Web Advisory Committee: Useful Links

Lists of libraries

Library Oriented Lists and Serials:
Annotated Bibliography of Digital Library Related Sources
Whoa! great place to start for dig lib research
Prepared by Steven Ketchpel
Spire project - search engines
My Library Open source code site
Digital Library Sourcebook - 1993
dated - (postscript file only)
Advances in Dig Lib '98
IEEE ADL'98 Conference -- Currently just has a call for papers, a couple of tutorials, and a very nice list of related conferences
Not horribly useful, but it led to some useful resources
Browsing without a monitor
From Scientific American: relevance: aural interface , handicapable concerns for the blind etc.
Libraries' forms list
No longer being maintained, however still is a nice list of ILL type forms, Ask a Librarian and many other forms
Innovative Internet Applications in Public Libraries
Covering som eg's such as: Virtual Reference Desks, Image Maps in Public Library Sites, E-Mail Subscription Newsletters in Public Libraries, New on Our Shelves, Special Collections [Exhibits], Online Catalogs
part of the Cyber Libr@ry Book - Librarians Online @ the Web Library
Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts: A Guide to Good Practice

DIGITAL LIBRARY WORK: MEETING USER NEEDS
by Mats G. Lindquist, Associate Director, Lund University Library, Lund, Sweden
Paper presented at: "The impact of electronic publishing on the academic community", an Academia Europaea workshop, Stockholm, Sweden, 16-20 April, 1997.
part of LIBRARIES AND INTERNET. Electronic text collection
Proceedings of the Digital Libraries '94 Conference
Proceedings of the First Annual Conference on the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries
includes several dozen full-text papers/presentations
Digital Library Design for Usability
By Rob Kling and Margaret Elliott - Prt of Dig Lib '94
The Challenges to Designing Viable Digital Libraries
By Michael Ribaudo, Colette Wagner, Michael Kress, and Bernard Rous - part of Dig Lib '94
Conference theme: How We Do User-Centered Design and Evaluation of Digital Libraries: A Methodological Forum
from 37th Allerton Institute 1995 - Look at the different session, especially Session 5 for Usability
User interfaces for strolling on a digital library
Mikiya Tani, Toshiyucki Kamiya, & Shunji Ichiyama
Proceedings pf ISDL'95, August 1995, Tsukuba Science City, Japan (many other nice paper available at this conference)
User Needs Assessment and Evaluation for the UC Berkeley Electronic Environmental Library Project: a Preliminary Report
by Nancy A. Van House