Off the Mark

Valentine’s Day Originally uploaded by broken thoughts.
Handmade yummies from a co-worker. That’s a chocolate-dipped apricot, by the way.

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Now which attributes does that element take?
I got up today and went in and talked to my metadata prof, Jerry McDonough.  I have been working myself into a lather confusing the long-term goal, and even portions of it, with what is doable in one semester [Longer version of immediate issues and long-term goal].
I was grousing [...]

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Be sure to check out the 24th Carnival of the Infoscience over at Grumpator.  But don’t dawdle too long.  The Carnival is coming here, beautiful Urbana, Illinois, next week. 
The 25th instantiation of the Carnival of the Infosciences is gearing up to hit the midway.  Special celebrations always require a bit of extra help from [...]

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Or should that be crappy corporate compromises?  Or maybe better, metadata makes me maniacal?
I am hoping to make an annotated bibliography of the literature surrounding the education of catalogers and metadata librarians.  Education is to be be construed as formal schooling, on-the-job training, continuing education, ….
In Oct 2005 I went and talked to [...]

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Grumpator has asked for input for next week’s carnival, in particular, suggesting "Tales of good library ideas gone bad," and I’ve been wanting, meaning and needing to make some comments about the virtual journal club experiment. 
OK, that was a bit harsh.  I believe it was a good idea.  And it certainly didn’t go bad.  [...]

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Hey all, I passed 10,000 page views last night!  (as reported by TypePad.)  I didn’t write about it then because the last 20 or so hits were from me finding all the links for my 4 things meme post.
Now I know that probably half of these page hits are from me looking for my own [...]

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So I got double-memed yesterday—one by web and one by email.  Instead of furthering this via email I think I’ll just respond here.
Copy, not forward, this entire e-mail and paste it into a New email. Change all of the answers so that they apply to you. Then, send this to a whole bunch of people [...]

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Tagged by Joy at Wanderings of a student librarian. She certainly put me in fine company too. Pulled some more categories from Lorcan at Lorcan Dempsey’s weblog and Karen at FRL. Looked at a few others. Changed a few.
jobs I’ve had

Delivery boy and rose leaf remover for a florist
Fire Control (as [...]

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Hmmm.  I don’t have any better or other categories for this.  ‘Science?’  No.  I don’t have an ‘assumed or supposedly science’ category.  Most likely I’ll be indexing my blog for my Indexing & Abstracting course this semester.  I started on my thesaurus today.  Hmm.  I will have a ’survey’ concept though.
Anyway ….
Jenica’s a "Type 8", [...]

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you weren’t there that day for the naming of thingsthe naming of things
Andrew Bird. "The Naming of Things."  Andrew Bird & The Mysterious Production of Eggs.

Lest anyone think I’ve been slighting Mr. Bird, here is my Homage to Andrew.
Ever since the show Friday night I’ve been listening primarily, and repeatedly, to Andrew Bird’s Bowl of [...]

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