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A Selection of Bill Thayer's Pages

Try Berkeley's fine collection of electronic resources via Fast Access!.

Go to San Francisco's Exploratorium.

Certainly, don't miss LibrarySpot!

A remarkable listing of professional aids: Professional Library Tools on the WWW.

Find an E-Book

Do You Really Need Me? Maybe not. Try Virtual Library. If that doesn't do me in, try KnowThis, and its academic component.

or, use Google Print to find a full-text book on the web.

Even the Web is organized according to Dewey Decimal Classification. Some of the Web anyway. Try it. You can use the same classification numbers (001 etc.) to find books in your library on related topics(if it uses Dewey---many public libraries do).

Do you have a pesky acronym? Do you want one? Try Acrophile.

Do not miss this new directory of United States Government Web Sites, particularly Reference Shelf.

Women's History

Grants and Scholarships in Library Science

U. S. Library Addresses

The Web Indexed by a Librarian

Resources for Librarians. Very thorough, very nice.

WebCT.com has about everything for libraries. Librarians, try Library Science.

Index Morganagus, a fine index of library related electronic serials on the Net.

Best Federal Web Sites

Internet Public Library. Along with Martindale's The Reference Desk, IPL is a premier tool for web navigation. Information professionals will be particularly interested in its special services for librarians.

Librarians with a young adult clientele will be curious about The Young Adult Librarian's Help/HomePage. You'll be able to participate in all that Teenhoopla! Try my own Young Adults' Page.

Yahooligans!

You'll find myriad business information resources linked from my Consulting Page.

Connect for KIDS!

KidsClick!. Try it!

Resources for libraries and librarians.

ALA Selects Resources on the Web for Parents, Teens and Kids.

Libraries via Voice of the Shuttle .

Don't forget your friendly Bookseller. This Barnes and Noble Page has considerable valuable information.

Information technology Current Cites from Berkeley.

Alfred's Electronic Reference Desk.

Alfred's very nice Resources Page

Computer systems and Rare Books, this page, Scriptorium, from Duke.

Rhode Island State Information from the Rhode Island Office of Library and Information Services.

Learn DIALOG, you'll need it. Examine the Dialog Corporation Library Page. Among my other pages you'll find a DIALOG related page.

Bookwire

Copyright and Fair Use Policy from Stanford University

The Library of Congress

Research Assistance from the Library of Congress, Ask a Librarian.

U. S. Copyright Office from the Library of Congress.

A remarkable Reference Resource from LC

Superintendent of Documents Search Tools: SuDoc Searches

Locate GPO documents--SU_DOCS

The Law Library of Congress

Library of Congress Language Tools

Cataloging from the Library of Congress. This is a remarkably effective interface. Look it over! There are various methods to determine the answer to your tough cataloging questions.

Detailed Library of Congress Classification Outline.

Choose your serials and periodicals from my barebones Periodicals Page.

Research-It!

Cornell University also has cataloging help in its very complete Library Technical Services Manual. Princeton's Cataloging resources will also help.

Galter Library's Online Cataloging Page.

A list of Library of Congress Resources from the National Union Catalog Manuscripts Resources.

Have a Library of Congress cataloging question? Perhaps your answer is here.

Library of Congress Cataloging Distribution Service.

California's SunSite K-12 Resources.

OCLC. Online Computer Library Center, Dublin, Ohio.

and, for your reading pleasure, NOVELIST.

Invite all your friends to your very own ListServe, the software is free.

For those interested in legal issues and resources, Villanova's Information Law Site will be most useful.