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Bookmarks

The Web makes life so much simpler, but accessing it from different locations using different browsers and different computers can cause some problems. I have some extensive lists of bookmarks on my home computer and a different set at work. To make my life easier, I decided to put together some resource pages that I can access from anywhere. I hope these lists will be as helpful to others as they are to me.

Digitization Resources

Digitization projects are popping up all over the library world. The following resources include articles and other documentation for developing and managing digitization projects, links to specific projects, information about Digital Libraries, training opportunities, eJournals, grant resources, and links to lists of additional resources.

News

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Graduate School of Library and Information Science will begin offering a Certificate of Advanced Study in Digital Libraries in fall 2005.
URI: http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/gslis/degrees/cas_dl.html

Articles and Documentation

• Creating and Managing Digital Content
  URI: http://www.chin.gc.ca/English/Digital_Content/index.html
• Developing and managing digital projects (bibliography)
  URI: http://www.wils.wisc.edu/events/dgtdev/present/palmer1.doc
• Digitization : How much does it really cost?
  URI: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/drhahc/drh/abst93.htm
• Digitization plan for the Northern New York Library Network
  URI: http://www.nnyln.org/digsummary.html
• Dred Scott Digitization Project Final Report
  URI: http://digital.wustl.edu/contributing/dsfinalreport2.doc
• DRH '99:
  URI: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/drh/programme.htm
• Electronic journal of academic and special librarianship, Digitization in an archival environment
  URI: http://southernlibrarianship.icaap.org/content/v04n01/Mckay_s01.htm
• Florida State University Libraries, Digital Library & Media Center, Creating Digital Content for Research and Teaching
  URI: http://www.ifla.org/VII/s19/pubs/digit-guide.pdf
• How to Survive Your Digitization Project
  URI: http://www.infotoday.com/CIL2004/Presentations/Helling/survive-full.html
• IFLA Guidelines for Digitization Projects...
  URI: http://www.ifla.org/VII/s19/pubs/digit-guide.pdf
• Image Integration : the digital imaging guide -- Workshops and Schools
  URI: http://www.dig-mar.com/Support/workshops.html
• Library of Congress, Building Digital Collections: Technical Information and Background Papers
  URI: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/techdocs/
• Newark Public Library Digitization Plan 2002-2004
  URI: http://www.npl.org/Pages/AboutLibrary/digplan.html
• The NINCH (National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage) Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials
  URI: http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/index.html
• Northeast Document Conservation Center, Handbook for Digital Projects : A Management Tool for Preservation and Access
  URI: http://www.nedcc.org/digital/intro.htm
• Oklahoma State Univ. Library Electronic Publishing Center -- Digitization Resources
  URI: http://digital.library.okstate.edu/resources.html
• Outsourcing option (scanning, metadata, and cataloging)
  URI: http://www.marclink.com/main.html
• Stanford -- Digital Imaging
  URI: http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/bytopic/imaging/
• University of Buffalo -- Resources for Digitization
  URI: http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/cts/preservation/digires.html
• University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service
  URI: http://www.umdl.umich.edu/
• University of Southern Mississippi, Guidelines for Digitization
  URI: http://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/crda/guidelines/
• University of Texas -- Digital Preservation Link Reference List
  URI: http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/~ssoy/diglib.htm
• University of Virginia Library Digital Initiatives: Services
  URI: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/digital/services/
• Victoria's Virtual Library Infonet
  URI: http://www.libraries.vic.gov.au/downloads/Victorias_Virtual_Library_Digital_Collection/lochist.htm
• Washington State Library, Digital Best Practices
  URI: http://digitalwa.statelib.wa.gov/newsite/scanning.htm

Projects and Digital Libraries

• Alliance Memory
  URI: http://alliancememory.org/index.html
• The British Columbia International Digital Library
  URI: http://bcdlib.tc.ca/
• California Digital Library
  URI: http://www.cdlib.org/
• Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries
  URI: http://www.collectionscanada.ca/cidl/inforese.html
• Cleveland Digital Library
  URI: http://web.ulib.csuohio.edu/SpecColl/cdl/
• Cleveland Memory Project
  URI: http://www.clevelandmemory.org/
• Colorado Digitzation Project
  URI: http://www.cdpheritage.org/index.html
  • Report on CDP from Colorado Dept of Ed
    URI: http://www.cde.state.co.us/libnewsletter/sl0100a2.htm
• University of Nevada-Reno, Digitial Projects
  URI: http://www2.library.unr.edu/digitalprojects/business_plan.htm
• Library of Congress, National Digital Library Program
  URI: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/techdocs/conserv83199a.pdf
• Library Preservation at Harvard
  URI: http://preserve.harvard.edu/
• MATRIX - The Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Services Online -- Digitization Projects
  URI: http://matrix.msu.edu/modules/digitalcollections/
• Minnesota Digital Library Project
  URI: http://www.mndigital.org/
• North Carolina ECHO Digitization Guidelines
  URI: http://www.ncecho.org/Guide/2004/toc.htm
• Northeast Document Conservation Center
  URI: http://www.nedcc.org/
• Ohio Memory Project
  URI: http://www.ohiomemory.org/om/
• Online Archive of California
  URI: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/
• University of Hawaii-Manoa, Digital Archive
  URI: http://libweb.hawaii.edu/
• University of Southern Mississippi, Digital Resources Online
  URI: http://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/digi/online.php
• Wyoming Western Trails digital project
  URI: http://www-wsl.state.wy.us/trails/index.html

About Digital Libraries

• Arms, William Y. Digital Libraries
  URI: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=3399
• Harter, Stephen P. What is a Digital Library? Definitions, Content, and Issues
  URI: http://php.indiana.edu/~harter/korea-paper.htm
• Richvalsky, James and Watkins, David. Design and Implementation of a Digital Library
  URI: http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds5-2/diglib.html
• Waters, Donald J. What Are Digital Libraries?
  URI: http://www.clir.org/pubs/issues/issues04.html#dlf

Courses, Workshops, Training, Listservs

• DIGLIB list
  URI: http://www.ifla.org/II/lists/diglib.htm
• Illinois Digitization Institute
  URI: http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/IDI/
• Illinois Digitization Project, Online workshop:
  URI: http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/IDI/Track2schedule.htm
• Infopeople, Training -- Introduction to Metadata and Record Building
  URI: http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop/Workshop/129
• Infopeople, Possible contact: Matthew Mattson
  URI: http://www.infopeople.org/training/trainers/matthew_mattson.html
• IS214: Digital Library and Information Services in Enterprises
  URI: http://144.16.72.189/is214/is214-2004-01-04/topic-7.htm
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Certificate of Advanced Study in Digital Libraries
  URI: http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/gslis/degrees/cas_dl.html

eJournals

• DigiCULT: Technology Challenges for Digital Culture
  URI: http://www.digicult.info/pages/index.php
• D-Lib Magazine
  URI: http://www.dlib.org/
• RLG DigiNews
  URI: http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=12081

Grants

• Institute of Museum and Library Services
  URI: http://www.imls.gov/
• State Library of Ohio -- LSTA Digitization Grants Tip Sheet
  URI: http://winslo.state.oh.us/publib/lstadigit.html

Other Resource Lists

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University Library, Digital Services and Development Unit Web Resource List
  URI: http://images.library.uiuc.edu/resources/linklist.html

Metadata Resources

What is Metadata? It's data about data. As a cataloger, I've been working with metadata for years. I've been moving beyond Machine Readable Cataloging (MARC) and the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules into other areas of metadata in recent years. This guide includes General Resources, W3C Resources, Dublin Core, Encoded Archival Description, IMS Global Learning Consortium, and Other Metadata Schemas

General Resources

Getty Research Institute, Introduction to Metadata : Pathways to Digital Information, edited by Murtha Baca
URI: http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/intrometadata/

Google Directory, Metadata Resources
URI: http://directory.google.com/Top/Reference/Libraries/Library_and_Information_Science/Technical_Services/Cataloguing/Metadata/

International Federations of Library Associations and Institutions, Digital Libraries and Metadata resources
URI: http://www.ifla.org/II/metadata.htm

MIT Libraries, Metadata Reference Guide
URI: http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/subjects/metadata/index.html

Web Design Group, META - Metadata
URI: http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/head/meta.html

Merholz, Peter. Metadata for the Masses
URI: http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000361.php

Taylor, Chris. An Introduction to Metadata
URI: http://www.library.uq.edu.au/iad/ctmeta4.html

Cathro, Warwick. Metadata : An Overview
URI: http://www.nla.gov.au/nla/staffpaper/cathro3.html

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Resources

• Metadata Activity Statement
  URI: http://www.w3.org/Metadata/Activity.html
• Semantic Web Activity
  URI: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
• Resource Description Framework (RDF)
  URI: http://www.w3.org/RDF/

Dublin Core (DC)

• Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)
  URI: http://dublincore.org/
• DCMI Metadata Terms
  URI: http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
• Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, Version 1.1: Reference Description
  URI: http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/
• Expressing Dublin Core in HTML/XHTML meta and link elements
  URI: http://dublincore.org/documents/dcq-html/
• Guidelines for implementing Dublin Core in XML
  URI: http://dublincore.org/documents/2003/04/02/dc-xml-guidelines/

Encoded Archival Description (EAD)

• Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
  URI: http://www.loc.gov/ead/
• EAD Help Pages
  URI: http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/ead/
• EAD Sites
  URI: http://romaine.home.pipeline.com/notes/ead_sites.htm
• Comeau, Sheila. Encoded Archival Description (EAD) and the Creation of Electronic Finding Aids
  URI: http://www.collectionscanada.ca/9/1/p1-257-e.html
• Metadata Reference Guide: EAD
  URI: http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/subjects/metadata/standards/ead.html
• OAC Best Practice Guidelines for Encoded Archival Description
  URI: http://www.cdlib.org/inside/diglib/guidelines/bpgead/bpgead_1-2.html
• RLG Best Practice Guidelines for Encoded Archival Description
  URI: http://www.rlg.org/rlgead/bpg.pdf

IMS Global Learning Consortium Metadata

• Digital Repositories Specification
  URI: http://www.imsglobal.org/digitalrepositories/index.cfm
• IMS AccessForAll Meta-data Specification
  URI: http://www.imsglobal.org/accessibility/index.cfm
• IMS ePortfolio Specification
  URI: http://www.imsglobal.org/ep/index.cfm
• IMS Learning Design Specification
  URI: http://www.imsglobal.org/learningdesign/index.cfm
• IMS Learning Resource Specification
  URI: http://www.imsglobal.org/metadata/index.cfm

Other Metadata Schemas

• Directory Interchange Format (DIF)
  URI: http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/User/difguide/difman.html
• Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) documentation
  URI: http://www.geminfo.org/about/documentation/
• Global Information Locator Service (GILS)
  URI: http://www.gils.net/
• IEEE Learning Object Metadata (LOM)
  URI: http://ltsc.ieee.org/wg12/
• Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standards (METS)
  URI: http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/
• Metadata Object Description Scheme (MODS)
  URI: http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/
• Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
  URI: http://www.tei-c.org/
• United States Geological Survey (USGS), Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC), Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
  URI: http://www.fgdc.gov/metadata/metadata.html

Library Resource

While "bookmarks" or "favorites" lists are great for keeping track of frequently used web sites, they're not as useful when you're not on your own computer! I created this page so that I can always have access to some of the links I use most often.

Cataloging Tools

Online tools for catalogers are really useful in performing day-to-day operations!

• Cataloging Department website. University Libraries, The University of Akron: http://www3.uakron.edu/ul/depts/cataloging/
  As one of the writers and co-webmaster for this site, it is, of course, a favorite of mine!
• ACQWEB (Acquisitions Web), Vanderbilt University: http://acqweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/
• Authority tools for audiovisual and music catalogers: an annotated list of useful resources, OLAC: http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/cts/olac/capc/authtools.html
• The Cataloger's reference shelf, The Library Corporation: http://www.tlcdelivers.com/tlc/crs/CRS0000.htm
• Cataloging Distribution Service. The Library of Congress: http://lcweb.loc.gov/cds/
• Cataloging electronic resources: OCLC-MARC coding guidelines, by Jay Weitz, Consulting Database Specialist, OCLC WorldCat Content Management Division. Revised 2002 December 1: http://www.oclc.org/connexion/documentation/type.htm
• Cataloging Internet resources: a manual and practical guide, 2nd edition; editor, Nancy B. Olson: http://www.purl.org/oclc/cataloging-internet
• Cataloging Tips and Tags. InfoOHIO: http://www.infohio.org/UC/Cattips.html
• Cataloging Tools. North Carolina State University, Cataloging Department: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/cataloging/tools/cattool.htm
• Cataloging tools and resources, Yale University: http://www.library.yale.edu/cataloging/tools.htm
• Cataloguer's toolbox, Bibliographic Control Services of the Queen Elizabeth II Library at Memorial University of Newfoundland: http://www.library.mun.ca/qeii/toolbox.php
• CONSER, Cooperative Online Serials, Library of Congress: http://lcweb.loc.gov/acq/conser/about.html
• Dewey Decimal Classification, OCLC, Forest Press: http://www.oclc.org/oclc/fp/
• Digital libraries: cataloguing and indexing of electronic resources, International Federation of Library Associations and Institution (IFLANET): http://www.ifla.org/II/catalog.htm
• Innovative Interfaces: http://www.iii.com/
• Internet library for librarians, Cataloging, Internet Library for Librarians: http://www.itcompany.com/inforetriever/cat.htm
• ISBD(G): General International Standard Bibliographic Description: http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/pubs/isbdg0.htm
• Library cataloguing aids, by Lynne LeGrow: http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/allegrow/cat.htm
• Library of Congress announcements, Library of Congress, Cataloging Policy and Support Office: http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/cpso.html#announce
• Library of Congress authorities search screen, Library of Congress: http://authorities.loc.gov/
• Library of Congress classification outline, Library of Congress, Cataloging Policy and Support Office: http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/lcco.html
• Library of Congress classification weekly lists, Library of Congress, Cataloging Policy and Support Office: http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/cpso.html#class
• Library of Congress rule interpretations: cumulative list of currently valid LCRIs, Library of Congress, Cataloging Policy and Support Office: http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/currlcri.pdf
• Library of Congress online catalog, Library of Congress: http://catalog.loc.gov/
• Library of Congress subject headings weekly lists, Library of Congress, Cataloging Policy and Support Office: http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/cpso.html#subjects
• The Library Spot, published by StartSpot Mediaworks, Inc.: http://www.libraryspot.com/
• Map cataloging manual, Library of Congress, provided by The Library Corporation: http://www.tlcdelivers.com/tlc/crs/map0001.htm
• MARC code list for countries, Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/marc/countries/cntrhome.html
• MARC code list for geographic areas, Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/marc/geoareas/gacshome.html
• MARC code list for languages, Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/marc/languages/langhome.html
• MARC 21 concise format for authority data, 2002 concise edition; Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/marc/authority/ecadhome.html
• MARC 21 concise format for bibliographic data, 2002 concise edition; Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/ecbdhome.html
• MIT Library's Cataloging oasis, MIT Library: http://macfadden.mit.edu:9500/colserv/cat/
• OCLC authorities reference card, OCLC: http://www.oclc.org/oclc/man/5411arc/5411.htm
• OCLC bibliographic formats and standards, OCLC: http://www.oclc.org/bibformats/en/about/index.shtm
• OCLC cataloging service user guide, OCLC: http://www.oclc.org/connexion/documentation/guide/toc.htm
• OCLC Connexion authorities users guide, OCLC: http://www.oclc.org/oclc/man/5411aug/toc_nofr.htm
• OCLC librarian's toolbox, OCLC: http://www.oclc.org/navigation/toolbox/
• Technical processing online tools (TPOT), University of California at San Diego: http://tpot.ucsd.edu/
• Tools for serial catalogers: a collection of useful sites and sources, by Ann Ercelawn: http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/ercelawn/serials.html
• Understanding MARC bibliographic: machine readable cataloging, Betty Furrie: http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/umb/

Miscellaneous Resources

• Copyright and Intellectual Property. Association of Research Libraries (ARL): http://www.arl.org/info/frn/copy/copytoc.html
• Copyright Website, by Benedict O'Mahoney: http://www.benedict.com/
• Dublin Core and metadata: a tutorial: http://hosted.ukoln.ac.uk/ec/metadata-1997/tutorial/presentation/
• The Library Spot: http://www.libraryspot.com/
  A virtual library center attempting to organize the many "worlds" of information about libraries on the web.
• Library Web Manager's Reference Center. Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/RefCenter/
  This is a great index of links to help the beginning or advanced webmaster design a library web site.
• MetaMap: http://mapageweb.umontreal.ca/turner/meta/english/index.html

Library Organizations

Check these sites out for the latest in library news.

• American Library Association (ALA): http://www.ala.org/
• Academic Librarians Association of Ohio (ALAO): http://www.alaoweb.org/
• Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL): http://www.ala.org/acrl/
• Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/
• OhioLINK: http://www.ohiolink.edu/
• OHIONET: http://www.ohionet.org/
• Online Audiovisual Catalogers, Inc. (OLAC): http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/cts/olac/

Online Journals

These are some of the online journals that I regularly read.

• Ariadne: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/
• D-LIB Magazine: http://www.dlib.org/
• E-JASL: The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship: http://southernlibrarianship.icaap.org/
• Journal of Digital Information: http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
• LIBRES: http://libres.curtin.edu.au/