mission to “promote and facilitate creative collaboration between libraries and artists of all types.” the site not only seeks to bring people together, but to fundamentally rethink - and dynamically expand - the way we view the library as an institution. Entries are updated daily in a number of categories, including Artists, Writers, Performing Arts, Essays, Libraries, Collections, and Librarian Resources.
The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) lists over 460,000 items published between 1473 and 1800 mainly, but not exclusively, in English published mainly in the British Isles and North America from the collections of the British Library and over 2,000 other libraries
directory of Library web site is easy. Browse through Libraries categories or use search to find College and University Libraries, Government, National, Presidential or Public Library you need.
IDEALS provides access to the historical backfile of College & Research Libraries, (1939 – 1996). Issues dated 1997 – present are available http://crl.acrl.org/content/by/year.
E-prints for Library and Information Science (E-LIS) is an international open access archive for e-prints related to Librarianship, Information Science and Technology, and related application disciplines. This service aims to support individuals who wish to publish or otherwise make their papers available worldwide.
Lorcan Dempsey. discovery of library materials was increasingly going to be 'disembedded' from the local library catalog, and 're-embedded' in a variety of other contexts.
EBSCOhost Connection is designed to bridge the gap between a search of Google and other search engines and the valuable content of EBSCOhost that is available to you, courtesy of your library.
Datasets about libraries available from NCES. Electronic Catalog of NCES Products (National Center for Education Statistics). Publications and data products.
Internet Library for Librarians provides links to more than 4,000 resources. All the resources are recommended, selected, and reviewed by librarians. Each entry has a full description of the goals and /or scope of the resource, as well as the contact information if provided. Internet Library for Librarians is a handy and useful tool for both novices and experienced library staff.
SkyRiver is positioning itself as a pure, fully-featured bibliographic utility. SkyRiver subscribers can use bibliographic records from its service without restriction including, presumably, giving them away to non-subscribers. SkyRiver says it is also placing an emphasis on the quality, not quantity, of records. it will launch in January 2010 with 20 million records from the Library of Congress and the British library.
eXtensible Catalog is open source, user-centered, next generation software for libraries. It comprises four software components that can be used independently to address a particular need or combined to provide an end-to-end discovery system to connect library users with resources.
This Scholarly Communication toolkit was designed by ACRL’s Scholarly Communication Committee as a resource for education and advocacy efforts in transforming the scholarly communication landscape. Following nuanced and passionate discussions, we came to understand that the idea of bringing the full cycle of scholarly communication -- from discovery and creation of knowledge, to its dissemination, preservation, and re-use -- into all aspects of our work is central to the continued success of academic libraries. As information is increasingly captured, created, and communicated in digital forms, the activities of making scholarly resources well structured, discoverable, archived and readily available move closer to the creators of knowledge -- largely, faculty, students, and others within the academy. Understanding and influencing that shift is central to our goal. We believe these issues are key for our profession, and it is time for all librarians to fully own them.
Open Folklore–now being created by the American Folklore Society and the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries–is a new scholarly resource that will make a greater number and variety of useful resources, both published and unpublished, available for the field of folklore studies and the communities with which folklore scholars partner. Fister mentioned this.
The new DLF website. The goal for the site is to not only provide information about the DLF community, but also serve as a resource and communication hub around important ideas and trends developing throughout the broader digital library community.
Legacy Libraries are the libraries of historical people (as well as a few institutions), entered into LibraryThing by dedicated members working from a variety of sources, including published bibliographies, auction catalogs, library holdings, manuscript lists, wills and probate inventories, and personal inspection of extant copies. Subjects include everyone from Samuel Johnson to Marilyn Monroe, Carl Sandburg to Marie Antoinette.
a periodic bulletin about OCLC Research. It will provide highlights of the previous quarter's research work, including reports from the Innovation Lab, the OCLC Research Library Partnership, and the occasional look at emerging items. The emphasis will be on collecting and summarizing items of significance for your attention, with links to more complete discussions elsewhere on the OCLC Research Web site.
The portal is designed for librarians working in research organizations that generate, share, store and/or use data for basic scientific research in the health, biological, and physical sciences. Bringing together resources on education, outreach and collaboration, current practices and e-science news—the portal provides librarians with the tools, knowledge and skills to effectively participate in networked science. A collaborative project devoted to educating science and medical librarians on e-Science. initiated at the University of Massachusetts Medical School through funding from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. Content for the portal is contributed by a dedicated team of subject specialists from diverse New England research libraries. e-Science news, events, projects, and tutorials. The e-Science portal is a resource for librarians to learn about and discuss: e-Science and its impact on librarianship and domain sciences that use e-Science techniques.
A team of librarians monitors information technology literature, selecting only the best items to annotate for this free publication. The resulting issue of 8-12 annotated citations of current literature is emailed to a mailing list and is available as an RSS feed.
Whether you are looking to decide if open source software is right for your library or need help finding what open source software package meets your needs, this site has the content and the community to help you with those decisions.
This site is intended 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. It compiles data from usability studies evaluating terminology on library websites, and suggests test methods and best practices for reducing cognitive barriers caused by terminology.