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United states libraries

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ACRL: Association of College and Research Libraries: Professional association of academic librarians aiming to enhance information services within the higher education community and improve learning, teaching, and research.
Author: American Library Association
Subjects: academic libraries worldwide, research libraries, united states libraries
DeweyClass: 020.6
Resource type: institution
ALA: American Library Association: Promotes high quality library and information services and through a broad-based program of legislative advocacy, public awareness and professional education, the association provides leadership and support in more than 100,000 school, public, academic and special libraries across the US.
Author: American Library Association
Subjects: library organisations, public libraries, special libraries, united states libraries
DeweyClass: 020.6
Resource type: institution
ALiNUS: A gateway to over 600 online newsletters from academic libraries in the United States. Topics covered include new acquisitions and special collections, services and resources for staff and students, and scholarly library science. Access is provided to the full list of newsletters or searches can be conducted based on title or institution.
Author: Southern New Hampshire University
Subjects: library and information science news, library services, united states libraries
DeweyClass: 027.7
Resource type: documents
Carnegie Libraries of California: Descriptions and images of over 100 Californian libraries constructed between 1902 and 1921 as a result of funding by Andrew Carnegie. Entries are arranged by city, region, architectural style, and name of architect, and information is given on original grant amounts and how the buildings are used today.
Author: Skehan, Pat & Skehan, Bernie
Subjects: architectural research, library history and culture, united states libraries
DeweyClass: 027.0
Resource type: documents
Digital Libraries Initiative Phase Two: Details of a range of US digital libraries research projects and applications designed to accelerate development, management, and accessibility of digital content and collections, to create new capabilities and opportunities for digital libraries to serve existing and new user communities, and to encourage the study of interactions between people and digital libraries in various social and organisational contexts.
Author: National Science Foundation
Subjects: digital library programmes, united states libraries
DeweyClass: 025
Resource type: document
International Coalition of Library Consortia: Information on the library coalition serving US higher education institutions by facilitating discussion on issues such as new electronic information resources and pricing practices of electronic providers. Offers full text documents, press releases and consortia listings.
Author: Yale University Library
Subjects: library information networks, united states libraries
DeweyClass: 021
Resource type: documents
Library of Congress: The LC aims to make its resources available and useful to the US Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations. As well as information about the Library, its publications and services, there is access to the catalogue and to legislative, copyright and government information.
Author: Library of Congress
Subjects: national libraries, united states libraries
DeweyClass: 027.573
Resource type: document collection
LISNews.com: Library and information science arena providing news stories relating to librarianship in the US. Articles are keyword searchable, and browsable by topic such as cataloguing, circulation, information retrieval, knowledge management, and technology.
Author: Carver, Blake & Cohen, Steven
Subjects: library and information science news, united states libraries
DeweyClass: 020
Resource type: documents
METROWeb: The New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency (METRO) is a not-for-profit library cooperative which promotes resource sharing among member libraries.
Author: New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency
Subjects: library resource sharing, research libraries, united states libraries
DeweyClass: 021.6
Resource type: institution
NewBreed Librarian: US focused online magazine aimed at recently qualified librarians. The bimonthly publication offers articles, interviews with figures involved in librarianship, regular columns, advice, letters from readers, and a listing of job sources. An archive of past issues is available.
Author: NewBreed Librarian
Subjects: librarians, united states libraries
DeweyClass: 020
Resource type: magazine
PALMM: Publication of Archival Library and Museum Materials: Cooperative project aiming to deliver a searchable database of library materials which either belong to SUS (State University System of Florida) institutions, or relate to the State of Florida through geography or themes. An annotated listing of collections is given, together with guidelines as to what constitutes a 'PALMM Collection'.
Author: State University System of Florida
Subjects: archives, united states history - local, united states libraries
DeweyClass: 975.9
Resource type: documents
PORTALS: An organisation of public and private institutions committed to working cooperatively to expand and enrich the information resources and services necessary for the scholarly and wider community around the Portland area.
Author: PORTALS: Portland Area Library System
Subjects: library resource sharing, united states libraries
DeweyClass: 021.6
Resource type: documents
Public Library Locator: A tool which can be used to uncover data about public libraries throughout the US. On entering address details, information about organisational characteristics, paid full time staff, operating income and expenditures, size of library collection, and library services is returned.
Author: National Center for Education Statistics
Subjects: public libraries, united states libraries
DeweyClass: 027.4
Resource type: opac
School-libraries.net: Links to Web pages created or maintained by school librarians in the USA.
Author: Milbury, Peter
Subjects: librarians, school libraries, united states libraries
DeweyClass: 027.8
Resource type: index
USA Academic Libraries: Extensive alphabetical index of academic libraries.
Author: University of California Berkeley
Subjects: academic libraries worldwide, united states libraries
DeweyClass: 027.7
Resource type: index
Vincent Voice Library: Academic library housing speeches, performances, lectures, interviews, and broadcasts recorded over the last 100 years. Includes American presidential resources, and recordings of readings from prominent Michigan writers. RealAudio is required and can be downloaded free of charge.
Author: Michigan State University Libraries
Subjects: united states history from 1900, united states libraries
DeweyClass: 027.0
Resource type: documents, images, sounds
VIVA: Virtual Library of Virginia: A consortium of academic libraries in Virginia (US) aiming to create a network of shared electronic resources within Virginia for students and faculty to facilitate cooperation among its members.
Author: VIVA
Subjects: library information networks, library resource sharing, united states libraries
DeweyClass: 021.6
Resource type: institution
Washington Research Library Consortium: Regional library cooperative established in 1987 to support the information and research needs of seven universities in the Washington DC metropolitan area. A voluntary alliance which grew out of a long history of inter-library cooperation among the academic libraries in this area.
Author: Washington Research Library Consortium
Subjects: library resource sharing, research libraries, united states libraries
DeweyClass: 021.6
Resource type: institution