Practical Applications

Resources in this category:

Cataloging Electronic Resources: OCLC-MARC Coding Guidelines
http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/worldcat/catalogin...

Tips for cataloging Internet resources using AACR2 rules. Second edition.

Digital Librarian
http://www.digital-librarian.com/

Billed as "a librarian's choice of the best of the Web ", this searchable site has bibliographies of Web sites for numerous extremely varied topics.

Electronic Reserves Clearinghouse
http://www1.mville.edu/Administration/staff/Jeff_Rosedale/

This is a listing of places to look and whom to contact when trying to set up an electronic reserves database.

ELITE Project
http://www.le.ac.uk/li/distance/eliteproject/index.htm

This site, put together by the University Library at the Univ. of Leicester, offers a great collection to information about Digital Reference projects in libraries such as E-mail Reference, Chat, MOOs, MyLibrary Interfaces, Conferencing, and Authentication.

IASL Links to School Library Resources
http://www.iasl-slo.org/

"These listings of Internet resources for school librarians aim...to take teacher librarians to the best starting points for Internet exploration."

Infopeople Project
http://www.infopeople.org/

"The Infopeople Project improves the quality of information access to the people of California by upgrading the skills, resources, and tools available through libraries." The site's Resources section provides training guides covering topics from "Teach People to Use the Mouse" to "Introduction to HTML: A Web Tutorial".

Information Use Management and Policy Institute
http://www.ii.fsu.edu/

The Information Institute conducts research "to improve information use and management for individuals, organizations and society." Research includes Public Libraries and the Internet studies which encompass over ten years of scholarship.

Innovative Internet Applications in Libraries
http://www.wiltonlibrary.org/innovate.html

"Intended primarily for the library community, Innovative Internet Applications in Libraries is a sampling of new and interesting uses of the Web by public, corporate, academic, and school libraries. The project (begun in 1995) has sought to provide best practice models of both traditional and non-traditional library service provision using Internet technology."

Library Web Manager¹s Reference Center
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/RefCenter/

Resources selected to be of possible use to library Web managers, many of them from the Web4Lib discussion group.

Project EARL: Connecting Public Libraries to the Network
http://www.earl.org.uk/

EARL is a consortium of UK Public Library Authorities and other organizations which aim to make available the advantages of the Internet to all library users and other members of the public.

School Library Hotspots
http://www.pembinatrails.ca/infozone/hotspots/

This comprehensive site for K-12 school librarians includes sections on instruction, materials sources and reviews, literature, and Web awareness, among others.

Writing for the Web: A Primer for Librarians
http://bones.med.ohio-state.edu/eric/papers/primer/webdocs.h...

A general introduction on how Web documents are created, including an interactive glossary of terms associated with the Web.