Literature Roundup

It's been quite a while since I've done one of these, so I'll give even shorter tastes of the TOCs than usual to keep the post from getting out of control. They're all mostly well worth clicking through to check the rest of the articles:

• Via Joe Kraus on PAMNET, an article on article authorship practices in the high energy physics community, What Does It Mean to Be an Author? The Intersection of Credit, Contribution, and Collaboration in Science, in JASIST v57i3. A self-archived preprint version here.
  
  
• Partnership: the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research is a new open access journal hosted by the University of Guelph and published by a partnership amongst Canadian provincial and territorial library associations. A great idea, and one with a York U connection. It includes news from each association, professional development articles, a librarian profile, an editorial as well as research articles. From the first issue:
  
  
  • Open Access Initiatives in India - an Evaluation by Leila Fernandez
    
  • Libre accès à la recherche scientifique : opinions et pratiques des chercheurs au Québec by Kumiko Vézina
  
  
• Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship, #48, Fall 2006
  
  
  • The 2005 Continuing Education Survey: What Science Librarians Want to Know by Elizabeth (Betsy) Spackman et al. It seems we want to know about promoting IL, collaborating with faculty and a whole bunch of other things. Lots to ponder here.
    
  • NetLibrary Science and Technology E-book Coverage by Beth Roberts. NetLibrary's coverage is mixed.
  
  
  
• The Firefox Kid By David Kushner in IEEE Spectrum, Nov 2006. About Blake Ross, co-founder of the FireFox project.
  
  
• Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 20th anniversary conference, November 04 - 08, 2006. What is Library 2.0 really all about in the academic world? Isn't it just computer supported cooperative work? Needless to say, there's a ton of extremely interesting stuff in the proceedings for this conference. I imagine that virtually anyone interested in technology applications in libraries would find a wealth of articles worth checking out -- this kind of conference will provide brief glimmers of the future of social/collaborative software applications. The main thematic areas of the conference are: Displays, Collaborative software engineering, Healthcare, Collaborative notification and awareness, Performance & architecture, Supporting social play, Social tagging and recommending, Lending a helping hand: using technology to assist, Algorithms for concurrent editing, Reflecting on CSCW, The ears and eyes have it: supporting audio & video, Social networks and coordination patterns, Conversation and referential communication, A picture is worth a thousand words: using video & photography to support collaboration, Enhancing the email experience, Privacy, Knitting together disparate collaborations, Crossing language and culture.
  
  
  • A face(book) in the crowd: social Searching vs. social browsing by Cliff Lampe, Nicole Ellison, Charles Steinfield
    
  • Don't look stupid: avoiding pitfalls when recommending research papers by Sean M. McNee, Nishikant Kapoor, Joseph A. Konstan
    
  • What goes around comes around: an analysis of del.icio.us as social space by Kathy J. Lee
    
  • Structures that work: social structure, work structure and coordination ease in geographically distributed teams by Pamela Hinds, Cathleen McGrath
    
  • Where's the "party" in "multi-party"?: analyzing the structure of small-group sociable talk by Paul M. Aoki, Margaret H. Szymanski, Luke D. Plurkowski, James D. Thornton, Allison Woodruff, Weilie Yi
  
  
  
• ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, v13i3 (September 2006). This is a special issue on information systems for an aging society, so there's lots of interesting stuff that's certainly relevant to the design of our web presences.
  
  
  • Designing a portal for older users: A case study of an industrial/academic collaboration by Alan F. Newell, Anna Dickinson, Mick J. Smith, Peter Gregor
    
  • Trends, similarities, and differences in the usage of teen and senior public online newsgroups by Panayiotis Zaphiris, Rifaht Sarwar
  
  
• Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, v22i3 (January 2007). As usual for this journal, there's a ton of curiculum-based stuff, most of which looks pretty interesting. I like to take a random couple to read to give me a sense of what goes on in the CS/IT classroom these days. There's lots more of interest that just the 3 items I cite below.
  
  
  • A web-based system for dynamic teacher-student interaction in a classroom setting by Robin M. Snyder
    
  • Developing a simulation course for bioinformatics program by Anatoly Kurkovsky
    
  • Ethics: making it real for information technology students by Cherie Ann Sherman
  
  
• Engineering Management Journal v15i6
  
  
  
  • University spin-outs and their management challenges by Parmar, B.
    
  • Work-life balance policies: are they doing more harm than good? by Zacharias, N.