Professional Reading & Resources:
United Faculty of Florida at UCF is the professional association and collective bargaining agent for faculty members of colleges and universities in Florida, and is an affiliate of the Florida Education Association, which is affiliated with both the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers.
Pride At Work is a constituency group of the AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Organizations) whose purpose is to mobilize mutual support between the organized Labor Movement and the LGBT Community around organizing for social and economic justice.
Library Juice has some of the appealing, unpolished feel of Unabashed Librarian
American Libraries - scanning the library news. I particularly enjoyed Karen Schneider's columns, but she has moved on to coordinate the Librarians' Index to the Internet.
Library Journal - particularly John Berry's editorials and scanning the library news
lisnews.com provides links to the latest news in the world of library and information science
Library Stuff is a weblog that "exists to provide readers with information on the wonderful and exciting world of librarianship through news, web sites, and sometimes rants"
Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large provides monthly views from Walt Crawford about library technology issues. He provides nice abstracts of useful articles from the PC literature.
www.librarian.net (Jessamyn West) - quick links, frequently to quirky, quasi-related information
Ex Libris (Marylaine Block) - I really like her style. Be sure to read her Rules of Information.
Neverending Search (Joyce Kasman Valenza) provides copies of articles she's written about searching and information literacy.
Stephen Bell's Keeping Up Web Page is designed to help library and information science professionals develop and maintain a program of self-guided professional development.
Resource Shelf provides resources & news for information professionals & researchers, compiled by Gary Price.
The Researching Librarian was created for librarians--new or experienced--who find themselves needing to perform research.
Current Cites is a monthly annotated bibliography of selected articles, books, and digital documents on information technology.
D-Lib Forum & D-Lib Magazine - digital library resources
Library Philosophy and Practice - a refereed electronic journal
E-JASL - The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship - an independent, professional, refereed electronic journal dedicated first and foremost to advancing knowledge and research in the areas of academic and special librarianship.
Classification Systems
Unshelved is a wonderful online comic strip that takes place in a public library. Buy the book collections for yourself and as gifts for colleagues.
Archives of Defunct Resources
Librarians' Site du Jour (no longer updated, but I still find myself looking back occasionally) - Jenny can now be found at The Shifted Librarian.
Librarians & Information Science - Suite 101 provided articles, links, and resources pertinent to librarianship and the information professions. It seems to have ceased updates as of June 30, 2003.
New Breed Librarian was a bimonthly publication intended to foster a sense of community for those new to librarianship, whether in school or just out. August 2002 was the last posting, but the backfile is still interesting.
Integrated Library System Reports has not been updated since Spring 2001.
Journal of Library Services for Distance Education (JLSDE) is still listed as active in Ulrich's, but the most recent issue is July 1999.
rgause@mail.ucf.edu
(407) 823-2563
Last modified: June 24, 2005
http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~rgause/librariansr.htm