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Library and Information Science

Included are: professional resources for librarians, i.e., resources which assist librarians in carrying out their duties; resources for librarians' personal professional development; and resources related to the academic discipline of library and information studies.

Please submit sites listing library associations around the world. Please put individual association pages into to the appropriate subcategory.

Associations

This category if for sites listing library associations around the world. It also contains sites relating to library associations for which currently no appropriate subcategories exist.

Please submit sites listing library associations around the world. Please put individual association pages into to the appropriate subcategory.

Chats and Forums

Chat rooms, bulletin boards, discussion groups, and message boards.

Discussion groups where all communication is via email. In this case, it''ll be library-related groups.

Conferences

Category for conferences in library and information studies, or related information fields. This may include sites about individual conferences and conference proceedings, or sites which provide information about multiple conferences.

Submit sites for Conferences in library and information studies, or related information fields. This may include sites about individual conferences and conference proceedings, or sites which provide information about multiple conferences.

Digital Library Development

This category is for sites detailing the digitization of traditional library resources, such as books and journals and extends to images, cd-rom, microfilm and audio-visual materials. Coverage includes digital collection management and techniques pertaining to library digitization.

Please only submit sites dealing with the digitization of library resources. This should include sites that cover digital library development in terms of management, techniques, methodologies and components.

For links to digital library software, please submit to: Reference/Libraries/Library_and_Information_Science/Software/

For links to digital libraries and online collections please submit to: Reference/Libraries/Digital/

For links to metadata, cataloguing, standards and so on please submit to their appropriate categories.

Directories

Alphabetical or classified lists of LIS resources.

Employment

Category for sites relating to finding employment in libraries.

Please submit job lists and resumes to the appropriate subcategory.

Intellectual Freedom

Category for sites that are about the concept of intellectual freedom. This is the idea that individuals have the right to read or look at whatever they want. There is much disagreement about what exactly this term means.

Submit sites that are about the concept of intellectual freedom. This is the idea that individuals have the right to read or look at whatever they want. There is much disagreement about what exactly this term means. Please submit sites on book banning and filtering software to the appropriate subcategory.

Intellectual Property

This category is for information on all types of Intellectual Property, especially as viewed from the perspective of librarians, educators, and the public. International and US resources on trademarks, trade secrets, patents, copyrights, and new internet intellectual property laws.

Submit sites that relate to reference information on Intellectual Property laws. Includes current laws, articles, and websites by individuals, law firms, and government organizations. International and US resources on trademarks, trade secrets, patents, copyrights, and new internet intellectual property laws.

Librarians

Category for personal sites of librarians that have significant content relating to the library profession.

Submit personal sites of librarians that have significant content relating to the library profession.

Library History

This category is for library history in the inclusive sense of the history of collections of books and their management. Histories of libraries individually and collectively, the history of library buildings and equipment and the development of the profession of librarianship are all relevant.

Please submit sites dealing with any aspect of library history.

Current information on historic libraries may be better submitted in Reference: Libraries: Special Collections.

Libraries for historical research should be submitted under Reference: Libraries: Subject Specific.

Resource Sharing

With the growth of information sources and the shrinking of library budgets, libraries have accepted that in order to meet the needs of their users, that sharing resources is essential. This category deals with resource sharing, including interlibrary loan/document delivery, library consortia, and other aspects of inter-library cooperation.

Submit sites that deal with resource sharing in libraries, including interlibrary loan/document delivery, library consortia, and other aspects of inter-library cooperation.

Schools

Home pages for professional schools of library and information studies, or resources relating to those schools.

Please only submit English web pages from library schools in Africa.

Software

Includes sites that deal with library systems that help libraries with automation, circulation, and cataloging.

Submit sites that deal with library systems that help libraries with automation, circulation, and cataloging.

Subject Specialties

This category contains web sites which are resources for music librarians. General music sites should be placed in a subcategory of Arts/Music. General music resources should be placed in Arts/Music/Resources. Web sites for Music Libraries should be placed in Arts/Music/Resources/Music_Libraries

Technical Services

Category for sites relating to technical services in libraries.

Submit sites relating to technical services in libraries. Please look at the subcategories for this category and submit sites to their appropriate category.

User Services

User services encompass the library programs that directly help library users in their searching for, obtaining, and evaluating information and informational materials. See also the description for:

Document Delivery

Submit sites that encompass the library programs that directly help library users in their searching for, obtaining, and evaluating information and informational materials.

Weblogs

Submit weblogs created by librarians which deal mostly with library and information science content. Personal weblogs created by librarians should be submitted at the best category under Computers: Internet: On the Web: Weblogs: Personal.