Internet Subject Guide

Trocaire College has "wireless internet browsing" access from the Library, Cafeteria, and Student Lounge

• The Center for Democracy and Technology Copyright © 2009
  " Is a non-profit public interest organization working to keep the Internet open, innovative, and free. With expertise in law, technology, and policy, CDT seeks practical solutions to enhance free expression and privacy in communications technologies. CDT is dedicated to building consensus among all parties interested in the future of the Internet and other new communications media."
• Copyright and Fair Use ©Stanford University 
• Copyright Laws & Legislation form the U.S. Copyright Office
• Deep Web or “The Invisible Web,” contains, ". . . content-rich databases from universities, libraries, associations, businesses, and government agencies around the world.” –from The Invisible Web: uncovering information sources search engines can't see by Gary Price and Chris Sherman. Medford, New Jersey : Information Today, Inc., 2001.
• "The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is an internationally organized, non-profit corporation that has responsibility for Internet Procol (IPto) address space allocation, protocol identifier assignment, generic (gTLD) and country code (ccTLD) Top-Level Domain name system management, and root server system management functions. These services were originally performed under U.S. Government contract by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) and other entities. ICANN now performs the IANA function. As a private-public partnership, ICANN is dedicated to preserving the operational stability of the Internet; to promoting competition; to achieving broad representation of global Internet communities; and to developing policy appropriate to its mission through bottom-up, consensus-based processes." 
  © 2006 Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers
• Internet Evaluation ©Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP
• The Internet Literacy Handbook; a guide for parents, teachers and young people ©Council of Europe 2004-2009 - © photo credit
• Internet Public Library - © 1995-2008 The Regents of the University of Michigan. All rights reserved.
  © 2009, Drexel University, All Rights Reserved
  The Internet Public Library is a public library for the world wide web. Students from a consortium of colleges and universities with programs in information science develop and maintain the IPL! A complete list is found on the IPL Consortium page.
• HOAXBUSTERS - reports on "fake" websites.   
• Information Skills Tutorial  © University of Washington Libraries 2001-2004
• Internet 101/102: Untangling the Web ©UT at San Antonio Library
• Nursing Webpage Criteria Creator: Nancy Hall University of Texas
• Websites for Beginners
• Web Evaluation Questions
& The Good, The Bad & The Ugly: or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources©Susan E. Beck at New Mexico State University Library
• WEBOPEDIA and Interactive Technology Activities
 

SEARCH ENGINES

• Best Search Engines Summary © 2004 Infopeople Project
• The Internet Archive - is an online digital library with 55 billion archived web pages including, audio, video, texts, web sites and software
• How Search Engines from the "Bare Bones Tutorial" ©Melanie Hanes-Ramos, USC Beaufort South Campus Library email: hanesml@gwm.sc.edu 

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SOCIAL WEBSITES 

Facebook - © Copyright Facebook all rights reserved.

•  "Is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, ...".

LibraryThing - © Copyright LibraryThing and/or members of LibraryThing

• Connects you to people who read what you do and lets you create your own online catalog. 
• "LibraryThing gets all the right data from Amazon.com and over 690 libraries around the world, including the Library of Congress. Your profile connects you to everyone else on LibraryThing. If you want, you can tell people all about yourself and your library. (Or, you can keep it completely private.)" 

Twitter - © 2009 Twitter. Includes a video tutorial. 

• "Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: "What are you doing?"