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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.
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BlogBib -- "An
Annotated Bibliography on Weblogs and Blogging, with a Focus on
Library/Librarian Blogs."
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Cyberspace
and Critical Theory
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Digital
Divide Network -- the basics of the issue, current news and
research, funding information, etc.
- 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.
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Internet
Traffic & Demographic Statistics
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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."
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OCLC's
Environmental Scan: Social Landscape
- One
Year Later: September 11 and the Internet
-- an in-depth report from the Pew Internet Project about how the
terrorist attacks affected online content and changed the way
Americans feel about Internet use.
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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. Check the menu
on the left for more reports on a variety of Internet issues.
- Psychology
of Cyberspace--an excellent set of papers and links.
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Social
Impact of Computing -- articles from ITWorld.
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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."
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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.
- Untangling
the Social Impact of the Internet -- in .pdf format. A study
from UCLA.
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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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