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

Chapter One: Regaining the Right To Select

Creating our own Indexes of the Web

• Best Information on the Net http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/
  the site I created for St. Ambrose University in 1995.

• Colorado Virtual Library for Kids http://aclin.org/index_cvl.html
  A great example of how selection can in itself be educational - in the section for teachers, sites are searchable by grade level, subject, and Colorado state educational standards and benchmarks.

• Librarians Index to the Internet http://lii.org
  a great, annotated, searchable, browsable index of carefully chosen sites. Originally the work of web goddess Carole Leita, the work is now carried on by Karen Schneider and a team of California librarians.
  
  
  

  Establishing Selection Policies for Inclusion on our Indexes

• lii.org Selection Criteria
  http://lii.org/search/file/pubcriteria

• Selection Policy, Best Information on the Net http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/selpolicy.htm
  The selection policy I wrote for the web site I created for O'Keefe Library, St. Ambrose University.
  
  
  

  Creating our own Collections

• The American Memory Project http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html
  the Library of Congress's project to digitize and organize its collections thematically.

• Colorado Virtual Library for Kids http://www.aclin.org/
  click on For Kids, Parents and Teachers, then click on Teachers. Carefully chosen sites are searchable by Colorado Department of Educatio Standards and Benchmarks, as well as by grade level.

• Digital Library Federation Public Access Collections http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?c=dlfcoll
  Search or browse through several hundred digital library projects.

• JSTOR - the Scholarly Journal Archive http://www.jstor.org/
  instead of accepting the time-limited range of journals that the aggregators have selected, we can purchase scanned complete backfiles of major journal titles chosen by librarians.

• The Making of America http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/ and http://library5.library.cornell.edu/moa/
  A joint project of the University of Michigan and Cornell to digitize a large number of 19th century books and journals.
  
  
  

  Creating Our Own Search Engines

• Creating a Yahoo with Values, by Karen Schneider
  http://libraryjournal.reviewsnews.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA232358&publication=libraryjournal
  A plan by the librarians who created several of the major indexes to combine their work in a search engine
  
  
  

  Supporting Institutional Repositories and Free Electronic Publishing

• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm -- Charles Bailey acquaints you with news in the world of scholarly publishing on the web, and links you to his periodically updated Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography.

• See also relevant resources in chapters 6 (The Techno-Economic Imperative) and 7 (Continuous Retraining).
  
  
  

  Added Articles of Note

• "What Is a Library Anymore, Anyway?" Michael A. Keller, Victoria A. Reich and Andrew C. Herkovic. First Monday, May, 2003, http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue8_5/keller/index.html
  "Local control of collections is critical both to assure permanence and to provide a key degree of selectivity, which — contrary to the irrational exuberance of making everything available to everybody — is vital to providing service to communities of readers."

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