OK, I have to ask, despite some of the amazing “conversation” happening in the biblioblogosphere [as the irony drips from that statement] the past couple of days. Have you all seen this announcement, and what do you think of it?
WASHINGTON - On January 9, 2007, the ALA Washington Office proudly announced the opening of its [...]
Entries from January 2007
Virtual ALA Washington Office?
January 11th, 2007 · 9 Comments
Tags: ALA · Librariana · My Life
Can something be abstract and not have the property of being abstract?
January 9th, 2007 · 2 Comments
First off, people please make sure your blog’s commenting mechanisms actually work. I have been trying to leave a comment on a blog and it keeps telling me that I have to be logged in. There is no login and I have given it every bit of the required info 3 times now!
I [...]
Tags: FRBR · Librariana · My Life · Philosophy · Weblogs
A rant and some hopes for the Carnival of the Infosciences
January 7th, 2007 · 6 Comments
Note: Talking with one of my wise friends, I was cautioned that maybe some of the complaints from various Carnival hosts about the lack of participation were not “helping the cause,” if you will. Seeing the wisdom in that stance, I took a closer look at what I had already written here. I [...]
Tags: Carnival of the Infosciences · Librariana · My Life
Carnival of the Infosciences 62
January 7th, 2007 · 3 Comments
Wow! It’s been a month since the last Carnival and I am afraid it shows. People seem to have forgotten about this struggling little venture. It also looks like we need hosts for the future. We have one more scheduled after this one, pulling into LIS - Michael Habib in two weeks, but [...]
Tags: Carnival of the Infosciences · Librariana · My Life · Weblogs
Another successful WordPress upgrade, I think
January 7th, 2007 · 2 Comments
I just finished upgrading my blog to WordPress 2.0.6.
I believe that I was fully successful although I had a scary moment when all I got was a blank page for either the blog or the Admin panel. Turns out my FTP client did not upload one of the folders I had told it to. [...]
Tags: My Life · Web/Tech · Weblogs · WordPress
Another view of “the naming of things”
January 5th, 2007 · Comments Off
Skilled use of logic, disputation, and the developed ability to name things correctly are some of the instruments philosophy gives us to achieve abiding clear-sightedness and inner tranquility, which is true happiness.
Epictetus. The art of living: the classic manual on virtue, happiness, and effectiveness, a new interpretation by Sharon Lebell. HarperSanFrancisco, 1995, p. 84.
Contra Andrew [...]
Tags: Music · My Life · Philosophy
Why, and when, did education become purely instrumental?
January 5th, 2007 · 2 Comments
These are, in fact, rhetorical questions. I do have a sketchy answer for them [sketchy in the outlined, sort of questionable sense, not in the highly questionable sense]. But if you want to take a stab at either, or both, feel free; comments are below. My questions are more of the why, as [...]
Tags: Authority Control · Education · IFSI · My Life · Standards · Vocabularies · Web/Tech
Me, an aristocrat? Or 2
January 4th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Found at LibraryTavern
My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is:
The Very Reverend Mark the Profuse of Nether Wombleshire
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Or:
My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is:
Count-Palatine Mark the Nimble of Greater Sodbury
Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title
Take your pick!
I kind of like them both. Me a Reverend; now [...]
Tags: My Life · Quizzes · Travel
Let the reading of 2007 begin…
January 2nd, 2007 · 2 Comments
I only have a moment as it’s time to relax before bed. I’ve been studiously busy researching for my paper on the use of multiple conceptual thesauri by interdisciplinary scientists [and yes, I'm being intentionally vague].
I have probably read, or re-read, somewhere around 8-9 articles in the last 2 days. And a dozen [...]
Tags: Articles · Books · Education · Interdisciplinarity · Librariana · My Life · Vocabularies
Some caveats to “It’s not just the OPACS that suck” by Meredith
January 1st, 2007 · 10 Comments
I want to add a few comments and, perhaps, caveats to Meredith’s use of the bookstore as an analogy in her post, “It’s not just the OPACs that suck.” I want to emphasize that I generally agree with Meredith here. I do not think she crossed any lines that shouldn’t be crossed. But [...]
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