Carnival of the Infosciences #16
November 20th, 2005Welcome to the Carnival folks. Step right up and read some special posts from around the library blog world.
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Joy Weese Moll of the Wanderings of a Student Librarian blogs about “an idea, inspired by The Cluetrain Manifesto, to offer backstage tours instead of ordinary library orientation tours.
The Krafty Librarian gives her thoughts on Cheryl Banick’s Library Journal article, Libraries: How can we ensure that small medical libraries continue to provide good medicine? In these changing times what are the four biggest threats to hospital libraries and how can librarians combat them.
Chris Deweese blogs: “While at the session today, I heard a recurring theme. People needed tools that would help them circumvent their IT departments restrictions. Why is this so?”
Amanda J. Robertson blogs about calculating the value of knowledge management and blogging in academia replying in an article in Slate.
Eli on the closing…well “downsizing (basically the elimination) of the News Research Library at the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News.” - and a follow-up.
Meredith celebrates her “blogoversary” and explains how much she has done in just one year. Congrats Meredith!
Library Clips discusses the 4 stages of RSS Anxiety.
Rochelle Hartman on Google fatigue.
And, if you haven’t created your library trading card yet…get over there!
The Carnival is off next week. Send your entries to Rochelle for her entry on December 5th.