giuliano .'s List: Librarian Tools

"Welcome to The Bluebook, the definitive style guide for legal citation in the United States. For generations, law students, lawyers, scholars, judges, and other legal professionals have relied on The Bluebook’s unique system of citation. In a diverse and rapidly changing legal profession, The Bluebook continues to provide a systematic method by which members of the profession communicate important information about the sources and authorities upon which they rely in their work."

"Though scientific publications document sources in similar ways, the details of presenting source information vary from journal to journal. Often publications provide prospective authors with style sheets that outline formats for presenting sources. Before submitting an article to a scientific publication, you should request its style sheet. If one is not available, examine a copy of the publication to see how sources are documented. When writing for a science course, check with your instructor about how to cite and list your sources."

"Summary: APA (American Psychological Association) is most commonly used to cite sources within the social sciences. This resource, revised according to the 6th edition of the APA manual, offers examples for the general format of APA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the reference page. Please use the example at the bottom of this page to cite the Purdue OWL in APA. "

"The scope of the Division is: The Competitive Intelligence (CI) Division encompasses all aspects of competitive intelligence, including planning, identifying decision makers’ intelligence needs, collecting and analyzing information, disseminating intelligence products and services, evaluating intelligence activities, promoting intelligence services among a client base, and additional industry-specific issues. Competitive Intelligence Division members concentrate on developing their competitive intelligence skills to assist them in functioning more effectively as intelligence professionals within their respective organizations."

"This still will feature links which are helpful to bloggers, professional reporters, students and teachers. Many of these links are helpful to librarians and students in any grade doing quality research. College professors and high school instructors: Wondering how to walk your students through an exercise on using Web tools? Let them know about www.journaliststoolbox.com ."

"This page was developed for the benefit of members who want recommendations on useful KM sites and resources and/or for those who are just getting started in the knowledge management field. This is not a comprehensive resource but is a good starting point. Please add YOUR knowledge to this page to help up evolve this resource for the benefit of our members. "

"In this space you will find an increasing resource of information on Controlled Vocabularies including Taxonomies, Thesauri, Ontologies, Terminologies, and other Knowledge Organization and Classification Systems. We encourage you to contribute!"

"The ICT in Education programme consists of a range of interconnected projects in six key areas: Policy; Training of Teachers; Teaching and Learning; Non-Formal Education; Monitoring and Measuring Change; and Research and Knowledge-Sharing.

In addition to information about the projects implemented through the ICT in Education Programme at the UNESCO Bangkok office, this section highlights projects implemented by other UNESCO offices. For information about projects managed by other organizations please search the database."

"The ICT Digital Literacy Portal is the "public face" of a fast growing international movement focused on promoting Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Digital Literacy. This website provides a rich global resource and collaborative environment for dissemination of ICT Literacy materials, interactive discussions, research information, and international dialogue."

"The Library Technology Guides website aims to provide comprehensive and objective information related to the field of library automation. It provides information on the technology products, companies, and trends that impact libraries. Whether you are in the process of selecting a library automation system, or just want to keep up with developments in the field, Library Technology Guides is the place to start"

Libraries--the brick-and-mortar institutions that amass book and periodical collections, not software modules, that is--get taken for granted in the Internet age. They have to manage vast arrays of

"Welcome to the original Learning 2.0 Program. This site was created to support PLCMC's Learning 2.0 Program; a discovery learning program designed to encourage staff to explore new technologies and reward them for doing 23 Things. Since the program's launched, it has fostered Learning 2.0 programs all over the world. If you are interested in duplicating or modifying this program for your organization, please see Program Notes on About Page and contact Helene Blowers for information."

"Advocacy: Useful Sites"

Few good links.

This is the preliminary work to the book "Hanging out, messing around..." see book list.

"For the last three years, I’ve been a part of a team of researchers at Berkeley and USC focused on digital youth practices. This project, funded by the MacArthur Foundation, brought together 28 different researchers (led by Mimi Ito and my now deceased advisor Peter Lyman) to examine different aspects of American youth life. As many of you know, I focused on normative teen practices and the ways in which teens engaged in networked publics."