Library Science: Websites

The ALA Constitution states the purpose of ALA as, “The object of the American Library Association shall be to promote library service and librarianship.” The stated mission is, “To provide leadership for the development, promotion, and improvement of library and information services and the profession of librarianship in order to enhance learning and ensure access to information for all.”

The Special Libraries Association is the global organization for innovative information professionals and their strategic partners. The Special Libraries Association promotes and strengthens its members through learning, advocacy, and networking initiatives.

The Medical Library Association (MLA) is a nonprofit, educational organization with more than 4,000 health sciences information professional members and partners worldwide. MLA provides lifelong educational opportunities, supports a knowledgebase of health information research, and works with a global network of partners to promote the importance of quality information for improved health to the health care community and the public.

This guide provides an introduction to library and information science resources available at the Library of Congress and on the Web. Its intended audience is librarians, library technicians, and library science students. Special emphasis is given to freely available online resources that can be used by librarians and library science students without ready access to print resources and subscription databases.

Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and many languages.

Research guides to the Library of Congress's collections, as well as subject guides prepared by Library of Congress staff. Successor to Virtual Reference Shelf.

BIDS contributes to a number of open source, open science, and open data resource communities in support of academic research

Search millions of papers related to library science including information literacy, collection development and e-books. This resources does include some Open Access articles. You can also create an account to organize your research, collaborate or create a bibliography.

Family of 'spot' sites, each serving as an in depth Web portal, guiding users to a wealth of ourstanding resources. Provides links to the webpages of public, K-12, academic, and other library reference works of all kinds. Links to sources of speeches, full-text articles, as well as literary criticism.

Contains 20,000 terms with contextual definitions, along with 6,000 full-color images that illustrate all aspects of life. In addition to searching, you can browse the dictionary starting with any of 15 "themes."

Hard to explain, but Wolfram Alpha is a computational search engine. It provides answers computed from website search.