Professional Reading Shelf
Web Directories
Source: LII
Take a Look: Preview of the Redesigned Librarians’ Index to the Internet Now Online
One of the great web directories is online with a preview of its new look. Impressive! Great slogan too!!! Kudos to Karen Schneider and her team. More soon. Note: If you’ve never visited and/or used the LII, make sure to visit. We can’t stress enough how useful the LII is. It’s also a great illustration of the important work info pros are doing in the web age.
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Library Databases
Source: Forbes
Good Press for Library Databases
If we’ve said it once on ResourceShelf, we’ve said it more than a thousand times, library databases provide free remote access to a treasure trove of material. We’re thrilled to see others writing about them. If you’re interested in a recent article that Gary wrote on the topic, here’s a link. The article concludes with a piece of advice that we’ve also been repeating for years. “My biggest complaint is that some libraries’ Web sites don’t detail the amazing range of services they offer online until you cough up a card number. Memo to those insular institutions: Put the info in the shop windows out front and I bet you’ll see a lot more card-carrying customers walking through the electronic doors.”
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Information–Standards
Source: National Information Standards Organization
The July Issue of NISO Newsline is Now Available
Reports include:
+ ANSI Approves Bibliographic References Standard
+ Scientific and Technical Reports Standard Receives NISO Approval
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Global Information Locator Service (GILS)
Source: Federal Computer Week
GILS could soon get the boot
“Popular commercial search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN Search might soon replace a 10-year-old government search standard intended as an electronic card catalog of public government information. The National Institute of Standards and Technology wants to withdraw the Global Information Locator Service (GILS), which it considers to be an obsolete search standard. A July 15 Federal Register notice states that recalling the standard seems justified because most agencies now use commercial search tools to help people locate government information.”
See: GILS website

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