Teaching - Net Media (for LIS 488: Technology for Information Professionals)

Caryn Anderson

I've had the pleasure of teaching LIS 488 - Technology for Information Professionals at the Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science. The course includes regular monitoring of "Net Media" to keep up on developments in library and information science and technology and posting responses to the course blog. The following may be useful to others as well.

NET MEDIA
The following is a preliminary list of some net media resources that are useful for keeping up on developments in technology generally and as they relate to library and information services environments. It is expected that this list will grow as you discover and recommend other resources throughout the course. You must get approval before submitting an original post on a resource that is not yet on this list.

Discussion Lists

• ARL E-Journal – “a discussion list concerned with all aspects of the management of electronic journals by libraries and information centers” (http://www.cni.org/hforums/arl-ejournal/ for info; https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/ARL-EJOURNAL/ for archives)
• DIGLIB – “for librarians, information scientists, and other information professionals to share information about the many issues and technologies pertaining to the creation of "digital libraries." (www.ifla.org/II/lists/diglib.htm)
• ERIL – Electronic resources in libraries (http://listserv.binghamton.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A0=eril-l)
• NGC4LIB – Next Generation Catalogs for Libraries (http://dewey.library.nd.edu/mailing-lists/ngc4lib/)
• SEPW – Scholarly electronic publishing weblog (http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm)
• SIGIA – “a discussion forum for information architects” (http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigia-l to subscribe; http://www.info-arch.org/lists/sigia-l/index.php for archives)
• SYSLIB – “Discussion of systems librarianship” (http://listserv.buffalo.edu/archives/syslib-l.html)
• WEB4LIB – “for the discussion of issues relating to the creation, management, and support of library-based World-Wide Web servers, services, and applications” (http://lists.webjunction.org/web4lib/)
• XML4LIB – “for the discussion of the Extensible Markup Language (XML) and its use in, by, and for libraries and library users” (http://lists.webjunction.org/xml4lib/)

Serials

• Ariadne – “a Web magazine for information professionals in archives, libraries and museums in all sectors” (http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/)
• Cites and Insights (Walt Crawford) – “a Web-based journal of libraries, policy, technology, and media” (http://citesandinsights.info/)
• D-Lib Magazine – “solely electronic publication with a primary focus on digital library research and development, including but not limited to new technologies, applications, and contextual social and economic issues” (http://www.dlib.org/)
• Communications of the ACM – “the premier computing magazine, internationally renowned and respected for its coverage of both existing and emerging technologies” (http://www.acm.org/pubs/cacm/ - for info and table of contents, available from Simmons library)
• First Monday – “Peer-moderated publication on net culture and structure” (http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/)
• Wired – “covering technology, culture, business and politics” (http://www.wired.com/wired/)

Blogs

• ACM Tech News – “Timely topics for IT professionals” (not a blog) (http://technews.acm.org/current.cfm)
• Baby Boomer Librarian - "Random thoughts and ideas of a babyboomer librarian in the early years of the 21st century."http://babyboomerlibrarian.blogspot.com/)
• Code4Lib - Coders for libraries, libraries for coders (http://code4lib.org/)
• The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics - "All that is needed is a little imagination, to reconsider the economics of scholarly communications from a poetic viewpoint." (http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/)
• Jon’s Radio (Jon Udell) – Technology current events (http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/)
• Library Stuff (Steven Cohen) – “The library weblog dedicated to keeping current and professional development” (http://www.librarystuff.net/)
• LITA Blog – Library and information technology association, a division of ALA (http://litablog.org/)
• Maison Bisson (Casey Bisson) - "A bunch of stuff I would have emailed you about" (http://maisonbisson.com/blog/)
• O’Reilly Radar (O’Reilly Media) – Technology trends (http://radar.oreilly.com/)
• OSS4lib – Open source systems for libraries (http://www.oss4lib.org/)
• Resource Shelf (Gary Price) – Resources of interest to information professionals, educators, and journalists (http://www.resourceshelf.com/) [List of lists: http://www.specialissues.com/lol/]
• RSS4Lib (Ken Varnum) – “Innovative ways libraries use RSS” (http://www.rss4lib.com/)
• Shifted Librarian (Jenny Levine) – “Shifting libraries at the speed of a byte” [especially gaming and libraries] (http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/)
• Tame the Web (Michael Stephens) – “Libraries and technology” (http://tametheweb.com/)
• The Filter (Berkman Center for Internet and Society) – offers a unique take on today's most pressing Internet issues (not a blog) (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/filter/)

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
(please seek prior permission to use content from these sites as subjects for blog posts)

Associations

• American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) – “The information society for the information age” (http://www.asist.org/)
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) – “The first society in computing” (http://www.acm.org/)
• Digital Library Federation (DLF) – “Providing leadership for libraries” (http://www.diglib.org/)
• Library & Information Technology Association (LITA) – Division of American Library Association (http://www.ala.org/ala/lita/litahome.htm)
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) – “Leading the Web to its full potential...” (http://www.w3.org/)

Reference

• Candy@ – Web home of Candy Schwartz (http://web.simmons.edu/~schwartz/)
• W3 Schools – “The largest web developer’s site on the net. Free web building tutorials.” (http://www.w3schools.com/)
• Web Monkey – “The web developer’s resource” (http://www.webmonkey.com/)
• Webopedia – “The only online dictionary and search engine you need for computer and Internet technology definitions.” (http://www.webopedia.com/)
• Wikipedia – “The free encyclopedia that anyone can edit” (http://www.wikipedia.org/)