Off the Mark

Via jennimi
I’m a Mandarin!

You’re an intellectual, and you’ve worked hard to get where you are now. You’re a strong believer in education, and you think many of the world’s problems could be solved if people were more informed and more rational. You have no tolerance for sloppy or lazy thinking. It frustrates [...]

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Long ago in another library far, far away . . .
OK, only several years ago and an hour away . . . I swore I was going to compile a list of all the humorous, insane, non-PC, and otherwise entertaining book titles that I came across handling hundreds of books every day in Circulation and [...]

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Note: Not much read due to being at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Milwaukee until Wed. evening.
Wednesday, 24 Oct
Shepherd, Simon. “Concepts and architectures for next-generation information search engines.” International Journal of Information Management 27(1), Feb 2007: 3-8.
This is a short, but interesting article in a copy of a journal I picked up for free at [...]

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Monday, 22 Oct
Oops, I forgot the Alumni Reception in the evening. They had awesome food this year. Kudos!
Tuesday, 23 Oct
Poster Session III
Those of most interest to me:
Searching for Books and Images in OPAC: Effects of LCSH, TOC and Subject Domains. Youngok Choi, Ingrid Hsieh-Yee and Bill Kules (Catholic U of America)
Tagging and Findability: Do [...]

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Sunday, Oct 21
Who Is Tagging Information? - Edward C. Lomax (Georgia State U), Hsin-liang “Oliver” Chen (U of MO-Columbia), and June Abbas (SUNY-Buffalo).
Lomax spoke about Social Tagging in K-12 Education; Chen spoke about Social Tagging and Newspapers; Abbas spoke about Tagging and Libraries and Museums.
The panel was down two members so that had some impact [...]

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This was an all-day workshop focusing “on the enduring aspects of classification/subject analysis and the presence of those aspects in commonly used methods, especially those we encounter in our daily lives” (program). Papers are available in DLIST.
Welcome from Joan Lussky, Program Chair.
Keynote, Hope Olson, “Cultural infrastructure: the story of how classification came to shape our [...]

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It’s Sunday morning and I’ve been in Milwaukee since Friday evening. Had a longish, but nice drive up with fellow student Tom Dousa. Lots of great conversation and if I could only remember 10% it would be most useful. Of course, the most useful 10% would be even better. Tom is incredibly brilliant and [...]

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Saturday, 13 Oct
Goody, Jack. The Interface Between the Written and the Oral. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Preface
Ch. 1: The historical development of writing (Sat-Sun)

Highly recommended by Dr. Hjørland in several places.
Chen, Hsinchun. “Semantics Issues for Digital Libraries.” In Harum and Twidale, Eds. Successes & Failures of Digital Libraries. 35th Annual Clinic on Library Applications [...]

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Saturday, 6 Oct
Harris, Roy, and George Wolf, eds. Integrational Linguistics: A First Reader. 1st ed, Kidlington, Oxford, UK: Pergamon, 1998.

Ch. 9: Hutton, Christopher. “Meaning and the Principe of Linearity.”

Sunday, 7 Oct
Green, Rebecca, Carol A. Bean and Michèle Hudon, “Universality and Basic Level Concepts.” In López-Huertas, Mariá, and International Society for Knowledge Organization. Challenges in knowledge [...]

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[This was started and mostly finished early Friday morning, with some additions Saturday morning.]
Things are normal here—great in some areas, horrible in others.
I am almost completely exhausted after Dr. Hjørland’s visit (more in a moment). I have not been sleeping well, and despite it going well it has been a strain. I have come home [...]

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