accessible to All by Barbara T. Mates.
Reference and User Services Association Best Free Reference Web Sites - From 1999.
American Library Association Archives - "Searchable interface for the American Library Assocation Archives' "control card" database. The system includes records for over 1,100 archives or manuscript collections which have been arranged according to the archival principle of provenance. Materials are arranged in a three-part classification scheme of record group, record sub-group, and record series."
American Society for Information Science - Highlights include Pioneers of Information Science in North America and a list of leading schools offering programs in Information Science. Full-text access is provided to the Bulletin
American Society of Indexers - Provides useful link collections including Resources for Indexers and Resources for Editors & Authors as well as extensive information about indexing.
Architects
Architects. Library Buildings 2004 - Directory - Library Journal Dec 1, 2004
Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott - Boston
ALA Library Fact Sheet 11 - Building Libraries and Library Additions
Phillip H. Carter, Architect - Toronto
Ariadne - "Web and print magazine of Internet issues for librarians and information specialists" from the U.K.; full-text and searchable."
Art Libraries Society of North America
ArtLibraries.net: Virtual Catalogue for Art History - Search 6 million records from 20 specialist art libraries throughout Europe.
Association des Bibliothécaires Français - Their Sitebib: Coopération entre sites Web en bibliothéconomie et sciences de l'information has links to French libraries and online catalogues.
Association of Research Libraries (ARL) - Offers a site map, a directory of member libraries, ARL Newsletter (archived back to 1995), and a Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences.
Associazione italiana biblioteche (AIB) - Website of the Italian Library Association.
Association pour la diffusion de la pensée française (ADPF) - Association for the Diffusion of French Thought, a division of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The provide the archives of the book review Vient de Paraître back to 1999. Also available in English (version Anglaise).
Audio Berkman - Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School. Hear, for example, Brad Patrick's talk on Wikipedia, Wikimedia, and the Law given on January 31, 2006.
Australian Libraries Gateway - National Library of Australia. With links to Online Exhibitions.
Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA)
Author Tracker

Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature - University of Florida, Gainesville. "Contains more than 100,000 volumes published in Great Britain and the United States from the early 1700s through the current year. Its holdings of more than 800 early American imprints is the second largest such collection in the United States." There is a page which provide tips on how to search for children's books in the the Library Catalog in Searching the UF Libraries On-Line Catalog for items held by the Baldwin Library. You can browse by genre in the Digital Collection which contains approximately 5,000 items. There are over 700 digitized titles with hand-colored illustrations, including the following:
Jack and Florie, or, The pigeons' wedding - By Harriet B. McKeever. See page 7.
A frog he would a-wooing go - Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott (1846-1886).
Alice's adventures in Wonderland - By Lewis Carroll, illustrated by Arthur Rackham (1867-1939). Go to unnumbered in the drop down to locate illustrations.

Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE - Builds digital collections and services while providing information and support to digital library developers worldwide. (Sponsored by the Library, UC Berkeley and Sun Microsystems, Inc.)
Best Information on the Net - Chosen by the librarians at O'Keefe Library, St. Ambrose University, Davenport, Iowa.
Biblia's Warrior Librarian Weekly - A.B. Credaro
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana - Firenze. "The Biblioteca Laurenziana must be reckoned as the most important and influential Italian secular building of the sixteenth century." (Michelangelo's Biblioteca Laurenziana by R. Wittkower, The Art Bulletin, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Jun., 1934), pp. 123-218.)
Biblio Tech Review: Information Technology for Libraries - Library automation and technology news and reviews from the UK.
Biblio On Line: Le site Internet des bibliothèques et de leur public
Biblionet, les classiques de la littérature française en texte intégral - French classics, listed by author and by title.
Biblioteca Nacional de Espana
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (BNCF)
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (National Library of Portugal) - There is a Digital Library (Biblioteca Nacional Digital) with a catalog (catálogo), as well as an author (autor) and subject index. Among the items newly digitized (Obras novas digitalizadas ) are a number of high resolution images of musical scores (Música impressa) and maps (Material cartográfico) including Atlas de Portugal, A compleat set of new charts on thirty-eight large plates containing an accurate survey of the coast of Portugal and the Mediterrane sea and a musical score manuscript by João Domingos Bontempo, Quinteto para piano e cordas. Memória contains the "cultural identity of Portugal". Porbase is the online catalog.
Biblioteca Nacional de España - National Library of Spain.
Biblioteka Narodowa - Warszawa.
Bibliotheca Alexandrina - Alexandria, Egypt
Bibliotheks-Glossar - Birgit Wiegandt's glossary of library-related terms and abbreviations. (In English and German.)
Bibliothèque de documentation internationale contemporaine
Bibliothèque Nationale de France - With access to Online Catalog with over 7 million records. Les Signets de la Bibliothèque nationale de France is an Guide to Internet resources, arranged by subject.
Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg (BnL)
Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli - National Library "Vittorio Emanuele III" Naples
Bibliothèque Nationale Suisse - National Library of Switzerland (versions available in German, English and Italian). Helveticat is the online catalog
Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique - With Online Catalog
BIBSYS - "Used by all Norwegian University Libraries, the National Library, all college libraries, and a number of research libraries." From the online catalog you may search the complete holdings at libraries participating in BIBSYS.

Blogs:
Blogs for Libraries
BookNotes
'brary blog
Free Range Librarian - Karen G. Schneider
LibLog
Librarian.net
Library 2.0 - Laura B. Cohen, Web Support Librarian, University at Albany, SUNY.
Library Geek
Library Juice - Rory Litwin
Library News Daily
Library Stuff - Steven M. Cohen
Library Techlog
Library Web Chic - Karen Coombs
LibraryLaw Blog - Mary Minow, J.D., A.M.L.S. [California, U.S.] and Peter Hirtle, M.A., M.L.S
LISNews - Librarian and Information Science News
New Breed Librarian
Open Stacks - Greg Schwartz
Peter Scott's Library Blog
Research Buzz
Shifted Librarian - Jenny Levine
Tame the Web - Michael Stephens
TeleRead Bring the E-Books Home
Travelin Librarian - Michael P. Sauers
Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk
Web 2.0 for Librarians and Information Professionals - Ellyssa Kroski, known for her February 20, 2006 blog posting Authority in the Age of the Amateur.

Bodleian Library - University of Oxford. With links to Digital Library Projects.
Booklover's Repair Kit: 1st Aid for Home Libraries - By Estelle Ellis, Wilton Wiggins, Douglas Lee. Available at Amazon.com, which supplies photographs of the contents. The kit consists of the The Booklover's Repair Manual, 160p, illus. and the following: pH-neutral adhesive, document-cleaning pad, transparent mending tape, mounting and hinging tape, red cotton library tape, bone folder, art gum eraser, soft white eraser, Pink Pearl eraser, microspatula, dust cloth, silicone release paper, binder's board, archival mat board, Canson paper, cotton gloves, bamboo brush, china bristle brush, artist brushes, #2 and #4, knitting needle, plastic cutting board, bulldog clamps, and archival permanent glue stick.
Book Sales in America - Gives dates and other details about used book sales run by libraries and non-profit groups.
BookCrossing - Global book club.
Booklist - Selections from American Library Association's journal of book reviews; cumulative index is useful
Books about Librarians: Snow Crash (1992) by Neal Stephenson
British Library - The British Library Public Catalogue provides access to more than 12 million titles. There is now an Integrated Catalog which "unites a number of previously separate sources to list over twelve million items in the British Library's outstanding collections." See also COPAC union catalogue."It provides FREE access to the merged online catalogues of 24 major university research libraries in the UK and Ireland PLUS the British Library, the National Library of Scotland, and the National Library of Wales/Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru."
BUBL: Catalogue of Selected Internet Resources - National information service for UK higher education based at Strathclyde University, U.K. Includes an excellent library and information sciences section as well as a listing of job vacancies for librarians, archivists, information specialists etc.
Building the Virtual Reference Desk in a 24/7 World - Webcast of the proceedings of the symposium on digital reference, co-hosted by the Library of Congress and OCLC on January 12, 2001.
Bulletin des Bibliothèques de France - Published by the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Sciences de l'Information et des Bibliothèques (ENSSIB). Provides full-text access, except for the two most recent issues.
Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Canadian Association of Research Libraries - Some of their Issues & Projects include Theses Canada (searchable via Amicus) and National Data Archives
CMI Archival Acid Free Boxes - MicroClimate archival containers are a clamshell design manufactured to customer supplied measurements. (See ExLibris Archives for May 2001 for various opinions on these boxes.) Ocker & Trapp Library Bindery, founded by founded by bookbinders Ralph Ocker and Herbert Trap, also makes Custom Enclosures and University Products offers "adjustable rare book storage boxes."
Canadian Library Association
Carnegie Libraries of California - Historical narrative by Lucy Kortum and photographs by Pat & Bernie Skehan.
Cataloging Policy and Support Office - Library of Congress
Catalogue Collectif de France - "Description détaillée de bibliothèques françaises de tous types et de toutes tailles, soit plus de 3 900 établissements, ainsi que la description de leurs fonds spécifiques...Le catalogue des fonds des bibliothèques municipales rétroconvertis permet de localiser plus de 2 millions de documents conservés dans les plus importantes bibliothèques municipales."
Cataloging Oasis - "Designed to provide many of the "little bits" of information catalogers need on a daily basis;" Eric Celeste, MIT Libraries
Cataloging Internet Resources: A Manual and Practical Guide - Second edition. Edited by Nancy B. Olson, OCLC (Online Computer Library Center).
CENDI - "Interagency working group of senior Scientific and Technical Information Managers from 12 U.S. federal agencies."
Censorship In a Box: Why Blocking Software is Wrong for Public Libraries - American Civil Liberties Union White Paper, c1998.
Center for Research Libraries - "CRL is a consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries. The consortium acquires and preserves traditional and digital resources for research and teaching and makes them available to member institutions through interlibrary loan and electronic delivery." Access is provided to the catalog, there are topics guides and there are searchable databases for Civilian Conservation Corp. Camp Papers, Ethnic Press, U.S. Ethnic Newspapers and Foreign Newspapers (but no access to full-text). FOCUS, The Center's Newsletter, is available in pdf format back to May/June 1998.
Centre Régional du Livre de Bourgogne - French site has Répertoire de signets with links to Bibliothèques in the region.
Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) - UK
Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries - Publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), a division of the American Library Association (ALA). Provides access to Table of Contents and selected articles from current and previous issues.
Chronicle of Higher Education
Anything Is Possible When You're in the Library - "On Wednesday night we posted a video of the Old Spice Guy plugging libraries. Today one of our interns sent us this brilliant Old Spice parody filmed at Brigham Young University's Harold B. Lee Library. More like this. Please." Tweed, July 15, 2010, Chronicle of Higher Education.
Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large - Walt Crawford
Clifford A. Lynch - Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information. The site has links to a number of Lynch's talks and publications available online.
Clio Online - History portal has links to thousands of German Institutions including libraries, archives, museums and universities. There is also an extensive Web Directory.
Collaborative Digital Reference Service (CDRS) - "Provides professional reference service to researchers any time anywhere, through an international, digital network of libraries and related institutions."
College & Research Libraries NewsNet - The Association of College & Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association, provides an Internet Reviews Archive dating back to 1994 and a list of its Sections.
Columbia University Library Science Library Vertical Files, 1832-1994 - From the American Library Association Archives, University of Illinois, Urbana.
Computers in Libraries - Full-text of some articles, abstracts
Conference Alerts: Academic conferences worldwide - See Information Science, Teaching and Learning, E-learning, Higher Education
COPAC - "Provides free access to the merged online catalogues of 24 major university research libraries in the UK and Ireland plus the British Library & the National Library of Scotland."
Copyright
Will Fair Use Survive: Free Expression in the Age of Copyright Control A Public Policy Report - 67 page document (in pdf format) by Marjorie Heins and Tricia Beckles for the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, 2006.
Cornell University Computer Policy and Law Program Speaker Series - On 2/20/03 Deanna Marcum spoke on The Necessity of Collaboration: how will information technology and libraries both support research and teaching? When Everyone Will Be a Librarian: what is the future for libraries?. On March 18, 2004 Miriam M. Nisbet spoke on The Scoundrels, the Threats...and the Opportunities
COSLA - Acronymn for Chief Officers of State Library Agencies. There are State Profiles, a 93 page Membership Directory (pdf), and Links to Other Resources.
Council on Library and Information Resources - With full-text Reports, Research Briefs and Issues.
CREN (Corporation for Research and Educational Networking) - Offers a collection of Archived Events on topics relevant to networking and information technology which includes Where Is the Digital Library?, a September 28th, 2000 interview with Clifford Lynch.
Current Cites - "An annotated bibliography of selected articles, books, and digital documents on information technology" edited by Roy Tennant.
D-Lib Magazine - "Magazine of digital library research" has full-text, browsable archives.
Dartmouth College Library Bulletin - Issued twice annually, in November and April. Complete contents back to 1989, with a note stating "older issues will appear as they are scanned and formatted."
DELOS Digital Library - "Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries, partially funded by the European Commission's Information Society Technologies Programme (IST)." The search function "allows searching for documents and information related to digital libraries."
Die Deutsche Bibliothek - "National library and national bibliographic information centre for the Federal Republic of Germany." With access to online catalog.
Dialog Corporation - Useful sections include Dialog Bluesheets, guides for every database on the Dialog service and DataStar, a searchable index to the hundreds of databases on the DataStar system. Each database has a hypertext link to a datasheet, which contains details of the content and structure of each database.
Digital Future - Archived videos (via C-SPAN) of the Library of Congress's 2004-2005 eight-part series on the transformation of libraries in a digital age. Speakers include David Weinberger, Brewster Kahle, Juan Pablo Paz, Brian Cantwell Smith, David M. Levy, Lawrence Lessig, Edward L. Ayers and Neil Gershenfeld.
Digital Library Federation
Digital Preservation
Digital Preservation Coalition - UK
Directory of North American Research Libraries - Staff directory
Documents in Information Science - "Database of articles and conference proceedings published in electronic format in the area of Library and Information Science. "At the moment [April 2002] we hold 7949 articles and 1895 papers, 4339 of them are downloable from our site."
DoIS Documents in Information Science
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
Dutch Electronic Subject Service (DutchESS) - Formerly the Nederlandse Basisclassificatie Web, DutchESS is "an Internet Subject Service which indexes Internet resources, selected on quality and relevance for the academic community: students and academic researchers." Now available in English as well as Dutch, the site is searchable and browsable.
E-JASL: The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship - "Independent, professional, refereed electronic journal dedicated first and foremost to advancing knowledge and research in the areas of academic and special librarianship." Full-text back to 1999.
E-LIS - "Open access archive for scientific or technical documents, published or unpublished, on Librarianship, Information Science and Technology, and related application disciplines."
EARL: Consortium for Public Library Networking - UK
Ecole nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques (ENSSIB) - French national library school in Lyon
Educational Media Reviews Online - "Database of video, DVD, and CD-ROM reviews on materials from major educational and documentary distributors. The reviews are written primarily by librarians and teaching faculty in institutions across the United States and Canada. The reviews are given one of three ratings: Recommended, Highly Recommended, or Not Recommended....The reviews are aimed at an educational audience, primarily academic librarians. There are some children's and K-12 reviews in the database, but they are not the main focus."
EDUCAUSE - "International, nonprofit association whose mission is to help shape and enable transformational change in higher education through the introduction, use, and management of information resources and technologies in teaching, learning, scholarship, research, and institutional management." Provides access to full-text articles of current and past issues of EDUCAUSE Review and EDUCAUSE Quarterly (in pdf format).
El Dorado County Library's What's Hot on the Internet This Week - Gary Parks, Placerville, California
Electronic Journals in Librarianship and Information Science - Thomas Parry Library, University of Wales Aberystwyth. There is an A - Z listing.
Electronic Journals Resource Directory - Peter Scott, University of Saskatchewan Libraries.
ERPANET - "Digital preservation of cultural heritage and scientific objects." (European Commission)
E-STREAMS: Electronic reviews of Science & Technology References covering Engineering, Agriculture, Medicine and Science - "Collaborative venture between H. Robert Malinowsky of the University of Illinois at Chicago and YBP Library Services."
Escuela Interamericana de Bibliotecología - Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia. See also El Faro. Servicio de Navegación Bibliotecario which has links to Archivos Nacionales -América Latina y El Caribe.
The European Library - Portal to the European Library Collections, British Library integrated catalogue, Biblioteca Nacional (Portugal), BN-OPALE PLUS, Online-Katalog Der Deutschen Bibliothek, Helsingin Yliopiston Kirjasto (main catalogue), SBN OPAC (Italy), Koninklijke Bibliotheek (main catalogue), OPAC HELVETICAT (SNL), and Slovenian National Bibliography.
FindArticles.com - Free online article-search service allows you to search for (and read) articles published over the last 1 to 2 years in more than 300 reputable magazines and journals. You can view publications by subject or by name. For more, see Gale Full-Text Content Free on LookSmart? Well, Some of It … in Information Today NewsBreaks.
First Monday - "Peer-reviewed journal on the Internet" from Denmark provides a full-text Archive with Article, Author and Subject indices.
Foundation Conference of European National Librarians (CENL)
Fugitive Fact File - Searchable and browsable database compiled by Hennepin County (Minnesota) Library staff to assist both staff and patrons in locating hard-to-find and elusive information. A search for gry will will bring up information on words ending in 'gry'.
Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) - "1998 recommendation of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) to restructure catalog databases to reflect the conceptual structure of information resources." See also Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records: Final Report
Gabriel - Gateway to Europe's National Libraries - Portico
Gale - Press Room - Awards
Gates Library Foundation - "Dedicated to partnering with U.S. and Canadian public libraries to bring computers and digital information to the communities they serve."
Gathering the Jewels / Casglu'r Tlysau - "Over 20,000 images of objects, books, letters, aerial photographs and other items from museums, libraries and record offices in Wales."
Gemeinsamer Bibliotheksverbund (GBV) - "GBV is the Common Library Network of the German Federal States Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Niedersachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, Thüringen and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK). Provides access to the Union Catalogue (GVK) . "This multimaterial bibliographic database covers the holdings of over 24.3 million records of more than 760 GBV member and associated libraries with over 49.3 million separate catalogue entries of books, conference proceedings, periodicals, dissertations, microfilms and electronic resources."
Google Book Search and the Future of Access to Scholarly Books - Pamela Samuelson, February 8, 2010 (Webcast Berkeley).
hbz - Hochschulbibliothekszentrum des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen
Hennen's American Public Library Ratings (HAPLR) - With Ratings 2000. The HAPLR 100 lists the top ten libraries in each population category.
Hidden Collections: The Elephant in the Closet - By Carol Mandel, RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage, Vol. 5, No. 2 Fall 2004.
The Hollywood Librarian: Librarians in Cinema and Society - "First full-length film to focus on the work and lives of librarians in the entertaining and appealing context of American movies." See The Hollywood Librarian: A new documentary delivers some unintentional messages by Francine Fialkoff, Library Journal, 8/15/2007.
Iconclass - "Iconclass is a subject-specific classification system; it is a hierarchically ordered collection of definitions of objects, persons, events and abstract ideas that can be the subject of an image. Art historians, researchers and curators use it to describe, classify and examine the subject of images represented in various media such as paintings, drawings and photographs." (Netherlands Institute for Art History)
Index Morganagus: Full Text Indes of Library-Related Electronic Serials - Eric Lease Morgan's searchable index of over 80 library-related electronic serials. He is also responsible for Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts and Infomotions' Gutenberg Index.
Indexes, Abstracts, Bibliographies, and Table of Contents Services - University of Houston Libraries
Infobits - Monthly online journal monitors and selects from a number of information technology and instruction technology sources and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators; edited by Carolyn Kotlas, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Academic & Technology Networks' Center for Instructional Technology.
Information Quality - WWW Virtual Library site maintained by T.Matthew Ciolek and Irena M. Goltz has a useful link to Alastair Smith's Evaluation of Information Sources.
Information Today, Inc. - "Publisher of Information Today, the newspaper for users and producers of electronic information services, as well as other periodicals, books, directories, and online products for the library and information user and professional."
Informationsverbund Deutschschweiz (IDS) - Le réseau IDS "comprend plus de 400 bibliothèques, réparties dans cinq bases de données. Ces bases de données recensent plus de 13,5 millions de notices bibliographiques, auxquelles sont rattachées plus de 21 millions d'exemplaires. La plupart de ces bibliothèques se trouvent en Suisse alémanique, mais il y en a également en Suisse romande et au Tessin."
Infomine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections - Annotated links to over 10,000 librarian-selected scholarly and educational Internet resources, especially strong in the sciences, provided by librarians at the University of California, Riverside.
Innovative Internet Applications in Libraries - "Sampling of new and interesting uses of the Web by public, corporate, academic, and school libraries."
Institute for Information Literacy - Association of College and Research Libraries site "provides information about the Institute's purpose, structure, meetings, programs and publications, as well as selected links to related information literacy sites and publications."
Institute of Museum and Library Services - Independent federal grantmaking agency for museums, libraries and archives. The site offers Monthly Highlights, Grants in Your State and a Legislative Update. Primary Source, with Archive of Past Issues, is a monthly e-mail newsletter with current agency news, grant deadlines and announcement dates, new publications, and highlights of funded projects. You can also Search the IMLS Grant Lists.
International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) - "Worldwide, independent organization created to provide librarians around the world with a forum for exchanging ideas, promoting international cooperation, research and development in all fields of library activity." Provides a number of useful resources including Cataloguing and Indexing of Electronic Resources, Metadata Resources, Quotations About Libraries and Librarians and Web Accessible National and Major Libraries of the World.
Internet Library for Librarians - Vianne Tang Sha's "comprehensive Web database designed to provide a one-stop shopping center for librarians to locate Internet resources related to their profession."
Internet Public Library - "Annotated collection of high quality Internet resources" founded at the University of Michigan School of Information and hosted by Drexel University's College of Information Science & Technology.
Internet Resources Newsletter - Heriot-Watt University
Investigaciones Bibliotecológicas
isbndb.com - You can query ISBNdb.com API for the location of source MARC records for any book in the database.
ISSN and Serial Publications - International Standard Serial Number Centre
Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship - "Quarterly publication of the Science and Technology Section, Association of College and Research Libraries."
Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle Biblioteche Italiane e per le Informazioni Bibliografiche - With Ricerca base nel Catalogo SBN
Journals and Resources for Librarians - From the Canadian Electronic Scholarly Network
Karen Coyle's Home Page
Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog (KVK) Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog. Access to "plus de 500 millions de notices bibliographiques de bibliothèques de plusieurs continents."
KDNuggets Directory: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Resources
Det Kongelige Bibliotek - Royal Library of Denmark. Has an English version.
LibDex: Worldwide Index of Library Catalogues - Peter Scott's index to over 17,000 libraries.
LibDocs: Resources for Librarians - Database of full-text documents on the Internet of interest to librarians. Part of Christopher C. Brown's Virtual Reference Desk project.
LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche) - Association of European Research Libraries.
Liber Quarterly: Journal of European Research Libraries - With archive of back issues. See, for example, Digitisation of Library Material in Europe: Problems, Obstacles and Perspectives anno 2007 by Erland Kolding Nielsen (Director General of the Royal Library, Copenhagen), Volume 18 (2008), No. 1. "We have now digitised c. 175,000 digital objects, varying from fiction books to manuscripts to photographs, often as collections with new names for marketing purposes."
LibGuides Community - Springshare. "42,364 guides by 12,737 librarians at 779 libraries worldwide."
Liblicense-L: Licensing Digital Information - Discusson list with Archives. (Described in The LIBLICENSE Project and How it Grows by Ann Okerson, D-Lib Magazine, September 1999.)
A Librarian at Every Table - Librarians and community initiatives.
The Librarian: Quest for the Spear (2004) - This tongue-in-cheek Indiana Jones style adventure movie with a librarian hero (Flynn Carsen, played by ER's Noah Wyle) was watched by nearly seven million people when it aired on TNT on December 5, 2004 and was the season's top basic-cable movie. A sequel The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines (2006) was filmed in South Africa and Kenya. In April, 2006 Atlantis Studios announced it would "produce a graphic novel adaptation of the sequel and produce an original comic book series based on the characters from the two films." The graphic novel, The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines, was published by Atlantis on November 28, 2006.
What did the library community have to say about TNT's "The Librarian?", Press Release, American Library Association, December 6, 2004
Real-life librarians give TNT's "The Librarian" mixed reviews, Press Release American Librarian Association, December 7, 2004
Librarian makes anemic adventure hero, David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle, December 4, 2004
On Screen - The Librarian: Quest for the Spear, Kathie Huddleston, Science Fiction Weekly, Issue 397, [November 29, 2004]
Bookmark this: Noah Wyle stars as a heroic 'Librarian', Bill Keveney, USA Today, September 9, 2004
Wyle shrugs off white coat for a snappy safari jacket, Mike Duffy, Detroit Free Press, December 3, 2004
The Librarian: Quest For The Spear (2004), Sandra Ray, FilmMonthly.com, Posted: 11/27/04
TNT Heads Back to the Library for Sequel to Smash Hit 'The Librarian', Turner Online Pressroom, July 25, 2005
Noah's Arc: Wyle's Bookish Hero Is Back on the Trail - By Kathy Blumenstock, Washington Post, December 3, 2006.)
TNT Heads Back to the Library for Sequel to Smash Hit 'The Librarian' - Turner Online Pressroom, July 25, 2005.
Librarian Avengers - Erica Olsen, is a graduate student at the University of Michigan School of Information.
Librarian Jobs
ALA Guide to Employment Sources in the Library and Information Profession
ALA Hot Jobs Online
American Libraries: Career Leads Online
BUBL: Job Vacancies
Association of Research Libraries Career Resources Online Service
Chronicle Careers - Chronicle of Higher Education
College & Research Libraries Career Opportunities from Across the Country
Indeed - General purpose job search engine
Jobs Opportunities at OCLC (Online Computer Library Center)
Job Title Generator for Library and Information Science Professionals - Michelle Mach
LibJobs - International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). This is a mailing list but you can browse the archives without subscribing.
Library Job Hunting - Ann E. Robinson, Assistant Reference Librarian, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Library JobSearch - University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Library Job Postings on the Internet - Sarah L. Nesbeitt, a reference librarian at Bridgewater State College, provides more than 250 links to sites with information on library jobs
Lisjobs: Jobs for Librarians and Information Professionals - Rachel Singer Gordon
LITA: Jobs in Library and Information Technology

Library of Congress

Perceptions of Libraries, 2010: Context and Community

Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) - "Implemented and hosted by OCLC, is joint project of several national libraries plus selected regional and trans-national library agencies. The project's goal is to lower the cost and increase the utility of library authority files by matching and linking widely-used authority files and making that information available on the Web." See also Library of Congress Authorities.