Off the Mark

Two recent posts addressed the ‘reading habits’ of LIS students (from my perspective, of course):  "Becoming a graduate student" and "Cataloging and Metadata Education."
Jenny commented on both of them and Angel and Laura commented on the first.  I think Jenny read them in reverse order based on the way her comments went, but that makes [...]

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Yay!
I just installed oXygen 7.0 on my PC and created a new file from template, used TEI P5 (experimental) All and it validates!  Yippee!
That may not seem like much to many of you, but the oXygen-supplied RelaxNG schema for TEI P5 All would not validate on any of the lab PCs, nor on [...]

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And speaking of "extraneous" reading … I finally sat down last night after getting home around 9:15 PM and read the following which I printed several weeks ago:
Hsieh-Yee, Ingrid. "Cataloging and Metadata Education: A Proposal for Preparing Cataloging Professionals of the the 21st Century.  A response to Action Item 5.1 of the "Bibliographic Control of [...]

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It seems that I am finally becoming a graduate student and I’m not sure that I like it a bit!
This, my final (?) semester, took off like a jack rabbit.  I have been struggling to keep up and the work I was envisioning was crushing.  Once I realized that I was thinking of more work [...]

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In the latest Carnival of the Infosciences #25 I featured a post by Andrea Mercado:
Andrea Mercado at LibraryTechtonics muses "On Tagging People."  It is an interesting post that intriguingly has something to say about the recent meme of fours to travel through
the biblioblogosphere, among other places.  Even if some of it is
beyond your knowledge of [...]

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  No Reading in the Bar!    Originally uploaded by broken thoughts.
See the Springfield Public Library flickr group.

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Those of you reading this in an aggregator may have noticed a rogue post by the same name as this one. Having spent all weekend in a TEI workshop I marked up my Birthday Weekend post in TEI Lite and posted it in here.  All appeared to work fine in preview until I made the [...]

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Come one, come all. The Carnival of the Infosciences has returned to beautiful Urbana, Illinois for its 25th instantiation.

Photo courtesy of Yee Wong.
Seems the Carnival is in its midwinter doldrums. We got one submission this week and, Steve, I’m considering it the best birthday present I’ll get this year! Thank you!
I’ll consider [...]

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As I sit killing time before heading to Eva’s show in Danville, I’m listening to a CD I made it bit over 6 years ago.
I had gotten divorced about 8 months earlier and several people from way back in my life reemerged, for a while anyway. I was trying to capture some hope, elusive [...]

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Alright folks!   I did a bit of spring cleaning around here even as the temperature plunged as the Carnival comes to Urbana on Monday.
But we’re a little light on acts right now and we’re rapidly running out of elephant food!  "Come one, come all."  Step up and do your part.  Make a submission (your stuff [...]

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