Sorry this is so slim on content, but my cable internet has been popping in and out constantly for the last several days. I don’t dare try to write anything of substance for fear of losing it.
Saturday, 28 Jul
Brookes, Bertram C. “The Foundations of Information Science. Part I. Philosophical aspects.” Journal of Information Science: Principles & Practice 2 (3/4), Oct 1980: 125-133.
Cite by Neill, S. D. “The Dilemma of the Subjective in Information Organisation and Retrieval.” Read last week.
Sunday, 29 Jul
Raber, Douglas. The Problem of Information: An Introduction to Information Science. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 2003.
Finished ch. 7.
Monday, 30 Jul
Smith, Linda C. and Amy J. Warner. “A taxonomy of representations in information retrieval system design.” Journal of Information Science: Principles & Practice 8 (3), Apr 1984: 113-121.
Cite by Neill, S. D. “The Dilemma of the Subjective in Information Organisation and Retrieval.” Read last week.
Raber, D. (above)
Read ch. 8
Simmons, Amber. “Reviving Anorexic Web Writing.” A List Apart No. 242.
I enjoyed this article and perhaps more despite the sort of dichotomy it drew between designers and writers. I mean it is at A List Apart, so that dichotomy is almost to be expected. While I do not consider myself either of those things particularly, I loved this thought as I generally think all people who advocate only writing short for the web are clueless idiots who ought not to be allowed to write anything for the web:
I have always been disheartened by the ubiquitous advice to keep all writing on the web short, though I understand where the advice comes from. For years designers and writers worked separately, designers working their magic to make the website as flashy and awesome as possible while the writers, if they were invited to the party at all, were given a paltry few days to whip up some words to fill the white space on the page. …
It seems to be that in focusing on designers vs. writers she has forgotten all of the other reasons for writing on the web besides corporate interests. But consider the source. I just read past that lack of understanding.
As our culture becomes increasingly digital, the art forms that support it must be constructed with the same care, deliberateness, and gusto as our traditional media. Intelligent content is the literature of our time. It is not enough that our printed books and magazines are ardently written and meticulously edited. Our culture loses much if we encourage online writers to sacrifice grace and personality on the altars of pith and scannability. Perhaps better advice is to encourage writers to say exactly what they mean with precisely the words required, however many they may be.
Amen, sister! Worth reading.
Tuesday, 31 Jul
Doherty, John J. “Towards Self-Reflection in Librarianship: What is Praxis?” Progressive Librarian 26, Winter 2005/2006.
Saracevic, Tefko. “Information science: origin, evolution and relations.” Conceptions of Library and Information Science: Historical, Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives. (1992): 5-27.
Tuesday - Wednesday, 31 Jul - 1 Aug
Vakkari, Pertti. “Opening the horizon of expectations.” Conceptions of Library and Information Science: Historical, Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives. (1992): 1-4.
Cited by Raber (see above) in multiple locations beginning with endnote 8 in ch. 1.
Wednesday, 1 Aug
Dellit, Alison and Kent Fitch. “Rethinking the catalogue. Paper delivered to the Innovative Ideas Forum, National Library of Australia, 19th April 2007.” Staff paper. National Library of Australia.
Found at Georgia Harper’s blog, Lifelong learning: The third degree.
Thursday - Friday, 2 - 3 Aug
Bade, David W. The Theory and Practice of Bibliographic Failure, Or, Misinformation in the Information Society. City of the Red Hero [Ulaanbaatar]: Chuluunbat, 2004.
Began this. Currently working towards a theory of error. Good, but small type.