Wikidata:WikiProject Library and Information Science/Resources
Journals
[edit]The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing
The Indexer was first published in 1958 and is a treasure trove of material on indexing and indexers. Issues are available online from the Liverpool University Press website. Content older than 5 years is freely available; for more current articles, you will need a subscription or institutional access.
Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association (JALIA) from 2017
JALIA is published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis for the Australian Library and Information Association. It continues the Australian Library Journal (ALJ) (1951–2016) and Australian Academic and Research Libraries (AARL) (1970–2016). JALIA is available on subscription or via your institution's subscription. ALJ articles and AARL articles are freely available from 1957–2016.
Books
[edit]- The American Society for Indexing website has a useful list of books about indexing.
- Uniting a profession: the Australian Institute of Librarians 1937-1949, by Jean P Whyte and David Jones. Australian Library and Information Association, 2007 (Q127603193). History of the AIL; in 1949 the AIL became the Library Association of Australia (LAA), which in 1989 changed its name to Australian Library and Information Association.
Reference works
[edit]Australian Dictionary of Biography is Australia's pre-eminent dictionary of national biography.
Biographical dictionary of Australian librarians, 4th edition, edited by Geza A. Kosa. Melbourne, Academia Press, 1990. Earlier editions: 3rd ed., 1984; 2nd ed, 1979. First edition issued as Who's who in Australian libraries, published by the Library Association of Australia, Sydney, in 1968. Full-text not available online; obtain through your library
Pioneers in librarianship; sixty notable leaders who shaped the field, by Christian A. Nappo. Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. Includes chapters on two Australian librarians: William Herbert Ifould and Nita Kibble.
Websites
[edit]International Committee of Representatives of Indexing Societies (ICRIS) webpage lists all of the affiliated indexing societies and associated groups or networks.
Newsletters
[edit]Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers (ANZSI) Newsletter
Quiet Achievers in Indexing series [ see also [[1]]