Off the Mark

As best as I can remember, these are the things I’ve read (or re-read) this weekend (not including blog posts, email, Facebook and Flickr conversations, …):
The News-Gazette (Sunday, 28 Jan) newspaper
Parade Magazine (Sunday, 28 Jan)
Coyle, Karen and Diane Hillmann. “Resource Description and Access (RDA): Cataloging Rules for the 20th Century.” D-Lib Magazine 12 (1/2) Jan/Feb [...]

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Thanks, Blake, for the almost instantaneous response! LISHost rules people!
I just upgraded my WordPress install to version 2.1. Hopefully things are all kosher.
Let me know if you see any wackiness. I know I’m looking forward to exploring some of the new features.
I had to upgrade my backup plugin and haven’t tried it [...]

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While not exactly a crush—although I won’t speak for others in the class—any teacher who makes a discussion so much fun that students willingly stay in their seats for 45 minutes past the end of class, an evening class no less, deserves a fair bit of respect.
Last night in LIS590OH, Ontologies in Humanities, Allen made [...]

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[NB: I've had 3 pints of Guinness, but I believe in telling the truth. So in the interest of full disclosure .... Also, sorry for the overly familiar tone, but I am trying to be playful.]
This past summer and early fall I had a (intellectual) crush on Elaine Svenonius. Seriously. That relationship has [...]

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I’m collecting songs “about” cataloging, classification, naming, lexicography, language issues, and a small group of related topics not fully explicated (yet).
I may also start a list somewhere about music to “catalog” to, that is to listen to while doing metadata-type work, but that’s separate. I do have a mix that I’ve been listening to, and [...]

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As we head into the second week of the semester, here is how things are looking:
LIS590OH: Ontologies in the Humanities with Allen Renear
First class consisted of introductions, discussing the proto-syllabus [first time offering], and where we might want to take the class. There are about 10 students almost evenly split between “old-timers,” like me, [...]

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…and if you are going to call me names, please don’t leave out “Enabler of Vices” or “Corrupter of Youth.”
[Background reading: Keeping it real Charitable reading Who your writing represents. (All at Information Wants to be Free) This post is primarily in response to the last post and a comment made on it, partly in [...]

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I just finished watching a movie that I have been looking for for over a year now. Touch the Sound is a documentary about Evelyn Glennie, a deaf percussionist. It is also so much more.
The cinematography is very good overall, and at times extraordinary. The audio is simply amazing! And I say [...]

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Woohoo!
I just emailed my seminar paper on mapping thesauri for use by interdisciplinary scientists to my professor. Fall 2006 is finally over, at least for me. I have a few friends still struggling with papers due soon. I wish them well.
The “beauty” of it all is that the new semester starts tomorrow. [...]

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As part of my continuing education in the organization of information—focusing on classificatory structures—I have made a major transition over the break.
My hourly work on the FireTalk Thesaurus at the IFSI Library becomes a 25% graduate assistantship on Tuesday. Along with my 25% assistantship in serials cataloging at the main library, this is all [...]

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