Current Cites Current Awareness Site 15th Anniversary
Current Cites is turning 15. I've been reading it as an occasional source of current awareness since about the year 2000.
Current Cites is a high quality monthly newsletter that evaluates the "best" articles in information technology and librarianship from professional magazines, journals, web sites and books.
According to the press release marking the occasion, Current Cites first "came out as a paper insert to the library newsletter at UC Berkeley. The original intent was to provide an in-house guide to the rapidly expanding literature in information science. Soon however, the first electronic version became available through the University of California MELVYL system. Next came distribution through the PACS-L mailing list, and subsequently through a myriad of systems and protocols that reads like a glossary to technology in the 1990's: FTP, Gopher, WAIS, and finally the Web. Most recently, Current Cites completed a move to WebJunction.org, a library support site managed by OCLC and supported in part by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation."
It is possible to subscribe by e-mail.
Current Cites is a high quality monthly newsletter that evaluates the "best" articles in information technology and librarianship from professional magazines, journals, web sites and books.
According to the press release marking the occasion, Current Cites first "came out as a paper insert to the library newsletter at UC Berkeley. The original intent was to provide an in-house guide to the rapidly expanding literature in information science. Soon however, the first electronic version became available through the University of California MELVYL system. Next came distribution through the PACS-L mailing list, and subsequently through a myriad of systems and protocols that reads like a glossary to technology in the 1990's: FTP, Gopher, WAIS, and finally the Web. Most recently, Current Cites completed a move to WebJunction.org, a library support site managed by OCLC and supported in part by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation."
It is possible to subscribe by e-mail.
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