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Welcome to the Carnival of the Infosciences #3! Please keep your arms and legs inside the ride vehicle at all times. But let your imagination soar.
Meredith Farkas had both a reflective and an active response to Walt Crawford's study of the biblioblogosphere. As part of her reflective response she drew attention to a few blogs outside of the "top 50" (including mine, thanks!) and requested that others do the same. Her active response was to create a survey to answer some of the questions that an unobtrusive study couldn't answer. If you are a library person with a blog for any purpose, take the survey and be counted!
One of the bumpiest rides in the biblioblogosphere this week was the Digital Divide debate. Laura Crossett contributed to the discussion, pointing out that there are many divides--and that the world is not flat.
If you thought the Digital Divide debate was a wild ride, try internet filtering. Did Library Journal say IL Gov supports Internet Filtering? The 'Brary Web Diva gives us background on a comment from a Library Journal article that is more than it first appears.
For a change of pace, let's try this thoughtful post from Dave, The Industrial Librarian, exploring the subtle difference between librarian-as-knowing-where vs. librarian-as-knowing-how. It may change how you think of yourself--or, at least, how you market yourself.
Charlton Braganza continues to assist job seekers (..and we need all the help we can get). In this week's carnival post, he writes that librarians should remind job seekers that small companies are big employers.
Luke Rosenberger at lbr was thinking about homework help and tutoring programs last week. In one post, he explored how to pull down the whiteboard curtain, the separation between the reference desk and homework help. In the next post, he reflected on an article that featured the CEO of tutor.com, George Cigale in Library Journal.
Editor's Choice:
The Rambling Librarian blogged IFLA, complete with pictures.
Dave of dave's blog wrote a five-part series about using the virtual and physical spaces of the library based on the book The Experience Economy. It starts here.
The Gypsy Librarian looked at recent reports in the news about reading education, Summer ends, time to assess the summer reading lists.
Today is my first day of school. Hosting the Carnival of the Infosciences #3 was a great way to spend my last week of the summer! Be sure to visit next week's Carnival at lis.dom. Check her website for how she would like to receive submissions this week.
From Open Stacks: Here's the link to the submission and hosting guidelines. And here's a link to the hosting schedule. Please let me [Greg] know if you have any interest in hosting or have any other comments or suggestions.
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