Net Notes: E-mail newsletters

If you can do six impossible things before breakfast then you won't have any problem keeping up with the literature on librarianship, the internet, knowledge management, archives, etc. However, those of us unable to walk on water will find the e-mail newsletters listed below helpful in keeping track of current issues and trends in Internet research and librarianship.

Internet

LIIWeek
http://lii.org/
LIIWeek comes out every Wednesday and is a listing of new internet sites on the librarians' index to the internet.
Use the form at http://lii.org/search/file/mailinglist/ to subscribe.

ResearchBuzz
http://www.researchbuzz.com/
You can subscribe to the weekly newsletter from the ResearchBuzz website. ResearchBuzz focuses on Internet research and claims that if it is useful to a reference librarian they will include it.
Archives going back to 1998 are available at: http://www.researchbuzz.com/news/archives.html
There are also some useful articles on doing Internet research.

Scout report
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/
The Scout Report is a weekly newsletter with an annotated list of quality websites. You can subscribe from:
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/report/sr/srsubscribe.html
The current and back issues are accessible from the home page for the Scout Report. There is a searchable archive (keyword or Library of Congress Subject Headings) of the last seven years of newsletters.

Search engine day and search engine report
http://www.searchenginewatch.com
The Search Engine Watch website offers a wealth of information about search engines and has two free newsletters that you can subscribe to:
SearchDay: daily news, reviews and tips about search engines
Search Engine Report: monthly summary of news as well as articles about search engines
To subscribe, go to the home page and follow the instructions under "Free Newsletters." Back issues of the newsletters are available from the home page so you can try before you buy.

Librarianship

Info career trends
http://www.lisjobs.com/newsletter/
Info Career Trends is a bi-monthly newsletter which looks at issues of "personal professional development." It also includes book reviews and links to useful websites. You can read back issues or subscribe online from the website. The articles cover a broad range of issues - I even found an article on running a professional reading group "Articles and Coffee: ASISandT Pacific Northwest Chapter Reading Group" in the January 2002 issue. The articles are written from a personal perspective so there's some useful advice and interesting anecdotes.

Informed librarian online
This is a service that offers an "easy, timesaving way to stay on top of your professional reading" by e-mailing you monthly with the table of contents of recently published library and information journal and newsletter issues and details of some articles and books of interest. The titles are linked to the websites so you can browse through the latest issues. The Informed Librarian has been published since 1992 in hardcopy but only became available via e-mail in August this year.
To subscribe or unsubscribe go to http://www.infosourcespub.com/ILOfreesubscribe.cfm

Other news

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Camille Peters

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