Professional organizations and libraries internet sites

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

- AIIP (Association of Independent Information Professionals)   http://www.aiip.org
- AIFIA  (Asilomar institute  for Information Architecture)   http://www.aifia.org
- ASIST (American Society for Information Science & Technology)  http://www.asis.org
- ASLIB (Association for Information Management)   http://www.aslib.co.uk
- ALA (American Library Association)     http://www.ala.org   
- ALA (Australian Library Association)      http://www.alia.org.au
- AUKML (Association of UK Media Librarians)   http://www.aukml.org.uk
- BIALL (British and Irish Association of Law Librarians)  http://www.biall.org.uk
- CILIP (Chartered Institute of Library & Information Professionals) http://www.cilip.org.uk
- CLA (Canadian Library Association)    http://www.cla.ca/caslis/index.htm
- CAIS / ACSI (Canadian Association for Information Science) http://www.cais-acsi.ca
- Freepint        http://www.freepint.com/
- Institute for Scientific Information     http://www.isinet.com
- IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) http://www.ifla.org
- Knowledge Board      http://www.knowledgeboard.com
- NFAIS National Federation of Science Abstracting and Indexing Services  http://www.nfais.org
- SCONUL (Society of College, National and University Libraries)  http://www.sconul.ac.uk
- SLA (Special Libraries Association)     http://www.sla.org
- SoA (Society of Archivists)      http://www.archives.org.uk 
- UKeIG (UK eInformation Group)     http://www.ukolug.org.uk

LIBRARIES

- Library of Congress    http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html
- British Library     http://www.bl.uk
- Association of Research Libraries  http://www.arl.org
-  Online Computer Library Center   http://www.oclc.org/home

for the library of a University that provides courses in Information and Library Studies
- University of Michigan-Dearborn
http://www.lib.umich.edu/handouts/guides.html

for a glossary of library terms (with definitions in English)
http://www.lib.umich.edu/ugl/guides/glossary.html

for student information competence tutorials
- California State University in Sacramento
http://library.csus.edu/services/inst/ICES/infocomp/tutorials/index.html

for information about copyright
http://www.whatiscopyright.org/
http://www.benedict.com/digital/webProtect/webProtect.asp