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Bobby
http://bobby.watchfire.com
Creating
Accessible Documents with Adobe Acrobat
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/solutionsacc.html
Cynthia Says Portal
http://cynthia.contentquality.com
EASI (Easy Access to Software and Information)
http://www.rit.edu/~easi/index.htm
HTML Writers Guild's AWARE (Accessible Web Authoring Resources and
Education Center)
http://aware.hwg.org
Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology (DO-IT)
http://www.washington.edu/doit/
W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/
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Content
Enrichment & News Feeds
Bookletters
http://www.bookletters.com
Offers a very user-friendly and affordable way for libraries to create customized newsletters or select from the many the service already offers. Links from title lists are connected directly to the library's catalog. Additionally, the newsletters can be displayed on the library's Web site. Visit the Web site to find out more about what the service offers.
Example: Clinton-Macomb Public Library
Content
Café
http://www.informata.com
704-329-2940 EyeWire--Images
and Clipart
Getty Images
http://www.eyewire.com
800-661-9410
Moreover.com
http://www.moreover.com
Provides hundreds of
provides live headline links on any company, topic, or industry, delivered continuously and automatically to your website. Free for nonprofits.
Example: Jefferson County Public Library
NewsIsFree.com
Nonprofit web site designed to let you access thousands of news sources
with a powerful and flexible portal for browsing, indexing and publishing
news headlines. Provides headline news for your web site.
Syndetics Solutions
http://www.syndetics.com
877-737-9722 Weblog
Bookwatch
Searches weblogs that
pass through the 'recently changed list' at weblogs.com and tracks those
that are the most frequently mentioned. The agent searches for occurrences
of links to books at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, or Powells. Use with
links to your library catalog.
Xignite
Provides multiple quote related operations, market summary information, index information, and top market movers, losers, and gainers. Source is Yahoo! Finance. (Yahoo! News via RSS (Really Simple Syndication). The feeds are free of charge to use for individuals and nonprofit organizations for noncommercial use. Attribution (included in each feed) is required.)
For use on business pages.
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Event Calendars
E*vanced Solutions
http://www.evancedsolutions.com
Example at Maricopa County Library District
Event
Keeper
http://www.eventkeeper.com
Example at Duxbury
Free Library
WebEvent
Publish
http://www.webevent.com
Example at Sonoma
County Library
E-Journal
List Services & Link Resolvers
A-to-Z
Ebsco
http://atoz.ebsco.com
800-653-2726
A-to-Z
Title List, Article Linker and more
Serials Solutions
http://www.serialssolutions.com
866-737-4257
TDNet
http://www.tdnet.com/
888-705-3582
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Free Resources from vendors
The Gale Group
http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources
Ebsco Publishing
http://www.epnet.com/freeres.asp top
Fundraising, Foundations, Donations, etc.
Shop for the Library
http://www.shopforthelibrary.net
Library customers can support your library by purchasing from listed vendors. Libraries promote Shop for the Library to their customers. An optional download ensures that customers' purchases are credited toward the chosen library. The library receives a check every three months.
Boston Public Library's Image Gallery and Store
http://www.bpl.org/store/
Online Donations
http://www.bpl.org/general/donations.htm
Seattle Public Library Foundation
http://www.foundation.spl.org
Link
Resolvers -- ILS Vendors
SFX
Ex Libris
http://www.sfxit.com
866-232-0202
SIRSI
Resolvers
SIRSI
http://www.sirsi.com/Sirsiproducts/openurl.html
800-917-4774
Millenium
Access Plus: WebBridge
Innovative Interfaces, Inc.
http://www.iii.com/mill/digital.shtml#webbridge
510-655-6200
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Electronic
Books
Books24x7
http://www.books24x7.com
1-781-440-0550
100 River Ridge Drive
Norwood, MA 02062 USA
Electronic
Books in Libraries
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/main/ebooks/index.htm
OverDrive,
Inc.
http://www.overdrive.com
Valley Tech Center - Suite A
8555 Sweet Valley Drive
Cleveland, OH 44125 USA
216-573-6886
netLibrary
OCLC
http://www.netlibrary.com
1-800-848-5878
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Link
checkers
Doctor
HTML
http://www.doctor-html.com/RxHTML
Emulators,
inc.
http://www.emulators.com
W3C's
HTML Validator
http://validator.w3.org
Web
Design Group's HTML Validator
http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator
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Online
newsletters
Association
for Interactive Marketing (AIM)
http://www.interactivemarketing.org
Bookletters
http://www.bookletters.com
Offers a very user-friendly and affordable way for libraries to create customized newsletters or select from the many the service already offers. Links from title lists are connected directly to the library's catalog. Additionally, the newsletters can be displayed on the library's Web site. Visit the Web site to find out more about what the service offers.
Example: Clinton-Macomb Public Library
ClickZ
http://www.clickz.com
College
Libraries' Newsletters- A Webliography
http://www.ala.org/acrl/cls/collnewsletters.html
Opt-In
News
http://www.optinnews.com
Worldbiz.com
http://www.wordbiz.com
Netpreneur's
AdMarketing
http://www.netpreneur.org
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Broadcast
or Federated Searching
MuseSearch
MuseGlobal
http://www.museglobal.com/Products/musesearch.html
801-208-1880
Resource
Gateway
WebClarity
Sea Change Corporation
http://www.web-clarity.com
800-661-7274
Webfeat
Knowledge Prism
Webfeat, Inc
http://www.webfeat.org
888-757-9119
Resource Integration Services-within ILS
ILS Dependent
Single
Search
SIRSI
http://www.sirsi.com/Sirsiproducts/broadcastsearch.html
800-917-4774
AGent
Auto-Graphics.
http://www4.auto-graphics.com/product_agent.html
800-776-6939
ENCompass
Endeavor
http://encompass.endinfosys.com/whatis/whatisENC2.htm
800-762-6300
MetaLib
ExLibris (USA)
http://www.exlibris-usa.com/metalib.htm
877-527-1689
ZPORTAL
Fretwell-Downing.
http://www.fdusa.com/products/zportal.html
888-649-6542
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Site
Indexing Software
ht://Dig
http://www.htdig.org
Web indexing and search software. Free.
HTML
Indexer™
http://www.html-indexer.com
Creates a back-of-the-book index from a collection of HTML files.
SWISH-E
http://www.swish-e.org
Indexes web pages and text files. Free.
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Usability
Usable
Web
http://www.usableweb.com
Usabillity.gov
http://www.usability.gov
useit.com:
Jakob Nielsen's Website
http://www.useit.com
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Virtual
Reference
24/7
Reference
http://www.247ref.org
310-391-7444
QuestionPoint
OCLC
http://www.questionpoint.org
800-848-5878
Virtual
Reference
Tutor.com
http://www.vrtoolkit.net
For more, see LiveRef(sm)
A Registry of Real-Time Digital Reference Services
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/LiveRef.htm
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Web
Design
HTML
Writers Guild
http://www.hwg.org
W3C
World Wide Web Consortium
http://www.w3.org
Web
Design Library--Builder.com.
http://builder.cnet.com/webbuilding/0-3884.html?tag=dir
Webdeveloper.com:
All About Site Management, Marketing, and Analysis Tools
http://www.webdeveloper.com/management
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Web
Management
Library
Web Manager's Reference Center (DL SunSITE)
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/RefCenter
Issues
in Creating and Managing Library Websites
http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/dpi/dlcl/pld/webguide.html
Web4Lib
Electronic Discussion (DL SunSITE).
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib
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Web
Statistics & Performance Measures
Web
Trends
NetIQ
http://www.netiq.com/webtrends/default.asp
1-888-323-6768
Very robust software that records all movement of web site visitors.
Usage
Tracker
Webfeat, Inc
http://www.webfeat.org
888-757-9119
A part of Webfeat's broadcast searching software that will tabulate usage
of online databases.
ARL
New Measures Initiative
http://www.arl.org/stats/newmeas/newmeas.html
This effort represents the academic community's response to an increasing
demand for libraries to demonstrate outcomes/impacts in areas important
to the institution and the increasing pressure to maximize the use of
resources.
E-metrics
Instructional System
http://www.ii.fsu.edu/emis/
Provides assistance and guidelines for measuring the library's electronic
resources and services.
The
International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC)
http://www.library.yale.edu/consortia/2001webstats.htm
ICOLC represents 150 library consortia worldwide. Their publication, Guidelines
for Statistical Measures of Usage of Web-based Information Resources,
was modified in December 2001, to simplify data and strengthen administrative
concerns such as confidentiality, privacy, access, delivery, and report
format.
International
Organization for Standardization (ISO)
http://www.iso.ch
ISO 20983
Information and documentation -- Performance indicators for electronic
library services.
NISO
Z39.7-200X Draft Information Services and Use: Metrics & statistics
for libraries and information providers--Data Dictionary
http://www.niso.org/emetrics
The Library Statistics Standard, ANSI/NISO Z39.7-1995, was first released
in 1968, and revised in 1983 and 1995. Revisions currently in development
will incorporate electronic usage statistics and performance measures.
COUNTER
(Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources)
http://www.projectcounter.org
Established in March 2002, COUNTER published The COUNTER Code of Practice,
which provides guidance on data elements to be measured, definitions of
these data elements, and output report content and format.
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Finding
Great Web Sites
Best
Information on the Net, St. Ambrose University, O'Keefe Library
http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/
The
Internet Scout Project
http://scout.wisc.edu/
Librarian's
Index to the Internet
http://www.lii.org
Neat
New Stuff on the Net by Marylaine Block
http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html
Web
Feet
Rock Hill Press
14 Rock Hill Road
Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004
888-762-5445
http://www.webfeetguides.com
Print directory of authoritative web sites. Also offers MARC records for
academic, school, and public libraries, including a special collection
of health web sites. (see below)
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MARC
Records
Dartclix
Brodart
500 Arch Street
Williamsport, PA 17701
800-233-8467
http://www.brodart.com
Provides collections of cataloged web sites geared toward public and school
libraries. Includes grade level within the 521 field.
Web
Feet
Rock Hill Press
14 Rock Hill Road
Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004
888-762-5445
http://www.webfeetguides.com
Web Feet offers a variety of collections of MARC records for academic,
school, and public libraries, including a special collection of health
web sites.
Documents
without Shelves
Marcive, Inc.
P.O. Box 47508
San Antonio, TX 78265-7508,
1-800-531-7678
http://www.marcive.com
Offers a subscription service of hundreds of MARC records of full-text
online government documents.
Discoverer
Webfind
SIRS
http://www.sirs.com/products/webfind.htm
1-800-232-SIRS
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Web
Style Guides
NYPL
Online Style Guide
http://www.nypl.org/styleguide/
Web
Style Guide, 2nd ed.
http://www.webstyleguide.com/
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