Professional Information & Resources

Scholarly Societies & Institutions Research Centers & Laboratories Electronic Publishing Citation Style Lecture Series

Scholarly Electronic Conferences Doctoral Studies Grants & Funding Employment

Scholarly Societies & Institutions

Note: The following is a select list of resources. For more links to Scholarly Societies & Institutions, see the Scholarly Societies Project From the University of Waterloo, which organizes the WWW pages of Scholarly Societies throughout the world.

• American Association of Teachers of French
• American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
• Association for French Language Studies
• College de France
• Conseil International d'Etudes Francophones
• LIMAG: littératures du Maghreb
  Maintained by the CICLIM (Coordination Internationale des Chercheurs sur les Littératures Maghrébines).
• European Language Resources Association
  The overall goal of ELRA is to provide a centralized organization for the validation, management, and distribution of speech, text, and terminology resources and tools, and to promote their use within the European telematics R&TD community.
• International Marie de France Society
• Modern Language Association
• Société des Bollandistes
  Web site on Christian Hagiography.
• Society for 18th-Century French Studies
• Société Internationale Renardienne (Épopée animale, Fable, Fabliau)
• Voltaire Foundation
  Listing of publications, bibliography of works by Voltaire, some texts, images, etc.

Research Centers & Laboratories

• Research Centers. From Ministère de l'Éducation Nationale
• Research Laboratories From Ministère de l'Éducation Nationale

Electronic Publishing

• Guidelines for Electronic Scholarly Editions by The Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions.
• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
  By Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Presents selected articles, books, electronic documents, and other sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks.
• Electronic Theses and Dissertations in the Humanities
  Directory of online references and resources

Citation Style

• The Columbia Guide to Online Style: MLA Style Citations of Electronic Sources
  This resource shows how to cite FTP sites, WWW sites, Telnet sites, synchronous communications (MOOs, MuDs, etc.), Gopher sites, as well as E-mail, listserv, and newsgroup citations.

Lecture Series

• Stanford Presidential Lectures and Symposia in the Humanities and Arts (SPLSHA)
  From Stanford University Libraries. The programs will explore new roles and relationships for the Humanities and Arts in the academic community as we enter the 21st Century.

Scholarly Electronic Conferences

• E-Conferences of Interest to Librarians

• ACQNET-L
  Deals with a variety of questions, e.g., ethics in acquisitions policy, how to fire a vendor, good sources for Danish books, and the renewal policies of Commerce Clearing House. Occasional papers about aspects of acquisitions, including collection development, appear. The listserv maintains a searchable archive.
• BIBLIOMUS
  A mailing list for French-speaking librarians and people with a professional interest in that domain.

  To subscribe send an email message to:
  listserv@ircam.fr
  with the following message:
  SUB bibliomus YOUR-FIRST-NAME YOUR-LAST-NAME

• COLLDV-L (colldv-l@usc.edu)
  A moderated discussion e-conference directed primarily to library collection development officers, bibliographers, selectors, plus others involved with library collection development, including interested publishers and vendors.

• Directories of E-Conferences

• Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences
  Compiled by Diane K. Kovacs.
• Catalogue des listes de diffusion francophones
• Library-Oriented Lists And Electronic Serials
  Provides title and subject indexes for lists, newsgroups, and electronic serials

Doctoral studies

• Les Études de troisième cycle (Ministère de l'Éducation Nationale)
• Guilde des doctorants
• Journal virtuel des Thésards
  Information about research for Ph.D. candidates and scholars. JVT has been discontinued but back issues are still available. They now refer users to the Guilde des Doctorants.

Grants & other Funding Sources

• Funding Sources for Librarian and Information Scientists Exchanges
  Maintained by the American Library Association.
• Martinus Nijhoff International West European Specialists Study Grant
  The grant supports a wide variety of research topics pertaining to Western European studies, librarianship or the book trade.
• The National Endowment for the Humanities
  Contains deadlines, guidelines, and application forms for grants.

Employment

• Modern Language Association's Job Site
• Job openings from Academe This Week (The Chronicle of Higher Education).