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Resources for Librarians
Librarian's Internet Guides
Social Impact

  • An Atlas of Cyberspaces -- an atlas of maps and graphic representations of the geographies of cyberspace.
  • BlogBib -- "An Annotated Bibliography on Weblogs and Blogging, with a Focus on Library/Librarian Blogs."
  • Cyberspace and Critical Theory
  • Digital Library of Information Science and Technology -- a digital repository useful for those on the front lines as well as theorists.
  • GigaLaw -- legal news and info on electronic media and the Internet. 
  • Hoaxes Online and in E-mails 
  • Internet Archive Project -- Building a Digital Future. It's attempting to maintain the ephemeral internet in permanent form (they're the ones who donated a complete copy of the web to the Library of Congress).
  • Internet News -- Gwen Harris, an information consultant specializing in Web searching and online education, offers a daily blog about search tools, current awareness resources, portals, browsers, awards, etc.
  • Internet Traffic & Demographic Statistics
  • Mediasite.com -- "a growing library of expert presentations and lectures. Search by topic or submit a presentation and share your expertise with the world." About 7,000 presentations are currently available. Among titles of interest to librarians: "Bringing Oral Histories to Life with Streaming Video," and "MBA Marketing Students Recommendations for the University Libraries."
  • OCLC's Environmental Scan: Social Landscape 
  • PEW/Internet & American Life Project --produces original, academic-quality reports that explore the impact of the Internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life. Excellent site.
  • Psychology of Cyberspace--an excellent set of papers and links.
  • Social Impact of Computing -- articles from ITWorld.
  • Social Machines -- This influential article (counter pointed with clickable commentary from readers) explores the ways in which new technologies "are ushering us into a world of what could be called continuous computing--continuous in the usual sense of "uninterrupted," but also in the sense that it's continuous with our lives, in all their messy, social, biographical richness."
  • Strength of Internet Ties --  "The internet and email aid users in maintaining their social networks and provide pathways to help when people face big decisions" from the Pew Center.
  • Web Credibility Project --  from Stanford University, this site offers full-text of the ongoing research project to "understand what leads people to believe what they find on the Web".

 

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March 10, 2010
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