School of Information Management and Systems
290 Concepts of Information Management --
SOURCES
Under revision, as of Sept 1, 1999.
HAS = Humanities & Area Studies.
INFO = Temporary Reference Collection in MAIN.
GUIDES
Websites
UC Berkeley campus collections.
and
monthly acquisitions lists.
The Library of Congress'
Library and Information Science Internet Resources Page
The Mining Co
Guide to Librarians and Library Science.
Index Morganagus index to library- and information science electronic serials
Index to library- and information science electronic serials.
Librarian's index to the Internet
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/InternetIndex/
LibraryLand: Resources for librarians.
http://ansernet.rcls.org/libland/
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/Projects.htm Wide-ranging guide.
Internet Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides www.lib.umich.edu/chouse
Klemperer, Katharina & Chapman. 1997. Digital Libraries: a Selected Resource Guide. ITAL 16 (Sept
1997): 126-131. Online at
http://www.lita.org/ital/1603_klemperer.htm
http://www.sir.arizona.edu/school/resource.html
ITCS Top Ten Library Science Resources List
http://www.itcs.com/topten/libres.html
Librarians Yellow Pages "America's #1 Purchasing Directory for Library and Information Professionals
http://www.librariansYellowPages.com/
BUBL, U.K. http://bubl.ac.uk/
Gill's favorite [library related] electronic journals
http://www.curtin.edu.au/curtin/library/staffpages/gwpersonal/gwejnls.html
www.fis.utoronto.ca/library/libejour.htm
Internet Tools of the Profession
http://www.sla.org/pubs/itotp/
U of Toronto library-related e-journal
http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/ejournals/ejfinal.htm
Dlib
http://www.dlib.org/reference.html
Print
Purcell, Gary R. and Gail Schlachter. Reference Sources in Library and Information Services: A Guide
to the Literature. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 1984. MAIN Z666.P96 1983. Annotated
bibliography. 1,193 items on a very wide range of topics.
ENCYCLOPEDIAS
ALA World Encyclopedia of Library and Information Services... 3nd ed. 1993. HAS Ref Z1006.A18
1993. E.g. Article on "Archives,"
incl. pp 56-67 "Basic principles and terminology."
International Encyclopedia of Information and Library Science,
ed J. Feather & P. Sturges. Routledge,
1997. GOV/SocSci Z1006 .I57 1997 Some substantial articles,
e.g. "Information Theory."
Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. 1968- .
HAS Ref Z1006.E57 Started with A in 1968,
reached Z in 1982 then annual supplements, 63 vols through 1998,
but no indexes since Author, name and subject
indexes in v. 46 & 47.
Articles vary in quality and up-to-dateness. Sometimes very useful.
v. 22(1977):70-86: "Pertinence and Relevance".
Smaller new ed in prep.
DIRECTORIES
Directories of schools of Library & Information Science may be useful for
curricular materials and web-accessible copies of faculty publications:
U.S.A.: Association for Library and Information
Science Education
www.alise.org/nondiscuss/schools.html
Worldwide: Sheffield
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~is/publications/worldlist/wlist1.html
DICTIONARIES
Harrod's Librarian's Glossary, 8 th ed comp.
by R Prytherch. Gower, 1995. INFO Z1006.H32 1995
The Librarian's Practical Dictionary in 22 Languages, ed. by Z. Pipics. 7th ed. Verlag Dokumentation,
1997. HAS Ref Z1006.P671 1997b
ASIS Thesaurus of Information Science and Librarianship, by Jessica Milstead, 1994. Information
Today. Terms, but not definitions. HAS Ref Z695.1.I56.M54 1994
U of Arizona SIRLS.
The Information Professional's Glossary.
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
With Berkeley IP or password from the library try
webspirs.
Library and Information Science Abstracts. 1969-
Wide coverage, abstracts MAIN Z671.L59
-- also on webspirs.
Library Literature. No abstracts. Selected professional journals only. 1933-1997 on paper MAIN
Z666.L5 On webspirs Dec 1984-
Information Science Abstracts 4 (1969)-
MAIN Z699.A1.D6 Abstracts. Good foreign coverage.
Library Hi Tech Bibliography 1986-1995. MAIN Z678.9.A2.L5 Most vols many topics but v 10 on
Browsing.
Advances & Annual Reviews
There are several Advances in... and Annual Reviews
with review articles on varying topics.
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology. 1-, 1966-
MAIN Z699.A1.A65
Advances in Librarianship. 1-, 1970-. MAIN Z674.A351
Eclectic coverage, e.g. 18 (1994):1-55: Pertti Vakkari.
Library and Information Science: Its Content and Scope;
19 (1995):100-116: Sandra Braman. Alternative Conceptualizations of
the Information economy.
Library Trends 1-, 1952- MAIN Z671.L739 Each
quarterly issue on a single topic.
Older
ARBA Guide to Library Science Literature, 1970-1983. (Libraries Unlimited: 1987). MAIN Z666.A731
1987. Descriptive and critical guides to books (only).
Supplemented by:
Library and Information Science Annual. 1- 1985-. MAIN Z665.L527 Supplement to the ARBA Guide.
Has reviews of periodicals and abstracts of dissertations.
[ALA, 1976] MAIN Z682.W663
Library of Congress Classification.
Z665-Z1000 Library Science; Z1001-9000 Bibliography.
Library of Congress Subject Headings
BIOGRAPHY
Dictionary of American Library Biography. 1978.
Supplement. 1990. HAS Ref Z720.A4.D51
MISCELLANEOUS
General textbooks can be useful for particular topics:
Baker, Sharon & F.W. Lancaster Measurement and Evaluation of Library Services. 2nd ed. Arlington,
VA: Information Resources Pr., 1991. MAIN (also ENGIN) Z678.85 L3
Buckland, M. K. Library Services in Theory and Context. 2nd ed. New York: Pergamon, 1988. MAIN
Z665.B9161 1988 Out-of-print but online at
online.
Lancaster, F. W. & B. Sandore. Technology and Management in Library and Information Services. 1997.
MAIN Z678.9.L36 1997 Largely a literature review.
Taylor, Robert S. Value-Added Processes in Information Systems. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex, 1986. MAIN
Z699.T331 1986
Vickery, Brian C. Information Science in Theory and Practice. Rev. ed. London: Butterworths, 1992.
MAIN Z665.V73 1992 Useful supplement to introductory texts.
PERIODICALS
For current work:
Journal of the American Society for Information Science, e.g.
vol 50, issues 11 & 12: "JASIS at 50".
Journal of Documentation.
Library Quarterly.
ASSOCIATIONS
American Society for Information Science,
esp. Special Interest Group on the History and Foundations of
Information Science.