RECLAIMING THE RIGHT TO SELECT

Librarians' Index to the Internet Selection Policy http://lii.org/search/file/pubcriteria

Selection Policy for Best Information on the Net http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/selpolicy.htm

Colorado Virtual Library for Kids http://kids.aclin.org/

Fiat Luxe Initiative http://libraryjournal.reviewsnews.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA232358

The Changing Nature of Collection Management in Research Libraries http://www.arl.org/collect/changing.html

JSTOR: the Scholarly Journal Archive http://www.jstor.org/

Making of America http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/

Digital Library Federation http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?c=dlfcoll

The Cal State solution

RESCUING THE BOOK

Center for the Book http://www.loc.gov/loc/cfbook/

If All of Seattle Read the Same Book http://www.spl.org/wacentbook/seattleread/samebook.html

Waterboro Lib Blog: What Books Cities Are Reading Together http://www.waterboro.lib.me.us/blog381402.htm (arrow down to March 9)

Morton Grove Public Library: MatchBook http://www.webrary.org/rs/matchbookabout.html and their Fiction-L Booklists http://www.webrary.org/rs/FLbklistmenu.html

BuildLiteracy.org http://www.buildliteracy.org/index.htm

Guys Read: a Literacy Initiative for Boys http://www.guysread.com/

You Want Me To Do What? http://www.yrl.ab.ca/You%20Want%20Me%20to%20Do%20What%20Presentation.ppt

Recommended Graphic Novels for Public Libraries http://my.voyager.net/~sraiteri/graphicnovels.htm

Hassle-Free Access: River Bend Library System's QuadLinC http://qlweb.rbls.lib.il.us/

Making Bookstores Your Partners http://marylaine.com/exlibris/xlib128.html

The Front Porch: An Online Book Discussion-FCPL http://www.co.fairfax.va.us/library/reading/discuss.htm

Creating readers through ESL and other outreach to immigrants: Queens Borough Public Library - New Americans Program http://www.queenslibrary.org/programs/nap/index.asp

TRAINING OUR CHANGING USERS

Teach them indirectly. See Multnomah County's Homework Center Social Issues Page http://www.multcolib.org/homework/sochc.html

Teach them at the point of need -- think out loud as you answer their reference questions (see my article http://marylaine.com/exlibris/xlib146.html)

Teach them by helping them find the best stuff on their personal interests (see Sarah Kaip's article, "It's Not Just for Term Papers: Solving Real Life Problems in an Information Literacy Course" in College & Research Libraries News, May 2001)

Enlist students to teach each other. See the Peer Information Counseling Program, University of Arizona http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/library/teams/ust/pichome.htm

Challenge them to show off their web research and site construction skills. See Thinkquest http://thinkquest.org/

IF YOU CAN'T BEAT 'EM, JOIN 'EM

The Shifted Librarian http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/

Patron oriented Blogs, such as Library Notes, from Wilton Public Library http://www.librarynotes.net/ and Waterboro Public Library Blog http://www.waterboro.lib.me.us/blog.htm

RSS for NonTechie Librarians http://www.llrx.com/features/rssforlibrarians.htm

RSS Workshop http://gils.utah.gov/rss/

Reference by Live Chat. See Bernie Sloan's Digital Reference Services Bibliography http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~b-sloan/digiref.html and his guide to Digital Reference Question Logs. http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/~b-sloan/log.htm

Jeanne Holba Puacz. "Catching (and Keeping) E-Patrons. Computers in Libraries, January, 2002. http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/jan02/puacz.htm

Michelle Gorman. Wiring Teens to the Library. Library Journal NetConnect, Summer, 2002. http://libraryjournal.reviewsnews.com/index.asp?layout=netconnectTOC&pubdate=7/15/02 (see also the article by Bill Drew on "Laptop University")

Wilton Library: Innovative Internet Applications in Libraries http://www.wiltonlibrary.org/innovate.html

The Handheld Librarian http://www.handheldlib.blogspot.com/

Wireless Librarian http://people.morrisville.edu/~drewwe/wireless/

Services Mentioned on College Library Websites http://www.library.carleton.edu/staff/karen/College%20Lilbrary%20Websites.htm

DISAPPEARING DATA

Web Site Maintenance -- Link Rot, Security, etc.

Karen G. Schneider on LII policy for link-checking, http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive/0204/0218.html and http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive/0204/0220.html

Web4Lib Electronic Discussion http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/

Computers in Libraries http://infotoday.com/cilmag/ciltop.htm

Preserving Access to Public Information

ARL Memorandum: Questions and Answers about removal of government documents http://www.arl.org/info/frn/gov/Susman.html

GODORT Legislation Committee http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/GODORT/legislation/

ALA Washington Office http://www.ala.org/washoff/

Preserving Digital Documents

Council on Library and Information Resources http://www.clir.org/home.html

Digital Library Federation http://www.diglib.org/

THE TECHNO-ECONOMIC IMPERATIVE

oss4lib http://www.oss4lib.org/

Open Archives Initiative http://www.openarchives.org/

College Archives Dig Deeper http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,54229,00.html

Free Online Scholarship Movement http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/

UP TO OUR EARS IN LAWYERS

Prime reference: Mary Minow's Library Law web site http://www.librarylaw.com/

Privacy

ALA Washington Office http://www.ala.org/washoff/

ALA Office for Information Technology Policy: COPPA http://www.ala.org/oitp/privacy.html

Libraries and the Patriot Act http://www.ala.org/washoff/patriot.html

The USA Patriot Act and Patron Privacy on Library Internet Terminals http://www.llrx.com/features/usapatriotact.htm

Filtering

Office for Intellectual Freedom of the ALA http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/newif.html

Libraries and the Internet Toolkit http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/internettoolkit.html

Internet Acceptable Use Policies http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/netpolicy.htm

Copyright

Regional Campus Nomad's Distance Education Page -- Copyright Issues http://internet.ggu.edu/university_library/disted.html#e

ARL Copyright and Intellectual Property http://arl.cni.org/info/frn/copy/copytoc.html

Copyright in the Library http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/l-intro.htm

CROSSING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE

Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1998

Digital Divide Network http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org/content/sections/index.cfm

W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI

HTML Writers Guild AWARE Center http://aware.hwg.org/

Bobby http://cast.org/bobby/

Accessible Webpage Design Resources http://library.uwsp.edu/aschmetz/Accessible/pub_resources.htm

Digital Divide

Libraries - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation http://www.gatesfoundation.org/libraries/default.htm

Digital Divide Network http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org/content/sections/index.cfm

Digital Divide Solutions http://www.asu.edu/DigitalDivideSolutions/

Health Care Information for Seniors on the Net http://marylaine.com/seniors.html

SOL [Spanish in our Libraries] http://www.sol-plus.net/index.htm

Spanish Subject Headings http://clnet.ucr.edu/library/bplg/sujetos.htm

Movers and Shakers issue of Library Journal http://libraryjournal.reviewsnews.com/index.asp?layout=LJMS

CONTINUOUS RETRAINING

Current Cites http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/monthly.html

Blogs: See "Stop the World, I Want To Catch Up, Part 2" http://marylaine.com/exlibris/xlib148.html

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

ON NOT GETTING BLIND-SIDED BY THE NEXT TECHNOLOGY

Library Futures Quarterly http://libraryfutures.com/

The Defect in Realism http://marylaine.com/exlibris/xlib86.html

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Marylaine Block, formerly head of reference at St. Ambrose University where she created the site Best Information on the Net [http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/], is now a writer, speaker, and publisher of the e-zines ExLibris [http://marylaine.com/exlibris/] and Neat New Stuff I Found This Week on the Web [http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html]. You can contact her at marylaine at netexpress.net.