It is Monday and the 20th Carnival of the Infosciences finds people contemplating the future shape of libraries and librarianship.
We start with the idea of libraries as place, can a digital library help collaboration?
“Places of Quiet Collaboration” a commentary about a newspaper article by Alex Wright by Tinfoil + Raccoon, examines this question.
Woah, dude, can a career in libraries be excellent? Or is it heinously stressful? Take a look at The Krafty Librarian’s reaction to a couple newspaper articles published about librarianship as a career at The Librarian Career, Excellent or Stressful?
…thoughts are broken discusses those ubiquitous book lists in The Books I Read Last Year Post. Check out the comments for a discussion of book lists.
One of the big themes for library bloggers is Library2.0, and the Filipino Librarian gets us started with this week with Library 2.0: What’s in a Name?
Editor’s Choice
Many library bloggers reacted to a couple things this week,
Walt Crawford’s examination of Library 2.0 and the release of the NCSU Library Catalog.
See Also discusses a Library2.0 hangover, and over at Information Wants to be Free is the blog post that I think got the most comments this week, Let’s make libraries better, ok? You can read more Library2.0 posts in the weekly round-up at Travis Ennis’ Weblog.
Endless Hybrids discusses the library catalog and an assumption about patron behavior - people go to amazon to find what they want, then they visit the library catalog to see if they can check the book out. Can this behavior be facilitated? Check out the post New Front-Ends for Library Catalogs & the Amazon to OPAC Connection.
Household Opera writes on teaching and finding one’s niche
You can use RSS for everything, including tracking patents. Read all about it at The Patent Librarian’s RSS feeds make patent watching a breeze
Lastly and just for fun, I direct you to a livejournal meme where people are sketching everyone’s favorite superhero librarian, Batgirl!. I like Andi Watson’s character designs, Lea Hernandez’s Batgirl, and the fierce boots Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Batgirl is wearing. For the ultimate in character fusion, check out Yotsubatgirl.
Next week’s carnival is over at Infomancy, so submit your posts from this week early and often!
6:12 pm on January 16th, 2006 1
Blog Carnival index: Carnival of the Infosciences #20…
CARNIVAL OF THE INFOSCIENCES is now up at TangognaT!…
6:18 pm on January 17th, 2006 2
[...] Can be found at TangonaT … my week is quickly approaching - keep an eye out for my call for submissions. • • • [...]
11:00 pm on January 18th, 2006 3
Carnival of the Infosciences #20…
Seeking a thrill ride? Hop on over to TangognaT for the 20th installment of the Carnival of the Infosciences. Next week, we welcome Chris Harris of Infomancy as the Carnival’s host. He hasn’t given specific instructions yet, but I imagine……
7:12 am on January 19th, 2006 4
[...] The Carnival of the Infosciences is indeed coming to town next week for episode #21. Last week’s edition was held at TangognaT. [...]
1:45 am on January 21st, 2006 5
Keeping up with the Carnival of the Infosciences…
ferriswhell at night by foverversouls on Flickr. Posted here thanks to the Creative Commons. TangognaT was kind enough to link to my Library 2.0 hangover post in the “Editor’s Choice” section when she hosted Carnival of the Infosciences #20……
1:37 pm on January 23rd, 2006 6
[...] Library 2.0, a promiment feature in last weeks Carnival of the Infosciences #20 from TangognaT, received some additional attention this past week as others consider how these ideas apply in different settings. Filipino Librarian gives us “Library 2.0: A View from the Third World,” and I finally found the time to finish tackling my look at School Library 2.0 with “SL2.0: Examples of a Vision.” [...]
5:04 pm on January 24th, 2006 7
[...] The Carnival of the Infosciences has made a couple of stops in the past two weeks. Check them out (if you haven’t already): Carnival #20 at TangognaT and Carnival #21 at Infomancy. [...]