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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 <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Gretchen Whitney, PhD Retired University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996 USA [log in to unmask] http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/ jESSE:http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/jesse.html SIGMETRICS:http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>