Women's
Issues
Children's Literature
- See the Children's
Literature in the School Media Librarianship section
Cognitive Science
- Cogprints: Cognitive Sciences Electronic
Archive
- Includes papers from current academic journals, conference proceedings, recent and
forthcoming books and personal collections in the Cognitive Science domain from fields such as
Philosophy, Psychology, Linguistics, Biology, and Computer Science.
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Computer Mediated Communication
- CMC Studies
Center.
- December, John. (Editor). CMC Magazine. CMC Studies
Center.
- December, John. Computer-Mediated
Communication Information Sources.
- Journal
of Computer-Mediated Communication.
- The Organizational CMC
Bibliography.
- Stanford University. Project on People, Computers,
and Design.
- Uppsala University, Sweden. Center for Human-
Computer Studies.
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Computer Supported Cooperative Work
- CSCW
links.
- Tom's CSCW & Groupware
Index.
- unOfficial Yellow Pages of
CSCW.
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Disabilities and Assistive Technology
Access ADA.
ADA Document Center.
Bobby.
Allows you to check web pages for possible accessibility problems for disabled persons.
Deines-Jones, Courtney and Van Fleet, Connie Jean. (1995). Preparing staff to serve patrons with
disabilities: A how-to-do-it manual. NY: Neal-Schuman. Bird-5th Floor Z711.92.H3 D44
1995
Disability Resources Monthly (DRM). Guide to
disability resources on the Internet.
Graczyk, William. Blind readers
page.
Information Technology Industry Council (ITI). (2001, June). Voluntary product accessibility
template.
Kansas Commision on Disability Concerns. ADA
Information Center.
Minow, Mary. Library laws: Disability laws and libraries.
National Council on Disability. (2001, June 21). Accessible
future.
Turner, Dayton Ray. (1996). Library patrons with disabilities. San Antonio, TX: White
Buffalo Press.
U.S. Architectural and Transportation Barriers
Compliance Board.
Yahoo - ADA.
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Diversity (incl. and Culture, Ethnicity, and Race) and
Librarianship
- Chu, Clara M. Diversity and
libraries.
- Diversity related
library listservs.
- Selected list of library-oriented and diversity-related electronic discussion
groups.
- Jensen, Bruce. SOL: Spanish in our libraries.
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Document Delivery
- American Library Association. (1993). National
Interlibrary Loan Code and its (1994). Guidelines and
Procedures for Telefacsimile and Electronic Delivery of Interlibrary Loan Requests and
Materials.
- Barrett, G. Jaia and Jackson, Mary E. North American Interlibrary Loan and Document
Delivery Project. Association of Research Libraries.
- Emory University. Libraries, Copyright and Document Delivery.
- Fox, Darin. World Wide
Web ILL Pages.
- Interlibrary Loan Application Standards
Maintenance Agency.
- International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA). Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery and Resource Sharing
Information.
- PICK. Interlibrary
loan.
- Robertson, Jim. Libraries' forms
list.
- Woodfield, Julie and Jacobs, Neil. Focused Investigation of Document Delivery Options FIDDO Project. Loughborough
University.
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Electronic Publishing
- Bailey, Charles W. Jr. Scholarly
electronic publishing bibliography: A selective bibliography. Houston, TX: University of Houston
Libraries.
- Benson, Stephen and Tricia. Propagate: Libraries and
Network E-Publishing Page.
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Electronic Reserves
- Rosedale, Jeff. Electronic Reserves
Clearinghouse
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History Librarianship
- Association for the Bibliography of History] and American Library Association History
Section. H-HistBibl: Study & practice of history
librarianship
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History of Libraries & Librarianship
- ALA. Library history
roundtable. and Library history roundtable
newsletter.
- Bartle, Lisa. Women in the
history of American librarianship. University of California, Los Angeles in the Department of
Library and Information Science.
- Davis, Donald G., Jr. & Tucker, John Mark. (Eds.). (1989). American library history: A
comprehensive bibliography. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio.
- Harris, Michael H. (1995). History of libraries in the Western world. (4th ed.).
Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press.
- Lerner, Fred. (1998). The story of libraries: From the invention of writing to the computer
age. New York: Continuum.
- PICK. Library
history.
- Shera, Jesse H. (1952, July). On the value of library history. Library Quarterly 22,
240-251. Also in: Ellsworth, Dianne J. & Stevens, Norman D. (Eds.). (1976). Landmarks of library
literature, 1876 - 1976. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press. pp. 153-171.
- White, Shannon Diane. (1997). The development of the statewide tax-supported library system in Alabama : 1901 - 1974 (Master's thesis).
- Wiegand, Wayne A. & Davis, Donald G. Jr. (1994). Encyclopedia of library
history. New York: Garland Publishing.
- Williams, Robert V. South Carolina Library History Project.
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Indexing and Abstracting
- American Society of Indexers. See
particularly their Resources for
Indexers
- Cleveland, Donald & Ana. (2001). Introduction to indexing and abstracting (3rd.
ed.). Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited.
- Semonche, Barbara P. (Ed.). (1993). Newspaper Indexing Policies and
Procedures in News Media Libraries: A Management Handbook. Westport, CT:
Greenwood.
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Information: What Is It?
- Braman, Sandra. (1989). Defining information: an approach for policymakers.
Telecommunications Policy 13, 233-242.
- Buckland, Michael. (1991). Information and information systems. NY: Greenwood
Press.
- Derr, Richard. (1985). The concept of information in ordinary discourse. Information
Processing & Management, 21 (6), 489-499.
- Fox, Christopher John. (1983). Information and misinformation: An investigation of the
notions of information, misinformation, informing, and misinforming.Westport, CT: Greenwood
Press.
- Kando, Noriko. (1994). Information concepts reexamined. International Forum on
Information and Documentation 19, (2), 20-24.
- Losee, Robert M. (1997, March). A discipline independent definition of information.
Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 48, 254-269.
- Nitecki, Joseph. (1985, Fall). The concept of information-knowledge continuum: Implications
for librarianship. Journal of Library History, Philosophy and Comparative Librarianship, 20,
387-407.
- Oeser, Erhard. (1995, January). Information superhighways for knowledge transfer and the
need for a fundamental theory of information. International Forum on Information and
Documentation 20 (1), 16-21.
- Pemberton, J. Michael and Prentice, Ann E. (Eds.). (1990). Information science: The
interdisciplinary context. New York: Neal Schuman Publishers.
- Rose, Steven. (1992). The making of memory: From molecules to mind. NY: Anchor
Books.
- Stevens, Norman D. (1986). The history of information. Advances in Librarianship.
14, 1-48.
- Stieg, Margaret F. (1980, Winter). The nineteenth century Information revolution.
Journal of Library History. 15, 22-52.
- Young, Paul. (1987). The Nature of Information. NY: Praeger.
- Yuexiao, Zhang. (1988). Definitions and sciences of information. Information Processing
& Management. 24 (4), 479-491.
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Information Visualization
- Brautigam, Mark.Information visualization bibliography.
- Munzner, Tamara. Information Visualization Resources on the Web.
- Schneiderman, Ben. CMSC 828/838:
InfoVis course. University of Maryland.
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Librarians' Image
- Brown-Syed, Christopher and Sands, Charles Bernard. (1997). Some portrayals of
librarians in fiction--A discussion. Education Libraries, 21, (1-2), 17-24.
- Hall, Allison. Behind the
bun, or, batgirl was a librarian.
- Marinelli, Stacie and Baker,Tim . (Ed.). Image and the
librarian: An exploration of a changing profession.
- Raish, Martin. (Ed.). Librarians in the
movies: An annotated filmography.
- Walker, Stephen and Lawson, V. Lonnie. (1993, Spring). The library sterotype and
the movies. MC Journal: The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship, 1, (1), 16-
28.
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Librarianship: Introductory Courses and Readings
Butler, Pierce. (1933). An introduction to library science. Chicago: University of Chicago.
Chernik, Barbara E. (1992). Introduction to library services. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Libraries
Unlimited.
Emporia State University. School of Library and Information Management LI 801 Foundations of
Information Transfer -- Introduction to the philosophical underpinnings of the information professions,
the role of information professionals in society and the remainder of your MLS program. Kate Marek's
syllabus.
Gates, Jean Key. (1990). Introduction to librarianship (3rd.ed.). New York: Neal-
Schuman.
Indiana University. User Needs and Behavior in Theory and Practice. L503 This course introduces
students to the concepts of information analysis from a human perspective, focusing particularly on the
theoretical models and practical techniques that underpin the field. Sociological and psychological
perspectives will be examined in order to develop an approach to the assessment of users' information
needs. Yung-Rang Cheng
syllabus, Dorothy Day
syllabus, Charlotte Ford syllabus,
Debora Shaw syllabus and
Jean Umiker-Sebeok
syllabus.
Louisiana State University. Foundations of library and information science. Alma Dawson syllabus.
Shera, Jesse. (1976). Introduction to library science. Littleton, Co: Libraries Unlimited,
1976.
Shuman, Bruce A. (1992). Foundations and issues in library and information services. Littleton,
Co. 1992 .
University of California, Berkeley. School of Information Management and Systems. INFOSYS 204
Information Users and Society. Van
House/Samuelson syllabus.
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Department of Library and Information Science. LIS 200:
Information in Society. Prof.
Maack syllabus.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Graduate School of Library and Information Science. LIS
390: Information, Libraries, and Society -- s designed to explore a variety of basic issues in library and
information science. It provides a foundation for thinking critically abut the field, the professions, and
the person in the role of information professional. Karen Ruhleder's
syllabus.
University of Michigan. School of Information. SI 501 Use of Information. Joan Durrance and Judy S. Olson's syllabus.
University of Pittsburgh. Department of Library and Information Science. LIS 2000 Understanding
Information Issues and problems arising from interrelationships among information and individuals,
society, organizations and systems, and information that the information professions address. Ellen Detlefsen Fall 1998 course and Richard J. Cox Spring 1997 course.
Wiegand, Wayne and Donald Davis. (1994). Encyclopedia of library history. New York:
Garland, 1994 .
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Natural Language Processing
- Computation and Language E-Print
Archive.
- Johns Hopkins University. SCHOLAR gopher
server
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Outsourcing
American Library Association, (1998, June 10). A review of ALA policies & position statements
as they relate to outsourcing (Draft).
Brown, Lynn C. Branche. (1995). Vendor evaluation. Collection Management, 19, (3-4), 47-
56.
Duranceau, Ellen. (Ed.). The balance point: Vendors and librarians speak on outsourcing, cataloging and
acquisitions. Serials Review, 20, (3), 69-83.
Hawaii Library Association. Statement on outsourcing.
Lacity, Mary Cecelia, and Hirschheim, Rudy. (1993). Information systems outsourcing: Myths,
metaphors and realities. NY: John Wiley & Sons.
Ogburn, Joyce. (1994). An introduction to outsourcing. Library Acquisitions: Practice and Theory,
18, (4), 363-366.
Reid, Calvin. (1997, November 17). B&T Sues Hawaii Public
Library. PW Interactive.
Trujillo, Rosanne. (1997). Hawaii outsourcing
contract roundly criticized. ALA Cognotes.
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Para-Professionals
- Library Support Staff Resource Center
.
- Moran, Mary. Library
Paraprofessional Clearinghouse.
- Niederlander, Mary. Library Support Staff.com.
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Public Relations
- Stokes, Stephanie. Library Media and
PR.
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Public Services
See also: a href="http://web.syr.edu/~jryan/infopro/dref.html">Digital Reference.
- Berne, Ellen. Public Service
Librarian's Professional Guide to Internet Resources.
- American Library Association. (1999). Outstanding Reference Sources.
- American Library Association. Reference and Adult Services Division (RASD). Ad Hoc
Committee on Behavioral Guidelines. Draft behavioral guidelines for librarians.
- California Opportunities for Reference Excellence (CORE). Reference correspondence
course.
- Dervin, Brenda. (1977). Useful theory for librarianship. Drexel Library Quarterly,
13 (3), 16-32.
- Dervin, Brenda and Dewdney, Patricia. (1986). Neutral questioning: A new approach to the
reference interview. RQ 25 (4), 506-513.
- Ensor, Pat. (Ed.). (1997). Cybrarian's Manual. Chicago: American Library
Association.
- Jacobson, Dana. A survey of
bibliographic tools.
- Levine, Jenny. (1998, November 1). Reference is as reference
does.
- Minion, Joel. Answering
reference questions using the Internet .
- Nebraska Library Commission. Statewide training for accurate reference
reference manual (STAR)
- Public service librarian's
professional guide to Internet resources.
- Rettig, James. Rettig on
Reference. H.W. Wilson.
- Richards, Rob. (1997). Reference and collection development: A
bibliography.
- Taylor, Robert S. (1968, May). Question-negotiation and information seeking in libraries.
College & Research Libraries, 29, 178-194.
- Wolinski, Judi. (1998, November). Searching the net for
reference answers.
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Research
"Tell me once again how sheep's bladders may be used to prevent Earthquakes. This new sciences is
fascinating." Monty Python's, The Holy Grail
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research! --Albert Einstein
- American Communications Association. Research
methods.
- Australian digital theses program
(ADT).
- BiblioBasket: citations to qualitative research.
- Dobrow, Bob. Probability
web.
- Electronic theses and
dissertations in the humanities: A directory of on-line references and resources.
- ISWorld Net Research and
Scholarship including the Qualitative
research in information systems.
- De Leeuw, Jan. Statistics: The study of
stability in variation (textbook).
- Evans, William. Content
analysis resources.
- Klein, Harald. Text analysis info page.
- Levine, S. Joseph. Writing
and presenting your thesis or dissertation.
- Lowry, Richard. VassarStats statistical computation
website.
- Martens, Betsy Van der Veer. IST 501:
Research Techniques for Information Management.
- McKie, Craig. Research Resources for the
Social Sciences.
- McREL. Action
research/teacher as researcher.
- National Academy of Science. (1995). On being a scientist: Responsible conduct
in research (Second Edition).
- Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
(NDLTD) and its ETD Digital
Library.
- Norris, Judy. QualPage.
- Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC). Office of Research and Special Projects.
- Qualitative Solutions & Research (QSR). Nudist and Scolari the Sage Press US
distributor.
- Shackman, Gene. (Compiler). Resources for methods in
evaluation and social research.
- StatSoft Inc. (1997). Electronic Statistics Handbook .
[frames]. Tulsa, OK: StatSoft Inc.
- Electronic textbook on the use of statistics in laboratory research, business, social sciences,
datamining, and engineering, among other fields.
- Taylor, Dena and Procter, Margaret. The literature review: A few
tips on conducting it. University of Toronto, Health Sciences Writing Centre.
- Trochim, William M.K. Social
research methods. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University.
- U.S. General Accounting Office. GAO Policy and Guidance
Materials.
- Great, somewhat dated, basic manuals on such topics as Designing Evaluations,Case Study
Evaluations, Prospective Evaluation Methods, Using Structured Interviewing Techniques, Quantitative
Data Analysis, and Information Technology: An Audit Guide for Assessing Acquisition
Risk.
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Electronic Reserves
- Rosedale, Jeff. Electronic Reserves
Clearinghouse
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main menu.
Technical Services
- See the Technical Services
Resources section Including: acquistions and collection development, cataloging, and
serials.
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Theological Librarianship
- Links to Internet Resources for
Theological Librarians.
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Theory
- Nitecki, Joseph Z. Nitecki
Trilogy. Includes: (1993). Metalibrarianship, (1995). Philosophical aspects of library information science
in retrospect, (1997). Philosophical
ancestry of American library information science.
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