Join the Carnival

It is my privilege to host the Carnival of the Infosciences for week 3. Greg Schwartz hosted week 1 and week 2, both splendid collections of current library and information science blog posts.

To continue from this excellent beginning, I'm going to need help. Send your favorite post of the week--preferably one you wrote, but I also appreciate hearing about good posts that you have read. I'll take submissions at my email address, joy at mollprojects dot com. Quoting Greg's list in his guidelines for submission, these items would be helpful:

• The title of your entry.


• The URI (address) of your entry.


• A description or summary of the entry.


• Your name or other moniker by which you wish to be referenced.

Please send your submission to me by Sunday evening, August 21, at 6pm and watch this blog for the Carnival of the Infosciences #3 on Monday, August 22.

Several people, including me, have used the term "Midway" in reference to the Carnival. I wondered how widespread that term is. Accessing the Oxford English Dictionary through my local public library's website, I learned that it is a North American term rooted in the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. So for those of you who have never been on a Midway, it's the carnival section of a fair--the area where the rides, game booths, and concession stands are as opposed to the areas where the craft shows, livestock displays, and tractor pulls are. From that, one can readily understand this illustrative quote from a 1901 publication: "Nowadays we frankly admit that the Midway is the strongest magnet of a big fair."

Since I'm in St. Louis, I would like to highlight "The Pike." During the 1904 World's Fair, The Pike was the name for the Midway, where the less serious attractions were housed. According to this page at the Missouri Historical Society, one could enjoy reenactments of the Boer War, see dancing girls, and watch elephants go down a water slide.

Compared to getting an elephant to slide down a water slide, how hard could writing and submitting a blog post be? I'm looking forward to a busy email box this week: joy at mollprojects dot com.     #

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