Library Networking:
Journals, Blogs, Associations, Conferences

In Libraryland, there are many ways of keeping up and keeping connected with your fellow librarians

This page does not necessarily indicate every site that has an RSS feed. Since most of these people are librarians, it's always worth checking for an RSS feed for their journals, blogs, etc. (What's RSS?)

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Library Networking, generally | Library Journals and Indexes | Library and Librarian Blogs | Library Newsgroup | Library and Related Associations (Subject-Matter Library Associations) | Library Conferences

Library Networking, generally

• Steven Bell's Keeping Up Web Site - Links to sites to help librarians keep up with their own field and related fields
• Marylaine Block:
• Stop the World, I Want to Catch Up, Ex Libris 137
• Part II, Ex Libris 148
• Keeping Up with New Developments in Librarianship and the Internet
• Her Bookmarks
• Current Awareness and Professional Aids for Science Librarians (Lorrie Pellack, Iowa State U.)

Library Journals and Indexes

Including online-only journals

• American Libraries Online
• Ariadne - Though targeted at UK academic librarians, this quarterly is useful for anyone working on digital library projects
• Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large - Walt Crawford's journal on libraries and information (monthly)
• Collaborative Librarianship - "Increasingly, libraries are moved to seek partnerships with other libraries, with other organizations in the information and technology fields, with other entities in our institutions, and with other groups and enterprises in our communities."
• D-Lib - For the digital librarian (monthly)
• Ex Libris - "An E-Zine for Librarians and Information Junkies," by Marylaine Block
• First Monday - Published the first Monday of every month, this peer-reviewed journal covers social aspects of the Internet, often with a library emphasis
• JInfo - (formerly Free Pint)
• Information for Social Change
• Information Research - "An open access, international, peer-reviewed, scholarly journal"
• Library Journal - Library news
• SPARC Open Access Newsletter (SOAN) - Peter Suber's newsletter, blog, and discussion forum in support of scholarly works being available freely (i.e., uncensored and without charge) (formerly Free Online Scholarship)

Web Directories of Library Journals:

• Directory of Open Access Journals: Library and Information Science
• LIS Publications Wiki - A guide for librarians seeking to publish in library journals (San Jose State University School of Information)
• Resources for Librarians (Steven Bell's Keeping Up)
• Thomas Parry Library: Electronic Journals in Librarianship and Information Science (University of Wales, Aberystwyth)

Library Periodical Indexes:

• Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA) - Index to hundreds of library periodicals (no full text, however) (EBSCO) [libraryresearch.com]
• Current Cites - Monthly abstract service of information technology articles selected by librarians
• Documents in Information Science (DoIS)
• Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) - Databases of reports, etc. on education, including some library publications (U.S. Dept. of Education)
• Informed Librarian Online - Subscription service with tables of contents from 180 library journals

Digital Libraries and E-Print Servers:

• Digital Library of Information Science and Technology (dList)
• E-LIS: E-Prints in Library and Information Science
• LIS Scholarship Archive
• OCLC Research Publications Repository

Library and Librarian Blogs

There are too many library blogs for me to keep track of. Listed below are some I have found interesting. For more-or-less complete lists, see the directories of library blogs below. For new blogs by librarians and libraries, see LIS Blogsource. See also librarians of specific types; some of them have blogs on their sites

Library Blogs, Collaborative Efforts:

See also

• Library Wikis
• LIS News - A collective blog run by Blake Carver, updated and commented upon by its readers
• Carnival of the Infosciences - Best of the library blogs in the past week



Blogs by and for Librarians:

See also

• Blogs (in general)
• Library Technology Blogs
• Political Librarians
• Librarian.net - "By a librarian for rarin' librarians, info junkies, freedom lovers and other weirdos" (Jessamyn West)
• Shifted Librarian - Blog on the theme of the shift from searching for information to having it come to you. (Jenny Levine)
• Blog Driver's Waltz by Geoff Harder - "Blogging the life of one Canadian librarian since 2002"
• Catalogablog - A Blog on cataloging issues (David Bigwood)
• etc. by Amanda Etches-Johnson
• See Meta Blog below
• Every Moment's a Little Bit Later - Nacowafer writes about cataloging and other aspects of life
• Exploded Library
• Free Range Librarian - Karen Schneider writes about libraries and life
• The Goblin in the Library by Joshua M. Neff of Johnson County Library (Kans.)
• Holmgrrl - Sarah Holm Norton
• In the Library with the Lead Pipe - In-depth essays on library issues every two weeks
• INFOdocket - Where librarian Gary Price reports his latest discoveries (Library Journal)
• Information Wants to be Free - By Meredith Farkas, creator of some cool wikis
• It's All Good - By 3 OCLC staff members (unofficial, though)
• Librarians are Corrupting Kids (L.A.C.K.) Now, with a newsblog
• Library Dust - By Michael McGrorty - Thoughtful essays every day
• Library Juice - Progressive librarians' blog from Rory Litwin Archives of the weekly Library Juice are available at http://libr.org/Juice/
• Library Link of the Day
• Library Planet
• Library Stuff - Updated daily (Stephen Cohen)
• New Pages Weblog - "Literary Magazines & Publishing, Alternative Media, Links to Good Reading"
• Open Stacks by Greg Schwartz
• ResearchBuzz - Updated daily, a good site for keeping up with the latest in Internet researching
• ResourceShelf
• Retrofitted Librarian - "News and information for San Francisco Bay Area library workers" by Susan Rosenblatt
• Peter Scott's Library Blog (formerly Library News Daily)
• T. Scott - Blog of a medical librarian
• TangognaT - It's a palindrome, get it?
• Tinfoil + Raccoon - Rochelle Hartman is "looking for the new and shiny in libraryland and beyond"
• Walt at Random - Walt Crawford's blog. His more considered insights are in Cites & Insights (see Journals, above)
• Wandering Eyre - "A bibliophile's musings about books, libraries, the world, life, and anything else that comes to mind" by Michelle Boule (a.k.a. Jane)
• World's Strongest Librarian - Inpiration from a librarian whose motto is "Get stronger, get smarter, live better ... every day"

Official Blogs of Libraries:

• Library of Congress Blog
• New York Public Library Blog - Highlights from the collections
• As a Matter of Fact - Blog of the NPR librarians
• Chi Lib Rocks - Chicago Library System
• H₂O boro lib log - Waterboro Public Library (Maine) Blog
• Icarus, Santa Fe (N.M.) Public Library
• Leddy Library Weblog - University of Windsor (Canada)
• Liblog - Redwood City (Calif.) Public Library
• Wilton Library Weblog, Wilton, Conn

Library Blog Directories:

• Blogging Libraries Wiki - "Libraries doing good things with blogs" (blogwithoutalibrary.net)
• Library Zen Wiki - List of blogs indexed by LISZen (see below)
• LISWiki: Blogs

Library Blog Search Engines:

• LibWorm - Indexes over 1,000 library-related RSS feeds. Search the whole index; search within categories; track keywords with your own RSS feeds
• LISZen: Library and Information Science Search Engine - Searches over 500 blogs

Meta Blog:

• LIS Blogsource - It had to happen: a blog about librarian blogs
• Blog Without a Library - Another blog on library blogs (Amanda Etches-Johnson)
• Blogs for Libraries - An essay by Greg Schwartz

Library Newsgroup

• soc.libraries.talk (via Google Groups)

Library and Related Associations

• American Library Association (ALA)
• American Society for Indexing
• ARMA International (formerly Association of Records Managers and Administrators)
• Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM)
• Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T)
• Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE)
• Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP)
• Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
• International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
• Library Society of the World - A virtual association and sponsors of the Shovers and Makers award
• Society of American Archivists (SAA)
• Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP)

Selected Library Associations in Other English-Speaking Nations:

• Australian Library and Information Association
• Canadian Federation of Library Associations / Fédération canadienne des associations de bibliothèques
• Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) - Formed from the merger of the Library Association (U.K.) and the Institute of Information Scientists
• Library and Information Association New Zealand Aoteoroa (LIANZA)
• Library Association of Ireland

Subject-Matter Library Associations:

Associations (or divisions of associations) for librarians who deal with specific subjects

Arts	Art Libraries Society of North America Arts & Humanities Special Interest Group (ASIS&T) Arts Section (ACRL) Social Sciences and Humanities Division (SLA) Theatre Library Association Visual Resources Association
Botany	Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL)
Business	Business and Finance Division (SLA) Business Reference and Services Section (BRASS) (ALA RUSA) Competitive Intelligence (SLA) Insurance and Employee Benefits (SLA)
Chemistry	American Chemical Society Divsion of Chemical Information (ACS CINF) Chemistry Division (SLA)
Earth and Environmental Sciences	Atmospheric Science Librarians International (ASLI) Food, Agriculture, and Environmental Resources Division (SLA) Geoscience Information Society International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers (IAMSLIC) Natural History Caucus (SLA) Natural Resources Information Council
Education	Education and Behavioral Sciences Section (ACRL) Education Division (SLA)
Engineering	Engineering Division (SLA) Engineering Libraries Division (American Society for Engineering Education, ASEE) Patent Information Users Group
Food and Agriculture	Food, Agriculture, and Environmental Resources Division (SLA) United States Agricultural Information Network (USAIN) Wine Librarians Association
Geography, Area Studies, and Maps	Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Studies Interest Group (ACRL) Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums (ATALM) European Studies Section (ACRL): Western European Studies Slavic and Eastern European Studies Map and Geospatial Information Round Table (ALA) Middle East Librarians Association Polar Libraries Colloquy Western Association of Map Librarians
Law and Political Science	American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) (ALA) Government Information Division (SLA) Legal Division (SLA) Politics, Policy, and International Relations Section (ACRL)
Literature	Literatures in English Section (ACRL)
Medicine and Life Sciences	Medical Library Association Bioinformatics Special Interest Group (ASIS&T) Biomedical and Life Sciences Division (SLA) Health Informatics Special Interest Group (ASIS&T) Health Sciences Interest Group (ACRL) Pharmaceutical and Health Technology Division (SLA) Substance Abuse Librarians and Information Specialists (SALIS)
Military	Military Education Research Library Network (MERLN) Military Libraries Division (SLA)
Music	International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres Major Orchestra Librarians' Association Music Library Association
Physical Sciences	Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics Division (SLA)
Religion	American Theological Library Association (ATLA) Association of Jewish Libraries Church and Synagogue Libraries
Science and Technology	Science and Technology Section (ACRL) Science and Technical Information Special Interest Group (ASIS&T) Science-Technology Division (SLA)
Social Sciences	African-American Studies Librarians Interest Group (ACRL) Anthropology and Sociology Section (ACRL) APLIC (formerly Association for Population and Family Planning Libraries and Information Centers International) Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums (ATALM) History Librarians Interest Group (ACRL) History Section (ALA RUSA) International Association for Social Science Information Services & Technology (IASSIST) Social Informatics Special Interest Group (ASIS&T) Social Sciences and Humanities Division (SLA) Women and Gender Studies Section (ACRL)
Sports	Baseball Caucus (SLA)
Transportation	Transportation Division (SLA)

Web Directories of Library Associations:

• Library Associations Around the World (American Library Association)
• Professional Organizations in the Information Sciences (Karen Stone, San Jose State University)

Library Conferences

Most Associations have conferences, but the following sites will help you find more of them. Even if you can't get to a conference, check the web site to see if some of the presentations are online.

• Charleston Conference - Conference on collection development and acquisition
• Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries (QQML) - An international conference
• Electronic Resources and Libraries
• Information Today conferences - Computers in Libraries, Internet Librarian, and more
• Library 2.0 - Presents a worldwide virtual conference in October each year. (San Jose State University)
• STELLA Unconference - The "Science, Technology & Engineering Library Leaders in Action Unconference is a participant-driven event for current and aspiring science, technology, engineering, and medical/health librarians. At an unconference everyone is a presenter and an organizer."

Directories and Calendars of Library Conferences

• LISEvents - Find conferences by place, time, online-only, etc.
• D-Lib Meetings, Conferences, and Workshops
• Douglas Hasty's Library Conference Planner
• Information Today Calendar - Includes other organizations' events, as well as those sponsored by Information Today
• International Calendar of Information Science Conferences
• Librarian's Datebook - Calendar of conferences and training for librarians
• Library-Related Conferences - Compiled by Marian Dworaczek, U. of Saskatchewan