Connecting Librarian

Its Australian Library and Information Week and there are many events going on in libraries around the country (although its also Education Week, so that’s fun for the school libraries!).

One of those fun things is from Libraries Interact. We are pulling together articles for a Carnival of the Infosciences and need your assistance. This could be the last Carnival, so lets make it a great one.

We are looking for people to contribute recent (or near recent) blog posts, online articles etc – it can be yours or someone elses, it doesn’t matter. “This LIW is an Australian event, but submissions from all over are welcome. The theme of LIW is libraries are for everyone, so posts on that theme are particularly welcome.” (Libraries Interact)

As we are already well into Library Week, submissions would be appreciated as soon as possible. Submission details are available at Libraries Interact.

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On a more personal note, I have been overwhelmingly busy of late with no inclination to blog, but I have a few blog posts in my head, which I will start bringing to fruition soon, so stay tuned.

Welcome to the Carnival of the Infosciences #80. The Carnival is a weekly weblog post that endeavors to showcase the best posts in the blogosphere about topics related to the wide world of Library and Information Science. This week its my honour to be hosting the Carnival for the third time.

First, the submissions and thanks to everyone who contributed to this issue:

Filipino Librarian presents Pinoy Bibliobloggers’ Mafia. “This post asks why Filipino librarians who blog are less likely to be working in libraries, and that they are more likely to be male.” Unusual situation when compared to libraries in general – interesting thoughts.

Jimmy Atkinson presents
The Self-Directed Student Toolbox: 100 Web Resources for Lifelong Learners posted at OEDb: Online Education Database. There are some real gems in there, for any library interested in lifelong learning and aren’t we all!

Steven Silvers from Scatterbox presents Bury my rant on the Internet saying, “Consumer advocates take issue with SEO companies that get paid to push legitimate product reviews down into the clutter. But relevance is not the Internet’s obligation — and modern Internet users will eventually figure it all out anyway.” Search engine optimization isn’t all its cracked up to be!

Laura Solomon at Library Geek Woes presents Chasing the technology curve. She talks about where we should look when we are deciding which technologies to invest our time and money in for our libraries. As usual, she is thought provoking and so I will leave it to you to decide if you agree with her conclusion.

Jeremy Aldrich from Global Citizenship in a Virtual World presents Filter? I hardly knew ‘er!, saying, “Filters are a fact of life, but perhaps school decision makers are using the minimal legal requirements for filtering to excuse their often-rigid control of information flow.” Where does the line go between education and filtering, in protecting our children from inappropriate content. Jeremy asks for your thoughts in this post.

Now to conclude with some picks of my own, to round out this week’s Carnival.

Peta Hopkins from Innovate has blogged about the first Australian Blogging conference , starting with the post Blogoz: first up and with follow ups. Check it out.

There has been a lot of discussion about Wyoming Libraries use of the mud flap girl in their promotions. I just love Shelf Check #93 – Emily Lloyd’s contribution to the discussions that have revolved around this unusual marketing choice. Check out this and many other amusing library based cartoons at Shelf Check. If you like cartoons, I recommend you also check out Unshelved and Turn the Page. If you know of any other library based cartoons, let me know, I’m a fan!

Finally, Karen at Library Web Chic posted The future of Web services isn’t the library website. She discusses what key elements we should be including in our library websites. Interesting reading.

That concludes this edition – thanks for joining us. Help out the Carnival by submitting a blog article to the next edition of Carnival of the Infosciences using the carnival submission form. Feel free to submit one of your own posts, or another that you have read that you think is worth highlighting. Past posts and future hosts can be found on the blog carnival index page. Filipino Librarian is the next host, so see you at the Carnival on the 15th October!

I will have the honour of hosting the Carnival of the Infosciences again, this time on 1st October. If you have anything you would like to submit for the Carnival, you can do so through the submission form or to tag items as “carninfo” in del.icio.us.

The Carnival of the Infosciences #79 is at Libraryola – so check it out and then join me here for the carnival in a couple of weeks.

For those new to the Carnival, its a fortnightly ‘weblog post that endeavors to showcase the best posts in the blogosphere about topics related to the wide world of Library and Information Science.’ More info, including links to past Carnivals, is available at the Carnival of the Infosciences wiki.

I am the honoured host of the Carnival of the InfoSciences #72, which will be posted on Monday 28th May. For those who don’t know the Carnival, it’s a travelling weblog post that endeavours to show the best of the information science blogosphere. Its hosted fortnightly by a different library blogger and well coordinated by Chadwick Seagraves of InfoSciPhi.

So your help is now needed. Please send me your links to include in the carnival, either to one of your own blog posts or any other post you found interesting and would like to share with other bloggers. That is the nature of the Carnival. Send your posts as per the submission guidelines or email me and I will be sure to include it.

There’s lots of fun things going on in the biblioblogosphere at present, so please get your contributions in. See you at the Carnival!