Websites for Professional Growth (and Fun)

Help for Librarians/Archivists

http://www.itcompany.com/inforetriever/   Internet Library for Librarians

http://lii.org/  Librarians’ Index to the Internet

http://www.libdex.com/whatis.html  LibDex.  A directory of library homepages, OPACs, e-commerce affiliate links

http://www.libraryspot.com/  Library Spot

http://www.refdesk.com/  Refdesk.com

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/  Our Documents: A National Initiative on American History, Civics, and Service (K-12)

http://www.txlodging.com/index.shtml  TxDOT travel information

http://news.bbc.co.uk/  BBC

http://staff.philau.edu/bells/keepup/  Keeping Up -  is designed to help library and information science professionals, information technologists, instructional technologists, and other academic technology support professionals develop and maintain a program of self-guided professional development.  A central, guiding premise of this web site is that academic librarians and technology professionals must go beyond the constraints of their own literature to really keep up and maintain their myriad skills and diversified knowledge base. That is why many of the resources cited have little to do with librarianship.

Corporate Sites

http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/index.htm  Free resources from Gale

http://gessler.emerald-library.com/vl=1012211/cl=80/nw=1/rpsv/librarylink/index.htm  Library Link (Emerald)

Techie Information

http://www.netlingo.com/  Dictionary of Internet terms

http://cites.boisestate.edu/  Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large (Walt Crawford)

http://www.consumerwebwatch.org/news/searchengines/index.html  Consumer WebWatch

http://www.consumerwebwatch.org/index.html  Consumer WebWatch

http://searchengineshowdown.com/  Search Engine Showdown

http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/contents.html  Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging Tutorial

http://www.theweblogreview.com/  Weblog Review

Librarian/Archivist Professional Awareness

http://www.lisnews.com/topics.php  LIS News.com:

http://www.librarystuff.net/  Library Stuff: weblog by Steven M. Cohen

http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/  Catalogablog

http://www.librarian.net/  Librarian.net (Jessamyn West)

http://www.infosourcespub.com/book4.cfm  Informed Librarian Online - “monthly compilation of the most recent tables of contents from over 250 valuable domestic and foreign library and information-related journals, e-journals, magazines, e-magazines, newsletters and e-newsletters.”

http://www.libraryhq.com/resources.html Library HQ Resources http://www.libraryhq.com/welcome.html

http://istweb.syr.edu/21stcenlib/index.html  Librarians in the 21st Century: created by Syracuse University School of Information Science

http://www.arl.org/info/frn/copy/timeline.html  Timeline: A History of Copyright in the United States

http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/circulars/circulars.html Information Circulars (on Authenticating Old Newspapers)

http://www.free-ed.net/  Free-ed.net: free courses and tutorials

The Oddly Interesting

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html  Powers of Ten

http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/  We Love the Iraqi Information Minister

http://webcambiglook.com/  Live web cams

Digital Fun

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/  American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/wildseed/wildflowers.html  Wildflowers in bloom

Entertainment Fun

http://www.madeincanada.ca/  Made in Canada.  Example of what not to do as a corporate entity or as a website.  Enjoy and snicker.

http://www.tvtome.com  TV Tome  “TV Tome has over 1,400 complete guides covering almost all the current shows and many of your favorite classics.”

Literary Fun

http://www.invisiblelibrary.com/  The Invisible Library

http://www.victoria.tc.ca/~mattison/ficarch/index.htm  The Fictional World of Archives, Art Galleries and Museums

http://www.boondocksnet.com/editions/bierce/index.html  The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

http://www.boondocksnet.com/twainwww/randomquote.html  Mark Twain Random Quotes (and The Devil’s Dictionary)

Celebrating our Uniqueness

http://www.rlc.dcccd.edu/lrc/hofprevious.htm  Internet Librarian Hall of Fame

http://www.laughinglibrarian.com/  Laughing Librarian

http://www.librarism.com/  “A Librarian’s cyberlobby”.  Includes Laughing Librarian Warrior Librarian Weekly:

http://www.warriorlibrarian.com/  WLW index to library humor:

http://www.warriorlibrarian.com/laffs.html

http://www.warriorlibrarian.com/HUMOUR/latin.html

WLW Vital Latin Phrases for Librarians

http://warriorlibrarian.com/ROFL/opac.html

Computer error warnings from Warrior Librarian

Library Humor and Miscellany

http://www.sldirectory.com/libsf/resf/humor.html

Library Anecdotes, Facetiae, Satire, Etc. (Robert Teeter)

http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/libafse.html

Library Humor:

http://pw1.netcom.com/~dplourde/humor.html

MeL: Library Humor and Culture  http://mel.lib.mi.us/libraries/LIBS-humor.html

http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~murrizol/ts_history/tshist.htm  Great Moments in the History of Technical Services

http://www.librarism.com/  Librarism.com

http://www.unimelb.edu.au/records/erik/index.html  Adventures of Erik the Archive Box

Job Title Generator for Library and Information Science Professionals:  http://lamar.colostate.edu/~mach/jobtitles

The Bellydancing Librarian  http://www.sonic.net/~erisw/bdlib.html

The Laughing Librarian http://www.laughinglibrarian.com/index.htm

The Lipstick Librarian  http://www.lipsticklibrarian.com/

The Modified Librarian  http://www.bmeworld.com/gailcat/

NewBreed Librarian  http://www.newbreedlibrarian.org/

Renegade Librarian  http://www.renegadelibrarian.com/

Shifted Librarian (Jenny Levine)  http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/

Overdue  http://www.overduemedia.com/strip/

Unshelved:  http://www.overduemedia.com/

Overdue Laughs http://www.librarysupportstaff.com/libhumor.html

Conan’s Comic Adventures http://144.162.80.232/lrc/invasion.htm

The Joy of Tech (the adventures of Linux Lass) http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/251.html  

Only for fun

http://www.ucomics.com/comics/  More comics

http://www.catswithhands.comic  CatsWithHands

http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/pvaliant/about.htm  Comics (including Prince Valiant)