Category: carnival of the infosciences

I am consistently amazed by the wisdom to be found in the biblioblogosphere.  Oh sure, we have our quarrels, our infighting, our what list am I on anyway? moments, but then we get back to the good stuff, like this week’s Carnival of the Infosciences (#33) at ReferenceWORK. 

The Krafty Librarian blogs about what to do when you are successful; T. Scott blogs about learning from past success and failure.  And if all of that is too ethereal for you, there are a couple of links to instructions on how to build library Firefox search plugins.

Next week the Carnival makes a return visit to Library Stuff.  Here are the submission guidelines.  Now go forth and blog!

Carnival of the Infosciences #31 is up at Tinfoil + Raccoon. Stop by and congratulate host Rochelle on her new job (if you haven’t already).

TangognaT hosts next week’s carnival. Send submissions to tangognat @ tangognat.com. You can read and read about carnivals past, present, and future (and sign up to host one yourself) at the Carnival wiki.

Carnival of the Infoscienes #30 is up at Open Stacks, with much coverage of conferences and some good fun. Go check it out.

Next week the Carnival moves to Tinfoil + Raccoon, where barker Rochelle is gearing up to move to Wisconsin to start her new job as Information Services Manager. Congratulations and best wishes to her. To celebrate, why not submit something to the Carnival? Rochelle suggests cheese as a theme. . . .

Neither rain, nor hail, nor sleet, nor snow (which we had in some quantity here in northwestern Wyoming, just in time for the first day of spring) shall keep the Carnival of the Infosciences down, and, despite a brief snow delay, Steve Lawson of See Also. . . brings us Carnival of the Infosciences #29. Learn about sucky OPACs, librarians in China, services to immigrants, and a non-librarian’s view of a summit that included some notable library people.

You’ve undoubtedly seen the last few Carnivals that took place while I was moving, settling, and waiting for home internet access, but I like to give out the link love, so here they are:

• Carnival of the Infosciences #28 at Frequently Answered Questions
• Carnival of the Infosciences #27 at Library Stuff
• Carnival of the Infosciences #26 at Data Obsessed

And finally, my apologies if my last post popped up in your aggregator twice. I’m not trying to bludgeon you over the head; I was just trying to fix a few typos.

Last week gave us Carnival of the Infosciences #24 at Grumpator (what a great name!) and today Mark brings us Carnival of the Infosciences #25.

Good stuff in both–check them out if you haven’t already.

The nature of the Carnival is that submissions wax and wane. There’s no discernable pattern to this that I can see, but I hope that future hosts will take Mark’s example and expand their editor’s picks sections when necessary. I almost always encounter something new in each Carnival, and while that brings with it the danger of a Bloglines with more feeds than I can keep up with, I prefer it to the alternative of not finding out about some voices that I may not have heard otherwise. And that’s worth remembering on days when you’re feeling Z-listy. If you’re not getting anything out of blogging, you probably shouldn’t do it. But if you get anything out of it at all, I can guarantee that at least sometimes other people are getting something out of it, too. The Carnival is one way to make that happen more easily. If you haven’t hosted or submitted, consider trying it out.

Next week’s Carnival is at Data Obsessed. Send entries to amanda at renji dot org. She’s particularly interested in anyone writing about special libraries. To find out how to host, check out past Carnivals, or learn more about all things Carnival related, head over to the Carnival of the Infosciences Wiki.

Carnival of the Infosciences #23 is up at The Laughing Librarian. Go. Laugh. Learn.

Then go outside, run in circles, stare at the sun for a bit, turn the music up loud, or whatever else it is that you do to keep sane, lest you, like me, start having dreams in which the biblioblogosphere plays a major role. I mean, I love it as much as the next library blogger, but there is a limit.

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Check out Carnival of the Infosciences #22 at What I Learned Today. Among other things I learned: Google is no replacement for a good translator. Enjoy!

Next week’s Carnival is at The Laughing Librarian, where there is an amusing list of suggested topics for your blogging pleasure.