PLANNING FOR SIDE EFFECTS: MANAGING THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF THE INTERNET

a presentation by Marylaine Block for the Wisconsin Library Association, October 30, 2002




RECLAIMING THE RIGHT TO SELECT

  • Librarians' Index to the Internet Selection Policy http://lii.org/search/file/pubcriteria

  • Colorado Virtual Library for Kids http://kids.aclin.org/

  • JSTOR: the Scholarly Journal Archive http://www.jstor.org/

  • Digital Library Federation http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?c=dlfcoll

  • Fiat Luxe

  • The Cal State solution


    RESCUING THE BOOK

  • Center for the Book http://www.loc.gov/loc/cfbook/

  • If All of Seattle Read the Same Book http://www.spl.org/wacentbook/seattleread/samebook.html

  • Waterboro Lib Blog: What Books Cities Are Reading Together http://www.waterboro.lib.me.us/blog381402.htm (arrow down to March 9)

  • The Reader's Connection http://www.webrary.org/rs/matchbookabout.html and their Fiction-L Booklists http://www.webrary.org/rs/FLbklistmenu.html

  • Guys Read: a Literacy Initiative for Boys http://www.guysread.com/

  • Recommended Graphic Novels for Public Libraries http://my.voyager.net/~sraiteri/graphicnovels.htm

  • Hassle-free access: River Bend Library System's QuadLinC http://qlweb.rbls.lib.il.us/

  • The Front Porch: An Online Book Discussion-FCPL http://www.co.fairfax.va.us/library/reading/discuss.htm


    TRAINING OUR CHANGING USERS

  • Marylaine Block. Teaching Kids Indirectly. Library Journal/School Library Journal NetConnect Issue: July, 2001 http://libraryjournal.reviewsnews.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA210719&publication=libraryjournal

  • Reference as a Teachable Moment http://marylaine.com/exlibris/xlib146.html

  • Information Literacy Instruction in Higher Education http://www.ericit.org/digests/EDO-IR-2002-01.shtml

  • Thinkquest http://thinkquest.org/


    IF YOU CAN'T BEAT 'EM, JOIN 'EM: ADAPTING TO OUR USERS

  • The Shifted Librarian http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/

  • RSS Workshop http://gils.utah.gov/rss/

  • Reference by Live Chat. See Bernie Sloan's Digital Reference Services Bibliography http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~b-sloan/digiref.html and his guide to Digital Reference Question Logs. http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/~b-sloan/log.htm

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

  • Wireless Librarian http://people.morrisville.edu/~drewwe/wireless/


    DISAPPEARING DATA

    Web Site Maintenance -- Link Rot, Security, etc.

    Karen G. Schneider on LII policy for link-checking, http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive/0204/0218.html and http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive/0204/0220.html

    Preserving Permanent Public Access to Public Information

  • ARL Memorandum: Questions and Answers about removal of government documents http://www.arl.org/info/frn/gov/Susman.html

  • GODORT Legislation Committee http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/GODORT/legislation/

  • ALA Washington Office http://www.ala.org/washoff/

    Preserving Digital Documents

  • Council on Library and Information Resources http://www.clir.org/home.html

  • Digital Library Federation http://www.diglib.org/

  • D-Lib Magazine http://www.dlib.org/


    THE TECHNO-ECONOMIC IMPERATIVE

  • Eric's Linux Information http://gromit.westminster.lib.co.us/linux/

  • oss4lib http://www.oss4lib.org/

  • Archives Initiative http://www.rchives.org/

  • College Archives Dig Deeper http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,54229,00.html

  • Free Online Scholarship Movement http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/

  • Institutional "Superarchives" http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i43/43a02901.htm


    UP TO OUR EARS IN LAWYERS

    Basic Resource: Mary Minow's Library Law site http://www.librarylaw.com/

    Privacy

  • ALA Office for Information Technology Policy: COPPA http://www.ala.org/oitp/privacy.html

  • The USA Patriot Act and Patron Privacy on Library Internet Terminals http://www.llrx.com/features/usapatriotact.htm

  • Libraries and the Patriot Act http://www.ala.org/washoff/patriot.html

    Filtering

  • Office for Intellectual Freedom of the ALA http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/newif.html

  • Libraries and the Internet Toolkit http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/internettoolkit.html

  • The Internet Filter Assessment Project [TIFAP] http://www.bluehighways.com/tifap/

  • Internet Acceptable Use Policies http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/netpolicy.htm


    CROSSING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE

    Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1998

  • W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI

  • HTML Writers Guild AWARE Center http://aware.hwg.org/

  • Bobby http://cast.org/bobby/

  • Computer Assistive AbilityHub http://www.abilityhub.com/

  • Accessible Webpage Design Resources http://library.uwsp.edu/aschmetz/Accessible/pub_resources.htm

    Digital Divide

  • Libraries - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation http://www.gatesfoundation.org/libraries/default.htm

  • Digital Divide Network http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org/content/sections/index.cfm

  • Digital Divide Solutions http://www.asu.edu/DigitalDivideSolutions/

  • SOL [Spanish in our Libraries] http://www.sol-plus.net/index.htm

  • Spanish Subject Headings http://clnet.ucr.edu/library/bplg/sujetos.htm

  • Movers and Shakers issue of Library Journal http://libraryjournal.reviewsnews.com/index.asp?layout=LJMS


    RUNNING TO STAY IN PLACE: CONTINUOUS RETRAINING

  • Current Cites http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/monthly.html

  • Stop the World, I Want To Catch Up, Part 2 http://marylaine.com/exlibris/xlib148.html

  • Steven Bell's Keeping Up Page http://staff.philau.edu/bells/keepup


    ON NOT GETTING BLIND-SIDED AGAIN

  • Library Futures Quarterly http://libraryfutures.com/

  • The Defect in Realism http://marylaine.com/exlibris/xlib86.html

    Marylaine Block, formerly a librarian at St. Ambrose University, is now a writer, internet trainer, and the creator of the e-zines ExLibris [http://marylaine.com/exlibris/] and Neat New Stuff I Found This Week on the Web [http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html].

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