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  1. The Changing Nature of the Catalog and Its Integration with Other Discovery Tools. Final Report. March 17, 2006
    Discovery Tools. Final Report. March 17, 2006.

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
    The Calhoun report draws unjustified conclusions about the digital age, inflates wishful thinking, fails to make critical distinctions, and disregards (as well as mischaracterizes) an alternative “niche” strategy for research libraries, to promote scholarship (rather than increase “market position”).
  2. Connexions Archive seeks a new home
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home.
  3. Connexions Library Author Index
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2012
    Documents in the Connexions Library catalogue sorted by author.
  4. Connexions Library Dewey Index
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2012
    Books in the Connexions Library catalogue indexed by Dewey Decimal number.
  5. Connexions Library Subject Index
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2012
    A comprehensive subject index of documents in the Connexions Library.
  6. Connexions Library Title Index
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2012
    Documents in the Connexions Library catalogue sorted by title.
  7. The Graphic Monthly Master Equipment Catalogue
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
  8. IISH in Archives Portal Europe
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Archival materials at the IISH are now accessible through Archives Portal Europe. The portal provides access to information on archival material from the inventories of hundreds of archival institutions in Europe. The user can search in 39,323,587 descriptive units linked to more than 141,000,000 digital objects from 397 institutions.
  9. The Oxford Guide to Library Research - Review
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1998
    An excellent guide to doing research, explaining research methods and strategies and their strengths and weaknesses of. See review in Sources Select Resources.
  10. The Peloponnesian War and the Future of Reference, Cataloging, and Scholarship in Research Libraries
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2007
    An examination of the overall principles and practices of both reference service and cataloguing operations in the promotion of scholarly research, pointing out important differences not just in content available onsite and offsite, but also among necessary search techniques. It specifies the differences between scholarship and quick information seeking.
  11. Resolution on the Library of Congress Management's Decision to Cease the Production of Series Authority Records
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
  12. Sources Select Resources
    Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers

    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers.
  13. What is Going on at the Library of Congress?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
    What is going on at the Library of Congress? Several recent decisions by the current LC
    administration have produced firestorms of protest, both inside and outside the Library, that LC is abdicating its professional responsibilities to the national system of shared cataloging, as well as undermining its core mission to acquire, catalog, make accessible, and preserve its own unparalleled holdings–especially its book collections.
  14. Whole Again Resource Guide
    1986/1987 Edition. A Periodical and Resource Directory.

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
    "Practical compendium of tools and resoucres for people-saving, planet-saving alternatives. It is a directory of periodicals, sourcebooks, directories and bibliographies.
  15. Will Google's Keyword Searching Eliminate the Need for LC Cataloging and Classification?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2005
    Google Print does not "change everything" regarding the need for professional cataloging and classification of books; its limitations make cataloging and classification even more important to researchers. Google’s keyword search mechanism, backed by the display of results in "relevance ranked" order, is expressly designed and optimized for quick information seeking rather than scholarship.

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