WWII for Young Readers
May 28, 2009
With my family connection to WWII (my grandparents fled Lithuania during 
the 2nd Soviet invasion aided by Germans) I’ve always been fascinated with the non-text book accounts of the not-so-great war. I remember when I was in middle school coming across the Art Spiegelman’s inventive, Maus series, which plays out the Nazi saga with cats and mice and devouring it.
And today, I’ve discovered Alan’s War: The Memories of G.I. Alan Cope by Emmanuel Guibert sitting on my desk, waiting to be read. Turns out NPR Books did a great story about the process of creating the book and the post contains a link to a 7 page preview of the text/illustrations.
People’s Republic of China at 60
May 26, 2009
NPR will be turning to best-selling Chinese authors this week to gain some insight into the people’s perspectives on the People’s Republic during its controversial 60 years of rule. Today’s story, the first of the three parts, focuses on Jian Rong’s, Wolf Totem which I happened to pick up not too long ago, fascinated by the subject of Beijing intellectuals electing to go live with the nomadic people of Inner Mongolia and learning from their cultural adoration for the wolf. Listen to the story and join in the conversation, here.
What is Library and Information Science?
May 1, 2009
As a recent graduate of a Masters of Library and Information Science 
program, I’m frequently asked what kind of topics are explored in this field aside from the workings of a library. During my senior year I found myself frequently turning to articles published by this international peer-reviewed journal, First Monday, in my research papers. First Monday is published by the University of Illinois which has one of the country’s premier LIS program. Check out some of the fascinating topics and if you’re into podcasts, don’t miss these.
First Monday has just published the May 2009 (volume 14, number 5) issue.
The following papers are included in this month’s issue:
First Monday
Volume 14, number 5 – 4 May 2009
Facebook and academic performance: Reconciling a media sensation with data
by Josh Pasek, eian more, and Eszter Hargittai
A response to reconciling a media sensation with data
by Aryn C. Karpinski
Where is the cloud? Geography, economics, environment, and jurisdiction in
cloud computing
by Paul T. Jaeger, Jimmy Lin, Justin M. Grimes, and Shannon N. Simmons
Survival of the fittest tag: Folksonomies, findability, and the evolution
of information organization
by Alexis Wichowski
Comparing featured article groups and revision patterns correlations in
Wikipedia
by Giacomo Poderi
Navigating the blogosphere: Towards a genre-based typology of weblogs
by Stine Lomborg
