2/27/2006
carnival of the infosciences #26
The lights are bright on the fairway, Madame has her tarot cards out and ready, and the barker’s ready and willing to take your money, so let’s get started:
- Our first two submissions come from Nicole Engard, who points out the exceedingly awesome Blogga Song and her own rant on being trapped by her ILS, a feeling I know well (some days I think that if my HTML wasn’t utterly elementary and by SQL even worse, I could design a better one)
- Jessamyn points out A DAM Survey on HangingTogether, the excellent RLG blog. As Jessamyn says:
I like the RLG blog, and if I had to pit the OCLC “It’s all good” blog versus this one, I know which one I’d pick. This blog is updated less frequently, but its topics are weightier and more interesting to me personally.
I don’t totally grok the carnival thing, but I assume sending on someone else’s post, even if it’s a little older, is okay.
With that in mind: A DAM survey Discusses the results of a survey of museums and how they are dealing with digital assets management and discusses how the survey blurs the line between digital resources and the business of digital preservation.
- From TangognaT: “I nominate Amanda @ Household Opera’s Why research is hard, part 2 since she’s exploring some of the problems researchers in the humanities encounter when they try to do research in an academic library.”
- Charlton Braganza provides us with seven ideal qualities for outreach and reference. And Sean Connery would definitely make the better librarian.
- Greg Schwartz points out that Stephen Abram has a great post called The Library 2.0 ‘Bandwagon’ that explains his view of how Library 2.0 is changing what libraries do. I personally remain skeptical - and yes, I have an intense dislike of catchphrases like ‘Library 2.0′ - but Stephen makes several interesting points about how Web 2.0 technologies are changing how we achieve our goals. I still think that these goals, if stripped to their very essence, remain the same, however.
- Christina brings us The reference interview in a scientific research setting: question pairs establish intellectual identity about the secret handshake between scientific researchers and librarians.
- Dave Hook answers my call for representation from special libraries with Photo sharing applications in corporate libraries, a great demonstration of how social software applications are used in the corporate setting.
I’d chosen several picks for the editor’s choice this week - I was raised by a Boy Scout - but we’ll pare my choices down to just two:
- Luzcarlita on the Libraries LJ Community points out Declassification in Reverse: The Pentagon and U.S. Intelligence Community’s Secret Historical Document Reclassification Program, about the campaign to reclassify a great many of the documents that were ordered declassified by the Clinton administration.
- Dorothea addresses the secret dread of many a librarian, including me - management - in Meeting of the Mind, which additionally provides some resources for the first time you find yourself in a management situation.
And that’s all from me. Next week, the Carnival heads over to Library Stuff and Steven Cohen’s capable hands. You can email your submissions to him at stevenmcohen [at] gmail [dot] com.
Filed under: Librarianship, Blogging
March 30th, 2006 at 10:44 am
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