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Free Stuff of use to Libraries
Global Warming Book
Environmental Defense Fund will send you a 29 page free book on what you can do to prevent global warming.
Braille Goosebumps Book
The American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults will send a Braille Goosebumps/Babysitter Club book monthly to blind children, their teachers or to libraries.
UPDATE 2/5/2001 The book series currently offered through the program are The Nightmare Room(by R.L. Stein, author of the Goosebumps series), Nancy Drew, and the Little House Chapter Books. These books are suitable for children grades 2-5 and up.
Free subcription to Syllabus Magazine
Free MousePads
For libraries or schools.
UNITED STATES
- ASIS Bulletin
http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/
- Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science
- Booklist
http://www.ala.org/booklist/
- American Library Association magazine, carries reviews of new books and electronic publications.
- Information Outlook
http://www.sla.org/pubs/serial/aintro.html
- Information Outlook is the monthly professional magazine of the Special Libraries Association. It is written primarily by and for information professionals. The editorial objective is to provide timely coverage of information management issues relevant to special librarians in a global environment. Information Outlook interprets the news and covers trends and issues impacting
information professionals.
- CONSERLine
http://lcweb.loc.gov/acq/conser/consrlin.html
- Newsletter of the Library of Congress Conser Program (Cooperative Online Serials Cataloging).
- Critical Review of Library and Information Science Literature
http://www.whiteclouds.com/iclc/revw.htm
- Electronic publication providing critical review of works in the field of library and information science.
- New Law for Preservation of Library Materials:
Copyright Legislation Clarifies Digital Preservation Activities
http://www.iupui.edu/~copyinfo/digpreserv.html
WORLD
- Focus on International & Comparative Librarianship
http://www.fdgroup.com/fdi/company/home.html
- Links to Tables of Contents and abstracts of journal articles (1995-present). This is the official organ of the IGLA. Each issue contains several chatty pieces about libraries and librarians worldwide. Provides a useful comparative perspective in a style that reflects the personal experience of its authors
- IFLA Journal
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/
- Links to Tables of Contents and abstracts of journal articles (1993-present). News of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions and its sub-divisions. The text is in English and French. Board and working group minutes are included. This is a necessary international library science forum for library school collections.
- International Information and Library Review
http://www.academicpress.com/iilr
- For more than twenty years, the International Information and Library Review has been welcomed by librarians all over the
world for its timely articles on progress and research in international and comparative librarianship, documentation, and
information retrieval. Contributions to the journal have come from staff or members of many different international organizations,
including the United Nations, UNESCO, IFLA, and INTAMEL, and from library scientists in national academic, public,
industrial, and research libraries and information centers. The journal focuses on three issues: the ways in which information is used as a resource within organizations; the impact that information use is making on societies throughout the world; and the legislative and regulatory implications of an information intensive community.
- Chinese Librarianship: an International Electronic Journal
http://www.whiteclouds.com/iclc/cliej/
- A peer-reviewed journal which focuses on the practical aspect of Chinese librarianship the world over.
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