~ Ages & Stages ~ Reader’s Advisory ~ E-Journals ~
~ Local Databases ~ “My Library” Personalized Interfaces ~ Newsletters, Blogs & Wikis ~
~ Site News & Evaluation ~ Special Collections & Online Exhibits ~
~ Tutorials/Guides ~ Virtual Reference Desks ~ Virtual Tours ~
~ Web Forms ~ Miscellaneous ~
Note that many of these library sites offer several innovative applications — be sure to explore.
Special sections of sites designed for segments of the service population are increasingly part of library offerings.
- Boston Public Library Extreme Teen Lounge
- Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh’s Teens Real Life
- Dewey Browse [Chesterfield, NH School Library]
- eVolver [Denver,CO Public Library]
- 55+ [Hennepin County Library]
- For Kids [Chicago Public Library]
- Kids & Teens [Tacoma, WA Public Library]
- Kids & Parents [Winnipeg Public Library]
- Kids’ Place [Newark, NJ Public Library]
- Kidspoint [The Central Rappahannock VA Regional Library]
- Kids’ Central [Waukesha, WI Public Library]
- Kids Know It All [Harris County (TX)Public Library]
- On-Lion for Kids [NY Public Library]
- Phoenix Blaze for Teens! [Phoenix, AZ Public Library]
- Potamus Place [Cleveland Heights-University Heights OH Public Library]
- Service to the Aging [Brooklyn Public Library, NY]
- Start Squad [State Library of North Carolina]
- Teen Web @ Los Angeles Public Library
- TeenLink [New York Public Library]
- Teenspace [Public Library of and Hamilton County OH]
- Teenspoint.org [The Central Rappahannock Regional Library, Fredericksburg, VA]
- Teenzone [Brooklyn NY Public Library]
- Youth (wired) for teens [San Antonio TX Library System]
Reader’s advisory has not disappeared from the list of functions libraries traditionally perform. The following are a few examples of Web versions of this service:
- Addison [IL] Public Library: Readers’ Corner
- Austin [TX] Public Library: Good Reads
- Baltimore County Public Library: Books and More
- Canterbury [NZ] Public Library: If You Like…
- Cleveland [OH] Public Library: Read It! for Teens
- County of Los Angeles [CA] Public Library: Readers’ Advisory Services
- Essex [UK] Libraries: Ask Chris
- Evanston [IL] Public Library: Reading Resources
- Fairfax County [VA] Public Libraries: Good Reading
- Hennepin County Library: Bookspace [Minnetonka, MN]
- Lee County [FL] Library System: Sleepers
- Memphis Shelby County [TN] Public Library and Information Center: Two Thumbs Up!
- Montgomery County [MD] Public Libraries: Readers’ Café
- Morton Grove [IL] Public Library: Webrary Readers’ Corner
- North Shore Libraries [New Zealand] New Releases
- Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County [NC]: Reader’s Club, StoryPlace, and Book Hive.
- Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County Books, Music & Movies
- Richmond [BC, Canada] Public Library: Popular Reading Suggestions
- Reader’s Advisory [Mid-Continent Public Library, MO]
- Rocky River [OH] Public Library: The Reading Room
- San Antonio [TX] Library: Focus: Fiction
- Skokie [IL] Public Library Readers’ Services Recommendations
- Thompson Nicola Regional District Library System, Kamloops, B.C., Canada: Reader’s Robot
- UKOLN, University of Bath, UK: Stories from the Web
News of library-related Internet innovations often appears in these publications:
Libraries’ creation and provision of access to local information has taken on new life on the Internet — these are just a few examples:
- Community Calendar and Business Directory [Wilton Library, Wilton CT]
- Crouse Autograph Collection [Cromaine District Library, Hartland, MI]
- Halton Community Services Database [HALINET Information Centres/Libraries, Ontario, Canada]
- Heritage [Christchurch City Libraries, NZ]
- Historical Photographs of Dover, New Hampshire [Dover NH Public Library]
- Infobank [Baltimore County Public Library, MD]
- Journal Locator [Dowling College, Long Island, NY]
- Local Genealogy Indexes [Lacrosse WI Public Library]
- Local History Guide [Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, MO]
- Oregon Historic Photograph Database [Salem Public Library, Salem OR]
- Skokie Newspaper Index [Skokie Public Library, Skokie, IL]
- Worthington Memory [Worthington OH Libraries]
~~ “My Library” Personalized Interfaces ~~
Customization is a relatively new concept that is beginning to find its way into the online library “scene.” An excellent guide on the topic is available from the University Libraries of Notre Dame.
- Brarydog.net from the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County [NC]
- HeadLine (personalized information environment demo) from the British Library of Political and Economic Science at the London School of Economics
- MyLibrary Interface [University of Leicester]
- My Library from Virginia Commonwealth University
- My UCLA
~~ Newsletters, Blogs & Wikis ~~
Communicating news of the library to patrons of both physical and virtual collections takes many forms.
- Austin [TX] Public Library Library News
- blyberg,net – John Blyberg
- Connections [Darien CT Library]
- Danbury [CT] Public Library e-news
- Free Range Librarian – Karen Schneider
- LibraryLaw Blog – Mary Minow
- Library Stuff – Steven M. Cohen
- Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki
- Marin County Free Library Blog
- News! [San Antonio TX Public Library]
- Peter Scott’s Library Blog
- The Rabid Reader [Dover NH Public Library]
- The Second Century [Newark NJ Public Library]
- The Shifted Librarian – Jenny Levine
- SPL News [Spokane WA Public Library]
- Tame the Web – Michael Stephens
Essential to the online librarian is news and evaluation of sites. These are a few of the best rating and notification services.
- Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large
- CPL Internet Gazette
- The Digital Librarian – Margaret Vail Anderson
- ExLibris: A Weekly E-zine for Librarians and Neat New Stuff I Found This Week – Marylaine Block
- Librarians’ Index to the Internet
- LibrarianInBlack – Sarah Houghton
- LibrarySpot
- ResearchBuzz – Tara Calishain
- Scout Report – Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison [WI]
- What’s Hot on the Internet This Week – El Dorado County [CA] Library
~~ Special Collections & Online Exhibits ~~
Digitization of collections and online exhibits allow broad access to unique materials. The New York Public Library presents an online guide to planning digital projects for historical collections. The Digital Library Federation provides information about developing digital collections and managing networked information.
- Australian Libraries Gateway: Online Exhibitions
- Berkeley Digital Collections (local and other)
- Bridgeport Public Library: Bridgeport Working – Voices from The Twentieth Century
- Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh: Bridging the Urban Landscape
- Duke University: Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
- Illinois State Library: Digital Illinois
- Indiana University Digital Library Program
- Library of Congress Exhibitions
- Louisiana State University Digital Library
- McMillan [WI] Memorial Library Local History On-Line
- Miami-Dade [FL] Public Library System Online Exhibition
- Minneapolis [MN] Public Library Minneapolis Photo Collection
- New York Public Library Digital Library Collection
- Niagara Falls [Ontario, Canada] Public Library Historic Niagara Digital Collections
- University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) Documenting the American South
- University of Washington Libraries Online Exhibitions
- Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries: Rarely Seen Richmond
BI in the “new world” of electronic resources…
- Bare Bones 101: A Basic Tutorial on Searching the Web [University of South Carolina, Beaufort Library]
- Computer Class Curriculums [Milwaukee Public Library]
- Computer Classes [Kokomo-Howard County Indiana Public Library]
- CSU Information Competence [Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, CA]
- Empower [Witchita State University]
- Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial [Joe Barker, UC Berkeley Library]
- Go for the Gold [James Madison Carrier Library, Harrisonburg, VA]
- Guides to Databases [Skokie IL Public Library]
- ICYouSee: A Guide to the World Wide Web [Ithaca(NY)College Library]
- Interactive Tutorials [Hennepin County (MN)Library]
- Internet Tutorials [Laura Cohen - University at Albany Libraries]
- The Internet and the World Wide Web [Baltimore County Public Library]
- Instruction & Tutorials [Arizona State University]
- Iris [Clark College]
- New User Tutorial [The Library Network, Southgate, MI]
- NYU Library Tutorials and Guides [Bobst Library, New York University, New York, NY]
- Researching a Topic in Four Easy Steps [Yale (CT) University Library]
- Tutorials [Penn State University Libraries]
- Virtual Reference Library [Toronto Public Library]
- Library of Congress Ask A Librarian
- Clearwater [FL] Public Library Ask a Librarian
- Internet Public Library ~ Ask A Question
- San Francisco [CA] Public Library Ask a Question
- Santa Monica [CA] Public Library E-mail Reference
- University of Guelph [Canada] Ask Us
A few examples of using the virtual library to describe its physical counterpart.
- Highland [IL] Middle School Virtual Tour
- Mansfield University [PA]: North Hall Past & Present: A Virtual Tour
- National Library of Canada: Virtual Tour
- Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County [NC] Multimedia Tours
- Springfield [PA] Township High School Library Virtual Tour
- Vanderbilt University’s Central Library Virtual Tour [Nashville, TN]
Web forms increasingly allow online provision of services formerly reserved for “inside the walls” transactions.
- Lexington [MA] Public Schools Libraries Online Evaluation/Suggestion Form
- University of Southern Florida: Online Forms
- University of Toledo [OH]: Suggestions & Online Forms
- Usability and HTML Forms
~~ Miscellaneous Helpful Sites for Cybrarians ~~
Increasingly, our community is sharing its knowledge of webwork with others.
- Creating Small, Fast Loading Graphics for Web Pages by Walt Howe
- Keeping Up Web Site by Steven Bell, Philadelphia [PA] University
- ReallyBig.com (Web building resources)
- Remote User Authentication in Libraries by Steve Hunt
- RSS: What RSS is, Where to get it, How to make it, How to use it
- WAI Resources on Introducing Web Accessibility
- WebJunction
- Writing for the Web: A Primer for Librarians by Eric Schnell
As the utilization of the Internet by libraries has grown over the past few years, innovations involve both form and content.
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