Step right up and prepare for the mind-altering experience that is the Carnival of the Infosciences #30.

This week we celebrate the cross-scheduling of conferences and the bipolar distribution of librarian mindpower. But first, a few submissions.

Amanda Robertson writes about the eternally important theme of proving the value of library and information services. I'd be interested in further explication of the gap between "finding information" and "aiding in the finding of information."

CW reports on the real "day in the life" of a librarian in her post entitled Keeping Up.

Steven Cohen decries the limited search skills and Google reliance of too many librarians in Back to Boolean? A Call For...Goodness Sake!

But if you really dig Google, Joy Weese Moll offers up some handy Google tips.

Steve Lawson was reading my mind when he suggested Sarah Houghton's post warning readers to Beware Ego Centric Conference Sessions. I agree...I'm not as interested in the minutiae of your library as you might think.

And then some editor selections:

Christina Pikas gives props to Brittanica for standing up for itself.

Michael Casey shares how an internal blog served a unique communication need for his new library branch in Communicating With Blogs.

Dorothea Salo points out that there is a right way and a wrong way to represent your company when giving a presentation.

Extending that premise, Lorcan Dempsey discusses the way in which presenters must now consider how bloggers serve to extend the presentation's audience.

Rather than link to summaries of individual sessions, here's some links to various overall impressions of CiL:

Meredith Farkas' CIL: Impressions

Amanda Etches-Johnson's run-down, wrap-up, overall impressions

Michael Sauers' Conference Wrap-Up (as he states, he really is bad with names)

For some excellent summaries of individual sessions, I encourage you to check out the writing of Nicole Engard and Andrea Hull.

I haven't seen any noteworthy summaries of the PLA experience, although the sum total of all of the entries at the PLA blog do a nice job of conveying the good stuff. Instead, I will go back to Mr. Cohen and insist that you take a moment to read about the powerful experience of dining with Elie Wiesel at PLA.

Update: This was a late submission, but I had considered including it anyway, so go check out Madinkbeard's sketches from CiL. I'm amazed at how recognizable the people are. Why didn't the artist come to my session?!?!?

Next week's Carnival will be hosted at Tinfoil + Raccoon. Submissions should be sent via the Blog Carnival submission form.