+ Preparing Science Librarians for Success: An Evaluation of Position Advertisements and Recommendations for Library Science Curricula
by A.R. DeArmond, A.D. Oster, E.A. Overhauser, M.K. Palos, S.M. Powell, K.K. Sago, and L.R. Schelling, Indiana University
+ A Season of Change: How Science Librarians Can Remain Relevant with Open Access and Scholarly Communications Initiatives
by Elizabeth Brown, Binghamton University
+ E-Books in the Sciences: If We Buy It Will They Use It?
by Rajiv Nariani, York University
+ How to Read Scientific Research Articles: A Hands-On Classroom Exercise
by Roxanne Bogucka, University of Texas and Emily Wood, Pierce College Fort Steilacoom
+ A Framework for Evaluating Science and Technology Electronic Reference Books: A Comparison of Five Platforms in Chemistry
by Meghan Lafferty, University of Minnesota
+ Electronic Scientific Data & Literature Aggregation: A Review for Librarians
by Barbara Losoff, University of Colorado at Boulder
+ Determining the Scope of Collection Development and Research Assistance for Cross-Disciplinary Areas: A Case Study of Two Contrasting Areas, Nanotechnology and Transportation Engineering
by Jeanine M. Williamson, Lee D. Han, and Monica Colon-Aguirre, University of Tennessee
+ Researching Climate Change: Trends in US Government Publications Distributed By the Government Printing Office
by Kari Kozak, University of Iowa, and Laura Sare, Texas A&M University
+ International Year of Astronomy (IYA 2009): Selected Resources
by Mandy Taha, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, and Joseph R. Kraus, University of Denver
+ Author Identification Systems
by A. Ben Wagner, University at Buffalo
Viewpoint: I Am Not Captain Dunsel! A (Former) Head of an Academic Branch Library Replies to Steven Bell
by Susanne J. Redalje, University of Washington
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? 
