As many of you know, I began in the Certificate of Advanced Study (CAS) degree program at GSLIS, UIUC the day after I graduated with my Masters in May 2006. In the past almost 18 months I have answered far too many times as to why I was pursuing further education in the field. It [...]
Entries from September 2007
Certificate of Advanced Study Project
September 30th, 2007 · 3 Comments
Tags: CAS Project · Education · GSLIS · Librariana · My Life
Some things read this week, 23 – 29 September 2007
September 29th, 2007 · 4 Comments
Saturday evening at the diner after the bar, 22 Sep Downey, et. al. How to Think Like a Computer Scientist (2nd ed). at Open Book Project. (Text for LIS452) Ch. 12: Classes and objects Ch. 13: Classes and functions Sunday, 23 Sep Harris, Roy, and George Wolf, eds. Integrational Linguistics: A First Reader. 1st ed, [...]
Tags: CAS Project · Information Retrieval · Language and word issues · My Life · Technology · Web/Tech
Using the Future to Create the Present – Betty Sue Flowers
September 29th, 2007 · Comments Off
This past Wednesday, 26 Sep 2007, was the Fall 2007 Phineas L. Windsor Lecture at GSLIS. Betty Sue Flowers, Director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum was the lecturer. I must say I was kind of ambivalent about this lecture but I ended up truly enjoying it. I have, I believe, attended all [...]
Tags: GSLIS · Librariana · My Life · Society · Story · Technology
Story, or not story
September 28th, 2007 · 4 Comments
[Disclaimer: I do not mean to offend anyone's personal views. My only aim here is to share a love of word play with others who may also appreciate it.] Earlier this week I did the copy cataloging to enter this book into our library. I found the juxtaposition of the the title and the subject [...]
Tags: Books · Cataloging · Language and word issues · Librariana · My Life · Religion · Story · Work
Tunneling for rabbits
September 28th, 2007 · 9 Comments
How far down the rabbit holes can I fall, and can I then tunnel between them whilst still falling? Do I deserve my “little ducklings” or would I be better served by spectators at my self-immolation? I offer the ducklings/spectators the option of deciding for themselves and changing their minds as they see fit, just [...]
Tags: Bibliography · Books · CAS Project · Conversation · Education · GSLIS · Interdisciplinarity · Language and word issues · Librariana · My Life · Philosophy · Theory
Mark has “little ducklings.”
September 27th, 2007 · 2 Comments
Hehehe. Thanks, Kathryn. I needed this. Of course, it may be more like spectators at a self-immolation. But I prefer your “little ducklings” metaphor. And, of course, I, too, am a “little duckling” of others.
Tags: CAS Project · GSLIS · My Life
Is it now the right thing at the wrong time, or…
September 22nd, 2007 · 7 Comments
… the wrong thing at the right time, or, perhaps, can it just be there are too many right things to do at overlapping right times? I know I haven’t fully explicated my bibliography topic yet but a potential change has arisen already. This change is both negative and beneficial; as most changes are. [And [...]
Tags: ASIS&T Annual Meeting · Bibliography · Books · CAS Project · Education · GSLIS · Interdisciplinarity · Language and word issues · Librariana · My Life · Philosophy · Relevance · Theory · Vocabularies
Some things read this week, 16 – 22 September 2007
September 22nd, 2007 · Comments Off
Sunday, 16 Sep Zelle, John M. Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science. Wilsonville, Or: Franklin, Beedle, 2004. [LIS452 text] Ch. 7: Decision Structures Ch. 8: Loop Structures and Booleans Ch. 6: Defining Functions Harris, Roy. Introduction to Integrational Linguistics. 1st ed, Kidlington, Oxford, UK: Pergamon, 1998. Ch. 6 and Postscript Monday, 17 Sep Harris, [...]
Tags: Books · Language and word issues · Librariana · My Life · Philosophy · Web/Tech
Wistful and confused
September 20th, 2007 · 4 Comments
I know I’ve been pretty quiet lately. Lots going on and not so well physically. I just seem to stay sick anymore. Lots of things happening, though. Bibliography class I have a topic for my Bibliography class and I’m making great progress collecting things and entering them into Zotero. I’ve read a few previously and [...]
Tags: ACRL@UIUC · ASIS&T Annual Meeting · ASIST · Bibliography · Education · Family · Friends · GSLIS · Job search · My Life · Technology · Web/Tech
Some things read this week, 9 – 15 September 2007
September 16th, 2007 · Comments Off
Thursday – Sunday, 6 – 9 Sep Capurro, Rafael and Birger Hjørland. “The Concept of Information.” ARIST 37, 2003: 343-411. This is an excellent and lengthy review article on the concept of information. It is much broader in coverage than just IS, though, looking also at the concept interdisciplinarily and, in specific, in the natural [...]
Tags: Articles · Bibliography · Books · Information Retrieval · Interdisciplinarity · Language and word issues · Librariana · Web/Tech
