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General Library & Museum Resources
General Library Resources
Ancient Greek and Roman Libraries (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Assoc. of Research Libraries Web Server 
Choice ("current reviews for academic libraries"; trial subscription available for online access to reviews)
CyberRat's Lair: Libraries (large list of world libraries online, sorted by nation) (Michael Sauers)
Hytelnet on WWW (Web gateway to Hytelnet database of telnet sites, especially library catalogues around the world) (Peter Scott)
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions 
International Directory of Art Libraries (searchable) (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
The Internet Information Desk: Library & K-12 Resources on the Net (Groton Public Schools, Connecticut)
IPL: The Internet Public Library 
Library Page of ABAA Booknet/RMHarris_Ltd (annotated links to library telnet sites)
Libweb: Library Servers via WWW ("over 2000 pages from libraries in over 70 countries") (Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE)
New Horizons in Scholarly Communication
Homepage of New Horizons in Scholarly Communication (guide with resources that "highlights trends affecting the process of creating, disseminating, retrieving, and using information for instruction and research at the university level") (Librarians Assoc. of U. California System)
Teaching (New Horizons in Scholarly Communication) 
Research 
Publishing 
Copyright & Intellectual Property 
Building & Organizing Collections 
Technology & Infrastructure 
Occupational Outlook Handbook: Teachers, Librarians, and Counselors (detailed description of what various jobs in the field involve and forecasts for employment opportunities through 2005) (U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Resources of Scholarly Societies - Library & Information Science (U. Waterloo)
SCAN: Scholarship from California on the Net (pilot project designed to facilitate broad scholarly access to humanities journals, books, and related materials through publication on the Internet) (U. California Press & various U. California Libraries)
Schools for Library & Information Studies on the Internet (Randy D. Ralph, U. North Carolina at Greensboro)
Scott Stebelman (George Washington U.), "Studies of Interest to English and American Literature Librarians" 
SuperJournal Home Page (major U.K.-based collaboration between publishers, universities, and libraries "to identify the factors that make electronic journals successful and to develop successful models for network publishing. The project will develop a wide range of
Washington & Lee U.'s List of Library Catalogs Online (very large list of world library resources sorted alphabetically)
WWW Libraries Directory (CR Associates)
General Museum Resources
American Assoc. of Museum's 90th Annual Meeting: Proceedings (Museum Computer Network & Libertynet)
Museum Exhibition Announcement List (Museos Art Magazine)
World Wide Arts Resources - Museums 
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Research Libraries
Canada
Bibliothèque nationale de Canada (in French and English)
U. of British Columbia Library: Special Collections and University Archives 
Denmark
Royal Library, Copenhagen 
France
French Libraries (gopher)
La Bibliothèque nationale de France 
Roth's Poetry Library for Librarians (info on librarian-poets, poems on libraries, etc.) (Roth Publishing)
Germany
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Munich) (telnet: type "starte," then Return and Return) (Lynx users: to quit, use the appropriate exit command from inside the telnet session since "^]" from this site will suspend Lynx)
Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-Württemberg Service -- angebote im WWW 
Bibliothekskataloge (German libraries online)
HBZ Deutsche Bibliotheken Online (German libraries online)
Universitaetsbibliothek Muenchen (telnet connection)
Holland
A Hundred Highlights from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek 
U. K.
BARD: Bodleian Access to Remote Databases 
Bodleian Library WWW Server
Homepage 
Bodleian Library: Bibliographic IT Services 
British Library: Portico 
British Library Public Catalog
Homepage of British Library Public Catalogue 
British Library Document Supply Service 
Durham U. Library 
National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum 
J. C. T. Oates (Cambridge U.), "A History of Cambridge U. Library" (1975) 
Oxford Libraries Library Automation Service 
Oxford U., English Faculty Library 
U. Exeter Library 
U. S.
American Antiquarian Society (and Library) 
Bakken Library and Museum (Minneapolis, Minnesota) ("history, cultural context, and applications of electricity and magnetism in the life sciences and medicine") (Eric S. Boyles, U. Minnesota)
Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE 
Calif. Institute of Technology Library 
Carnegie Mellon University Libraries Front Door 
Claremont Colleges Libraries 
Cornell U. Library: Rare Books & Manuscripts 
Dartmouth College Library System 
Duke U. Special Collections Library 
Folger Shakespeare Library 
Huntington Library, Art Collections, & Botanical Gardens (San Marino, Calif.) 
Indiana Univ., Bloomington, Libraries 
Library of Congress 
MIT Libraries 
The Newberry Library 
New York Public Library
Homepage 
Andrew Heiskell Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped 
Catalogs (telnet)
Center for the Humanities 
Digital Library Collections (extensive online exhibits and other resources)
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts 
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 
Science, Industry and Business Library 
NYU Elmer Holmes Bobst Library 
Occidental C. Library 
Tulane U. Howard-Tilton Memorial Library: Special Collections 
U. California Melvyl System (sophisticated web interface to the Melvyl library catalogs for the UC system; general catalogs available to all users; UC users have access to all users; a registration process allows users to save search and other information across sessions)
UC Berkeley Libraries 
UC Berkeley: GLADIS Online Catalog (most UC Berkeley libraries) (telnet; no login required)
UCLA Libraries 
UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library 
UC Riverside: INFOMINE 
U. Michigan University Library 
U. Notre Dame Libraries Homepage 
U.S. National Library of Medicine 
U. Southern California Library 
U. Virginia Library Web 
U. Wisconsin-Madison Electronic Library 
Vassar C. Libraries 
Virginia Tech University Libraries 
Yale U. Beinecke Library (rare books) 
Yale University Library 
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Public Libraries
Alameda County Public Library 
Berkeley Public Library 
California Library Catalogs (San Francisco Public Library)
Falmouth, Mass., Public Library 
Gerber/Hart Library & Archives (Gerber/Hart is the Chicago gay and lesbian circulating library; the home page includes info about the library and archives as well as outbound links)
Los Angeles Public Library 
Medfield Public Library (Medfield, Mass.)
Oakland Public Library 
Pasadena Public Library 
San Francisco Public Library 
San Marino Public Library 
SJCPL's Public Libraries With Internet Services
Homepage (comprehensive listing of public libraries on the net) (St. Joseph's County Public Library)
Libraries on WWW 
Libraries on Gopher 
Sonoma County Public Library 
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Museums
Australia
AusArts: Web Server for Australian Visual Arts & Music at the Institute of the Arts 
Canada
Canadian Museum of Civilization (Hull, Quebec) (includes
CHIN: Canadian Heritage Information Network
Homepage of Canadian Heritage Information Network (gateway to Canadian art, cultural, and heritage resources; in English & French)
Guide to Canadian Museums and Galleries 
National Inventories 
Commercial Computing Museum (Waterloo, Ontario) 
Musée du Québec 
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal 
The Museum for Textiles (Toronto) 
Museums in Canada (also includes heritage and living-history sites) (WWW Virtual Library / Canadian Heritage Information Network)
National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa) 
Ontario Science Centre (Toronto) 
Royal Ontario Museum 
U. Victoria Maltwood Art Museum & Gallery 
France
Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou 
French Ministry of Culture 
French National Museum of Modern Art 
L'Institute du Monde Arabe 
The Louvre 
Musee de l'Orangerie 
Musee des Arts et Metiers (science & technology, Paris)
Museum of Arts and Crafts (Paris)
Musexpo (guide to 30 top French museums with much descriptive and historical information; in French, English, and Italian) (LEFIGARO Magazine)
Greece
Every Museum of Greece and Cyprus - Ariadne Network 
Israel
Israel Museum 
Jerusalem Mosaic 
Italy
Bologna Museums and Guided Tours 
Christus Rexus (images of Vatican City)
MIFAV: Museum of the Photographic Image and of the Visual Arts (U. di Roma Tor Vergata)
Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Cagliari 
Museo Revoltella (Trieste)
Museum of Early Instruments of the Institute of Physics, Naples 
Vatican Exhibit 
The Vatican Museums (429 images from Christus Rexus) 
Japan
Kyoto National Museum (in Japanese and English)
REKIHAKU National Museum of Japanese History (in Japanese)
Russia & Former Soviet States
Moscow Kremlin On-Line Excursion 
St. Petersberg Pictures Gallery 
Sweden
National Museum of Art, Stockholm, Sweden 
Telemuseum (history of telecommunications) (Telecommunications Museum, Stockholm)
Taiwan
National Palace Museum, Taipei (in Chinese and English)
U. K.
British Museum 
The London Transport Museum 
Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester 
Museum of Transport, Manchester 
Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle U. 
Museums in London 
National Gallery 
Reading Museum and Art Gallery 
The Shefton Museum (small collection of artifacts from the Greek world housed in the Classics Dept. at U. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
Victoria Albert Museum
Homepage 
National Art Library 
U. S.
Allen Memorial Art Museum - Oberlin College 
Bakken Library and Museum (Minneapolis, Minnesota) ("history, cultural context, and applications of electricity and magnetism in the life sciences and medicine")
The Bellingham Antique Radio Museum 
Berkeley University Art Museum, Pacific Film 
Boston C. Museum of Art (Charles S. and Isabella V. McMullen Museum) 
California Museum of Photography 
Carlos Museum (Emory Univ.)
The Computer Museum (Boston)
Dallas Museum of Art Online 
David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art 
Davis Museum and Cultural Center (Wellesley College)
De Young Museum (San Francisco)
Eighth Air Force Museum (includes specs on aircraft)
Ellis Island Immigration Museum (Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.)
Ellsworth AFB (includes specs on aircraft)
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 
The Franklin Institute Science Museum (Philadelphia, Penn.)
Hands On Children's Museum (Olympia, Washington) (for children under 10)
Harvard U. Art Museums
Homepage of Harvard U. Art Museums 
Sargent at Harvard ("searchable database that makes available images and textual information relating to [Sargent] in the collections of the Harvard U. Art Museums . . . and the Harvard U. Portrait Collection") (Melinda Linderer & Lee Mand
The Heard Museum (Phoenix, Arizona) (Native-American culture)
Heritage Map Museum (15th to 19th-century antique maps)
Indianapolis Museum of Art 
The Intel Museum 
International Museum of the Horse (history of horses in world culture) (Lexington, Kentucky)
Kelsey Museum Exhibit Galleries (classical art and archaeology)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art 
Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Minneapolis Institute of Arts 
MIT Museum 
Museum Applied Science Center for Archaeology (U. Penn Museum)
Museum of Bad Art (Glyphs)
Museum of American Financial History (New York, NY) ("chronicling the history of America's capital markets")
Museum of the Internet 
Museum of HP Calculators 
National Building Museum, Washington, D.C. ("the only institution in the United States dedicated to American achievements in architecture, construction, engineering and design")
National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis,Tennessee 
Philadelphia Museum of Art 
Princeton U. Art Museum 
Reading Museum and Art Gallery 
San Jose State U. Art Museum 
Smithsonian Institute Museums & Organizations
Homepage of Smithsonian Institute Museums & Organizations 
Arthur M. Sackler / Freer Galleries 
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum 
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 
National Museum of African Art 
National Museum of the American Indian 
National Air and Space Museum 
National Museum of American Art 
National Museum of American Art: White House Collection of American Crafts 
National Portrait Gallery 
Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art 
The Smithsonian Institution 
The Tech Museum of Innovation (San Jose, Calif.)
Tinker AFB Air Park (includes specs on aircraft)
Travis Air Force Museum (includes specs on aircraft)
U. California, Santa Barbara, Art Museum 
U. Notre Dame Snite Museum of Art 
U. Penn Museum 
U. Virginia Bayly Art Museum 
The Vanderbilt Museum (Centerport, NY) (WebScope)
Virtual Museum of Technology 
The Virtual Museum of Computing (history of computing) (Jonathan Bowen, Oxford U.)
Virtual Science Museum 
Weisman Art Museum (Univ. of Minnesota at Minneapolis)
Whitney Museum 
World Arts Resources: Museums in the USA 
Yale Center for British Art 
Yale University Art Gallery 
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Computerizing The Library/Museum: Research & Projects
An Electronic Environmental Library Project (UC Berkeley; part of the Digital Libraries Initiative)
CIMI: Consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information ("16 organizations who have agreed to work cooperatively to solve complex problems relating to the electronic interchange of museum information. CIMI's major focus of effort is project CHIO, a demonstration project on the theme of folkart"
Jean-Claude Guedon (U. Montreal), "Why Are Electronic Publications Difficult to Classify?" (1994) 
Digital Libraries and Xerox 
Digital Libraries Initiative (multi-university project with major sponsorship to invent the virtual library of the future)
D-Lib: The Magazine of Digital Library Research 
Information Literacy Bibliography (K. Alix Hayden, U. Calgary)
The Informedia Project ("research initiative at Carnegie Mellon University funded by the NSF, DARPA, NASA and others, that studies how multimedia Digital Libraries can be established and used. Informedia is building a multimedia library that will contain over a thousand hours of digital video, and audio, images, text and other related materials")
Marlene Manoff (MIT Libraries), "Cyberhope or Cyberhype? Computers and Scholarly Research" (1997) 
New Horizons in Scholarly Communication
Homepage of New Horizons in Scholarly Communication (guide with resources that "highlights trends affecting the process of creating, disseminating, retrieving, and using information for instruction and research at the university level") (Librarians Assoc. of U. California System)
Teaching (New Horizons in Scholarly Communication) 
Research 
Publishing 
Copyright & Intellectual Property 
Building & Organizing Collections 
Technology & Infrastructure 
James J. O'Donnell (U. Penn), "The Virtual Library: An Idea Whose Time Has Passed" 
Online Magazine (for information professionals; "provides articles, product reviews, case studies, evaluation, and informed opinion about selecting, using, and managing electronic information products, plus industry and professional information about online da
Project Alexandria (UCSB; research project on "distributed spatial data libraries" for image and other spatially-referenced resources; part of the Digital Libraries Initiative)
J. Sairamesh et. al., "Economic Framework for Pricing and Charging in Digital Libraries" (1996) (D-Lib)
Daniel Schutzer (Financial Services Technology Consortium, Citibank), "A Need For A Common Infrastructure Digital Libraries and Electronic Commerce" (1996) (D-Lib)
Linda Scovill, "Librarians and Publishers in the Scholarly Information Process: Transition in the Electronic Age" (Council on Library Resources/Assoc. of American Publishers)
Stanford Digital Libraries Project (part of the Digital Libraries Initiative)
Susan Leigh Star (U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
"Grounded Classification: Grounded Theory and Faceted Classification" (1997) 
"To Classify is Human" (1996) (essay of broad relevance on the social and cultural implications of classifications and "residual classifications" in the information age; makes use of historical data on classifications in fields including medical and nursing sciences)
University Libraries and Scholarly Communications (Mellon Report) 
User Interface Research at Xerox PARC (text file)
Xerox PARC Graphics and Interaction Research Area 
Xerox PARC PubWeb Server= 


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