Start with the proceedings from the Digital Library Conferences. The title of the 1995 conference was "The Theory and Practice of Creating Digital Libraries."

The Internet Library for Librarians is VERY COMPREHENSIVE. It contains links for every online resource imagineable--tools, accessible online libraries, almanacs and directories, email lists for management, archives, specialialized journals, etc. The technical tips, like a few other references here, reveal a strong on-the-ground perspective.

Infopeople is the library network for the California State Universities. It explains how to establish such a network with tips on topics like legal isues, training librarians, using Web tools, obtaining grants and finding resources. A section for K-12 is also posted.

A collection of concept papers, such as the advantages and disadvantages of desktop videoconferencing in a library setting, was prepared by advanced library students at the University of Alberta. That university is responsible for sustaining many rural libraries.

Now, since so many individual and varied media types have been digitized, special software is used to manage these "assets", as they are referred to by the trade. For guidance look at Cumulus software by Canto.

The American Association of School Librarians has put together a site for principals for building a school library media program.

Digital Library Conference '95

http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/DL95/

Digital Libraries 2000

http://www.jcdl.org/archived-conf-sites/dl00/

Internet Library for Librarians

http://www.itcompany.com/inforetriever/

InfoPeople at Berkeley

http://infopeople.org/

University of Alberta(slis)

http://www.ls.ualberta.ca/

Cumulus at Canto

http://www.canto.com

Principal's Manual

http://www.ala.org
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