You too can stalk the Wild Librarian...

THIS WEBPAGE IS UP FOR ADOPTION!

Fellow librarians, I'm moving and perhaps this webpage could be YOURS! If you'd like to maintain these hotlists, please email me.

Where can you find the librarian creeping around in cyberspace? Here and there, and everywhere (like Judy Collins...) But we do have our favorite hideouts... Care to add to a library blog, or subscribe to one of our listservers? How about a no-effort low-spam newsgroup?

By the way, if you try one of these listservers and it doesn't work, please inform me! I have no other way of knowing.

If you just have a thing for librarians, one of the happiest librarians I've seen on the Internet is Jennifer Friedman. If you want to see a colleague go hog-wild on the web, click to the antics at Jenny's Cybrary to the Stars, or perhaps you need to visit our friend the Lipstick Librarian. The revolutionary librarian will find a kindred spirit in Jessamyn and stay informed at her excellent blog at www.librarian.net. Finally, in memory of the mind-numbing weirdness at Jiggy Week, I give you the Warrior Librarian. Jiggy Week has returned as a listserver! Look for it below. Remember, Librarians Rule!

I also enjoy the colorful ranting of our State Librarian, Dr. Kevin Starr, available via the California State Library.

If on-line e-zines get you hot and bothered, the library profession supports a number. Put down your People and check out the action at Library Media and PR. There are also a good number of newsgroups and listservers dedicated to the library profession not listed here. For a comprehensive list I recommend the page on library-oriented lists and electronic serials.

For starters, librarians love blogs...far too many to list on this website. Several of the sites above include blogs. A site I like to check regularly is the Technology Librarians Blog -- Librarian in Black. For a thorough list, I recommend the scholarly work of Dr. L. Anne Clyde at the University of Iceland.

The listservers I know of? In most cases, send mail to these addresses like so: SUBSCRIBE (Listserver name) (Your first name, last name; not your e-mail address). Don't include a subject on your mail. Example:

From: Abecedarian the Librarian ([email protected])
To: [email protected]
Subject: [blank]
subscribe infolit Ezekial Abecedarian

If you want Internet access to the numerous American Library Association listservers, get out that ALA membership card and go for it.

Anyway, here you go:

• Academic and Research Library Development -- LIBDEV
• Academic Librarians Forum -- ALF-L
• Acquisitions, Collection Management and Preservation Issues -- ALCTS
• Acquisitions, Collection Management and Preservation Issues Educators -- PRESED-L
• Acquisitions, Collection Management and Preservation Issues Network News -- AN2
• Adult Literacy Library Initiatives -- LIBRARY-LIT
• Afro-American Studies Librarianship -- AFAS-L
• American Association of Law Libraries -- LAW-LIB
• American Library Association Advocacy Now! -- ALADNOW
• American Library Association Chapter Relations Committee -- CRC
• American Library Association Chapter Relations Office Listserver -- ALACRO-L
• American Library Association Council -- ALACOUN
• American Library Association International Relations Round Table -- ALAWORLD
• American Library Association Member Forum -- MEMBER-FORUM [Requires an ALA membership number after your name]
• American Library Association Membership Committee -- ALAMEMB
• American Library Association Membership Committee Listserver -- MEMBCOM
• American Library Association News Releases -- ALANEWS
• American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom -- ALAOIF
• American Library Association Organizational Self-Study Committee -- ALAOSSC
• American Library Association Presidential Program Planning Committee -- PRES-ADV
• American Library Association Student Chapters Listserver -- ALASC-L
• American Library Association Washington Office Newsline -- ALA-WO
• American Library Trustee Association Listserver -- ALTA-L
• American Society for Information Science -- ASIS-L
• American Theological Library Association -- ATLANTIS
• Anarchist Librarians -- LIBRARIANS
• Association for Library Service to Children -- ALSC-L
• Association of American School Librarians Access Through Technology Task Force -- TECHACCESS
• Association of American School Librarians Education of Library Media Specialists Section -- ELMSS
• Association of American School Librarians Independent Schools Section -- ISS
• Association of American School Librarians Membership Task Force -- MEMBERTF
• Association of American School Librarians Mentoring Task Force -- MENTORTF
• Association of American School Librarians Supervisors Section -- SPVS
• Association of College and Research Libraries Forum -- ACRL-FRM
• Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies Listserver -- ASCLA-L
• Bookmobile Services Discussion Group -- BKMOB-L
• British Legal Library and Information Resources -- LIS-LAW
• Business Libraries -- BUSLIB-L
• California Library Association -- CALIX
• Canadian Law Libraries -- CALL-L
• Canadian Reference Service -- REFCAN-L
• CD-ROM Local Area Networks -- CDROMLAN
• Children's Literature -- CHILD_LIT
• Circulation and Access Services -- CIRCPLUS
• College Libraries -- COLLIB-L
• Curriculum Integration Using the Web -- CURRIWEB
• Dance Librarians Discussion Group -- DLDG-L
• Digital Archives Discussion List -- ARCHIVISTS
• Digital Reference Services -- DIG_REF
• Diversity in Libraries -- EQUILIBR
• Doctoral Students in the Library and Information Sciences -- DOCDIS
• DRA Atlas Library Automation System -- ATLAS-L
• The Erotic Librarian -- E-LIBRARIAN
• Ethnic Material and Information Exchange Round Table -- EMIE-L
• European Association of Sinological Librarians -- CJKLIB-L
• European Legal Resources Exchange -- EURO-LEX
• Foreign and International Law Librarianship -- INT-LAW
• Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Librarians -- GAY-LIBN
• Geoscience Librarians Network -- GEONET-L
• German Legal Bibliography -- BIB-JUR-DE
• HarperCollins Children's Books --CHILDRENSLIBRARY
• Home Page Content Development -- HOMEPAGE
• ICONnect Internet Basics -- IBASICS
• Information Literacy National Forum -- INFOLIT
• Information Technology Interest Group of the Canadian Library Association -- ITIG-L
• Intellectual Freedom Committee Draft Documents -- IFCDRAFT
• Interlibrary Loans -- ILL-L
• International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions -- IFLA-L
• International Government Documents Discussion List -- INTL-DOC
• Jiggy Week -- JIGGYWEEK
• Job Opportunities in Special Libraries -- SLAJOB
• Journal of Academic Media Librarianship -- MCJRNL
• K-12 Internet Issues -- ISSUES
• LAMA Fund Raising and Financial Development Section List -- FRFDS-L
• LAMA/PAS Staff Development -- STAFDV-L
• Leads from LAMA -- LAMALEADS
• Librarians Index to the Internet Update -- LIIWEEK
• Libraries and Librarians -- LIBRARY
• Library Adaptive Technology -- ADAPT-L
• Library Administration and Management -- LIBADMIN
• Library Advocacy Now! Presenters -- LANPRES
• Library and Information Science Research -- LIBRES
• Library and Information Technology Association Listserver -- LITA-L
• Library and Information Technology Association Office News -- LITALINE
• Library Cataloguing and Authorities -- AUTOCAT
• Library Events in Southern California -- LIBEVENT
• Library, Information and Society Forum -- LIB-INFO-SOCIETY
• Library, Information and Society Forum (Spanish) -- LIB-INFO-SOCIETY (Spanish)
• Library of Congress American Memory Fellows -- AMFELLOWS
• Library of Congress Announcements from the Office of the Librarian -- PRESS
• Library of Congress Cataloging Newsline -- LCCN
• Library of Congress CMLS Advisory Team -- CMLS-TEAM
• Library of Congress CONSER Cataloging Discussion List -- CONSRLST
• Library of Congress CONSER Policy Committee Discussion List -- CONSRPOL
• Library of Congress CONSER Program Newsletter -- CONSRLIN
• Library of Congress Cooperative Cataloguing AACR1 List -- AACR1
• Library of Congress Cooperative Cataloguing AACR2A List -- AACR2A
• Library of Congress Cooperative Cataloguing AACR2B List -- AACR2B
• Library of Congress Cooperative Cataloguing AACR3 List -- AACR3
• Library of Congress Cooperative Cataloguing A/V Core Record Task Group -- PCCAVC
• Library of Congress Cooperative Cataloguing Training Subgroup -- PCCTRNG
• Library of Congress Copyright Office NewsNet -- USCOPYRIGHT
• Library of Congress Core Employees National Digital Library Program -- NDLPCORE
• Library of Congress Dance Heritage Coalition -- DANCE-HC
• Library of Congress Digital Conversion Group -- DIGCONV
• Library of Congress Employees Internet Discussion List -- LC-INTERNET
• Library of Congress Encoded Archival Description List -- EAD
• Library of Congress Encoded CONSER Executive Committee -- CONSEREX
• Library of Congress Federal Librarians Discussion List -- FEDLIB
• Library of Congress Federal Librarians Information Technology Discussion -- FEDLIBIT
• Library of Congress Federal Reference Librarians Discussion List -- FEDREF-L
• Library of Congress FEDLINK Advisory Council -- FLC-FACL
• Library of Congress FEDLINK OCLC Users Discussion List -- OCLCFED
• Library of Congress FLICC Awards Working Group -- FWG-AWRD
• Library of Congress FLICC Budget and Finance Working Group -- FWG-BUDG
• Library of Congress FLICC Education Working Group -- FWG-EDUC
• Library of Congress FLICC Executive Board -- FLC-FEBD
• Library of Congress FLICC Bicentennial Working Group -- FWG-LCBC
• Library of Congress FLICC Membership and Governance Working Group -- FWG-MEMB
• Library of Congress FLICC Nominating Working Group -- FWG-NOMN
• Library of Congress FLICC Personnel Working Group -- FWG-PERS
• Library of Congress FLICC Policy Working Group -- FEDPOL
• Library of Congress FLICC Preservation and Binding Working Group -- FWG-PRSV
• Library of Congress FLICC Survey Working Group -- FWG-SURV
• Library of Congress Internet Tools Development Discussion Group -- INET-DEV
• Library of Congress Law Library LAW-2000 Project -- LAW2000
• Library of Congress Minaret Users Group -- MUG
• Library of Congress Moderated ILS News List -- ILSNEWS
• Library of Congress National Digital Library Federal Planning Task Force -- NDLF-PLANTF
• Library of Congress National Digital Library Federal Policy Group -- NDLF-POLICY
• Library of Congress NLS Documents for Network Libraries -- NLS-REPORTS
• Library of Congress Overseas Operations Discussion List -- OVOP-L
• Library of Congress Parliamentary Information Centers Discussion Group -- PARL-INFO
• Library of Congress Program for Cooperative Cataloguing -- BIBCO
• Library of Congress Program for Cooperative Cataloguing -- PCCLIST
• Library of Congress Program for Cooperative Cataloguing -- PCCPOL
• Library of Congress Program for Cooperative Cataloguing -- PCCTG1
• Library of Congress Program for Cooperative Cataloguing -- PCCTG2
• Library of Congress Project Team for Digitizing Garden and Forest -- NDLPPRESS
• Library of Congress Public Domain Z39.50-1995 Client Discussion List -- ZCLIENT
• Library of Congress Reference Forum Steering Committee -- REFTALKLC
• Library of Congress Science Fiction and Fantasy Listserver -- SF-LIT
• Library of Congress USMARC -- USMARC
• Library of Congress USMARC Advisory Committee -- MAC
• Library of Congress USMARC Community Information Format User's Group -- USMARCCI
• Library of Congress Unicode Technical Issues Task Force (MARBI) -- UTECH
• Library of Congress Web Developers -- WEBTEAM
• Library of Congress Women's History Resource Guide -- WHRG
• Library of Congress Z39.50 Profile for the Stanford Project -- ZSTARTS
• Library Paraprofessional Electronic Journal -- ASSOC-L [Three issues per year]
• Library Public Relations Talk -- PRTALK
• Library Reference Issues -- LIBREF-L
• Library Resources on the Internet Network News -- NNEWS
• Library Support Staff Listserver -- LIBSUP-L
• Library Systems and Databases -- KATALIST
• Map Librarians -- MAPS-L
• Medical Libraries -- MEDLIB-L
• National Library Power Project -- LIBPWR
• Navigating the World Wide Web -- WEBNAV
• New Librarians Listserver -- NEWLIB-L
• New Trends in Interactivity on the Web -- TRENDS
• New York Public Librarians -- PUBLIB
• Off-Campus Library Services -- OFFCAMP
• Open Source Software for Libraries Listserver-- OSS4LIB-LIST
• Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics Librarians -- SLA-PAM
• Public Access Catalogues -- PACS-L
• Public Libraries and Learning Disabilities Initiative List -- PLLD-L
• Public Young Adult and Children's Librarians -- PUBYAC
• Reference and User Services Association Listserver -- RUSA-L
• Reference and User Services Association Machine Assisted Reference Section -- MARS-L
• Reference and User Services Association National Institute Program Planning -- RUSAPRO
• Reference and User Services Association News Reports -- RUSANEWS
• Reference Internet Sources Pool [Subscribe via WWW]
• Returning Peace Corps Library Volunteers -- PEACECORPS
• RLG Ariel Document Transmission System -- ARIE-L
• School Library Media Network -- LM_NET
• School Library Media Specialists in the 21st Century -- SLMS21ST
• Serials Citations of Concern to Librarians -- SERCITES
• Serials Library Chat -- SERIALST
• Serials Pricing for Libraries -- PRICES
• Social Science Libraries Forum -- SOC-LIB
• Socially Responsible Round Table Gay Lesbian and Bisexual Task Force -- GLBTF-L
• Southwestern Association of Law Libraries -- SWALL-L
• State and Local Library Organization Administration -- ALACRO-L
• Technical Services Directors of Large Research Libraries Group -- BIGHEADS
• Technical Services in Special Libraries -- SLA-TECH
• Telecollaborative Activities on the Net -- TELECO
• Transborder Libraries Forum/Foro Trinacional de Bibliotecas -- FORO-L
• UCLA Library School -- UCLA-LIS
• University Library Planning -- LIBPLN-L
• Using Internet and Web Search Engines Effectively -- SEARCHE
• Veterinary Medicine Librarians -- VETLIB-L
• Virtual International Faculty in Library and Information Science -- VIFLIS
• Visual Resources Association -- VRA-L
• Young Adult Library Services Association Book Discussion -- YALSA-BK
• Young Adult Library Services Association Listserver -- YALSA-L
• Young Adult Library Services Association "Serving the Underserved Trainers" -- YA-TRAIN

And the newsgroups. Just click on these to subscribe...

• American Society for Information Systems -- BIT.LISTSERV.ASIS-L
• Art and Architecture Libraries -- BIT.LISTSERV.ARLIS-L
• Business Librarians -- BIT.LISTSERV.BUSLIB-L
• Campus-wide Information Systems -- BIT.LISTSERV.CWIS-L
• CD-ROM Local Area Networks -- BIT.LISTSERV.CDROMLAN
• Circulation and Access Services -- BIT.LISTSERV.CIRCPLUS
• E-Journal Publishing, Archiving and Access -- BIT.LISTSERV.VPIEJ-L
• Geac Advance Library System -- BIT.LISTSERV.ADVANC-L
• Government Documents -- BIT.LISTSERV.GOVDOC-L
• Hytelnet Updates -- BIT.LISTSERV.HYTEL-L
• Information Science Topics -- alt.INFO-SCIENCE
• Innovative Interfaces Users -- BIT.LISTSERV.INNOPAC
• Internet Network Trainers -- BIT.LISTSERV.NETTRAIN
• Internet Resources in Libraries -- COMP.INTERNET.LIBRARY
• Law Libraries of the Future -- LAW.LIBRARY.FUTURE
• Library Access for Disabled Persons -- BIT.LISTSERV.AXSLIB-L
• Library and Information Science Research -- BIT.LISTSERV.LIBRES
• Library and Information Science Students -- BIT.LISTSERV.LIS-L
• Library Cataloguing and Authorities -- BIT.LISTSERV.AUTOCAT
• Library Reference Issues -- BIT.LISTSERV.LIBREF-L
• Medical Libraries -- BIT.LISTSERV.MEDLIB-L
• Music Library Association -- BIT.LISTSERV.MLA-L
• NOTIS Users -- BIT.LISTSERV.NOTIS-L
• Public Access Computer Systems -- BIT.LISTSERV.PACS-L
• RLG Ariel Document Transmission System -- BIT.LISTSERV.ARIE-L
• School Librarians -- K12.LIBRARY
• Social Library Chat -- SOC.LIBRARIES.TALK

Had enough? Search for more listservers through the excellent database Topica. This list owes much to the work of Jill Perkins, Michael Ravnitzky and Brenda Parris Sibley...Thanks!