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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Sue

 

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