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METASITES
Comprehensive Lists of Resources
Offering the broadest available array
of relevant materials across all pertinent areas of collection development
and management -- and thoughtfully organized -- are:
After consulting the carefully selected resources
classified below, you may wish to refer to the sources above.
SELECTION
Book Awards | Reviews
(Books and Internet Sites) | Reviews from Newspapers
| Alternative Press Selection Aids | Scholarly
Associations
ACQUISITIONS
Approval Plans |
Books in Print | Currency Converter
| Bibliographic Services Companies | Publishers
| Selected Microform and Electronic Publishers |
Out of Print Book Dealers | Internet
Bookstores | Specialized Bookstores and Publishers
| Translation Programs | U.S.
Vendors | Foreign Vendors | Gifts
and Exchanges | Government Documents
COLLECTION MANAGEMENT AND PRESERVATION
Collection Development
Policies | Collection Development Policies for
Electronic Resources | Superior Collection Development
Websites | Statistical Sources for Acquisition Assessment
| Sample Bibliographer Manuals | Guidelines
for Evaluating Information Resources | Preservation
| Copyright
ELECTRONIC TEXTS AND WEBSITES
Identifying Digitized
Books | Identifying Digitized Journals
| E-Text Centers | Catalogs of
Websites | eBook Readers and Services
INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM
Censorship and Intellectual
Freedom
LIBRARY CATALOGS
Library Catalogs and Gateways
DISCIPLINARY, PROFESSIONAL AND
LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS
Professional, Bibliographic,
and Library Associations | Scholarly Associations
| Listservs
TOPICAL STUDIES, CONFERENCE
PAPERS, AND PROCEEDINGS
Licensing, Serials Cancellation
Projects, Copyright, Preservation, Digital Libraries, and the Structure
of the Disciplines | Superior Collection Development
Websites (Document Archives)
SELECTION
Book Awards
American
Fiction Prizes (back to 1970)
AwardWeb
(collections of literary award information)
Award Winning
Children's Books
BookWire Index--Book
Awards
Caldecott
Medal List
Children's
Literature Award Lists (comprehensive)
Gay Literature Award
List
The Nobel Prize
The Pulitzer Prize
Reviews (Books and Internet
Sites)
Academia
(Baker & Taylor)
AcqWeb's
Directory of Book Reviews on the Web
Atlantic Unbound (Atlantic
Monthly)
Atlantic
Unbound (Classic Reviews from The Atlantic Monthly)
Booklist Reviews
Booknotes (C-Span)
BookTV (Weekends on CSpan 2)
BookPage
BookWire
Index--Review Sources
CARL
Uncover/Reveal
Choice: Current Reviews
for Academic Libraries (summary of articles and tables of contents)
Fiction Digest (Descriptive
Annotations)
H-Net Reviews in the Humanities
& Social Sciences
Hungry Mind Book Review
Library Journal Digital
New York Review
of Books (Partial Contents)
Quarterly Black Review
of Books
Reference Reviews: Europe
Rettig on Reference
(October 1995 - September 1997)
Rettig on Reference
(October 1997 - )
Scout Report (Web Site
Reviews)
Reviews from Newspapers
Boston
Globe Book Reviews
Chicago Tribune Books
Los Angeles Times
Book Reviews
New York Times Book Review (requires
registration)
Alternative Press Selection
Aids
Alternative Press
Center
Alternative Press Center:
Ordering Periodicals in API
Alternative Web
Resources
Bibliographic
Tools for the Alternative Press
Scholarly Associations
Directory
of Scholarly and Professional Associations
ACQUISITIONS
Approval Plans
Baker &
Taylor
Blackwell North America (BNA)
B.H. Blackwell (BHB)
Coutts Library Services
Midwest Library Service
Otto Harrassowitz
Yankee Book Peddler
Books in Print
AcqWeb:
Verification Tools (domestic and international)
Books in Print
(FirstSearch)
Currency Converter
164 Countries
Currency Converter
Universal Currency Converter
Bibliographic Services Companies
Dialog Corporation
EBSCO Information Services
Faxon Guide to Serials
Information Access Company
(IAC)
Institute for Scientific Information
(ISI)
Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
(OCLC)
Ovid Technologies
Research Libraries Group, Inc. (RLG)
SilverPlatter
University Microfoms International
WLN
Publishers
AcqWeb:
Directory of Publishers and Vendors (domestic and international)
BookWire--Publishers
Index
BUBL Link-Publishing
Media Nation:
Publishing (Who Owns Whom)
Multicultural Publishing
and Education Council
Publishers' Catalogues Home
Page (domestic and international)
Publishers on the
Internet
Publisher's Place
Yahoo-Business
and Economy: Companies: Publishing
Selected Microform and Electronic
Publishers
ABC-CLIO
Accessible Archives
Chadwyck-Healey
Congressional Information Service
(CIS)
Gale Directory of Databases
Gale Research
H.W. Wilson
K.G. Saur
Micromedia Limited
(Canada)
UMI (University Microfilms, Inc.)
Out of Print Book Dealers
MX Bookfinder
(Try First)
Searches Advanced Book Exchange, Amazon.com, Bibliocity, Cherry Valley
Books, Interloc, and Powell's Bookstore.
ABAA Booknet (Antiquarian Booksellers
Association of America)
Abracadebra Booksearch International
Advanced Book Exchange
Alibris
Alfred Jaeger, Inc.
Antiqbook: Antiquarian
Booksellers Online
Antiquarian Book Network
Bibliocity
Bibliofind
Bibliophile
Blake's Books
Bookfinder
Books Out-of-Print (Password
required)
BookSearch
C. Dickens: Fine, Rare & Collectible
Books
Interloc
International
League of Antiquarian Booksellers
Powell's Books
Rare Books and
Special Collections Links
Rereadables
RSB Rare and Secondhand Books
Setmaker
United States Book Exchange
Virtual Book Shop
Internet Bookstores
Comparative Pricing:
Price Scan
Comparative Pricing: Best Book
Buys
Amazon.com
Barnes and Noble
Bertelsmann
Blackwell Publishers
Book Closeouts (new books at
used book prices)
Book Stacks Unlimited
BookWire
Hamilton Books
Internet Book Shop
Textbooks: Varsity Books
Textbooks: Textbooks.com
Textbooks: EFollett
Waterstones
Specialized Bookstores
and Publishers
Feminist
Materials
Yiddish Book Center
Translation Programs
Babelfish
(French, German, Italian, Portuguesse, Spanish)
Human Langauges Page: Universal
Translator (33 languages, advertisement, not resource)
U.S. Vendors
Baker &
Taylor
Blackwell North America (BNA)
Book House
Brodart
Faxon
Ingram
Midwest Library Service
Yankee Book Peddler
Foreign Vendors
B.H.
Blackwell (UK)
Casalini Libri (Italy)
Coutts Library Services (Canada)
DK Agencies (India)
Otto Harrassowitz (Germany)
Puvill Libros S.A. (Spain and Mexico)
Schoenhof's Foreign Books (Continental
Europe and Latin America)
Gifts and Exchanges
Backserv
Donation
Programs for Books and Journals (by Pamela M. Rose and Nancy Stowell,
University at Buffalo Health Sciences Library)
Gifts And
Exchanges (GiftXWeb)
Serials Exchange
United States Book Exchange
Government Documents
Government
Documents Round Table (ALA)
Resources of Use to Government
Documents Librarians
COLLECTION MANAGEMENT AND
PRESERVATION
Collection Development Policies
Other Libraries
America
University
Cornell University
Library
Dartmouth College Library
National Agricultural
Library
North Carolina
State University Libraries
University
of California -- Santa Barbara
University
of Kansas Medical Center Library
University
of Michigan
University of Notre Dame
University
of Texas
Virginia
Tech University (statement of goals)
York University
ARL Collections
Program
PICK : Collection Development
Policies (policies of several institutions)
Collection Development
Policies for Electronic Resources
Digital
Library SunSITE Collection Development Policy
Guidelines
for Media Resources in Academic Libraries by the ACRL Media Resources
Committee
It's
All In the Fine Print: Online Resources for Software and Database License
Review
Principles
for Licensing Electronic Resources
Rights for Electronic Access
to and Dissemination of Information
Sample
Policies (RUSA)
Superior Collection Development
Websites
University
of Texas (most developed site)
Arizona State University
Bowling
Green State University
University of Nortre Dame
Statistical Sources for Collection
Evaluation
ARL Statistics
and Measurement Program
Book Industry Facts (Booknotes,
C-Span)
Sources of
Publishing Data
University of Texas
Sample Bibliographer Manuals
Dartmouth
College Library
James Madison University
Preservation
Conservation
Online (COOL)
Digital
Files - A British Library Workshop, 1995
Disaster
Preparedness and Response (A Metasite)
Library of Congress Preservation
Directorate
Preservation at the Harvard University
Libraries (Special Section on Disaster Preparedness)
University
of Florida: Brittle Books Program
Copyright
Copyright
and Intellectual Property (ARL)
Copyright
and Intellectual Property (includes Michigan Document Services case)
Copyright Society of the USA (includes
links to broadranging resources)
The Copyright Website
Fair Use in the
Electronic Age (library associations)
Intellectual Property
(metasite)
Intellectual
Property Resources from Organizations
University
Copyright Policies (a collection)
ELECTRONIC TEXTS AND WEBSITES
Identifying Digitized Books
CETH: Center
for Electronic Texts in the Humanities
CTI Textual Studies (Oxford,
Humanities Computing Unit)
Digital Library Directory
(Resources to Support University of Michigan Programs)
Directory
of Electronic Text Centers
Human Languages Page
Electronic Theses
and Dissertations in the Humanities: A Directory of Online References
and Resources by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
Making of
America-Cornell University (MOA)
Making of America-University
of Michigan (MOA)
Netlibrary
Online Books (most comprehensive
index)
Online European
Texts Through WESS
Oxford
Text Archive
University
of Kansas: Online Books
University of
Michigan: Digital Library Initiatives
University of Virginia Electronic
Text Center
Virginia Tech: Online Books
Identifying Digitized
Journals
CIC Electronic
Journals Collection
E-Zine List
JSTOR
LC Lists of Newspapers
and Periodicals, and News Resources Online
Making of
America-Cornell University (MOA)
Making of America-University
of Michigan (MOA)
NewJour Electronic Journals
and Newsletters
World Wide Web Virtual Library:
Electronic Journals
E-Text Centers
Academic
Text Service at Stanford
Center for Electronic
Text and Image at UPenn
CETH: Center for Electronic Texts
in the Humanities (Rutgers and Princeton)
Digital Libraries
Initiative
Digital Library Federation
Electromic
Text Center at Cornell
IFLA: Electronic Collections and Services
(collections, policies, etc.)
The
Lewis H. Beck Center for Electronic Collections and Services, Emory
Catalogs of Websites
Berkeley
Digital Library SunSITE
Cyberstacks
CyberDewey
Infomine
eBook Readers and Services
eBookWare (world's
largest ebookseller)
eBookAd
Everybook System
Hard Shell Word Factory (ebook reading
devices and text matches)
Rocket eBook System
eBook Net (info source for news on
etexts and readers)
Librius System
Qubit System
Softbook Press System
Barnes
& Noble Electric Book Catalog: eBooks in the Rocket Format
INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM
Censorship and Intellectual
Freedom
Intellectual
Freedom Policies: Text and Interpretation
Library Bill of Rights
(ALA)
Office of Intellectual Freedom
(ALA) (metasite)
LIBRARY CATALOGS
Library Catalogs
Center for
Research Libraries
COPAC (unified access to the
consolidated online catalog of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds,
and Oxford Universities and to Trinity College Dublin)
Gabriel: Gateway to Europes
National Libraries
Library Catalogs Worldwide (WWW)
Library Catalogs--Asia/Pacific/South
Africa (via Hytelnet)
Library Catalogs--Europe/Middle
East (via Hytelnet)
Library Catalogs--The
Americas (via Hytelnet)
Library Catalogs--United
States (via Hytelnet)
Library of Congress
WWW Accessible National
Libraries of the World
DISCIPLINARY, PROFESSIONAL
AND LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS
Professional, Bibliographic,
and Library Associations
American
Association of School Librarians (ALA)
American Library Association
American Society of Indexers
(ASI)
Association des Bibliothecaires Francais
Association for Information Management
(Aslib)
Association for Library Collections
and Technical Services (ALA)
Association of College and Research
Libraries (ACRL)
Association of Research Libaries
Australian Library and Information
Science Association
The Bibliographical Society
(UK)
Bibliographical Society of
America
Bibliographical
Society of Canada
Bundesvereinigung Deutscher Bibliotheksverbande
e. V
Canadian Library Association
Canadian
School Library Association
Collection
Management and Development Section (ALA, Association for Library Collections
and Technical Services)
Council on Library and Information Resources
(CLIR)
Directory of Library Associations
Around the World
EDUCAUSE
International Federation of Library Associations
and Institutions (IFLA)
The Library Association (UK)
National and International
Library and Information Science Associations (metasite)
Public Library Association (PLA)
Special Library Association
Urban Libraries Council
Verein Deutscher Bibliothekare (Germany)
Young Adult Library Services Association
Scholarly Associations
Directory
of Scholarly and Professional Associations
Listservs
Library-Oriented
Lists and Electronic Serials
COLLDV-L@vm.usc.edu (Collection Development
Issues)
CONSDIST@lindy.stanford.edu (Conservation and Preservation of Materials)
ECOLL@UNLLIB.UNL.EDU (Collection Development of Electronic Resources)
TOPICAL STUDIES, CONFERENCE
PAPERS AND PROCEEDINGS
Licensing, Serials Cancellation
Projects, Copyright, Preservation, Digital Libraries, and the Structure
of the Disciplines
The
Body in the Virtual Library: Rethinking Scholarly Communication by
Kenneth
Arnold
The Changing
World of Scholarly Communication: Challenges and Choices for Canada
(Final Report of AUCC-CARL/ABRC on Academic Libraries and Scholarly
Communication, 1996)
The Crisis
in Scholarly Publishing (metasite)
Cutbacks in Library Purchasing:
A Survey (Office of Academic and Scientific Publishing, ARL, 1997)
The
Electronic Librarian is a Verb/The Electronic Librarian Is Not A Sentence
by Kenneth Arnold (1994)
Economics
and Electronic Access to Scholarly Information by Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason
and Juan F. Riveros (1997)
Library
of Congress: Frontiers of the Mind in the Twenty-First Century (cybercast
and summaries) (1999)
The Library
and the University Press: Two Views of the Costs and Problems of the
Current System of Scholarly Publishing (From Scholarly Communication
and Technology Conference, 24-25 April 1997)
New Horizons in Scholarly Communication
(Librarians Association of the University of California, 1996-1998)
Preserving Digital
Information (Task Force on the Archiving of Digital Information, RLG
and Council on Preservation and Access)
Scholarly Communication
and Technology (Papers from the Mellon conference, April 24-25, 1997)
Scholarly
Journals at the Crossroads: A Subversive Proposal for Electronic Publishing
by Ann Shumelda Okerson
The Serials Crisis
(metasite)
The
Significant Scientific Literature Appears in a Small Core of Journals
by Eugene Garfield (1996)
The Specialized
Scholarly Monograph in Crisis Or How Can I Get Tenure If You Won't Publish
My Book? (Conference: American Council of Learned Societies, Association
of American University Presses, Association of Research Libraries, 11-12
September
1997)
Towards
a New Paradigm for Scholarly Communication (Prepared by AUCC-CARL/ABRC
Task Force on Academic Libraries and Scholarly Communication, 1995)
University Libraries and
Scholarly Communication by Anthony M. Cummings, Marcia L. Witte, William
O. Bowen, Laura O. Lazarus, and Richard Ekman (ARL, 1992)
University
of Kansas Provost on "The Library Problem" by David Shulenburger
(1997)
University
of Wisconsin Faculty Senate Resolutions on Intellectual Property (6
May 1996)
Superior Collection Development
Websites
University
of Texas (document archives, see "Collection Issues in Research Libraries")
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