1. http://www.ifla.org/II/diglib.htm
A wonderful resource about digital collections including collections, bibliographies, periodicals, conferences, organizations and projects. Some of the bibliographies deal with preservation of digital material.
2. http://www.refdesk.com/facts.html
A library of digital – Internet resources to help answer questions and provide information on a variety of topics ranging from atlases and maps to the World Wide Web.
3. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
I ran across this site while locating public domain music. This site allows you to listen to the songs in the public domain, access old newspaper articles, and a lot of other historical artifacts and links to historical material. To access some of the links you will need to register with that particular site.
4. http://www.jobim.org/acervo/acervodigital.html
This is a digital collection based on one person’s musical career. It includes manuscripts, newspaper articles, photographs, information about albums he has created, sheet music he has created, audios and visuals. Although this is one person’s collection, it is a large one. It is an example of a resource of one way of presenting a digital collection.
5. http://www.nzdl.org/cgi-bin/howto/library?a=p&p=about&c=howto&nw=utf-8
Enclosed on this site is chapter 1 of a book entitled “How to Build a Digital Library” by Whitten and Bainbridge. I found chapter one to be very informative in itself. It highlites some of the reasons to build a digital collection one of which was decreasing the information divide because material can be reporoduced cheaper digitally than print material. It did not address the start-up costs. It also gave me information about the history of libraries and how the digital library can play a part in people getting the information they are seeking.
6. www.digitalpromise.org/newsite
This is a website devoted to keeping digital collections in the forefront by creating the Digital Opportunity Investment Trust. This makes funding possible for research and development of new models of educational content by using the Internet and other new digital distribution technologies.
7. http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/467.pdf
Chapter One of a book entitled Digitizing Collections:strategiccs issues for the information manager by Lorna Hughes. This chapter focuses on the costs and benefits of digitization.
8. http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/reading.shtml
This site is related to my previous recommendation as it offers you the opportunity to read a chapter in a book about an issue related to libraries or information managers. Some topics include digitization, copyright, and managing information.
9. http://home.gwi.net/brhs/invweb.html
This site is a list of resources that are available on teh invisible or deep web. Although it was last updated in 2006, many of the sites are still operational and provide a good resource for people looking for something specific. There is also a section dedicated to invisible sites for children.
10. http://library.rider.edu/scholarly/rlackie/Invisible/Inv_Web.html
This is another site that was started in 2001, but updated in 2008 that links the user to content that is hidden on the Web. It has directories and portals, invisible web and search engine sites to help direct you toward a more specific search.
10 + 1. Computers in Libraries October 2008
Available through LORA
This issue deals with digitization and looks to be a promising resource. I have read the article on Long Tales and the Thirteen Basic Things to Put Everyone On the Same (Computer) Page and found both helpful and thought provoking. Of the 2008 issues I explored, each issue deals with different aspects of how computers help in the library.
10 + 2. netconnect Fall 2008
Mobile Delivery
This is a supplement to the Library Journal. The focus of this supplement is mobile delivery to our patrons and how we as librarians need to get on the bandwagon and offer cellular services. There are examples of how libraries have done this in the articles that are in this supplement.
