Library & Information Science

Primary publication of the American Library Association.

This digital publication collects the papers presented by invited speakers at "Going Digital: Experiences from East Asia and the Pacific" held at American Library Association Annual Conference, June 23-29, 2005, Chicago, IL, USA.

Major trade publication covering issues in higher education, including information technology, scholarly publishing and many related issues.

Online journal with primary focus on digital library research and development, including but not limited to new technologies, applications, and contextual social and economic issues.

International online journal advancing knowledge and research in the areas of academic and special librarianship.

A popular zine that explores issues and opinions related to media coverage and role of information specialists.

A peer-reviewed journal about social and political issues related to information, the Internet and related activities. Recently celebrated a full decade as a serious online publication.

Information for Social Change is an activist organisation that examines issues of censorship, freedom and ethics amongst library and information workers.

Created by Roy Tennant this is an annotated bibliography of selected articles, books, & digital documents on Information Technology dating from 1990.

Focusing on important research about the role of academic libraries and librarianship, portal also features commentary on issues in technology and publishing.

Katina is a digital publication that addresses the value of librarians to society and elevates their role as trusted stewards of knowledge. Named after Katina Strauch, the visionary founder of the Charleston Conference, it is written by and for the international communities of librarians, vendors, and publishers.

Katina’s mission is to advance library and information science and inspire a sense of fulfillment among its professionals worldwide. The content is easy to understand, engaging, informative, and accurate. It covers key topics, emerging trends, and transformative technologies and products, and offers guidance on career and organizational development. By celebrating librarian contributions to open science, scholarship, and the enrichment of society, Katina aims to provide a springboard for community discussion and engagement through each of its three sections: Resource Reviews, Open Knowledge, The Future of Work

Description: A blog maintained and mainly contributed to by two reference librarians/professors in library and information science, Sarah Johnson and Rachel Singer Gordon. The blog provides tips, news, and notices for and regarding library jobs.

Very quick and easy way to start blogging with lots of news about blogging and some very nifty blogging capabilities.

A continually updated look at what libraries are doing with blogs.

The news arm of the Curmudgeony Librarian website. This blog features news and websites of interest to the author on librarians, librarianship, technology, the internet and web, and other topics.

Its aim is to spread news and information about information literacy worldwide, and the blog seems to both spread the information worldwide and spread news from around the world (or at least from Europe and not just the U.S.).

New weblog featuring updates to articles, supplementary materials that don't fit into the LITA Journal. One of the most important features of ITALica is a forum for reader conversations with authors to continue discussion of topics. On trial in Oct 2008

An anonymous blogger talks about his experiences being a library technician, with his viewpoints about the profession, about libraries, about the job market for library techs, and about the relation of libraries to technology and service in general.

It would be wrong of library students to drop out of their programs and simply read Vermonter Jessamyn West’s blog about creatively integrating techonology and a human-centered approach into library services. But it would be understandable.

The 6 LJ Newsletters are free and can be read or subscribed to. Archives attached. Includes BookSmart, Criticas Connector, Library Hotline, LJ Academic Newswire, LJ Review Alert, LJ Xpress.

Description: A directory of library weblogs from around the world.

Informal list for currently employed UCI library staff.

Comic Strip set in and about a Library.

Another great, techie librarian sharing his knowledge of how librarians can use the internet to help patrons, Scott compiled the first hypertext index of the Internet resources, Hytlenet, first released in 1991.

Everything you need to know about blogs.

The American Society for Information Science and Technology's Special Interest Group for International Information Issues (SIG-III) blog is a interested in information science. The blog may be found here.

Description: Librarian Michael Lorenzen from Mt. Pleasant, MI discusses information literacy, search engines, librarianship, library instruction, and user education.

A cultural anthropology prof at Kansas State offers some interesting food for thought.

Daily updated weblog - provides news and commentary on digital copyright, digital curation, digital repositories, open access, scholarly communication, and other digital information issues. Contains Category Index.

Weblog is updated monthly and introduces new themes, issues & players in scholarly ePublishing. Highlights sources of new content and scholarship about ePublishing.

Created by Adrian Ho & Charles Bailey, this source documents the state of output in Open Access from 1995.

Created in 2000, this is a blog of Internet and technology law news clips, compiled by attorney Doug Isenberg.