CogSci Librarian

Way back in February, ScienceOnline motivated me to read some great science books. Thanks to the publishers, I won / received copies of Davi...

Goodreads has been a good way to keep track of books I've read, which was my goal. It's made listing my favorite fiction reads of 20...

I've been meaning to blog about the recent  Wall Street Journal article " Your E-Book Is Reading You " and now there's a ...

I've submitted a photograph to #scio12 science-art show .  I wanted to convey something about science, which is tough since what I most...

I just finished the best novel of 2009 ... and while it's early in the year, I am confident this will still be towards the top of the li...

Here are a few of my recent favorite things, for your Thanksgiving (U.S.) browsing pleasure: Bora posts a great article on  New and Exciting...

You may remember that I recently wrote about UConn's project to digitize books published prior to 1923  ... focusing on 200 or so psycho...

UConn is participating in an exciting project whereby we are digitizing pre-1923 / out-of-copyright books as part of the Boston Library Cons...

Thanks to WorldCat and Google Reader , I've created some nifty lists that highlight new books I've purchased in communication scien...

Two very interesting "sets of information" lately on my favorite children's books. (I say "sets of information" bec...

Very cool story on ScienceFriday last week about some astronomy books written by NASA folks that are available in Braille! Ira Flatow inte...

I'm preparing for another semester of teaching Digital Information Services & Providers , or as I like to call it, "Advanced Re...

I like when more than one of my interests combine, as they did in a 1983 book I recently read by Rebecca Goldstein. In The Mind-body Problem...

Over on facebook, some librarians are having a discussion of favorite LIS books. I can't think of a dedicated LIS book that I like, but...

The Loose Cannon Librarian has done a very cool thing: she's mashed the Danbury Library catalog with the social networking tools of Li...

Have you heard about David Sloan Wilson's new book Evolution for everyone : how Darwin's theory can change the way we think about ou...

This is an informal poll, for the LIS crowd. If you were stranded on a desert isle, and you were lucky enough to continue doing reference fo...

Interesting list of the Best Sci-Tech books of 2006 in the March 1, 2007 issue of Library Journal : Science's Big Picture // Best Sci-Te...

More Reading Ideas in which I tell Friend about Literature Resource Center and Books in Print's *awesome* Fiction Connection readers ad...

Wow, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is offering podcasts podcasts of some of its entries. You can get them in iTunes , ...