Science Experiments: Reaching Out to Our Users
by Maureen Nolan, Lori Tschirhart, Stephanie Wright, Laura Barrett,
Matthew Parsons, and Linda Whang, University of Washington and Dartmouth
College
Web 2.0 as Catalyst: Virtually Reaching Out to Users and Connecting Them
to Library Resources and Services
by Norah Xiao, University of Southern California
An Undergraduate Science Information Literacy Tutorial in a Web 2.0 World
by Jeanine Marie Scaramozzino, California Polytechnic State University
Chat Widgets for Science Libraries
by John J. Meier, The Pennsylvania State University
Making Research Guides More Useful and More Well Used
by Michal Strutin, Santa Clara University
Geospatial Technology Support in Small Academic Libraries: Time to Jump
on Board?
by Carrie M. Macfarlane and Christopher M. Rodgers, Middlebury College
Podcasting the Sciences: A Practical Overview
by Eugene Barsky and Kevin Lindstrom, University of British Columbia
Refereed Articles
Dissertation Citations in Organismal Biology at Southern Illinois
University at Carbondale: Implications for Collection Development
by Jonathan Nabe and Andrea Imre, Southern Illinois University
Electronic Resources Reviews
DOE Data Explorer: The Data
by Meredith Ayers, Northern Illinois University
Book Reviews
The MLA Essential Guide to Becoming an Expert Searcher
Reviewed by Thomas Harrod, University of Maryland
Digital Literacy: Tools and Methodologies for Information Society
Reviewed by Jane Duffy, Dalhousie University
Tips from the Experts
Nanotechnology
by Charles F. Huber, University of California, Santa Barbara
Viewpoints
An Old Fogey Looks at the Reference (R)Evolution
by Linda Shackle, Arizona State University
A family of resources to help information workers be more effective, raise the value of information in their organisations and contribute to success. Read more »
Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.
A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?
Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.
What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?
Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).
FreePint Family
Quilting big data threads
The fallacy of information overload
Information overload: fact, fantasy or filter failure? 
