And as for not having the background, do you think I’m going to let that stop me? Not a chance!
Do I have the time? Well, perhaps more of it than some people, but not really as I am being overly ambitious (as usual). But reading this sort of stuff is what I do (for now).

Coffee and talking is a fine idea. I much prefer communicating face-to-face.

And as for The IDQ, well, I’ll leave it for him to show up. He’s lots of places and nowhere all at the same time. You don’t get a moniker like that by hanging out on any old street corner.

OK, OK, I’m being coy. He can generally be found on AUTOCAT under his real name and here on occasion as The IDQ [well, he uses the full version and I'm just being lazy as the full version sounds much better] and I certainly [unintentionally] dropped quite a few hints as to his identity in my reply to Nathan above.

I’m being coy as it really isn’t my place to “out” anyone who chooses to use a nom de blog commenter to comment here. A little searching around here though and it would be apparent very quickly. So there’s no NSA-level cryptography going on but, again, it’s not my place….

By the way, here’s a link to the presentation that I gave that I mentioned:
http://marklindner.info/presentations/Blogs_ASIST.html

I have no doubt my list would be different now than it was back in Feb. 2007. And while it was fairly general it was still pitched to the supposedly more techie crowd of our ASIS&T student group.

I’m in cataloging (Content Access Management) 5 days a week and you clearly know how to find me here. Coffee is good.

Thanks for the comments!

Best of luck with the upcoming job search! Looks like we’ll probably be in the same “job search cohort.”

Thanks for the very positive response! Hjørland’s willingness to look at and discuss all viewpoints is both appealing and also quite useful to my purposes for setting up “the environment,” if you will.

The IDQ will be a wonderful guide and I’ve already had to start thinking of how (to wittily) acknowledge him in the final paper. We actually live fairly close to each other (30-ish minutes). I agree on his books, too.

I have a copy of The Theory and Practice of Bibliographic Failure, or … and need to get back to it. Taking a quick glance through the TOC there should be some things of use to this endeavor.

I also have our library’s copy of The Creation and Persistence of Misinformation in Shared Library Catalogs. I read it quickly a few months back and need to re-read it. No idea how soon but it will be available online in the near future as our institutional repository IDEALS is putting up the GSLIS Occasional Papers series along with some other really wonderful and useful things. If you haven’t seen the Winter 2004 issue of Library Trends v. 52(3) on The Philosophy of Information it is available already. You can get individual articles or the whole 304-page issue as a pdf. all of the old Allerton Park conference proceedings are up, too.
http://www.ideals.uiuc.edu/

He also has a book coming out soon from Rory Litwin’s Library Juice Press.
http://libraryjuicepress.com/blog/?p=315

No need to feel honored but thanks for the offer of discussion. “Ducklings” or no, I get little of it here (UIUC). I will be happy to try and correspond via email, although I must tell you that I don’t to well with discussing big ideas in that medium.

I will be posting things here and there on the blog, asking questions, trying to elicit citations and/or suggestions, probably dropping some “overviews” or pieces of sections of the paper as it develops. Please feel extremely free to chime in.

And if it turns out that we really need to work through something I can always just call you. I never use all my phone minutes.

As for the post closer, thanks! But my hand was kind of forced too since I just need to spend my time on more important things at the moment; no matter how tempted I might be to do otherwise.

Take care and we’ll be chatting I’m sure.

*sigh*

(We talked briefly at M. Norman’s brown bag. Maybe we can go for coffee and talk some time in the future.)

I am thrilled with the project you have chosen as well. I first read a paper of Hjørland’s some years ago when I first started my MLIS degree and like him right away (I am attracted to people who seem to know what all the “sides” are saying, and then still are willing to say “this is what I think is the most reasonable way to look at it… move forward, etc. – he seems like this kind of guy). I think looking for points of connection between him and Harris a a great idea – and look forward to what your inqury will produce.

I’m sure the improbable Don Quixote will be a great guide as well. I’ve enjoyed getting to know him a bit too via email (FYI, the books he’s written look pretty interesting too and might be worth a look).

If you ever want a guy to bounce big ideas off of, I’d be honored to be one of those guys. Keep up the good work on your blog. I loved the way you closed this post. Amen!