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Resources
for Librarians
Since
the Internet was first developed, librarians have used their professional
skills to select the best online material for various subjects. The web
pages below represent the efforts of various librarians to collect the
very best Internet resources in the field of librarianship -- material
such as readers advisory booklists, directories of publishers, ready reference
websites, collections of library policies, and listservs or newsgroups
for professional discussion. If you can't find what you're looking for
through one of these sites, it's probably not on the Internet yet.
Note:
The links on this page will take you away from LibraryNet; you may wish
to bookmark this site first.
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Librarianship in
General
- Pictou-Antigonish
Regional Library's Business
Room
- The Pictou-Antigonish
Regional Library (PARL) has created a guide for small and medium-sized
libraries that draws on PARL's experience in creating a locally oriented
business information service. Increasingly, libraries are being recognized
as economic catalysts and resource centres, and PARL has responded by
creating this service and producing
a guide, which presents valuable information on partnership creation,
service design, and collection development. The guide also includes
staff training modules, role-playing scenarios and sample surveys.
- BUBL
Information Service
- Originally
aimed at academic libraries in the UK, this site has now become a service
for the higher education community in general, but maintains a Library
and Information Science section which gathers references on subjects
from digital library standards to rare books.
- Digital
Librarian
- A librarian's
choice of the best online resources, organized by topic or searchable
by keyword. Most of the entries are briefly annotated.
- Internet
Library for Librarians
- This "one-stop
shopping center for librarians to locate Internet resources related
to their profession," is maintained by Vianne Tang Sha, a librarian
at University of Missouri-Columbia and provides links to Internet sites
ranging from general ready reference to specific aspects of librarianship.
All the resources have been reviewed and are briefly described. Not
searchable, but divided into categories.
- Librarians
Index to the Internet
- Maintained
by librarians at the University of California, Berkeley. Set up somewhat
like Yahoo, this directory can be browsed by category or searched using
keywords. Excellent annotations tell you what you will find at each
site. Extremely selective; only the best sites make it on to this index.
- LibraryLand
- A focused
search engine which allows you to search the contents of thousands of
web documents at major sites dedicated to the practice of librarianship.
Organized into broad subject categories, with many "see-also"
references.
- Library-Oriented
Lists and Electronic Serials
- Includes
mailing lists, newsgroups, and on-line periodicals of interest to library
professionals and/or staff. You can browse by subject or title, or search
by keyword. Based on the original work of Charles W. Bailey, Jr. at
the University of Houston Libraries, now compiled by Wei Wu at the same
institution.
- PICK
- Subtitled:
"quality Internet resources in library and information science,
selected by Thomas Parry Library" (of the University of Wales).
Rather unusually, this site collects citations to relevant articles
and books as well as links to Internet material.
- Project
EARL
- Project
EARL (Electronic Access to Resources in Libraries) is the first UK national
public libraries Internet initiative and aims to become "the essential
practical resource for public libraries in the UK." EARLweb
brings together Internet links with a British and/or European perspective,
but many of the resources are useful to librarians anywhere.
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Canadiana
- Canadian
Information by Subject [Bilingual]
- The National
Library's guide to Canadian information on the Internet, arranged by
DDC subject headings.
- Canadian
Government Information on the Internet
- This amazing
resource, created by Anita Cannon (Reference/Public Services Librarian,
Mount Allison University), is now maintained by the governments' Depository
Services Program. It brings together all Canadian government information
available for public access through the Internet, including federal,
provincial, and municipal sources. As comprehensive as possible and
revised regularly.
- Canadian
Library Gateway
- A one-stop
shop for Canadian library information, the Gateway provides access to
Canadian library catalogues, Canadian library interlending and charging
policies, the directory of Canadian Z39.50 targets, the Directory of
Special Collections of Research Value held in Canadian Libraries, Canadian
library Web sites, and other Web sites of interest. The virtual Canadian
union catalogue (vCuc) is an integral component of the Gateway, allowing
users to either simultaneously or individually search 23 databases representing
the holdings of more than 90 libraries.
- Librarians'
Bookmarks
- From the
librarians at Okanagan University College (BC). Although not annotated,
this directory's emphasis on Canadian content makes it useful.
- QTECH
- A site
devoted to "provid[ing] a comprehensive range of resources to the
technical services community" with a good deal of Canadian content.
Maintained by the technical services department at Queen's University
Libraries.
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Canadian
Library Directories
- Canadian
Libraries and Library Catalogues [Bilingual]
- Maintained
by the National Library, this is a nearly exhaustive list of Canadian
libraries of all types with a presence on the World Wide Web, organized
by province and by type of library.
- Libdex
- This worldwide
directory, maintained by Peter Scott, includes all regions of Canada
and is a wonderful complement to the National Library list above. If
the Canadian library you are looking for is not on one of these lists,
it probably doesn't have a web page (yet).
- Focus
Online (B.C. library directory)
- Alberta
Libraries
- Saskatchewan
Libraries
- Directory
of Libraries in Manitoba
- Southern Ontario
Library Service and Ontario Library Service North
- Bibliothèques
publiques de Québec
- New
Brunswick Public Library Branches
- Directory
of Nova Scotia Libraries
- Prince
Edward Island Library Finder
- Newfoundland
and Labrador Public Libraries
- Yukon
Public Libraries
- Northwest Territories Public Library Directory
- Nunavut Public Library Directory
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Canadian
Library Organizations
Note:
The following list is limited to Canadian library and library-related
associations with Internet presences. If you need to contact an association
which is not included, consult the National Library's Library
Associations in Canada page.
- ASTED
[French only]
Association pour l'avancement des sciences et des techniques de la documentation
- Canadian
Library Association
Includes links to the five divisions of CLA (Canadian Association of
Public Libraries, etc.)
- Provincial
Library Associations:
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Provincial Government
Library Services
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International Libraries
- Libweb:
Library Servers via WWW
- This searchable
directory, maintained at the UC Berkeley Digital Library, lists web
pages from libraries all over the world by continent and country. (The
American listings are further sub-divided by type of library.) Also
helpful are the links to other, more limited-scope library directories.
- Public
Libraries of Europe
- Maintained
by Sheila and Robert Harden, this site is organized by country, but
not searchable. It includes links to the national library and/or library
organization of each country, wherever applicable.
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