library schools

Department of Information Studies Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia
Edith Cowan University Western Australia
University of Technology, Sydney
Graduate School of Education and Information Studies University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Where to study in the UK List of accredited library science programs at UK universities.
Accredited LIS Master's programs - United States From the American Library Association, a list of every university in the US with library science programs.

TAFE NSW
TAFE WA

cataloguing

[ AACR2 | USMARC | DDC | UDC | LOC | Bliss | LCSH ]

Bibliographic Formats Library Standards at the National Library of Australia

anglo-american cataloguing rules (AACR2)
AACR2 Cataloguing
AACR2 Cataloguing for Monographs

USMARC
MARC Standards at the Library of Congress
MARC Coding Introduction


Dewey Decimal Classification Official site of DDC publishers, Forest Press. Has DDC summaries, introductions, and fun downloads.

digital libraries

Electronic Library Search newspapers, journals, etc.
Building Digital Libraries
Internet Archive An attempt to archive the internet.
Internet Public Library Downloadable, full-text of many texts arranged by title/author/DDC.
netLibrary - Main Library

distance services

Journal of library services for distance education Excellent online journal on topics from designing online delivery to information literacy and cost issues.
Open Training and Education Network NSW Offers TAFE courses, some in online mode
Open Learning Australia
Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia
E-college American colleges offering courses online, including an MLA.

reference

[ search engines | automation | online resources ]

search engines
Yahoo! (Directories)
Altavista (Robot)
Lycos (Robot, with directories)
Dogpile (Metasearch, WWW, FTP, Usenet)
Ask Jeeves (Natural search)
Google (Robot)
Northern Light (Robot, with directories)

online resources
DIALOG Pocket Guide

issues

[ computing | copyright | banned books ]

computing
Beyond Bookmarks: Schemes for Organising the Web
XML A better standard for indexing and retrieving documents online, XML is a successor to HTML and allows you to customise your own mark-up tags.

copyright
Australian Performing Rights Association Amongst other things, looks after copyright for performance of various works.
Copyright in cyberspace

banned books
Banned books on-line
Publication guidelines for books in Australia Guidelines for restricted and unrestricted materials.

employment

mycareer.com.au Fairfax newspapers site, search national job ads. Best newspaper-based source for library positions.
Australian Job Search From DEETYA and Centrelink.
Librarian's Job Search Based in the United States.
Library Locums a job agency for librarians in Australia
Monster.com.au National job site with listings in every category.
Graduate base Employment opportunities for graduates in the Public Service.
Gradlink Graduate opportunities.

mailing lists

egroups Search for 'librarian' or 'library science' for related lists.

web sites

Library Juice
Librarians (about.com) An exhaustive list of American resources.
librarian.net Putting the rarin' back in librarian.

book stores

Australia
Dymocks
Angus & Robertson
Co-op Bookshop Technical and professional books
GleeBooks New and Second hand books, located in Glebe NSW

Overseas
Amazon.com
Barnes & Noble
Penguin Classics

humour

Dilbert Not necessarily library related, but still amusing.
Calvin and Hobbes Library Comics
Librarians in the Movies

miscellaneous

[ media | special interest ]