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The first carnival of the new year brings us reflections of the old year and predictions for the new, plus other attractions including more on the Library 2.0 meme, Ruby on Rails, and a variety of practical tips to try in 2006.
Christina K. Pikas of Christina's LIS Rant gives us a recap of recent documents about reading in electronic environments. Everything Bad, Gorman, Levy, Liu connects the ideas from Everything Bad is Good for You with the Liu article on reading and digital libraries, recent statements by ALA President Michael Gorman, and an older ACM conference presentation about the fragmentation of reading in the digital environment.
The Laughing Librarian found something humorous about the report on internet gender differences by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Pew! Men are Geeks and Perverts!, in the best Pew tradition, includes a helpful bar chart.
The 'Brary Web Diva has been busy celebrating her library's birthday with special marketing ideas, finding new ways to use e-mail time capsules, and discovering two neat things to do with a Blogger blog: add a comment feed and tagging posts.
The Grumpator looks forward to getting a job in 2006 and provides practical tips for others doing the same.
Rick Roche, aka ricklibrarian, provides advice and reflections on making things last, an important skill when budgets are tight--both at home and at the library. Rick looks at the variety of wear items in the library: books, computers, databases (he has actually weeded one!), furniture, and buildings.
Lindsey in a post on I Like Dust rings out the old year after her first semester of library/archive school with a list of Things I didn't expect from graduate school. The post of mine that Lindsey refers to is How to read a journal article.
Jonathan Weber, another student blogger (blogging at dystmesis), describes the process for choosing and using Ruby on Rails as the underlying software for a library school project. Digital library chugging along on Rails is an excellent introduction to Ruby on Rails and when one might want to use it--it looks like a great way to implement some of those Web 2.0 ideas without having a great deal of programming background. Be sure to click through to the demo--it's quite impressive.
Laura Crosset, lis.dom, gives us a concrete example of low tech library 2.0. If you're missing the picture try this link or scroll down from the main blog page. (That last is the only one that's working for me at the moment--Blogger is not playing nice with pictures just now.) Here's what Meredith Farkas of Information Wants to Be Free had to say about Laura's post as an addendum to her Label 2.0 reflections:
Literally moments after posting this, I saw that Laura Crosset of lis.dom (one of my very favorite blogs) just posted exactly the sort of thing I was talking about. Definitely check out Laura's very simple, but very brilliant, idea for reaching teens at her library. Simple, concrete, and something most librarians could replicate. I love it!
Thanks to everyone who submitted posts. Thanks to everyone who visited the first Carnival of 2006. All the details about the Carnival of the Infosciences are gathered at the Carnival wiki. Be sure to visit next week's Carnival at the bibliomaniacal palindrome, TangognaT.
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