Coopetition or co-opetition (sometimes spelled "coopertition" or "co-opertition") is a neologism coined to describe cooperative competition.  Coopetition is a portmanteau of cooperation and competition, emphasizing the "petition"-like nature of joint work.  Basic principles of co-opetitive structures have been described in game theory, a scientific field that received more attention with the book Theory of Games and Economic Behavior in 1944 and the works of John Forbes Nash on non-cooperative games.  It is also applied in the fields of political science and economics and even universally (works of V. Frank Asaro, J.D.:  Universal Co-opetition (2011), The Tortoise Shell Code, a novel (2012), and A Primal Wisdom, a non-fiction corollary to the novel (2014)).  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coopetition  See also http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2015/Taylorcompetition.html and http://www.charleswarner.us/articles/competit.htm and https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/goal-posts/200909/cooperation-vs-competition-not-eitheror-proposition

The Modern News Consumer by Pew Research Center   News stories can now come piecemeal, as links or shares, putting less emphasis on the publisher.  And, hyper levels of immediacy and mobility can create an expectation that the news will come to us whether we look for it or not.  Read 47-page report at

http://www.journalism.org/files/2016/07/PJ_2016.07.07_Modern-News-Consumer_FINAL.pdf

A Snapshot of a 21st-Century Librarian by Adrienne Green   Libraries have had to evolve from providing the internet as a service, to being responsible for interacting with it, to indexing and archiving a rapidly increasing amount of information.  Theresa Quill, a research librarian at Indiana University, Bloomington, specializes in the relationship between geography and cultural behavior, and digital mapping.  While she assists students in the same ways librarians traditionally have, she also works on projects like making maps based on interesting novels and indexing Russian war maps.  See graphics and read interview at http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/07/research-librarian/492911/  Thank you, Muse reader!  

Medical Dictionary by Stedman's   Type in a search term or browse the A-Z index at https://www.drugs.com/medical_dictionary.html

Data Mining Reveals the Six Basic Emotional Arcs of Storytelling--Scientists at the Computational Story Laboratory have analyzed novels to identify the building blocks of all stories from Emerging Technology from the arXiv  July 6, 2016   Back in 1995, Kurt Vonnegut gave a lecture in which he described his theory about the shapes of stories.  In the process, he plotted several examples on a blackboard. “There is no reason why the simple shapes of stories can’t be fed into computers,” he said.  “They are beautiful shapes.”  The video is available on YouTube.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP3c1h8v2ZQ   Vonnegut was representing in graphical form an idea that writers have explored for centuries—that stories follow emotional arcs, that these arcs can have different shapes, and that some shapes are better suited to storytelling than others.  Vonnegut mapped out several arcs in his lecture.  These include the simple arc encapsulating “man falls into hole, man gets out of hole” and the more complex one of “boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.”  Vonnegut is not alone in attempting to categorize stories into types, although he was probably the first to do it in graphical form.  Aristotle was at it over 2,000 years before him, and many others have followed in his footsteps.  However, there is little agreement on the number of different emotional arcs that arise in stories or their shape.  Estimates vary from three basic patterns to more than 30.  That changes thanks to the work of Andrew Reagan at the Computational Story Lab at the University of Vermont in Burlington and a few pals.  These guys have used sentiment analysis to map the emotional arcs of over 1,700 stories and then used data-mining techniques to reveal the most common arcs.  “We find a set of six core trajectories which form the building blocks of complex narratives,” they say.  They are also able to identify the stories that are the best examples of each arc.  Find examples of the six basic emotional arcs at  https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601848/data-mining-reveals-the-six-basic-emotional-arcs-of-storytelling/

The life-changing magic of tidying up:  How this 1 tip changed everything by Meena Hart Duerson   I can't remember when I first heard someone gushing over Marie Kondo's "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up," but all of a sudden, it seemed like everyone I knew—or sat next to on the subway—was reading this mysterious Japanese organization manual.  Read more at http://www.today.com/series/one-small-thing/life-changing-magic-tidying-testing-marie-kondos-method-t21356  See also https://www.onekingslane.com/live-love-home/marie-kondo-book-declutter/

Helping Consumers Make Care Choices through Hospital Compare

by Kate Goodrich, MD, MHS, Director of Center for Clinical Standards and Quality  July 27, 2016   Over the past decade, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published information about the quality of care across the five different health care settings that most families encounter.  These easy-to-understand star ratings are available online and empower people to compare and choose across various types of facilities from nursing homes to home health agencies.  Today, we are updating the star ratings on the Hospital Compare website to help millions of patients and their families learn about the quality of hospitals, compare facilities in their area side-by-side, and ask important questions about care quality when visiting a hospital or other health care provider.  Today’s ratings include the Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating that reflects comprehensive quality information about the care provided at our nation’s hospitals.  The new Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating methodology takes 64 existing quality measures already reported on the Hospital Compare website and summarizes them into a unified rating of one to five stars.  The rating includes quality measures for routine care that the average individual receives, such as care received when being treated for heart attacks and pneumonia, to quality measures that focus on hospital-acquired infections, such as catheter-associated urinary tract infections.  Specialized and cutting edge care that certain hospitals provide such as specialized cancer care, are not reflected in these quality ratings.  Read more at https://blog.cms.gov/2016/07/27/helping-consumers-make-care-choices-through-hospital-compare/

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama have selected Chicago's historic Jackson Park as the site of his presidential library, sources said July 27, 2016.  The choice, which leaked out ahead of a formal announcement expected next week, elated some South Side residents but disappointed advocates of the other finalist site, Washington Park, whose surrounding neighborhood is pockmarked by vacant lots.  Capping more than a year of competition between the two South Side sites, the selection will put the library within blocks of the popular Museum of Science and Industry and in a park that drew millions of visitors from around the world during the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.  Like Washington Park and the Midway Plaisance, the strip of green that connects the two finalist sites, Jackson Park was designed by the great 19th-century landscape designers Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux.  Near the eastern edge of the University of Chicago campus, the 543-acre Jackson Park is a South Side oasis, with a wooded island in a picturesque lagoon, lush woods and a golf course.  Renowned architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien were chosen in June to lead the design of the library, aided by Chicago-based Interactive Design Architects.  Kathy Bergen, Blair Kamin and Katherine Skiba  Read more and see graphics at http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obamalibrary/ct-obama-library-site-jackson-park-met-20160727-story.html

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 1504  July 29, 2016  On this date in 1846, Sophie Menter, German pianist and composer, was born.  On this date in 1948, after a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, opened in London.