The Creative Librarian is a hub for matters important to librarians/information scientists of today. There is a definite lean towards electronic issues, however it isn't restricted to only those. Hopefully this site will also be useful for informing non-librarians on these issues as so many of them affect us all.
The Chilling Effects Clearinghouse is “A joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, University of San Francisco, and University of Maine law school clinics.” The site’s purpose is to educate non-legal professionals on their rights under the First Amendment and intellectual property laws as they apply to the Internet. The site [...]
The Medical Library Association SLA – Special Libraries Association American Library Association Libraries for the Future
LibrarySpot -A directory of reference sites in many areas targeted at librarians. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science UsefulBookmarks- A librarian’s directory of links.
The Laughing Librarian-Library humor The Lipstick Librarian!- Must be read to understand. Overdue Media, home of Unshelved- A comic for librarians set in a public library. Why You Should Fall to Your Knees and Worship a Librarian. Just read it. And buy th t-shirt. Biblia’s Warrior Librarian Weekly: Original Library Humor by Biblia, the Warrior [...]
LISHost.com- “LISHost, non-profit, low cost Web hosting and design for the entire library world.” Librarians sharing the work and cost of maintaining a server to keep it lower for all. oss4lib — Open Source Systems for Libraries A community to encourage the use of open-source software by libraries. Open source means that it can be [...]
LISFeeds.com is a website that displays the RSS feeds of several library weblogs. One stop shopping for industry news. LISNews is a newspaper type website targeted to information workers. Comments are allowed to encourage discussion. Weblogs are good places to find the latest and the most concentrated stories about their subject. Library Weblogs is site [...]
Bean Books publishes a lot of science fiction and fantasy works. Since 2000, they’ve had the Baen Free Library up where they post electronic versions of some of their books for free in text, html, and pda formats. It’s not unknowns, either. They have stuff by: Lois McMaster Bujold Mercedes Lackey Holly Lisle and David [...]
There isn’t much here yet because the site is still under construction but I have a lot of ideas I hope to get up quickly once the design is finalized. So far, I’m planning on sections for: copyright issues useful web resources and a Google searching tutorial I expect much more to be added in [...]