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When it comes to the gathering, coalescing, and analysis of data, most places can't compete with the United States CIA. I think a lot of library types would like to know some of their secrets, at least when it comes to data and information processing.

Well, now you can.

The CIA recently released a book titled Psychology of Intelligence Analysis. Obviously, the book is aimed more towards people working for or with the CIA, but there's some interesting bits in their for the information science nerd too. The book is available online in its full text glory if you've got the interest.

via Mind Hacks.

As some librarians worry about the digital divide between rich and poor they sometimes miss a key component of that. The digital divide leads to a divide in skill sets as well. Not only will someone on the short side lose out on technological access, but they will lack the skills needed to find, assess, and ultimately utilize information.

More from Science Daily.

Originally created in the UK by Brian E Hodges (Ret.) at Manchester Metropolitan University -

Hodges' Health Career - Care Domains - Model [h2cm]

http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/

- can help map health, social care and OTHER issues, problems and solutions. The
model takes a situated and multi-contextual view across four knowledge domains:

* Interpersonal;
* Sociological;
* Empirical;
* Political.

Our links pages cover each care (knowledge) domain e.g. SCIENCES:

http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/linksTwo.htm

INTERPERSONAL:
http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/links.htm

Thank you for your time and best wishes for the holidays.

Peter Jones
RMN, RGN, BA(Hons) Comp/Phil, PGCE, PG(Dip) COPE, CPN(Cert)
Community Mental Health Nurse Older Adults,
Independent Scholar & Informatics Specialist
Bolton
Lancashire
UK
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http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/
Hodges' Health Career - Care Domains - Model
http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/
h2cm: help 2C more - help 2 listen - help 2 care

BookLamp offers an interesting and (ahem) novel idea when it comes to finding books.

Those familiar with Pandora know that it works by analyzing a musician or song that you like and making choices for new songs based on the artist, style, beat, and other musical elements. BookLamp seeks to do that, but with books. Through the analysis of things like writing style, word use, and the like, BookLamp tries to make recommendations for further based on similarities between the book you selected and other books within its database.

A video on their site explains everything in greater detail.

They've only got a few items in the database, but they're looking to grow... and hopefully have their idea purchased by Google.

HOW often have you wasted time searching through page after page of e-mail messages, Web sites, notes, news feeds and YouTube videos on your computer, trying to find an important item?

If the answer is “too often,” a San Francisco company, Radar Networks, is testing a free, Web-based application, called Twine, that may provide some robotic secretarial help in organizing and retrieving documents.

Twine (twine.com) can scan almost any electronic document for the names of people, places, businesses and many other entities that its algorithms recognize.

Then it does something unusual: it automatically tags or marks all of these items in orange and transfers them to an index on the right side of the screen. This index grows with every document you view, as the program adds subjects that it can recognize or infer from their context.

Article continued here.

A little video tour of Late Night's Research Department. "It's the brains, the heart, and the punching fists of Late Night... Step inside the weird and wonderful (did I mention weird?) world of The Late Night Research Department! We've got files for miles!!"

This is one of the greatest and best things in the world. Filipino Librarian writes "The title says it all: Sex Advice From Librarians. Take a look at the Lipstick Librarian's reply to "What's the worst pickup line someone has used on you in the library?"

And if you happen to be a single-willing-and-available-but-too-shy librarian, you may want to check out Eric's reply to "Everyone says I'm the 'librarian' type — shy and quiet. As a result, I don't have any romantic prospects. What can I do to put myself out there?" More..."

Martin writes "The Net Generation, it turns out, may not be so tech savvy after all. And they are drowning in information as the number of databases, online journals and electronic books continues to climb. This article in the Chronicle of Higher Education Right Here
offers an overview of how colleges are coping with the need to offer students training in Information Literacy, as well as the debate about how best to go about doing so."

Martin writes "The author of this article in Harvard Business Review argues that those who claim "the world is flat" are making the mistake of equating information with knowledge. "Information is a message, one-dimensional and bounded by its form. . . . You can package it and instantly distribute it to anyone, anywhere." Google is the ultimate information machine. But "knowledge results from the assimilation and connecting of information through experience, most often through apprenticeship or mentoring [and] no amount of IT can, at least not yet crack the problem of how to speed knowledge acquisition. It takes about the same amount of time today to learn French, calculus, or chemistry as it did 200 years ago."

Durst writes "Talk about letting your employees have their say! This article in the NYT profiles the management style of Rite-Solutions, a company that provides classified systems to the Navy. BUT, listening to their employees has allowed them to diversify their portfolios and lets them "harvest collective genius."
What better way to keep your employees engaged, committed, and innovative?"