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This site includes reviews of children's literature, information on authors and illustrators, and curriculum/literature connections.
The CHILDE project presents over 1,000 images from children's books from six collections in England, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Germany. Most of the books were published before 1890. Search for images by author, title, illustrator, or free text. There are a number of illustrations by Randolph Caldecott, the namesake of the Caldecott Medal, an American Library Association award, established in 1938, for best children's picture book of the year.
This guide attempts to gather and organize a growing number of Internet resources related to books for children and young adults.
A searchable database of more than 4,500 records of children's literature. Search by award gender, age, setting, time period and more. Created by Lisa R. Bartle.
National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) brochure containing guidelines for librarians and library trustees.
Collection of Web sites created by the Ramapo Catskill Library System to address concerns about the role of public libraries in guiding young users to valuable and age appropriate sites.
Blogs from ACRL.
This blog's purpose is to aid academic librarians in keeping up with news and developments in higher education.
This blog focuses on professional tips for librarians with links to articles, job hunting advice, and professional development opportunities.
Career development resources for new librarians, information professionals, MLS students, and those considering a library-related career.
A blog for discussing matters important to librarian and information scientists of today. Focuses mainly on electronic issues.
Library Juice is a news digest for librarians, library and information science students, and other interested people. It includes announcements, many web resources, calls for papers, and news affecting the library world. Much of the material has a social-responsibilities or intellectual freedom focus.
This is a library weblog dedicated to providing resources to assist information professionals in keeping current and develop professional knowledge.
This is a very timely news digest of any and all news that matters to the library/info science world .
An American Library Association blog concerning technology and libraries. It includes links to technical source sites and other ALA tech info.
Technology in library and information science is the main topic of the blog.
This is the official blog site of the Public Library Association.
This resource aids librarians to identify publishing and presentation opportunities in library and information science and related fields.
On the Buzz blog, you will find daily updates on search engines, new data managing software, browser technology, and directories.
Computer news, ideas, and opinions provided by a variety of librarians and those in related fields.
This blog features postings of interest to librarians working in science and engineering library field.
Listing of available positions from ALA and its units
A searchable database of positions available in ARL libraries.
Listing of current job advertisements from all types of libraries in the northeast
Contains job postings and other resources such as links to salary and relocation guides.
This searchable database for job seekers and employers is jointly sponsored by ALA, ACRL and ALA's Office for Human Resource Development and Recruitment.
Subscribe to receive job postings or, if you prefer, browse the archives.
Contains links to sites that post job advertisements. Users can search by state, type of library or position.
Contains weekly lists of job postings, a professional development newsletter and a career development blog. Job seeker's resumes can be posted for a nominal fee.
From RUSA division of ALA.
Collection of resources sponsored by CLR, FindLaw Internet Legal Resources, and Stanford University Libraries.
CLIR's mission is to "expand access to information, however recorded and preserved, as a public good." It publishes newsletters and reports on issues related to access to information resources. Many of these are available in full text format from this site.
Forum for researchers and developers of advanced digital libraries .
An open access archive of documents on librarianship and information science.
Full-text of vols. 1-8, and tables of contents for the other volumes; Dr. Garfield's writings are always stimulating and thought-provoking.
This multilingual web site contains listings and general information about Europe's national libraries, including access to online catalogs and virtual exhibits.
Search or browse a database of vendors and products for libraries.
Full text books on library and information science mounted by the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE.
From Binghamton University Libraries, this is a compilation of sources including "Librarians in the Movies," "Quotations aboutLibraries and Librarians," and other sites that show the humerous side of libraries and librarians.
Created by librarian, Joan M. Reitz, this dictionary includes more than 2,600 terms used in the fields of publishing, printing, book history, literature and computer science.
Online information about The British Library .
Provides current reviews of reference materials for all types of libraries.
Includes Universal Service Program applications for competitive bidding by service providers who want to do business with eligible schools and libraries.
Links to more than 124,000 electronic texts. 84,000 available for free.
Links to more than 3,000 Internet resources related to librarianship. All are recommended, selected and reviewed by librarians.
Searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 9,000 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians.
From the Library of Congress
This free database from EBSCO indexes more than 600 periodicals as well as books, conference proceedings and reports.
Charles W. Baily Jr. is the author of this impressive bibliography of more than 1,300 sources on the Open Access movement. Also available in print format.
This site was created to help librarians with research by supplementing print resources found in libraries with web resources including citation databases, funding information, statistics, research tools, etc.
Marian Dworaczek, Assistant Head, Technical Services Division at the University of Saskatchewan Library, has created this index and an accompanying bibliography to cover all aspects of electronic publishing.
From Unesco, a United Nations agency, this site attempts to provide an international gateway to resources for libraries and library users.
This service provides an Internet gateway to over 400 online academic library newsletters. A simple search function is included.
A monthly bibliography of selected articles on information technology, edited by Roy Tennant
Access to 38 Open Access Journals in the fields of Library and Information Science.
Links to current library and information science journals and newsletters. Issues previously indexed and abstracted by BUBL are held in "BUBL Archive Journals", and are fully searchable.
Online version of the magazine from ALA .
Journal of academic library networking from the UK Office of Library and Information Networking.
Bulletin of the Business and Finance Division of The Special Libraries Association (SLA). Complete issues available for 2002. Selected articles available 2003+.
This prestigious scholarly journal from the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) is available online from 1997, volume 58-January, 2007, volume 68.
An open access refereed journal. It covers knowledge, theory and research in information literacy.
Select articles are available full text.
"The Magazine of Digital Library Research" New issues appear monthly.
This new publication from University of Alberta Learning Services is an open access, peer reviewed journal that provides articles and reviews on evidence based library and information practice.
A peer reviewed journal dedicated to issues involving the Internet.
The quarterly newsletter for the CRL, includes news of the Center's programs, policies, new acquisitions, staff, and more. Issues from May-June 1998 are available here.
This is an excellent research journal, published by the Dept. of Information Studies at the University of Sheffield.
A quarterly from the Science and Technology Section, ACRL. Indexed in Library Literature and INSPEC.
A peer-reviewed e-journal devoted to student scholarship and research in library and information science.
A semi-annual refereed electronic journal that centers on "the connection between library practice and the philosophy and theory which are behind it."
Devoted to new research in library and information science.
An open access journal of peer reviewed articles as well as essays, opinions and reviews by Information and Library Science students world wide.
Online is a monthly journal providing articles, product reviews, case studies, and evaluations about selecting, using, and managing electronic resources. The electronic version provides selected full-text articles and news from each issue.
Information technology news and features with daily updates.
Published twice a year by the Progressive Librarians Guild. Indexing only is provided free at this site; full-text requires paid subscription.
Published by the University of Houston Libraries.
Special Libraries, the journal produced by the Special Library Association (SLA) from 1910-1996, is availalble in pdf format.
Create Change is a website-advocate in the free accessibility and creation of scholarly research for faculty and librarians in Information Science.
This site provides an informative introduction and discussion about the concept and creation of open access forums.
This is a blog created for the benefit of library science professionals in pursuit of open access sources and information.
SPARC provides a survey of open access programs and relevant information regarding conferences, events, and action taken in regard to open access outreach.
OpenDOAR provides a broad and reliable list of open access repositories and archives.
This webliography links to digital resources that are related to open access sources.
This URL links to the site's Library and Information Science page within the subject of Social Sciences. Open access journal links of a variety of subjects are available on this site.
CRR is an online repository housing papers on a wide variety of scholarly subjects. Submit or retrieve research regarding a variety of subjects, from architecture to symbolic computation, on this site.
DLIST is a repository that accepts research within the domains of library and information science and technology.
This site houses open access archives of published and unpublished documents in the realm of information science.
The mission of this site is to provide free but economically sustainable models and means of scholarly communication and quality information.
This survey of 3,300 international information consumers indicates that people do not think of libraries when they want to access electronic information.
This 2005 report is a companion to the Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources OCLC report . International undergraduate and graduate students were surveyed about their information seeking behavior and were found to have positive ideas about libraries. However, younger respondents were less positive than older respondents.
Sponsored by the Americans for Libraries Council, this report finds that Libraries are viewed favorably by the public.
OCLC commissioned a study of social networking use by library users in Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the U.S.
Results of eight studies that track the "level of involvement, key issues, trends and other aspects of public library internet use."
An ethnographic study of the research behavior of undergraduate students at the University of Rochester.
Newsletter linking publishers, vendors and librarians.
Collection of MARC manuals and other resources from The Library Corporation.
Cooperative Program for Serials Cataloging .
Gateway to electronic and print resources pertaining to all aspects of interlibrary loan.
This 21 page PDF from the Book Industry Study Group states that its purpose is to "help users understand how to work with ISBNs during and after the ISBN-13 transition."