Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship, Summer 2010

The latest issue of ISTL has just been released and, as usual, it's filled with very interesting-looking articles.

The table of contents is below:

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For some reason I have this irrational love of statistics. It could be due to the fact that as a microscopist I am very weary of qualitative data ... it's easy to see what you want to see. Quantification is the attempt to provide a more objective assessment of the world.
Science has published a letter with 250 signatories protesting the recent and extreme attacks on scientists, climate scientists in particular.
The New Frontiers in Astronomy and Cosmology program included 20 awards for 2 year research projects on Big Questions.