Amazing libraries

A great post on the physical library–Amazing Libraries around the world.

Rankings, updated

An update from a recent query/summary posting on my math librarian mailing list (SLA/PAM):

Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_and_university_rankings > has one of the best descriptions of various college /university ranking systems.  They go through many of the different approaches including the controversies/weaknesses in methodology/reproducibility etc.

The April 2007 issue of the Institute for Higher Education Policy has an article titled, "College and University Ranking Systems - Global Perspectives and American Challenges” 

Original post

Thanks to Marie C. Fraties-Block

History of Science Sources

I am thrilled to be taking a History of Science class this semester. Yesterday was our first class–mostly discussed the article by Daniel Kevles, “Foundations, Universities, and Trends in Support for the Physical and Biological Sciences, 1900-1992.” Daniel Kevles is currently at Yale, and is the author of a very good book on the history of physicists: The Physicists (1978) He also has an archived NPR podcast on Scientific Misconduct.

I had never really thought about life without, or before, the National Science Foundation. There is a great online history at: http://www.nsf.gov/about/history/ NSF was founded in 1950.