Librarians' Resource Centre Testimonials

Subject: Congratulations from LibrarySpot.com!
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 10:58:07 -0700
From: "Matt Basham"
To: "Webmaster"
Dear Librarian's Resource Center Web Team,
Congratulations! Librarian's Resource Center has been featured on LibrarySpot.com (http://libraryspot.com/libshelf/), the library information portal of the Web. The LibrarySpot editorial team has scoured the Web for the very best sites, and found yours to be a top-notch tool for students, parents, teachers, librarians and their patrons, and anyone doing research on the World Wide Web. Your site is showcased among the very best reference resources on the Web. We invite you to stop by and see your listing at http://libraryspot.com/libshelf.htm in the Librarian's shelf section. When you have time, we hope you'll explore this virtual resource center and tell your colleagues. LibrarySpot.com is part of the StartSpot Network, recipient of more than 80 awards and honors including "Best Reference Site" from Forbes.com in both 2000 and 2001. We created LibrarySpot.com to break through the information overload of the Web and bring the best library and reference sites together with insightful editorial in one user-friendly spot. If you would like to recognize this designation on your site, feel free to download a "Featured on LibrarySpot.com" logo from http://www.libraryspot.com/site/featured.htm You might also be interested in subscribing to our monthly newsletter that profiles the latest and greatest government resources online. To subscribe visit http://www.libraryspot.com/site/newsletter.htm. If you would like more information, or if you have any suggestions for our site, please drop me a note, we would enjoy hearing from you. Again, congrats on a great site!
Best Wishes,
Matt Basham StartSpot Mediaworks, Inc.
http://www.startspot.com matt@startspot.com

The Librarians' Resource Centre site is so good that librarians and other frequent researchers might consider making this page their default starting point. The Special Libraries Association, based in Washington, D.C., provides Internet space, but this site, sponsored by the SLA's Toronto chapter, was begun by Montreal-area librarian and information consultant Margaret Gross and is being co-maintained by Tim Tripp, project manager at Toronto's University Health Network. On it you'll find pull-down menus that will get you quickly to three levels of search engines, to university library gateways, to news on the Internet, and to authoritative information on how to cite Internet sources. In addition, the site contains links to use when looking for company data, graphics political information, and much, much more. It's refreshingly non-Yankee-centric, too, probably because Canadians have had so much to do with setting it up.

Drawbacks: The URL is so long it's easy to forget, and the site is hard to find if you start looking for it on the Special Libraries Association homepage. Be sure to bookmark it.-- Mary Soderstrom [reviewer] [Note - to eliminate this drawback, you can now go to www.lrcsearch.com to access the LRC - DH]

Reprinted with permission from Quill and Quire ISSN 0033-6491

Reviewed in CHOICE, May 1999:

Librarians' Resource Centre, hosted by the Toronto chapter of the Special Libraries Association and compiled by Margaret Gross (librarian for Spar Aerospace), provides a guide to Web resources for practicing librarians The site is less comprehensive than Internet Library for Librarians (http://www.itcompany.com/inforetriever/general.htm) and lacks the kind of site review information that The Argus Clearinghouse (http://www.clearinghouse.net) provides. However, it links to many Canadian library resources, resources of particular interest to special and corporate librarians, and has extremely useful nuts-and-bolts Web design links. Navigation is uncomplicated because of the site's straightforward organization and a relatively sophisticated site search capability. The home page includes a mission statement, a site plan with links to the resource categories, and a searchable catalog. Resource categories are arranged in three groups. The first, Service to Our Clients, provides pointers to search engines, topical guides, ready reference resources, and library catalogs. The second, Professional Development, offers pointers to professional resources in librarianship, career and employment links, knowledge management, competitive intelligence, learning organization materials, and links to library literature and library associations on the Internet. The third, Technical Services, has guides for cataloging, Internet/intranet development tools (many specifically for librarians, Web evaluation, records management, computer-based training, publisher's home pages, and acquisitions tools. The site is thoroughly up-to-date, and a link to items added during the current month will help returning users. Graphically, the site is easy to read yet visually interesting. The Special Library Association's frame may load slowly on some systems, but a button for removing it is easily accessible. A useful site for information professionals, which should be added to every librarian's list of bookmarks. -- M. F. Jones, Muskingum College

Congratulations for developing an excellent Internet guide! You and the Toronto Chapter have done a great service to all of us in the information profession. I've bookmarked it and look forward to using it.

I just got a chance to look at it - I love it! May I put a button on our college website to link to it?

Just exploring your pages & enjoying it!
Thanks for all your great work. I have some nice info-grazing ahead of me, starting with your guide.

Thank you so much for bringing this site to my attention. Earlier today I passed the site along to a dozen European and Australian colleagues who share a list-serv with me.
Very, very helpful, indeed. Thanks to all who brought it up. Keep up the good work.

Very nice site!!!
Would it be OK if I passed this posting on to other librarians at our university?

Your site is fabulous! I've saved it among my favorites and will continue to visit the links you've provided and pass them on to my patrons. What a lot of work you've done!
Thanks.

Margaret, I just wanted to thank you for sharing this with SLA-it appears to be about the greatest resource a solo librarian could hope for - Your efforts will be appreciated more each day.

Comprehensive to the point of being overwhelming. When does a one-person librarian find time to even scan half of it? It's excellent though, a wonderful idea.

Thank you for all of your efforts in creating this working list of solid urls.

Subject: Your splendid cite...
Thanks for your Librarians' Resource Centre. My wife is the librarian, but I do maintain the political science department's webpage. I have a collection of links about citing the Internet. Your collection of links in that regard is excellent...
Thanks again.

I just visited the site and it looks like there is a lot of valuable information available...Thanks.

What a marvelous site you have put together! I really like it and have bookmarked it for future use. I am also recommending it to several other people.

Thank you for putting together the Librarians' Resource Centre. It is a very organized and helpful compilation of resources. I've bookmarked it for future reference.

Your web site is terrific. So easy and clear to see which links are available. It's so unlike those that have many many layers of frustration before finding something suitable. I especially see the librarian influence in the searchbox, which explains right there how to truncate. I hope to use it lots. Thanks

Excellent selection of valuable resources. Since I'm one of those librarians that doesn't work in a library, the Ready Reference and Cataloging sections will be particularly useful. Thank you for sharing your efforts with all of us!

I think this guide is great! It was good of you to turn your need into something so useful for all of us. I have you bookmarked.

Thank you for sharing such useful resource for SLA members. More power to you!

I just spent a few hours with the LRC that you maintain and I wanted to compliment you. It was clearly organized and a wealth of good information. Several of the sites you listed are now in my bookmarks.
Thank you for all the hard work it must have taken to compile and maintain this page. I very much appreciate it.

I am using the new guide a lot. I think that you all did a fantastic job on this virtual library!

A special thank you. I monitor the Business Librarian's Discussion List and happened to see some information you had shared on stock markets in emerging market nations on 3/21. I had occassion to make use of your web site recommendations this morning. I'm gathering historical, monthly stock exchange index data for 22 countries. You saved me a lot of work! And made me look good in the process. :)

Margaret, this is a commendable site. It looks very useful, which is why I'm bookmarking it.

FYI, I've added a link to the Technical Resources page on the Library Web Manager's Reference Center at: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/faq.html under "Directories: General". Thanks,

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