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Entries from August 2007

Unfortunately, I had to grow up

August 26th, 2007 · 12 Comments

I just paid an awful lot of money for a suit. Well, and a tie, too, but mostly for a suit. Heck, I still need a pair of dress shoes. Being a big boy sucks.

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Tags: My Life

Some things read this week, 19 – 25 August 2007

August 25th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Saturday evening, 18 Aug Nhat Hanh, Thich. Peace is every step : the path of mindfulness in everyday life. New York N.Y.: Bantam Books, 1991. Finally got back to some of this. Sunday, 19 Aug Three NISO standards are up for reaffirmation so I read these this morning to provide my input: ANSI/NISO Z39.77-2001 Guidelines [...]

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Tags: Books · Cataloging · Language and word issues · Librariana · My Life · Philosophy · Society · Standards · Standards Committee (ASIST) · Technology

Bodily imposed time out

August 23rd, 2007 · 9 Comments

I want to apologize to everyone who has commented on my last two posts, and to several other people who I owe responses in various venues. I did not mean to start a wonderful conversation and then leave it, but I must for the moment. While waiting on the bus to come home this afternoon [...]

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Tags: Conversation · My Life

Web-based bibliographies, Zotero, and a possible opportunity

August 22nd, 2007 · 4 Comments

Request your thoughts on web-based bibliographies As I wrote previously, I am taking Bibliography this semester. Today (Wednesday) was the 1st day of classes, and since it was “actually” a Monday (don’t ask), and this is an on-campus class, the 1st day of Bibliography will meet next Wednesday, when Wednesday is truly Wednesday. [Seriously! I'm [...]

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Tags: Education · GSLIS · Librariana · My Life

A plea to those who output their del.icio.us stuff to their blog

August 22nd, 2007 · 20 Comments

Please don’t! Maybe I should take a different tack first. Instead I will try to combine them. If anyone reading this blog uses any means to output the items they add to del.icio.us as blog posts I would be interested in hearing your reasons for doing so. Now, if you have a blog that serves [...]

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Tags: My Life · Web/Tech · Weblogs

Some things read this week, 12 -18 August 2007

August 18th, 2007 · 7 Comments

Monday, 13 Aug Wilson, Patrick. “Situational relevance.” Information Storage and Retrieval 9 (1973): 457-471. Cited by Raber in The Problems of Information, ch. 9, en13, p. 186 for the whole article in support of: While many people, for example, may share the same problem or at least the same kind of problem, it does not [...]

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Tags: Articles · Books · Cataloging · Classification · Information Retrieval · Librariana · Metadata · Relevance · Theory

Fall schedule

August 17th, 2007 · 5 Comments

Classes I am taking 2+ classes this semester: Foundations of Information Processing in LIS with Dave Dubin (one of the most brilliant and generous men I have ever met) Covers the common data and document processing constructs and programming concepts used in library and information science. The history, strengths and weaknesses of the techniques are [...]

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Tags: Cataloging · Education · GSLIS · Librariana · My Life · UIUC · Work

Book, music, communication, content, social

August 17th, 2007 · 2 Comments

This post is technically only for me, but feel free…. It is, in effect, a manually constructed “del.icio.us post” to collect the comments that I have made in the last day or so on issues of language. Oh, and some added-on self-analysis and rumination. Books See Also…, A study of scanning habit : a couple [...]

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Tags: Books · Conversation · GSLIS · Language and word issues · Music · My Life

On Assumptions about language use in tagging

August 15th, 2007 · 18 Comments

This morning I read a post at Nicole Engard’s blog, What I Learned Today…, about a Library Camp session. The post is titled “Library Camp – Weinberger & Cataloging.” Before I begin, I want to make explicit that I am not picking on Nicole, the participants in this session, or anyone in particular. I may [...]

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Tags: Cataloging · Classification · Information Retrieval · Language and word issues · Librariana · Metadata · My Life · Society · Vocabularies · Web/Tech

Musical construction and judgement

August 12th, 2007 · 5 Comments

[Yes, I realize that is a British (or alternative) spelling of judgment. I prefer it. It looks stupid to me otherwise.] I know that many of you could care less, but I have added a section on many of my musical compilations to my web site. Perhaps I should stipulate that I mean since the [...]

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Tags: Friends · Music · My Life