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Sources for Librarians
- A Library Writers' Blog - Helps librarians identify publishing opportunities. International coverage.
- ARL Annual Salary Survey
- E-LIS: E-prints in Library and Information Science - A full-text, open access archive of documents in librarianship, information science and technology, and related disciplines.
- Famous Library and Librarian Quotes and Quotations
- Kept-Up Academic Librarian, The - A blog helping academic librarians keep up with news and developments in higher education.
- Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki - A one-stop-shop for ideas and information for librarians of all types.
- ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science
- State of America's Libraries 2010
- Statistical Information for Libraries
- The Internet Library for Librarians - A portal designed for librarians to locate Internet resources related to their professional responsibilities.
- The Researching Librarian - Web resources helpful for librarians doing research.
- UNESCO Libraries Portal - An international gateway to websites of library institutions around the world.
Typography
Periodicals
- American Libraries Online
- BUBL Journals - Links to current library and information science journals and newsletters.
- International Preservation News
- Library Journals, Newsletters and Zines
- Preservation News
Books, New and Used
- How to Find Out-of-Print Books - A Book Bytes column by Marylaine Block.
- Bookfinder.com - New, used, rare and out-of-print.
- American Booksellers Association
- Alibris - Bargain books and rare book auctions.
- Advanced Book Exchange - 13,000 booksellers selling 70 million books.
Library Online Directories, Catalogs and Web Pages
- British Library
- British Library Integrated Catalogue
- British Manuscripts Catalogue - Information on the catalogs of the British Library's Department of Manuscripts, 1753 - .
- ELI (Every Library in ILLINET) - Directory and statistical information for more than 4,000 Illinois libraries.
- Illinois State Library
- Libraries Around the World - Library online catalogs from around the world.
- National Library Catalogues Worldwide - Links to national library catalogues. Arranged alphabetical by country.
- National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
- PublicLibraries.com - Links to public libraries by state, U.S. state libraries, Presidential libraries, National libraries of the world, and U.S. college and university libraries.
- The European Library - Eleven million objects from 43 European national libraries.
- UNESCO Libraries Portal - An international gateway to websites of library institutions around the world.
- Yahoo's Library Indexes - Worldwide coverage of library homepages.
Presidential Libraries
Arranged Chronologically
- George W. Bush Presidential Library
- William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum
- George Bush Presidential Library and Museum
- Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
- Jimmy Carter Library and Museum
- Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum
- Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
- John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Library and Museum
- Truman Presidential Museum and Library
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
- Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum
- Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library and Museum
- Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library
- Theodore Roosevelt Association
- McKinley Memorial Library, Museum and Birthplace
- Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center
- Andrew Johnson Presidential Library and Museum
- The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
- James Monroe Presidential Library and Museum
- Thomas Jefferson Library
Library Consortia
- International Coalition of Library Consortia
- Illinois Library Systems
- Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) - The academic consortium of the Big Ten universities plus the University of Chicago.
- Center for Research Libraries
- Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI)
- Boston Library Consortium
- Midwest Collaborative for Library Services
- OCLC (Online Computer Library Center)
Centers for the Book
Professional Organizations
- ALA Office of Intellectual Freedom
- American Indian Library Association
- American Library Association Office of Information Technology Policy
- American Library Association Round Tables
- American Society for Information Science and Technology
- American Theological Library Association
- ARMA International - The Association of Information Management Professionals
- Art Libraries Society of North America
- Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association
- ASLIB: The Association for Information Management
- Asociacion Mexicana de Bibliotecarios, A.C.
- Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE)
- Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS)
- Association of College and Research Libraries
- Association of Library Trustees, Advocates, Friends and Foundations
- Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ASCLA)
- Black Caucus of ALA
- Canadian Association of College and University Libraries
- Canadian Library Association
- Chinese-American Librarians Association
- Coalition for Networked Information
- Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)
- EDUCAUSE: Transforming Education Through Information Technologies
- Illinois Association of College and Research Libraries
- Illinois Library Association
- International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres
- International Association of School Librarianship
- International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
- Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA)
- Library and Information Technology Association (LITA)
- Medical Library Association
- Music Library Association
- Progressive Librarians Guild
- Public Library Association (PLA)
- Reference and User Services Association (RUSA)
- Reforma - National Association to Promote Library & Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish-Speaking
- Society of American Archivists
- Special Libraries Association (SLA)
- The American Society for Indexing
- Theatre Library Association
- Urban Libraries Council
Library Instruction and Information Literacy Sites
- ACRL Information Literacy - Provides information of IIL programs, including Annual Immersion Programs, Institutional Strategies: Best Practices, and Community Partnerships, in addition to providing links to other Web Resources.
- Information Literacy as a Liberal Art : Enlightment Proposals for a New Curriculum - A classic, thought-provoking article published in the March/April 1996 Educom Review, illustrates the "reach" of the phrase "information literacy." The authors describe several kinds of information literacy from a strictly technological perspective.
- LibraryInstruction.com - Library instruction lesson plans, articles, bibliography, links to libraryinstruction resources, and material relating to information literacy.
- Objectives for Information Literacy Instruction: A Model Statement for Academic Librarians
Digital Library Projects
- A History of the Crusades
- Advanced Papyrological Information System
- American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement: A Digital Library and Learning Center
- American Social History Project - Center for Media and Learning at the City University of New York Graduate Center
- Bibliotheca Alexandrina
- Brooklyn Daily Eagle 1841-1902 Online
- Brown Archival & Manuscript Collections Online
- Cambridge University: Digital Image Collections
- Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts
- Center for History and New Media - George Mason University
- Center for Retrospective Digitization (University of Gottingen)
- Cervantes Project - This site is dedicated to the body of work produced by Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616). The page opens with a biography, followed by the Cervantes Digital Library, which presents the authors work in varied editions (precepts, modern Spanish and English) issued in both Spain and the United States, the Cervantes International Bibliography limited to items issued between 1994 and 1998 but covering significant books, articles, dissertations, reviews and other scholarly materials and images. This last contains both portraits of Cervantes and the Don Quixote Iconographical Museum.
- Codices Electronici Sangallenses
- Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative
- Darwin Correspondence Project
- Digital Collections of the UIUC (University of Illinois) Library
- Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture: Image and Text Collections
- Digital Scriptorium
- Duke Papyrus Archive
- Florida State University Heritage Protocol
- French Revolution Pamphlet Collection
- Greater Toronto Area Digital Mapping Project
- Horatio Alger, Jr. Digital Repository
- Illinois Digital Archives
- Illinois Periodicals Online
- In the Beginning: Bibles Before the Year 1000
- Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
- Internet Archive: Cornell University Libraries
- Kentuckiana Digital Library
- Latin American Pamphlet Digital Collection
- Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web
- Library of Congress Exhibits
- Lincoln/Net, Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project
- LOUISiana Digital Library
- Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts
- National Science Digital Library
- New York Public Library's Digital Library Collection
- Perseus Digital Library
- Sagnanet: Icelandic Medieval Literature
- Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image
- School of Oriental and African Studies Research Online
- Selections from the Naxi Manuscript Collection
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries - Digital Library
- SunSITE Digital Collections - Berkeley Digital Library
- The American Memory Project - (The Library of Congress).
- The Jack London Online Collection
- The John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library
- The Knowledge Bank at OSU: Ohio State University Press Publications - Currently, the site contains 295 titles published by The Ohio State University Press that are not available in a traditional paper edition.
- The Minassian Collection: Persian, Mughal, and Indian Miniature Paintings
- The Online Corpus of Old English Poetry
- Treasures in Full: The Gutenberg Bible
- Turning the Pages, the British Library
- United States Military Academy Digital Library
- University AlbUM: A Digitial Collection of University of Maryland Images
- University of Alabama Digital Collections
- University of Florida Digital Collections
- University of Mississippi Visual Collections: John Elon Phay Collection
- University of Missouri Library Systems: Digital Library
- University of North Texas Digital Collections: Miniature Book Collection
- University of Pennsylvania - Penn Library e-Books Project
- University of Pittsburgh D-Scribe Digital Library
- University of Wyoming Digital Collections
- UNT Music Library: Virtual Rare Book Room
- USC Digital Library
- UW Student Newspaper Archive
- Virginia Center for Digital History - Projects
- Virginia Center for Digital History Archives
- Western New York Legacy
- World Digital Library
- Wyoming Newspaper Project
- Yale University Library: Manuscript & Archives Digital Images Database
Digital Collections: Specifications, Standards, Methods, and Processes
- Boston Library Consortium
- Building Digital Collections: Technical Information and Background Papers
- Canadian Heritage Information Network: Creating and Managing Digital Content
- Census of Institutional Repositories
- Digital Library Federation
- DLIST: Digital Library of Information Science and Technology - Subject-based, open access digital archive for the Information Sciences.
- Dublin Core
- Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
- First Do No Harm: A Register of Standards, Codes of Practice, and Guidelines, recommendations and Similar Works Relating to Preservation and Conservation in Libraries and Archives - [PDF]
- Historical Book Arts Collection
- Northeast Document Conservation Center. Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access
- Plan for the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program
- Preserving Access to Digital Information
- Webwise 2010: Imagining the Digital Future
Library Science- Library History
- 100 Years of SLIS: Images Celebrating Our Past
- The Nineteenth Century in Print: The Making of America in Periodicals
- Thomas Jefferson's Library at the Library of Congress
- Wisconsin Library Heritage Center (WLHC)
Licensing and Copyright
- Creative Heritage Project: Strategic Management of IP Rights and Interests
- It's All in the Fine Print: Online Resources for Software and Database License Review.
- LibLicense: Licensing Digital Information, A Resources for Librarians
- Licensing Electronic Resources - Practical considerations for signing electronic information delivery agreements.
- Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900)
- Principles for Licensing Electronic Resources
- Sherpa RoMEO: Publisher Copyright Policies and Self-Archiving
- Stanford Copyright & Fair Use Center - densely packed site with lots of information
- The © Primer - An introduction to issues of copyright ownership and use of information.
- U.S. Copyright Law - (also includes links to recent copyright law)
- U.S. Copyright Office
Archives
Cataloging
- Library of Congress Authorities - Browse and display authority headings for Subject, Name, Title and Name/Title combinations. Searchable.
- Library of Congress Classification Online - Letters and titles of the main classes and subclasses of the LC classification.
Library Schools
- Directory of Institutions Offering ALA-Accredited Masters Programs in Library and Information Studies
- Library Schools in the U.S. and Canada
- World List of Departments and Schools of Information Studies, Information Management, Information Systems, etc.
Publishers and Presses
Preservation
- American Library Association Preservation Policy
- Association for Recorded Sound Collections
- Association of Moving Image Archivists(AMIA)
- CoOL: Conservation Online - Resources for conservation professionals.
- Image Permanence Institute
- Into the Future: On the Preservation of Knowledge in the Electronic Age - (Available in the film collection at Founders Memorial Library)
- National Film Preservation Board
- Preservation Online
- The Abbey Newsletter
Censorship and Free Expression
- American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression
- Banned Books Week
- Banned Books-Online
- Center for Democracy and Technology
- Electronic Frontier Foundation - Free Speech
- Electronic Privacy Information Center
- Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)
- Feminists for Free Expression
- First Amendment Center
- First Amendment Project
- Free Expression Network
- Free Expression Policy Project: A Think Tank on Artistic and Intellectual Freedom
- Free Speech Coalition
- Freedom to Read Foundation
- Freedominfo.org: The Online Network of Freedom of Information Advocates
- Index on Censorship
- National Coalition Against Censorship
- Notable First Amendment Court Cases
- Project Censored
- Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression
Open Access
- Create Change - Examines new opportunities in scholarly communication that recognizes the potential of the networked digital environment.
- DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals - Over 2,000 free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
- DSpace - A digital repository system that captures, stores, indexes, preserves and redistributes an organization's research data. Freely available as open access software.
- OA Librarian - A blog on open access resources.
- Open Access Bibliography - A bibliography by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. on a wide range of print and online source about open access.
- Open Access News - A newsletter blog from Peter Suber's introduction to open access.
- Open Access Overview - Peter Suber's introduction to open access.
- Open Access Webliography - A webliography by Adrian K. Ito and Charles W. Bailey, Jr. that present a wide range of electronic resources that relate to the open access movement.
- Open Archives Initiative - (OAI) OAI develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content.
- Open Humanities Press
- SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) - An alliance of academic and research libraries and organization working to correct market dysfunctions in the scholarly publishing system.
Open Access Repositories
- DLIST: Digital Library of Information Science and Technology - Subject-based, open access digital archive for the Information Sciences.
- E-LIS: E-prints in Library and Information Science - A full-text, open access archive of documents in librarianship, information science and technology, and related disciplines.
- OAIster - Search millions of records from hundreds of institutions. Search by keyword, title, author/creator, subject or language. Digital resources include electronic books, online journals, audio files, images, movies and reference texts.
- OpenDOAR: Directory of Open Access Repositories - An authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. Search can be limited by subject, country, and/or content types.





