12/11/2006
Carnival of the Infosciences 61
Welcome to the December 11, 2006 edition of Carnival of the Infosciences!
Victor Fam presents Focus On Create Value posted at Victor Fam.
Victor Fam presents Spreading the Personal Development Pixels posted at Victor Fam.
Alvaro Fernandez presents Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg on Brain Fitness Programs and Cognitive Training posted at SharpBrains: Your Window into the Brain Fitness Revolution, saying, “An introduction to the field of software-based Brain Fitness and Brain Training through an interview with one of the leading scientists.”
Chadwick Seagraves says “I don’t write as extensively about the Philosophy of Information as I’d like to and this post is about the questions you run into when considering the inherent value of information” in his post at InfoSciPhi.
John Dupuis at Confessions of a Science Librarian presents “My Job in Ten Years: Further Thoughts on Abstracting & Indexing Databases,” about how Google Scholar, Windows Live Academic, and their future competitors will affect what our jobs as librarians will become.
Editor’s Choice:
I make it a policy when I host never to expect that I’ll get enough submissions, so I always have a huge number of editor’s choice picks - just in case.
- Robert Berkman at Intelligent Agent discusses the possibilities of tapping the virtual world of Second Life for business research.
- The Annoyed Librarian has a series of posts (also here, here, and here) on ALA-APA and the ALA-APA Advocating for Better Salaries and Pay Equity Toolkit.
- T. Scott at T.Scott discusses the recent suggestion that Library 2.0 be deleted from Wikipedia, and goes on to discuss the problems with the “Library 2.0 concept.” David Rothman at davidrothman.net responds.
- The Filipino Librarian posts the results of this year’s librarian licensing exam in the Philippines. Steven Cohen at Library Stuff wishes they would do the same in the U.S.
- The Ubiquitous Librarian has some ideas about using movies as library promotion.
- The Corporate Librarian wants to stretch his information literacy muscles at his company and is wondering what works and what doesn’t. I highly recommend screencasting - it was pretty effective when I tried it to teach people how to check out barcoded books. Then again, I had to print out the screens for several of them anyway, so maybe not so much.
- And related, Meredith at Information Wants To Be Free wants to know why no one’s talking about the cool possibilities in screencasting. The excuse, apparently, is that everyone already knows about it, but as Meredith points out, that’s hardly the case.
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