Internet Resources of Interest to Librarians

Library and Information Related Organizations

• ALA: American Library Association
• ARL: Association of Research Libraries
• ARLIS: Art Libraries Society
• ASI: American Society of Indexers
• Berkeley's Digital Library Sunsite
• CRL: Center for Research Libraries
• IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations
• LITA: Library Information and Technology Association
• MLA: Medical Library Association
• MLA: Music Library Association
• NASIG: North American Serials Interest Group
• OCLC: Online Computer Library Center
• RLG: Research Libraries Group
• SAA: Society of American Archivists
• SLA: Special Libraries Association, and the San Diego chapter

Policy Issues

• Copyright, Intellectual Property and the Internet
• D-Lib Magazine: a project of the D-Lib (Digital Library) Forum
• Intellectual Freedom: formerly affiliated with ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee, now called "Freedom Page"
• LPAI: UC's Library Planning and Action Initiative
• National Coordination Office for Computing, Information and Communications
• Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (University of San Diego)
• Public Domain: a new group concerned with policy on intellectual property. Documents and papers on copyright, databases ownership, patents, trademarks.
• Telecom Legislation, Regulations, Policies, and Programs by State can be found on the Office for Information Technology Policy of the American Library Association's website

Resources, Technology, Tools

• AcqWeb: a large collection of resources aimed at acquisitions and collection development librarians (arranged at Vanderbilt University)
• ARL Career Resources
• HTML tutorial
• Internet Resources Newsletter
• Library Humour and Quotations (from IFL)
• Library Reference Center: search latest 3 years of 30 library journals -- made available by EBSCO
• Library Science Resources: from University of Kentucky's College of Communication and Information Studies
• Thomas Parry Library: Electronic Journals in Librarianship and Information Science
• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: By Charles Bailey. From his preface: "This bibliography presents selected articles, books, electronic documents, and other sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks....Where possible, links are provided to sources that are available via the Internet."
• Services for librarians and information professionals: from the "Internet Public Library", a project of the Univ. of Michigan's School of Information and Library Studies
• TPOT: Technical Processing Onlne Tools at UCSD
• Transforming Libraries: links related to ARL's new quarterly publication
• UCOPInfo:UC Office of the President Information Service
  • Other University of California Information Servers