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Using the Internet @ the Reference Desk


Books and Websites about the Internet

 

Dyson, Esther Release 2.0: a design for living in the digital age NY: Broadway Books ©1997

Fidler, Roger MediaMorphosis: Understanding New Media Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press ©1997

Gurak, Laura J. Cyberliteracy: Navigating the Internet with Awareness New Haven, CT: Yale University Press 2001

Hafner, Katie and Matthew Lyon Where Wizards Stay Up Late: the origins of the Internet NY: Touchstone Book published by Simon & Schuster ©1995

Internet Culture edited by David Porter NY: Routledge ©1997

Negroponte, Nicholas Being Digital NY: Vintage Books a division of Random House Inc ©1995

Randall, Neil The Soul of the Internet: Net Gods, Netizens and The Wiring of the World London: International Thomson Computer Press ©1997

Rosenfeld, Louis and Peter Morville Information Architecture for the World Wide Web Cambridge, MA: O'Reilly ©1998

Shasha, Dennis and Cathy Lazere Out of Their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists NY: Springer-Verlag ©1998

From Gutenberg to the global information

 

websites with articles to help you stay current

 
Current Cites (articles about the internet and libraries) sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites
First Monday - technical and intellectual articles about Technology, the Internet and Information firstmonday.org/index.html
Journal of Electronic Publishing www.press.umich.edu/jep

Bibliography on evaluating internet resources (one of many)

www.lib.vt.edu/research/libinst/evalbiblio.html
Internet Searching Expectations of Users - from Pew Research Center Website

Pew Internet & American Life Project - home page

www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=80

www.pewinternet.org/index.asp

How Do People Evaluate a Web Site's Credibility? - from Consumer WebWatch www.consumerwebwatch.org/news/
report3_credibilityresearch/stanfordPTL_TOC.htm
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Books about  the Net can be found on this page

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