Internet Resources -- Additional Topics

Acquisitions/Collection Development

• ACQWEB
• ILLWeb
• ISBNdb.com
• Resources for School Librarians

Book/Software Reviews

• Book Wire
• Boston Book Review
• DOWNLOAD.COM - publication of CNET, featuring information on software/applications for the PC.
• The New York Review of Books
• New York Times Book Review - password required (free, however).
• The Boston Book Review - Children's Corner

Children's Literature

• Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
• The Children's Literature Web Guide

Childrens Literature -- Foreign Language

• French | German | Spanish

Copyright Information/Resources

• Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. - Online
• Copyright & Fair Use - from Stanford University Libraries
• Copyright in the Library - from Georgia Harper, University of Texas
• World Intellectual Property Organization
• L.S.U. Libraries Copyright Policy Executive Summary
• L.S.U. Libraries Copyright Policy
• Copyright Website

Disabilities Services - Internet Access

• DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology) at the University of Washington
• UNIVERSAL ACCESS: Electronic Resources in Libraries
• Access.adobe.com - information from Adobe concerning their use of Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) to help institutions and individuals make Internet documents accessible to the visually impaired.
• Bobby - HTML validating service designed to check Web pages for accessibility to people with disabilities. Provides useful advice for designing and correcting Web pages accordingly.

Library of Congress Services

• Library of Congress Services

Literature/Book Awards

• Literature/Book Awards

Louisiana Authors Index

• Louisiana Authors Index - list of deceased Louisiana authors.

Louisiana Writers Directory

• Louisiana Writers' Directory - list of living Louisiana writers.

Publishers (books, serials, electronic databases) and Book Stores

• American Library Association - ALA Editions
• American Booksellers Association - BookWeb
• Bookwire
• Children's Publishers on the Internet
• Greenwood Publishing Group
• Haworth Information Press
• Libraries Unlimited - publisher of bibliographies, reference works, and other library and information science related materials. Complete list of titles searchable by subject, author, or title. Partial reviews are included as well as MARC records in many cases.
• Neal-Schuman Publishers
• Oryx Press - publisher of library and education related books, electronic databases.
• Schoenhof's Foreign Books - "A Comprehensive Source for the World's Languages (285 of them) Literature in the Original Language from Continental Europe and Latin America " (Schoenhof's Foreign Books)

World Wide Web

Tillman, Hope N.
Evaluating Quality on the Net

• From a paper presented at Computers in Libraries, Arlington, Virginia, February 26, 1996.
• Although the discussion of evaluative criteria for web resources is brief, this paper is especially strong in discussing the strengths and weaknesses of search engines and guides to Web resources.
• Final version posted March, 2003.

• Beyond Bookmarks: Schemes for Organizing the Web
• Innovative Internet Applications in Libraries a sampling of new and interesting uses of the Web by the public, corporate, academic and school libraries.
• Searching the Internet
• Evaluating the Internet