LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
GENERAL
American Library Association - ALA, the oldest and largest library association in the world, promoting high quality library and information services and public access to information.
http://www.ala.org/
Bibliomania
http://www.bibliomania.com/
Center for Intellectual Property and Copyright in the Digital Environment - From the Office of Distance Education and Lifelong Learning at the University of Maryland University College, this site also has access to @Primer, a new online interactive tutorial on copyright basics.
http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/
IFLANET - International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users.
http://www.ifla.org/
JAKE - jointly administered knowledge environment - Look here to find out which databases index a particular newspaper, magazine, or journal. Also lists the dates for which it is indexed and if it is full-text in that database.
http://jake.med.yale.edu/index.jsp
Law Library of Congress - Serves as a portal to the study of American law, but also links to information on the laws and legal institutions of other countries as well. http://www.loc.gov/law/public/htdoc/index.html
Information Literacy Tutorials - compiled by members of ALA's Information Literacy Round Table with resources and tutorials to aid librarians in creating more effective Web sites for their users.
http://www3.baylor.edu/LIRT/lirtproj.html
The Library of Congress- Provides links to special exhibits and collections.
http://www.loc.gov/
The National Book Foundation - great American writers and writings. The many other offerings of the foundation including award lists, workshops, writing camps, and available resources.
http://www.nationalbook.org
HISTORY OF THE BOOK
The Aberdeen Bestiary - A pilot scheme for producing digitized images of manuscripts on the World Wide Web.
http://www.clues.abdn.ac.uk:8080/besttest/firstpag.html
Ancient Manuscripts from the Desert Libraries of Timbuktu
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/mali/
Codicological information - Information on codicology, the study of the Medieval book as a physical object.
http://www.clues.abdn.ac.uk:8080/besttest/alt/comment/codicol.html
DScriptorium - DScriptorium is devoted to collecting, storing and distributing digital images of Medieval manuscripts.
http://www.byu.edu/~hurlbut/dscriptorium/
Duke University's Digital Scriptorium - The Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/
Early Printing
http://www.deutsches-museum.de/ausstell/dauer/druck/e_druck.htm
National Union Catalog/Manuscripts Catalog
http://lcweb.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/nucmc.html
The New York Public Library, History of Books and Printing: A Research Guide http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/grd/resguides/bookhist/index.html
ORB Online Encyclopedia - Manuscript Books
http://www.ceu.hu/medstud/manual/MMM/index.html
Rare Book Links
http://www.xs4all.nl/~pwessel/rarebook.html
Resources for the History of Books and Printing
http://dept.english.upenn.edu/~traister/hbp.html
