Some things read this week, 15 – 21 July 2007 | habitually probing generalist

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 Hanh, Thich. Peace is every step : the path of mindfulness in everyday life. New York N.Y.: Bantam Books, 1991.

Finished the 1st third, “Breathe! You Are Alive.”

Tuesday, 17 Jul

Crawford, Walt. First Have Something to Say.

Read chaps. 7-11

Nilsson, Mikael, Pete Johnston, Ambjörn Naeve and Andy Powell. “Towards an Interoperability Framework for Metadata Standards.” Preprint of paper presented at DC-2006 Conference, Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico, 3-6 October 2006.

Read for Metadata Roundtable 18 July 2007 and a discussion of the DC Abstract Model.

Hagedorn, Kat, Suzanne Chapman and David Newman. “Enhancing Search and Browse Using Automated Clustering of Subject Metadata.” D-Lib Magazine 13 (7/8), July/August 2007.

Crawford, Walt. First Have Something to Say.

Read chaps. 12-15

Thursday, 19 Jul

Crawford, Walt. First Have Something to Say.

Read chaps. 16-19 & Appendix. Finished.

Friday – Saturday, 20 – 21 Jul

Read more of Peace is Every Step.

Mini-review of: Crawford, Walt. First Have Something to Say.This is an excellent and balanced little book that covers many aspects of writing for librarianship, along with some comments on speaking.If you are unsure of how to “break into” writing for the profession then this book is for you. There is certainly other advice that can be found and much of it may even be valuable, but I doubt any of them cover as much in so few pages.

If you’ve read any Walt then you ought to realize that his voice is perfect for a topic like this. If you haven’t read any Walt, then get busy.

4 thoughts on “Some things read this week, 15 – 21 July 2007”

Thanks for the kind words. That book was a pleasure to write (it’s easy to say that in retrospect, but I think it’s true) and I hope an equal pleasure to read. Now, if I just had another idea for a book I thought I could write, that would sell enough copies…and that could work with the half-year minimum lag in traditional publishing.

I really dig Thich Nhat Hanh’s works Peace is every step was a powerful book for me as was The Raft is Not The Shore. Also, I learned one of my best questions/actions from Hanh.

Walt, and others, it was a pleasure to read!

iblee, I’ll look into The Raft is Not the Shore when I finish Peace. Thanks.

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Walt Crawford on Sunday, July 22, 2007 at 12:06 pm said:

Thanks for the kind words. That book was a pleasure to write (it’s easy to say that in retrospect, but I think it’s true) and I hope an equal pleasure to read. Now, if I just had another idea for a book I thought I could write, that would sell enough copies…and that could work with the half-year minimum lag in traditional publishing.
iblee on Sunday, July 22, 2007 at 5:34 pm said:

I really dig Thich Nhat Hanh’s works Peace is every step was a powerful book for me as was The Raft is Not The Shore. Also, I learned one of my best questions/actions from Hanh.
Mark on Wednesday, July 25, 2007 at 10:37 am said:

Walt, and others, it was a pleasure to read!

iblee, I’ll look into The Raft is Not the Shore when I finish Peace. Thanks.
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