Greetings all,
   In the early days of the Internet/Web (mid 1990s), there were a variety 
of efforts put forward to organize Internet information resources 
specifically for librarians. Remnants of these include

Wei Wu, Library Oriented Lists and Electronic Serials
http://www.txla.org/pubs/tlj74_1/article5.html

Charles Bailey, Library Oriented Lists and E-Serials
http://lawlibrary.ucdavis.edu/LAWLIB/Jan94/0182.html
Note the extensive specialised groups

Diane Kovacs, Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences
http://www.kovacs.com/directoryhistory.html

   These services have died.

Troutman, Leslie, An Internet Primer for Music Librarians
http://www.jstor.org/pss/899170
A nice piece that may or may not being kept up to date.

What has replaced them?

Endeth the preface.

What library-oriented electronic communication 
services (permanent/persistent like listserv and other e mail discussion 
lists) or transient (MySpace, Facebook etc) services are you referring 
your students to for communication and community?

Endeth the question.

Beginneth the aftermath.

Where does the student go to communicate with like minded individuals who 
are interested in art or music librarianship, children's literature, 
repairing books, building web sites, or whatever might be their field of 
interest.

Have the professional associations taken up these communication needs?

Who is pulling this all together for the discipline as a whole, as the 
early responders did?

   --gw

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Gretchen Whitney, PhD
Retired
University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996 USA           [log in to unmask]
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