The Web Library Building a World Class Personal Library with Free Web Resources 1st Edition by Nicholas Tomaiuolo, Barbara Quint, Steve Coffman ISBN 9781573879712, 1573879711
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ISBN 10: 1573879711
ISBN 13: 9781573879712
Author: Nicholas Tomaiuolo, Barbara Quint, Steve Coffman
Table of contents:
Chapter One
Free Articles and Indexes: Can You Afford
Not to Use Them?
Why It Pays to Listen to Mother
An Illustrative Comparison
More for Free
Selected Collections of Digitized Joumals
Pointers to Online Collections
A Word to the Wise (Librarian)
Online Magazines: A Close Read
Sidebar: Insider’s Viewpoint from Your Web Library
Professional: Paul Katcher, Time.com
Sidebar: Insider’s Viewpoint from Your Web Library
Professional: Katie Bacon, the Atlantic Unbound
MagPortal.com: An Aggregator at Your Service
Sidebar: Insider’s Viewpoint from Your Web Library
Professional: Bill Dimm, MagPortal
Other Aggregators and Portals for Online
Magazines and Journals
Just Help Me Find It!
Other Free Indexes to Help You Locate
Periodical Articles
Staying Alert Without Caffeine, Exercise, or Meditation.
Great Things Ahead
Use Your Library Card
Conclusion
Sample Annual Savings
Chapter Two
All the News that Fits and a Few Gigs More
Here’s the Scoop on Newspaper Reading
Typical Newspaper Expenditures by Libraries and Information Professionals.
Free Model Is an International Model
What’s Online?
Wait-There’s More
Behind the Scenes at a Newspaper Web Site
Sidebar: Insider’s Viewpoint from Your Web Library
Professional: Gary Duchane, Hartford Courant
Broadcast Journalism News Sites
Alternate Approaches: Of Ananova and Weblogs
Giving News a Personal Spin: Weblogs
Locating the Blogs: Key Resources
Other Resources: Yesterday’s News
Using News Search Engines
Setting Up News Updates and Newsletters
Sports Newsletters and Alerts
Newsletters and Breaking News at National and
Local Newspaper Sites
A Free Service Becomes Fee-Based While Two New
Free Services Take Its Place
Create Your Own News Portal
A Journalist Talks About Web News
Sidebar: Insider’s Viewpoint from Your Web Library
Professional: Richard Hanley, Quinnipiac University
Conclusion
Sample Annual Savings
Chapter Three
Ready or Not: Reference on the Web
What Is a Reference Question?
How Much Does It Cost to Answer Questions?
Sidebar: Insider’s Viewpoint from Your Web Library
Professional: William Katz, Librarian,
Educator, Author
Consensus on Ready Reference Sources.
The Top Reference Sources in Print and Online
Frequently Used Reference Materials
Top Sources and Free Web Information
Case Study: Sparknotes, Cliff Notes, and Masterplots
One-Stops for Ready Reference
Sidebar: Insider’s Viewpoint from Your Web Library
Professional: Steven van Leeuwen, President,
Bartleby.com
Notable Standalone Web Sites for Specific Subjects
Great Web Reference Sites-
Pick Two and Go with Them
The Observations of a Top Web Reference Librarian
Sidebar: Insider’s Viewpoint from Your Web Library
Professional: Patricia Memmott, User Services Coordinator, the Internet Public Library.
Conclusion
Sample Annual Savings
References
Supplementary Information
The “Alexa Toolbar”
Chapter Four
Reference Part II: Expert, AskA, and Digital Reference Services
The Virtues of Web-Based Assistance
The Problems with Web-Based Assistance
Ask-an-Expert Sites: The Good News
The Nonlibrary Resources
What Happens When Web-Based Assistance Doesn’t Work?
What Happens When Web-Based Assistance Works?
Finding the Answer: Other Possible Solutions
The Library Answer Continuum: From “A” (synchronous)
to Live Reference
Sidebar: Insider’s Viewpoint from Your Web Library
Professional: Susan McGlamery, Coordinator of Reference Services, Metropolitan Cooperative Library System, Greater Los Angeles, California
The World’s Largest Library and Its Role in Virtual Q & A..
Are You Affiliated with a Leading Edge Library?
The Library Difference
Conclusion
Sample Annual Savings
Chapter Five
Books in the Web Library
How Much Time People Spend Reading
How Much Money People Spend on Reading
Traditional Books, Electronic Texts, and
Electronic Books
Online E-Text Collections: Cornerstone of Your
Own Web Library
Sidebar: Insider’s Viewpoint from Your Web Library
Professional: Gregory Newby, Project Gutenberg
Free E-Text Collections and Catalogs on the
World Wide Web
Sidebar: Insider’s Viewpoint from Your Web Library
Professional: Michael S. Hart, Founder.
Project Gutenberg
Other Extraordinary E-Text/E-Book Resources
Sidebar: Insider’s Viewpoint from Your Web Library
Professional: John Mark Ockerbloom, Founder, the Online Books Page
Sidebar: Insider’s Viewpoint from Your Web Library
Professional: David Moynihan, Creator.
Blackmask Online
Sites for Electronic Books
Other Web Resources with Links to
E-Text/E-Book Sites
A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Online Electronic
Texts and Books
Interesting Developments in Electronic Books
Conclusion
Sample Annual Savings
Supplementary Information: E-Book/E-Text Web Site
Annotated List
Chapter Six
When Image Is Everything
Uses of Images from the Web
Search Engines
What’s Wrong with This Picture?
Copyright Refresher for Image Acquisition
Sidebar: Insider’s Viewpoint from Your Web Library
Professional: Simon Kirwan, Professional Travel
Photographer, The-Lightbox..com
Permit Me. S’il Vous Plaît
Types of Image Files
Key Words
Examples of Image-Rich Sites
Image Services Requiring Payment
How to “Grab” an Image from the Web
Conclusion
Sample Annual Savings
Additional Reading for Individuals Considering Images for Personal or Commercial Use
Chapter Seven
Pixels at an Exhibition
Exhibitions in the Physical World
Online Collections, Galleries, and Exhibitions:
The Raison d’Etre
Sidebar: Insider’s Viewpoint from Your Web Library
Professional: Allegra Burnette, Creative Director of Digital Projects, the Museum of Modern Art..
Taking on the Devil’s Advocate
Sidebar: Behind the Scenes of MoMA’s Online Exhibitions
Online Collections, Galleries, and Exhibitions:
The Distinctions
Uses of Online Exhibitions and Galleries
Finding Online Collections, Galleries, and Exhibitions
Sidebar: Insider’s Viewpoint from Your Web Library
Professional: Diane Shaw, Special Collections
Cataloger, Smithsonian Institution Libraries.
On Your Own: Other Strategies for Locating
Online Exhibitions
A Little Nonsense Now and Then
Taking Full Advantage of Online Collections.
Galleries, and Exhibitions
Conclusion
Sample Annual Savings
Chapter Eight
Software Keys to the Web Library
Basic Plug-Ins
More Software for Books and Other Documents
Multimedia Plug-Ins
Toolbars-Coolbars
The Alexa Toolbar
The Wayback Machine
Take Me Way Back!
Disclaimers
Popup Manager.
Two (Maybe Three?) Toolbars Are Better than One
Privacy Concerns
Alternative Solutions for Netscape Users
Alexa Snapshot
Your Personal Web Library Portal
And While You’re At It
Conclusion
Chapter Nine
Final Considerations
What Have You Gained?
It’s Not Always About Money
What May Never Be in the Web Library
Stay Tuned
Conclusion
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