Suggested Reading

From the ALA:

• ALA Professional Tools Website - There is a lot of great information here in a variety of categories.
• ALA Code of Ethics
• Core Values of Librarianship - Also see the ALA Intellectual Freedom documents on the left.
• Library Journal - A lot of their articles are free on the web and they are well organized into key topics.

Other article resources:

• First Monday - Technology oriented, but lots of other great articles as well on stewardship, collaboration, digital libraries, etc.
• Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki
• 2007 OCLC report on Social Networking and Libraries
• Tame the Web blog post - Michael Stephens' class discusses the hot topics and books for Librarians - great comps start!

These articles are gacked with permission from the compssummer2007 wiki created by Jess Beauchamp.

• Article by Thomas Mann discussing how libraries will not and cannot be replaced by the internet. (submitted by J. Dovi)

• 2006 Final Calhoun Report for LOC and Deanna Marcum's 2005 speech on the future of cataloging - Related to above paper by Thomas Mann and the whole LOC kerfuffle (submitted by J. Beauchamp)

• 2005 OCLC Report on Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources (submitted by J. Beauchamp)

• 2004 OCLC Report on College Students' Perceptions: Libraries and Information Resources (submitted by J. Beauchamp)