habitually probing generalist

Meredith Farkas of Information Wants To Be Free is doing a follow-up survey of the biblioblogosphere 2 years on. Please go take it. I did.

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Sunday, 22 Jul Crawford, Walt. Cites & Insights 7 (9): August 2007 [pdf] An excellent issue covering the LIS literature; authority, worth and linkbaiting (Britannica, Gorman, et. al.), disagreement and discussion; and ethics and transparency. I think you did a fine job, Walt. As I said elsewhere (probably as a comment on your blog), I [...]

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In a recent post I asked why “keeping up” always seems to be forward looking and recommended that we remember to learn from the past. Wednesday night when I was out to say goodbye to a friend and colleague (Kurt), and Sarah Shreeves, the Coordinator of our institutional repository, IDEALS, gave me some wonderful news [...]

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Sunday – Monday, 15 – 16 Jul Allgood, Julian Everett. “Serials and Multiple Versions, or the Inexorable Trend towards Work-Level Displays.” Library Resources & Technical Services 51 (3), July 2007: 160-178. Monday, 16 Jul Crawford, Walt. First Have Something to Say: Writing for the Library Profession. Chicago: American Library Association, 2003. Read chaps. 1-6 Nhat [...]

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You’re The Sound and the Fury! by William Faulkner Strong-willed but deeply confused, you are trying to come to grips with a major crisis in your life. You can see many different perspectives on the issue, but you’re mostly overwhelmed with despair at what you’ve lost. People often have a hard time understanding you, but [...]

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Off the Mark is one-year old today. I’m not really sure whether it should serve as any sort of “true” anniversary as my public blogging started in a different venue in January 2005. Nonetheless, the current instantiation of my personal and professional raves and faves has been around for a year now. My own domain [...]

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Perhaps there are “better” ways to affect change than those I sometimes use. The truth is, I did not really expect any change on my behalf; I did want it for others, though. But, it seems my griping was noticed and change is happening. I got a nice phone call today from Mary Taylor, Executive [...]

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The Tiger and the Snow – Roberto Benigni, Jean Reno, Nicoletta Braschi and special guest appearance by Tom Waits. You really should watch this wonderful film! If film can be poetry then this is movie is a very moving poem of the best sort. Unless you have some sort of ridiculous proscription against watching sub-titled [...]

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Perhaps I missed this in earlier editions, but according to my ALA Editions Spring/Summer 2007 catalog that arrived a few days ago I see that AACR2r is an ALA Bestseller! [That ! is their's, not mine.] While I have no doubt that this is factually true—my guess is that it is even their biggest bestseller [...]

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Saturday, 7 Jul (forgot an evening one) Harris, Roy. The Language Myth. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1981. Read chapter 1, “Idols of the Market.” Sunday, 8 Jul Harris, chap. 2-3, “A Science of Language” and “The Grammarians’ Legacy.” From chap. 2, “A Science of Language”: It is part of the romantic amour-propre of science [...]

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