Interactives include interactive resources (such as the Copyright Crash Course by Harper) as well as workshops (with print materials for downloading and completing), services, bibliographic utilities, web-accessible and searchable databases lexical and other reference tools. The type of interaction required is beyond that of mere navigation or clicking on hyperlinks.

Bibliographic Utilities
Type of Resource: Interactive
Author: None
Title: The Research Libraries Group (RLG)
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.rlg.org/
Subject: Library information networks
Keyword: Research Library, Information network, Library resources
Description: The Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN) is an internationally available bibliographic information system used with the Research Library Group's Library Resources. For many years, research libraries, archival repositories, and special libraries have used RLIN for cataloging and authority work, archives and manuscripts processing, and interlibrary loan. The RLIN web interface was frozen in March 2004 although members can still use the RLIN client software to add their records to the RLG Union Catalog. A variety of RLG databases are available to LIS schools for free.
Rights:
Copyright: unknown
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: Unknown
Date of last modification: 2004-01-00
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: Metadata Catalogers

Type of Resource: Interactive
Author: None
Title: OCLC Connexion
Location/Identifier: URL: http://connexion.oclc.org/
Subject: Library information networks
Keyword: Information network, Library resources
Description: Founded in 1967, OCLC Online Computer Library Center is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing information costs. More than 50,540 libraries in 84 countries and territories around the world use OCLC services to locate, acquire, catalog, lend and preserve library materials.  Researchers, students, faculty, scholars, professional librarians and other information seekers use OCLC services to obtain bibliographic, abstract and full-text information when and where they need it.  OCLC and its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat—the OCLC Online Union Catalog.
Rights:
Copyright: unknown
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: Unknown
Date of last modification: 2004-01-00
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates; Metadata Catalogers

Interactive Resources
Type of Resource: Interactive
Author: Georgia K. Harper
Title: Intellectual Property
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/cprtindx.htm
Subject: Copyright
Keyword: fair use, permission, ownership
Description: The Copyright Crash Course will help you learn about the ownership of copyrighted works in different materials; learn about what is fair use and when and how to get permission to use someone else's materials.
Rights:
Copyright: © 2001 Georgia K. Harper
Access: Freely available
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Interactive Services: Wikis; Web accessible/searchable databases; Workshops
Type of Resource: Interactive
Author: IAwiki
Title: The Information Architect's Wiki
Location/Identifier: URL http://www.iawiki.net/IAwiki
Subject: Wikis (Computer science), Information resources management, Management--Communication systems
Keyword: Information Architecture, Wiki, Controlled Vocabularies
Description: IAwiki is a collaborative knowledge base for the topic of Information Architecture and a collaborative discussion space for IA. It provides a group knowledge/content management' tool since everybody can edit documents and thereby grow knowledge/contribute to knowledge growth. It also provides a good introduction to Controlled Vocabularies (http://iawiki.net/ControlledVocabularies).
Rights:
Copyright: Unknown
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation:
Date of last modification: 2004-03-20
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Interactive
Author: InfoPeople
Title: InfoPeople Cataloging Workshop
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.infopeople.org/training/past/2002/cataloging_fundamentals/
Subject: Descriptive cataloging
Keyword: AACR2R; MARC
Description: This all-day workshop aimed to provide a practical framework for understanding library cataloging basics and best practices. The fundamentals class intended for people who need to know how to operate efficiently in the modern electronic catalog environment. Classification systems, Cutter numbers, common MARC tags, and copy cataloging sources are discussed. Most of the mateirals attendees received, a cataloging fundamentals guide, common MARC tags guide, as well as practical, useful tips that can be applied immediately, are online with exercises for downloading. Highlights: Cataloging Defined; What are classification systems?; What is a Cutter number? ; What does it mean to catalog an item? ; Modern Cataloging; MARC records and their predecessors; Common MARC fields; Cataloging different formats of materials; Sources for Cataloging; Original cataloging; Copy cataloging; Additional information in an electronic record; Fixed fields; How to tell if the record is "corrupt"
Rights:
Copyright: © Unknown
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: Unknown
Date of last modification: 2003-01-23
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Interactive
Author: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Title: GEONet Names Server (GNS)
Location/Identifier: URL: http://164.214.2.59/gns/html/index.html
Subject: Distributed databases, Directory services (Computer network technology)
Keyword: Geographic Names, foreign place-name
Description: The GEOnet Names Server (GNS) provides access to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's (NGA) and the U.S. Board on Geographic Names' (US BGN) database of foreign geographic feature names. The database is the official repository of foreign place-name decisions approved by the US BGN. Approximately 20,000 of the database's features are updated monthly. Geographic Area of Coverage: Worldwide excluding the United States and Antarctica. The GNS contains approximate 4.0 million features with 5.5 million names.
Rights:
Copyright: © NGA
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: Unknown
Date of last modification: 2004-11/19
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: Metadata Architects

Type of Resource: Interactive
Author: Unknown
Title: Wikipedia
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Subject: Wikis, Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Keyword: Free encyclopedias, wiki
Description: Wikipedia is a free content encyclopedia written collaboratively by contributors from around the world in many languages- that means anyone can edit. In the English edition there have been 403412 articles since January 2001. An example of a collaborative document editing workspace.
Rights:
Copyright: Public domain
Access: Freely available
Date of creation: Unknown
Date of last modification: 2004-11-23
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Interactive
Author: None
Title: WordNet
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/
Subject: Natural language processing (Computer science)
Keyword: Online lexical reference system
Description: WordNet is an electronic lexical database (natural language processing) for English language. As an online lexical reference system its design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept. Different relations link the synonym sets.
Rights:
Copyright: © 2003 by Princeton University
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Interactive
Author: xrefer.com
Title: xrefer
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.xrefer.com/
Subject: Electronic reference sources, Reference services (Libraries)
Keyword: Reference tool, Reference services
Description: xrefer is a new type of reference tool, it combines reference books from the world's leading publishers, delivering 24/7 online reference services for libraries. xrefer is the world's largest online reference service, offering access to 167 reference books from 36 of the world's leading publishers. There is an xrefer plus service that is billed as a digital library and available on a subscription basis.
Rights:
Copyright: © 2004 xrefer
Access: Freely available
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

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