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Sub-Topics Acceptable Use Policies Citations Filtering Software Library Catalogs Public Libraries Also Try Associations Book Recommendations under General Reference Lesson Plans Lessons for Librarians (Chamberlain) Provides 30 lessons for librarians with little or no experience with the Internet. Useful for teachers and school administrators also. Lists -Academic Libraries - USA (Berkeley) Provides libraries by state. 2-01 -State Libraries - USA (Berkeley) Provides libraries by name. 2-01 Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) Biographical Resources Described (New York Public Library) Provides a description of the books that provide information on biographies. Biographies (Library Spot) Provides links to biographies in nine categories, including Nobel Prize lauraetes, inventors, distinguished women, celebrities, inventors and notable citizens. Books - Children's Books (KidsClick) Provides resources compiled by librarians. Books for Libraries (Tandem Library Books, Formerly Sagebrush Corp.) Provides over 650 listings, including book sets, by grade level if the search is for "grade." 04-07 Books in Print (Bowker) Provides a listing of books in print. Requires registration and offers a trial period of use. 8-00. Citations Guides (AwesomeLibrary.org) Provides resources for MLA, APA, and Chicago styles of citations and includes styles for electronic references. Dewey Decimal System (Monroe Library) Provides instructions on using the classification system. 12-04. Dewey Organization of the Web (CyberDewey) Organizes sources of information on the Web using the Dewey Decimal System. Listings are rather limited. 6-02 Digital Librarian (Anderson) Provides one of the most comprehensive resources for librarians, as well as the general public. 8-00 Digital Libraries (National Digital Library Federation) Provides lists of government, college and university, and commercial digital libraries. 10-00 Directory for the Internet (California State Library) Provides a comprehensive directory of sites on the Internet by subject. 1-02 Electronic Texts Archives (International Federation of Library Associations - IFLA) Europe's National Libraries (TheEuropeanLibrary.org) Provides librarian news and search engines. 04-07 Librarian Resources (ItCompany.com) Provides links to libraries and other resources for librarians. 10-04 Librarian Tools (Library Spot) Provides materials in acquisitions, cataloging and libraries and the Internet. In addition, the site includes library journals, library associations, mailing lists, news groups, reference materials, lists of resources and association. Librarian's Index to the Internet (Leita) Provides a searchable directory of the Internet. 8-01 Libraries - Public Online Libraries of Europe (Harden) Provides links to libraries by country. 6-02 Libraries and Encyclopedias Search (Internet Oracle) Provides over two dozen search engines from libraries and encyclopedias. 04-07 Libraries of the World (International Federation of Libraries Association) 2-00 Library Science Resources (Education Index) Provides 22 excellent and annotated library resources. National Libraries and Library Associations (Berkeley) National Library of Canada New York State Library Portals Library System Provides listings of sources of information available. Reference Information (StartSpot Mediaworks - Library Spot) Provides well organized sources of information. 2-00 School Library Journal Provides online articles from the journal. 9-01 Search Engine for Kids (Kids Click) Provides a search engine for kids. Designed by librarians. 4-01 Seattle Public Library Special Libraries (Berkeley) Top 100 Education Sites (100 Top Education Sites) Provides a list of education sites considered by this site to be the 100 most popular. 6-03 WebCrawler Search Engine World Wide Listing of Libraries (LibWeb - Dowling) Worldwide Libraries (Berkeley) Young Adult Resources (Allen County Public Library) Provides research resources for young adults. 5-05 Materials Library Media and PR Provides numerous clip art freeware images, most of which are of a good size and quality for including on a Web page describing library activities. Newberry Research Library Research library has a large number of rare and historical documents, such as cartographic, Native American Indian, and music. 2-00 Stumpers for Reference Librarians Papers American Booksellers Association 11-01 American Library Association Book Reviews (American Library Association - Booklist) Provides reviews of best selling books. 8-00. Cataloging and Indexing of Electronic Resources Copyright and Intellectual Property Resources Digital Libarary Resources (International Federation of Library Associations - IFLA) Error Rates of Filtering Programs (Hazelton) Provides results of a study of the effectiveness of some of the most commonly used filtering programs. Programs tested included AOL Parental Controls, Cyber Patrol, SurfControl (SurfWatch), SafeServer, and N2H2 (Bess). 10-05 Filtering and Libraries (American Library Association) Provides a position by the American Library Association related to the use of filtering software for the Web. 11-00 Grammar (KidsClick) Provides comprehensive grammar resources, assembled by librarians. Helping Your Child Use the Library (U.S. Department of Education) 8-02 International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Libraries Revisit Islam (Washington Times - Duin) "Islam, it seemed, was not getting a fair representation in the country. The solution: promote a kinder and gentler Islam in the nation's 16,298 public libraries."  "The effort, called the Library Project, was announced at a press conference in September last year. A year later, CAIR has succeeded in ordering about 6,900 sets of 18 Islamic books, tapes, DVDs and videos for libraries nationwide." 10-03 National Library of Education Parental Control Issues (The Advocate) Discusses issues related to censorship and control related to children using the Internet. Response to Peter Jacso's Review (Awesome Library) Gale Group published comments by Peter Jacso that Jacso billed as a review of the Awesome Library. Staff of the Awesome Library responded due to important factual errors and flaws in the article. 10-04 Storage and Use of Scientific Information in the Future (Nature) Provides opinions regarding the direction, methods, and issues in storage and use of scientific information for the forseeable future. 9-01 Videoconferencing Search (SchoolVoice.org) Provides a search for videoconferencing services by grade level, subject, service provider, and more. 9-04 Periodicals School Library Journal Provides news, articles, review, and more for school librarians. 12-00 Purchase Resources Online Computer Library Center (OCLC.org) "Founded in 1967, OCLC Online Computer Library Center is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing information costs. More than 57,000 libraries in 112 countries and territories around the world use OCLC services to locate, acquire, catalog, lend and preserve library materials." 03-07 Safe Server for Schools and Libraries (Bess) Provides a service that blocks objectionable Web materials through the server. Sites that are blocked have been reviewed by humans (rather than just by keyword) and the filtering can be configured for specific end users or desktops. 6-00. Search Engines for Scholars - Annual Reviews (AnnualReviews.org) "Annual Reviews is proud to publish authoritative, analytic reviews in 30 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences." Subscription rate is $5,000. 10-04 Search Engines for Scholars - Blackwell Synergy (Blackwell-Synergy.com) Provides scholarly journals by subject. Blackwell now include "427,920 articles from 751 leading journals." 10-04 Search Engines for Scholars - CrossRef (CrossRef.org) "This Pilot is initially limited to the content of 29 of the more than 650 CrossRef publishers and societies who collaborate to provide scholars with cross-publisher reference linking." "Through a special, reciprocal arrangement between Google and CrossRef, this Pilot launches a typical Google search but filters the result set to the scholarly research content from participating publishers, with the intent of reducing the noise produced by general web searches." "Google has indexed the full text of scholarly journal articles on the publishers' websites through a CrossRef gateway. Users may submit searches from CrossRef Search Pilot boxes on participating publishers' sites. Results are returned from Google using the Google search and ranking algorithms, and using the article's DOI whenever possible to link from the search results to the published article." "The purpose of the Pilot, which will run during 2004, is to determine the value to the scholarly community of a free, federated, full-text, interdisciplinary, interpublisher search focussed on the peer-reviewed scholarly literature." 10-04 Search Engines for Scholars - Institute of Physics (IoP.org) Provides text from over four dozen scholarly journals by journal title or search engine.10-04 Search Engines for Scholars - Nature Publishing Group (NPG.Nature.com) Provides licenses to nine publications.10-04 Search Engines for Scholars - Wiley Interscience (Wiley Interscience) Provides text from scholarly journals by subject area or search engine. 05-06

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