Steven Cohen invites you over to his blog to visit the Carnival of the Infosciences #34. I can’t imagine why I never submitted any of my posts over at the Second Life Library 2.0 blog from this past week. Probably because I haven’t left Second Life long enough to think of things like that. Warning: If you are thinking about checking out Second Life, it is a big, wonderful vacuum for your time.

Next week’s Carnival will be at blogwithoutalibrary.net. Send submissions to amanda AT blogwithoutalibrary.net.

Another Monday, another Carnival, this time courtesy of my buddy Charlton Braganza over at ReferenceWORK. This week’s Carnival even features me drooling. Read for yourself.

Next week’s the Carnival returns to Library Stuff, where Steven will enter the revered ranks of the three-time host. Since he hasn’t posted yet, why not use his contact form for your submissions?

Monday means another journey to Carnival-land. Head on over to TangognaT for the Carnival of the Infosciences #32. Good to see some new names in the mix of submissions this week. Does this mean we’ll have some new hosting volunteers? How about some old ones?

Next week’s Carnival will be hosted by over at ReferenceWork. No intro post yet, but I imagine that you can send submissions to reference.work[at]gmail.com, as listed on the site. Or feel free to use the Blog Carnival submission form.

Truck on over to Tinfoil + Raccoon for the Carnival of the Infosciences #31. Thanks to Rochelle for another great festival. And if you haven’t checked out Intuitive Revelations yet, you need to…now.

Next week’s Carnival will be hosted over at TangognaT. No post over there yet, so send submissions to me and I’ll make sure they get where they need to go.

Update: Send submissions to tangognat @ tangognat.com.

Do you wish to be branded an official Carnival carny? Kelli Staley has your solution:

Kelli recommends stealing it from her site at http://www.kellistaley.com/images/carnival.jpg

She also recommends linking it to the Blog Carnival page. That’s a reasonable choice, but I might recommend the Carnival wiki page as an alternative. Quite frankly, I think I update it in a more timely fashion. But y’all do with your badge whatever makes y’all happy.

Thanks to Kelli for making the badge!

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.

Now inviting you to take a journey over to See Also… for a tour through the Carnival of the Infosciences #29, courtesy of Steve Lawson. A nice mix of submissions this week.

Next week, the Carnival travels to, um, well, actually it’s coming back home to Open Stacks for a special post-CiL/PLA wrapup edition. So I’ll be looking for all those great conference commentaries as well as anything else you might want to throw my way. Please use the contact form for your submissions this week.

As always, I welcome volunteers for hosting.

Now directing your attention to the Carnival of the Infosciences #28, courtesy of Rebecca Hedreen at Frequently Answered Questions. This week’s edition is replete with a wonderful application of the Spell with flickr tool.

Next week, the Carnival visits new ground over at Steve Lawson’s See Also… blog. Please send your submissions to slawson@coloradocollege.edu.

I also want to take this opportunity to highlight Liz Burns’ post about Carnivals over at Pop Goes the Library, where she highlights the upside of looking at Carnivals outside of the LIS sphere. I second that emotion and recommend glancing at the Blog Carnival website as a solid starting point for your exploration.

It’s great to have a friend like Steven Cohen. Not only is he willing to sign up for repeated Carnival hosting gigs, he’s willing to tell you to do the same. Gotta love him.

Anyway, he also does a wonderful job presenting the Carnival of the Infosciences #27. Nice to see some new folks submitting entries and thus adding to our pool of potential hosts.

Next week, the Carnival returns to Frequently Answered Questions, where Rebecca Hedreen would love to see your entries on distance learning, academic libraries or anything else library-related that suits your fancy. She gives you a litany of contact options under Getting Help, but I’m sure an email to hedreenr1 [at] southernct [dot] edu will get the job done.