NET EFFECTS: How Librarians Can Manage the Unintended Consequences of the Internet Edited by Marylaine Block

Chapter Seven: How Librarians Are Managing Continuous Retraining

Here's how I keep up:

• my daily and weekly online reading http://marylaine.com/home.html, and the
• new site announcement services I visit weekly in search of neat new web sites, http://marylaine.com/netnew.html
  
  
  

  Steven Bell's Links from his Article on Keeping Up

• AlertBox: Jakob Neilsen's Column on Web Usability http://www.useit.com/alertbox The reigning expert on how people actually look at web sites and try to find what they want there.

• Chronicle of higher Education http://chronicle.com
  The trade paper for higher education, though most of the content is now available only to subscribers.

• Educational Technology & Society http://ifets.ieee.org/periodical

• Internet Tour Bus http://www.tourbus.com
  "Learn how to avoid the pitfalls of the Web, master the search engines, debunk urban legends, and more. Net gurus Bob Rankin and Patrick Crispen (aka the "Click & Clack" of the online world) explain Internet technology in plain English with a dash of humor, in a FREE twice weekly email newsletter."

• New York Times Technology Page http://www.nytimes.com/pages/technology/index.html
  Registration required.

• Research Buzz http://www.researchbuzz.com/
  Tara Calishain's weekly newsletter, available by e-mail, updates you on new search engines, search features, and databases.

• Search Day http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/
  daily updates on the world of searching by search engine guru Chris Sherman, available by e-mail.

• Search Engine Watch http://searchenginewatch.com/ Search guru Danny Sullivan offers a monthly newsletter, available by e-mail, along with extended reviews of search engines, comparison tests, and more.

• Steven Bell's Keeping Up Web Page http://staff.philau.edu/bells/keepup

• WebPromote - the intelligent internet marketing resource http://www.webpromote.com
  "Providing Internet marketing tips, techniques and news since 1996."

• WebReference Update http://www.webreference.com/new
  "Award-winning Web development daily and semi-weekly e-mail newsletter."
  
  
  

  Marylaine's Recommended Sources

  For General Library News

• Current Cites http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/monthly.html
  Monthly review of the best library literature.

• Library, Internet and Education News Sources http://www.sldirectory.com/libsf/resf/current.html
  a good set of annotated web resources.

• Library Journals, Newsletters and Zines http://www.libdex.com/journals.html
  Peter Scott's compendium of librarians' online publications.

• Library-Oriented Lists & Electronic Serials http://www.aladin.wrlc.org/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?p=about&c=liblists
  "a compilation of electronic discussion lists, distribution lists and serials which are of interest to library professionals and staff."

• Library Weblogs http://www.libdex.com/weblogs.html
  Another service by Peter Scott

• LIS News http://www.lisnews.com/
  A collaborative weblog with a whole roster of regular contributors. Good source of news stories and discussions of interesting professional articles and conferences.

• Peter Scott's Library Blog http://blog.xrefer.com
  Especially strong on announcing conferences and new issues of library journals.

• Web4Lib Archive http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive.html
  "An electronic discussion for library-based World-Wide Web managers."
  
  
  

  For Search Engine News and Tips

  Research Buzz, Search Day, and Search Engine Watch, described above.
  
  
  

  For New Notable Web Sites

• Neat New Stuff I Found This Week http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html
  where I choose and describe 12-15 free web sites with substantial reference value each week.

• The ResourceShelf http://resourceshelf.freepint.com
  invisible web guru Gary Price gives daily tips on new web sites, government reports, databases, and professional reading. Available by e-mail.

• Scout Report http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/report/sr/current/
  The most venerable of the site review services, which has been thoroughly analyzing sites with substantial reference and academic value for seven years, accumulating over 10,000 reviewed sites in its archive.
  
  
  

  For New Technology of Interest to Librarians:

• the Handheld Librarian http://www.handheldlib.blogspot.com/
  "Librarians sharing news, applications, and ideas of interest with others working with handheld computer technology"

• the Shifted Librarian http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/
  A blog from Jenny Levine about all the latest technologies and how librarians can use them. She's the inspiration for chapter four of this book.

• Wired News http://wired.com/
  Along with ZDNet and the NY Times Tech page, one of the best tech news sources on the net.

• ZDNet http://www.zdnet.com/
  a great source for tech news, downloads, articles, reviews of hardware and software, etc.
  
  
  

  Additional Readings:

• Research Dig with Genie Tyburski: Surviving Information Overload
  http://www.abanet.org/lpm/magazine/articles/mag2002_v28n8_p17.shtml
  "A host of applications, utilities and online services bring ease to the lives of organized knowledge seekers," courtesy of Genie Tyburski, creator of The Virtual Chase: Legal Research on the Internet http://www.virtualchase.com/index.shtml
  
  
  

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  Updated August 12, 2003