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Contents:

 NATIONAL STANDARDS & POLICIES

 DIRECTORIES AND INDEXES Search the Internet for more information on library and information services.

 ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTERS AND LISTSERV ARCHIVES

 PUBLISHING AND BOOKSELLING

 ORGANIZATIONS This section includes links to many of our major suppliers, other than publishers.

 OTHER LIBRARIES See what other libraries have at their Web sites.

 Other sites on CATALOGING, LIBRARY TECHNICAL SERVICES AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY


National Standards & Policies

 Cataloging electronic resources: OCLC-MARC guidelines
 Class web (needs user name and password)
 Enhance training outline
 Guidelines for national level enhance participants
Introduction to MARC tagging: an OCLC tutorial, part 1
 LC authority file
 LC catalog
 LC Cataloging Policy & Support Office (CPSO)
 MARC standards
 OCLC bibliographic formats and standards, 3rd ed.
 OCLC cataloging service user guide (3rd ed)
 OCLC catalogers' toolbox

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Directories and Indexes

 AcqWeb
by Anna Belle Leiserson ("Ms. Acquisitions")

 Britannica Online
This link works from campus workstations only.

 BUBL Information Service Home Page
A major index to Internet resources on library and information services.

 CoOL (Conservation Online)
Includes links to many sources of information on archival, library, and museum conservation and preservation issues.

 Directory of Electronic Journals and Newsletters
... by Association of Research Libraries (1995)

 Information Systems Meta-List
This index is mostly of interest to those in the computer hardware or software industries, but library staff will like the links to companies, to information on computer hardware and software they use or plan to use, and to general computer magazines.

 Internet Library for Librarians
... created by Vianne Tang Sha.

 Maryland Manual On-line
A guide to Maryland government, by the Maryland State Archives.

 Serials in Cyberspace
... by Birdie MacLennan. Use this to find out which libraries are collecting electronic journals. Other sites of interest to technical services librarians can be reached here too.

 Top 200 Technical Services Benefits of Home Page Development
... by Barbara Stewart, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Has over 200 links to otherwise hard-to-find sites on technical services, information technology, the Internet, and library services.

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Electronic Newsletters and Listserv Archives

For more information, see Library-Oriented Lists and Electronic Serials compiled by Ann Thornton and Steve Bonario.
 ACQNET

 ALANEWS

 ALAWON

 AUTOCAT

 Citations for Serial Literature

 CurrentCites

    A monthly bibliography of selected articles, books, and electronic documents on information technology, edited by Teri Andrews Rinne

 LC Cataloging Newsline

 lis-acq

 lis-serials

 LITA Newsletter

 Newsletter On Serials Pricing Issues

 Public Access Computers Review (PACS Review)

 SERIALST

    Use WAIS to search the archives. Serialst also has a document on its scope and purpose, with subscription information.

 TER: Telecommunications Electronic Review

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Publishing and Bookselling

 Association of American University Presses (AAUP)

 Blackwell's Book Services

 BookWeb

 Bookwire
by the American Booksellers' Association. Covers the trade publishing industry, with information of interest to authors, book reviews, lists of book-related events, and a link to Publisher's Weekly.

 The Faxon Co.
Also contains information on the National Information Standards Organization (NISO).

 Harrassowitz
German book dealer

 Publishers' Catalogues Home Page
A list of publishers' web sites, by Peter Scott.

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Organizations

 American Library Association (ALA)

 Association of Research Libraries (ARL)

 CARL

 Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH)

 Center for Research Libraries (CRL)

 Center for Library Initiatives (CIC)

 Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)

 EDUCAUSE (formerly EDUCOM)

 Electronic Text Center -- University of Virginia

 IFLANET
    International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions' WWW service

 National Information Standards Organization (NISO)

 North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG)

 NASIGWeb

 OCLC

 PALINET

 Research Libraries Group (RLG)

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Other Libraries

 Library WWW Servers

    This will link you to many other libraries' home pages.

 WWW Accessible National Libraries of the World

    ... an IFLA site.

 ARL Member Libraries' Information Servers
Use this to find ARL libraries' home pages.

 Library of Congress

 National Agricultural Library

 National Archives and Records Administration

 National Library of Medicine

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Other Sites on Technical Services and Information Technology

More Useful Information for Catalogers

 Cataloging Cheat Sheet

    by J. McRee Elrod

 Cataloging Internet Resources

    edited by Nancy B. Olson

 Cataloger's Toolbox

    from the Memorial University of Newfoundland

 Cataloging Foreign Language Materials

 Cornell University Technical Services Manual

 ELEC-TECH

    SUNY at Buffalo Central Technical Services Web site

 The Future is Now: Reconciling Change and Continuity in Authority Control

 CONSER Program

 Cataloging

    created by Vianne Tang Sha

 LC Weekly Subject Heading Lists

 MIT Cataloging Oasis

 Northwestern University Library Technical Services Department

 Oberlin LCRI Cumulated

    Prototype, containing chapters 5 and 23

 OCLC Forms

 OCLC Technical Bulletins

 Online Audiovisual Catalogers

 Passport for Windows Macros

    from TPOT at the University of California, San Diego

 Princeton University Libraries Technical Services

 Program for Cooperative Cataloging:

 Queens University Libraries QTECH Web

 TPOT: Technical Processing Online Tools

    developed at the University of California, San Diego

 USMARC Home Page

 University of Michigan Library Original Cataloging Unit

 University of Texas

 University of Virginia Libraries' Cataloging Services Dep't.

 University of Washington

 Yale University

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More on Other Areas of Technical Services and Information Technology

 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Statistics

 Digital Libraries Initiative

 Internet and Networking Technology Standards and Organizations

 Internet Catalogs with 'Webbed' Interfaces

 WWWed Catalogs - Z39.50 gateways

Contains links to applications using the Z39.50 standard providing WWW to online catalog gateways.

 Z39.50 Resource Page

Contains general information on using Z39.50.

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