1. Finding articles on your topic
2. General reference sources - print and online
3. Professional associations and conferences
4. Library consortia and union catalogues
5. Cataloguing, metadata, standards
6. Collection management
7. Instruction and teaching
8. Children and youth services
9. Library blogs
10. Library architecture and design
11. Journals
12. Professional Issues - Information literacy, Open access, core values, web 2.0 ...
13. Career information (new page)
14. UBC Library guides
    1. Finding Book, Film, and Theatre Reviews
    2. Finding newspaper articles
    3. Citing sources in APA or MLA or Turabian (Ohio State University Libraries)
    4. Finding theses and dissertations
    5. Conducting a literature review
    6. Archival Research Guide - Rare Books and Special Collections Division, UBC Library
    7. Tips for searching the UBC Library catalogue

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Start Here to Find Articles...

Core databases for library and archival studies

• Library Literature & Information Science with Full Text - indexes about 300 journals; strong North American focus
• LISA: Library and Information Science Abstracts - indexes about 440 journals; strong international coverage. More focus on scholarly journals than Library Literature & Information Science.
• Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) - indexes about 600 journals; coverage back to 1966

More Library Databases

• ACM Digital Library - full text access to all Association of Computing Machinery journals, conference proceedings, and more
• Current Cites - searchable annotated bibliography
• IRWI: Information Research Watch International - new, ongoing and completed research in LIS and related fields, internationally
• Ulrich's International Periodical Directory - journal description, contact information, indexing and abstracting sources
• WorldCat - online catalogue of all OCLC-member libraries

Multidisciplinary Databases

• Academic Search Premier - large general database, indexes numerous library journals, some full text
• Emerald - full text access to articles in academic and professional management literature
• ERIC: Educational Resources Information Centre - indexes educational journals
• GoogleScholar
• Journal Citation Reports (ISI) - Determine the relative importance of a journal in a discipline
• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text - fulltext since 1997; abstracts of doctoral dissertations since 1861, selected masters theses since 1988
• Web of Science - includes Social Sciences Citation Index - key features: "times cited", "cited by"

TIPS
Need help finding articles? Try the How to Find Articles guide.

Use the UBC eLink when it appears in a database to find the full-text of the document available at UBC, in the online or print collections.

Use RefWorks to gather, store, and format your citations and bibliographies.

Not sure who indexes a journal? Check Ulrich's International Periodical Directory.

General Reference Sources

Encyclopedias and dictionaries

• Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science - print volumes in UBC Library and online
• ODLIS: Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science
  Print version: Dictionary for library and information science in UBC Library
• Harrod's Librarians' Glossary and Reference Book - print in UBC Library
• World Encyclopedia of Library and Information Services - print in UBC Library

Directories

• American Library Directory - print in UBC Library
• Bowker Annual of Library and Book Trade Information - print in UBC Library
• Canadian Almanac Directory Database - includes listings for libraries, archives, museums, universities, etc.
• Directory of Canadian Libraries - print in UBC Library
• Directory of Members - Canadian Library Association - print in UBC Library
• Librarian's Yellow Pages
• Web Subject Directories on Library and Information Studies : BUBL | Yahoo
• Web Subject Directories on Archives : BUBL | Yahoo
• World Guide to Libraries - print in UBC Library
• World List of Departments and Schools of Information Studies, etc.

Indexes

• Librarians' Index to the Internet

Websites

• Canadian Libraries: Bibliography - Library & Archives Canada
• Canadian Library Gateway - Library & Archives Canada
• Core Values Statement - from ALA
• Digital Library Foundation
• The European Library
• InformationR.net: the quality source for research on information ... - Univ of Sheffield
• Information Resources for librarians - SLA
• The Internet Archive - includes the "Wayback Machine"
• Internet Library for Librarians - Portal Designed for Librarians to Locate Internet Resources related to the profession
• Internet Public Library: Libraries
• Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web
• Public Knowledge Project at UBC
• The Researching Librarian - great source for librarians doing research
• UNESCO Libraries Portal
• The WWW Virtual Library

Archival Sources

• B.C. Archival Union List (BCAUL)
• Guide to Archival Repositories in BC
• Canadian Archival Information Network
• Canadian Archival Resources on the Internet
• National Union Catalog of Manuscripts - US, Library of Congress
• Repositories of Primary Sources - international
• University of British Columbia Archives

Professional Associations and Conferences

Associations - British Columbia and Canada

• Archives Association of British Columbia - AABC
• ARMA Vancouver - Association of Records Managers and Administrators
• Association of Canadian Archivists - ACA
• British Columbia Library Association - BCLA
• Canadian Association for Information Science
• Canadian Association of Research Libraries - CARL
• Canadian Council of Archives - CCA
• Canadian Library Association - CLA
• Scholarly Societies in Library and Information Science

Associations - USA and International

• American Library Association - ALA
• American Society for Information Science and Technology - ASIS&T
• Association of College & Research Libraries - ACRL
• Association of Records Managers and Administrators - ARMA
• Association of Research Libraries - ARL
• Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals - CILIP, UK
• Council on Library and Information Resources - CLIR
• International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions - IFLA
• International Council on Archives
• Society of American Archivists
• Society of Archivists - UK
• Special Libraries Association - SLA
• Scholarly Societies in Library and Information Science

Conferences and conference papers

• Access conferences -Canada's premier library technology conference: 2006 2007 2008 2009
• ALA Events and Conferences
• ASIS&T Conferences
• BCLA Events
• CAIS conferences
• CLA Conferences, Events, etc.
• PapersInvited - the "world's largest listing of Calls for Papers"
• WILU - Annual Canadian conference for Workshop for Instruction in Library Use: 2008 2009

Library consortia and union catalogues

BC and provincial

• Electronic Library Network - ELN - consortia of post-secondary libraries in British Columbia
• Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries - COPPUL - consortia of 20 university libraries in western Canada. Member libraries cooperate to enhance information services through resource sharing, collective purchasing, document delivery, and many other similar activities.
• Outlook Online - union catalogue of the holdings of British Columbia's public, college, and institute libraries

Canada

• Amicus - Canadian union catalogue - Library and Archives Canada

Worldwide

• Center for Research Libraries - consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries
• OCLC - a nonprofit organization that provides computer-based cataloging, reference, resource sharing and preservation services to 54,000 libraries in 96 countries and territories.
• WorldCat (UBC Library subscription) and WorldCat.org (open) - union catalogues of major academic and public libraries from around the world from OCLC; over 70 million unique records representing over 1 billion items.

Cataloguing, metadata, standards

Cataloguing and metadata

On the Record: Report of the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, 2008

• Library of Congress Classification
  Print volumes in UBC Library - Z696 U5 [Class A-Z], various locations
  Online - Library of Congress Classification Schedules
• Dewey Decimal Classification
  Print volumes in UBC Library - Dewey Decimal classification, 22nd edition - Z696 D7 S36 2005
  Online - information on the 22nd edition of the DDC from OCLC
• Library of Congress Subject Headings
  Print volumes - The big red books! - Z695 U4749 - latest edition at Koerner Reference Desk
  Online - authority headings from Library of Congress
• MeSH - Medical Subject Headings
  Print volumes in UBC Library - ZW1 IN456 - various branch locations
  Online - from the US National Library of Medicine
• MARC - MAchine Readable Coding
  MARC standards - Library of Congress
  Bibliographic formats and standards - from OCLC
  Tag of the month - from Follett Software Company
• AACR - Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules
  Online - Information about AACR2; 30-day trial available for online version
  Print volume in UBC Library Z694.15 A56 A53 2002
• Rules for Archival Description - RAD
  Print volume in UBC Library - Z695.2 R84 1990
  Online from Canadian Committee on Archival Description
• Encoded Archival Description - EAD
  Print volume in UBC Library - Encoded Archival Description tag library, version 2002 - Z695.2 E54 2002
  Online from the Library of Congress
• FRBR - Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Methods
  What is FRBR? from the Library of Congress
  FRBR blog
  Information from OCLC
• Dublin Core
  The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative is dedicated to promoting the widespread adoption of interoperable metadata standards and developing specialized metadata vocabularies for describing resources that enable more intelligent information discovery systems

Standards

• NISO Standards
  Links to standards from NISO, including:
  • Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies
  • Guideline for Abstracts
  • Information Retrieval - Z39.50
  • ISSN
  • openURL
  • Dublin Core metadata
  • Syntax for DOI
• ISBN
  US ISBN Agency - ISBN 10 and 13
  
• More sources for standards - UBC Library guide

Collection Management

General sources

• AcqWeb - Not currently being updated, but worthwhile exploring. For librarians and other professionals interested in acquisitions and collection development
• Fundamentals of collection development & management - Koerner Library - Z687 J64 2004
• Resources for finding book reviews
• ChoiceReviews Online - reviews significant current books and electronic resources of interest to those in higher education

Collection development policies

• Collection development policies on the web - public, academic, school, national libraries - from AcqWeb

Hot topics

• Serials crisis
  • E-serials collection management : transitions, trends, and technicalities - Koerner Library Z692.E43 E15 2004
  • "The E-only Tipping Point for Journals: What's Ahead in the Print-to-Electronic Transition Zone" - report from ARL, December 2007

Instruction and teaching

• ALA/ACRL Instruction Section
• British Columbia Teacher Librarian Association - Information Literacy Resources
• Canadian Library Association Information Literacy Interest Group
• Project SAILS
  A standardized test of information literacy skills, based on ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. Aims to measure information literacy skills, gather national data, provide norms, and compare information literacy measures with other indicators of student achievement.
• ALPS LINK: Library Instruction Knapsack : A BC-based repository of learning objects (e.g., online tutorials, lesson plans, etc.)
• WILU Conference  Annual Canadian conference on instruction in libraries. 2009  Montreal ; 2008  Kelowna ; 2007  Toronto
• Educating the Net Generation - EDUCAUSE
• Standards for Proficiencies for Instruction Librarians and Coordinators - Association of College and Research Libraries

Children and youth services

Start with this guide created by librarians at UBC library education branch: Subject Resources for Children's Literature

Indexes

Use the article indexes listed in Start Here to Find Articles for library and archival studies plus these resources

• Children's Literature Comprehensive Database - find reviews and more
• MLA International Bibliography - find scholarly literature

Websites and Associations

• Canadian children's illustrated books in English
• Centre for research in young people's texts and cultures
• Children's Literature Association

Journals

• Bulletin of the center for children's books
• Canadian children's literature : a journal of criticism and review
• Children's literature association quarterly
• Folklore
• Horn book magazine

Library blogs

• LibWorm - "Search the Biblioblogosphere and Beyond..."
• Technorati - tracks blogs and tagged social media

Professional Association and Library blogs

• ACRLog
• Library of Congress blog

Librarians' blogs

• Lorcan Dempsey's weblog - on libraries, services, networks
• Stephen's Lighthouse - Stephen Abram's weblog
• Free Range Librarian - Karen Schneider
• Librarian.net - Jessamyn West
• Kept-Up Academic Librarian - Steven Bell

Journals

UBC Library Journals

For print and electronic journals, search the UBC library catalogue by journal title from the navigation bar "Journals" drop-down menu.

• Library and Information Science ejournals by title available to members of the UBC community
• Social Science ejournals by categories available to members of the UBC community

More eJournal information

• Digital Library for Information Science and Technology
• DL-Harvest - Digital Library for Information Science and Technology OAI Harvester
• E-LIS: E-prints in Library and Information Science

Professional issues and trends

Information Literacy

• Information Literacy - UBC Library guide by Hilde Colenbrander
• Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education - from ACRL
• New open access journal: Communications in Information Literacy

Open Access and Scholarly Communication

• OA Librarian blog
• Open Access and Scholarly Communication - UBC Library guide by Hilde Colenbrander
• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography

Web 2.0

• Library 2.0 Theory: Web 2.0 and Its Implications for Libraries - Jack M. Maness, in Webology, Volume 3, No. 2, June 2006
• Participatory Networks: The Library as Conversation - R. David Lankes and Joanne Silverstein

Core values

• Our enduring values: librarianship in the 20th century - Michael Gorman - Koerner Library Z716.4 G67 2000
• Core Values of Librarianship - from ALA

And more...

• Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources - From OCLC, 2005