Librarianship

• Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners

Library News

• Library Journal — The online version of the professional journal
• LIS News — Library-related news from newspapers, magazines and others sources around the world

Library Associations

• American Library Association
• New England Library Association
• Massachusetts Library Association

Collection Management

• AcqWeb — The essential World Wide Web guide for acquisitions

Public Libraries

• PUBLIB and PUBLIB-Net Electronic Discussions — Information and archives for this pair of e-mail groups

Reference

• Massachusetts Trial Court Libraries — “Seventeen public law libraries located across Massachusetts, dedicated to serving the bench, bar and public.”
• MassBedRock — “MassBedrock (Massachusetts Business and Economic Development Reference Online Center for Knowledge) is a service of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries with major funding provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners (MBLC).”
• Stumpers — Information and archives for this e-mail group for difficult reference questions

Children’s and Young Adults’ Services

• Association for Library Service to Children — ALSC is a division of the American Library Association
• Young Adult Services Association — YALSA is a division of the American Library Association
• School Library Journal Online — The online version of this important publication
• Kay E. Vandergrift’s Special Interest Page — Ideas, information, booklists and many special features on different aspects of children’s literature
• Children’s Book Council — Information for librarians, teachers and parents on children’s literature, with booklists, links to other sites and more
• Young Adult Librarian’s Help/Homepage — A collection of resources created by Patrick Jones and now maintained by Tracey Firestone

Preservation

• A Simple Book Repair Manual — This is a hypertext edition of a booklet prepared by the National Park Service National Center for Preservation Technology and Training. It describes the goals, methods, and techniques for basic book repair, and includes a bibliography and glossary of terms.
• CoOL: Conservation Online — “CoOL, a project of the Preservation Department of Stanford University Libraries, is a full text library of conservation information, covering a wide spectrum of topics of interest to those involved with the conservation of library, archives and museum materials.”
• Preservation Resources — A collection of resources for the preservation of digital material from the Berkeley Digital Library SunSite

Technical Services

• Outline of the Library of Congress Classification — From the Cataloging Policy and Support Office of the Library of Congress

Libraries and the Internet

• Web4Lib — Information, reference center and archives for the e-mail group devoted to the use of the World Wide Web in libraries.