Librarianship: Web Sites

LISZEN is a search engine operated by Google Co-Op. It allows users to search more than 700 blogs specific to library and information science.

5 User license- Limited to librarians with health sciences subject areas.

Two librarians from MI document the strange, scary, and wonderful things they find in their public library. Addictive, for sure.

The ultimate library comic, so funny it hurts! (At least to library workers, anyhow.)

A funny twist on observations by a public librarian.

List of libguides created by Credo Reference. As a subscriber, you are free to copy entire libguides or just specific boxes. They become yours to edit.

PRIMO is a means to promote and share peer-reviewed instructional materials created by librarians to teach people about discovering, accessing and evaluating information in networked environments. The Committee hopes that publicizing selective, high quality resources will help librarians to respond to the educational challenges posed by still emerging digital technologies.

Intended as a supplement to the print and electronic resources available in library collections, this site gathers links to selected web resources useful for research: freely searchable citation and full-text databases, funding information, relevant journals, statistics and statistical methods, useful research tools, current awareness sources, and conference papers and proceedings.

The Library's E-Resources Online Catalog provides information on the subscription databases to which the Library subscribes for the use of its on-site researchers. The catalog also provides information on freely-accessible resources on a variety of topics that may be accessed anywhere.

This website, maintained by the Colorado State Library and the Colorado Department of Education, provides national statistics and reports on a variety of library topics, including technology access, user satisfaction, and interlibrary loan use.