Professional Reading Shelf
Web Directories
Source: LII
The Librarians’ Index to the Internet User Survey
One of the great librarian-built resources is asking for your assistance. Karen and the LII team would appreciate if you would complete a short survey (only 15 questions). Thanks!
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Librarians
Special Libraries
Source: CareerJournal/Wall St. Journal
Corporate librarians are abandoning the stacks
More postive press about the profession and the skills info pros possess and can offer organizations! Congrats to ResourceShelf contributing editor Steven Cohen on the mention. More congrats to Gary’s former boss (during library school) and former president of SLA, Judy Field, on being quoted in the article.
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Electronic Journals–HighWire Press
Source: HP
Check out a Preview Version of the New HighWire Press Web Site
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Information Science
Source: ASIS&T
The April/May 2005 Issue of the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology is Now Online
Articles and Columns Include:
+ The Historical Development of Information Infrastructures and the Dissemination of Knowledge: A Personal Reflection
+ Bella and Yakov and Tillie’s Panties: What I learned in “Construction and Maintenance of Indexing Languages and Thesauri”
Great read!
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MEDLINE
Source: NLM
Just Published, 2005 List of Journals Indexed for MEDLINE
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Website Accessibility
Source: The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council
New Report, Accessibility of museum, library and archive websites: the MLA audit
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Conferences–Australia
Source: NLA
Conference celebrates research using National Library’s collections
“Join outstanding Australian and international authors, scholars and commentators as they speak about research based on the National Library’s collections at the conference An Open Book: Research, Imagination and the Pursuit of Knowledge from Friday 29 April until Sunday 1 May 2005.”
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Public Libraries–Censorship
Source: American Civil Liberties Union
Reader’s Block: Internet Censorship in Rhode Island Public Libraries (PDF; 470 KB)
From press release: “The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island today released a report showing that public libraries in the state are impeding patrons’ access to information on the Internet through the unnecessarily expansive use of so-called ‘blocking software.’ Calling the findings ‘troubling,’ the 18-page report, ‘Reader’s Block,’ urged libraries to reassess the policies and practices they have implemented.” (via DocuTicker)

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