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Armitage, John (Ed.), Living with Cyberspace: Technology and Society in the 21st Century, Continuum, London, 2002.

Baeza-Yates, Ricardo (Ed.), Foundations of Information Technology in the Era of Network and Mobile Computing: IFIP 17th World Computer Congress,August, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 2002. ISBN: 1402071817.

Banse, Gerhard et al. (Eds), Innovations for an e-Society: Challenges for Technology Assessment, Edition Sigma, Berlin, 2002. ISBN:3894049324.

Baxley, Bob, Making the Web Work: Designing Effective Web Applications,New Riders, Indianapolis, IN, 2002. ISBN: 0735711968.

Dhiman, Anil Kumar, Basics of Information Technology for Librarians and Information Scientists, 2 vols, Ess Ess Publications, New Delhi, 2003. ISBN:8170003431/3423.

George, Lee Anne and Blixrud, Julia (comps), Celebrating Seventy Years of the Association of Research Libraries, 1932-2002, Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC, 2002. ISBN: 0-918006-95-3. Fulltext available at: www.arl.org/pubscat/pubs/celebrating70/

Hughes, Lorna, Digitizing Collections: Strategic Issues for the Information Manager, Facet Publishing, London, 2002. ISBN: 1856044661.

Joinson, Adam N., Understanding the Psychology of Internet Behaviour: Virtual Worlds, Real Lives, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2003. ISBN:0333984676.

Martin, Allan, (Ed.), Information and IT Literacy: Enabling Learning in the 21st Century, Facet Publishing, London, 2002. ISBN: 1856044637.

Martin, Susan K., Insuring and Valuing Research Library Collections,ARL SPEC Kit #272, Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC, 2002. ISSN: 0160-3582.

May, Christopher (Ed.), Key Thinkers for the Information Society,Routledge, London, 2003. ISBN: 0415296722.

Muir, Scott P. and Lim, Adriene, Library Systems Office Organization,ARL Spec Kit #271, Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC, 2002. ISSN: 0160-3582.

Porter, Beth, The Net Effect, Intellect Books, London, 2003. ISBN:1841508497.

Saad, Mohammed, Development Through Technology Transfer: Creating New Organisational and Cultural Understanding, Intellect Books, London, 2003. ISBN: 1941508616.

Salmon, Gilly, E-Tivities: The Key to Active Online Learning, Kogan Page/Stylus, London, 2002. ISBN: 0749436867.

Stephens, Michael T., Library Internet Trainer's Toolkit,Neal-Schuman, NY, 2001. ISBN: 1555704158.

Tuomi, Ilkka, Networks of Innovation: Change and Meaning in the Age of the Internet, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002. ISBN: 0199256985.

Van Duyne, Douglas K., Landay, James A. and Hong, Jason I., The Design of Sites: Patterns, Principles, and Processes for Crafting a Customer-Centered Web Experience, Addison Wesley Professional, 2002. ISBN: 020172149X.

Wellman, Barry, (Ed.), Internet in Everyday Life, Blackwell, Oxford,2002. ISBN: 0631235078.

Woolman, Matt, Digital Information Graphics, Thames & Hudson,London, 2002. ISBN: 0500510946.

Yourdon, Ed., Byte Wars: The Impact of September 11 on Information Technology, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002. ISBN: 01300477257.

Other New Resources

A dissertation by Michael Meir, Returning Science to the Scientists: Der Umbruch im STM-Zeitschriftenmarkt unter Einfluß des Electronic Publishingis now available in pdf in German at http://tel.ccsd.cnrs.fr/documents/archives0/00/0022/57/index_fr.html

The new joint study, State of Preservation Programs in American College and Research Libraries by the Council on Library and Information Resources,the Association of Research Libraries, University Libraries Group and the Regional Alliance for Preservation has been released. It is available online at http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub1111/pub111.pdfand will soon be available in print from the Association of Research Libraries Web site at www.arl.org

Sun Microsystems has recently released a new white paper, "Digital Library Technology Trends". This publication examines evolving Digital Library technology trends, new IT architectures, content management issues, and leading edge academic projects worldwide. Full text is available at: http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/whitepapers/pdf/digital_library_trends.pdf

The Western States Digital Standards Group best practices document for creating metadata based on the Dublin Core has a new edition of Western States Dublin Core Metadata Element Set that was discussed at the recent ALA Midwinter Conference at: http://www.cdpheritage.org/resource/metadata/documents/WSDCMES_v1-1_2002-11-06.pdf

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Intellectual Property on the Internet: A Survey of Issues. Available full text online at http://ecommerce.wipo.int/survey/

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