Off the Mark

Welcome new readers
On the 14th of Jan, Blake posted a story at LISNews, The LINews 10 Blogs To Read in 2008. My lowly little blog was included in that list. I have at least 29 new readers in Bloglines, which means, perhaps, 80-120 total new readers since then. Of course, the fact that the list [...]

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Sunday, 20 Jan 2008
Hjørland, B., & Albrechtsen, H. (1995). Toward a New Horizon in Information Science: Domain-Analysis. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 46, 400-425.
Re-read for bibliography.
Monday, 21 Jan 2008
Liddy, Elizabeth D. “Natural Language Processing for Information Retrieval and Knowledge Discovery.” In Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, and University [...]

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Back in December, a few days before the deadline passed for comments on the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, I wrote a post called just that.
In it I expressed much frustration; with both the big picture issues facing bibliographic control and those of my daily frustration in trying to [...]

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Back in August 2005, Joy Weese Moll started a movement to identify the MLS student bloggers, which also led to many questions and discussions. Nowadays we have a Ning to hang out in.
I think it is time for a new list and some more questions. Who are the blogging LIS educators? Why are there [...]

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One of my co-workers is upset with me due to their perceiving a lack of interest on my part in their little corner of the world. This person’s little corner of the LIS world is even something which ought to be of interest to me since it is beginning to show up on more and [...]

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Truthfully, I will not be addressing that directly as such. Much more oblique will be my comments.
But first some initial resources:

Martin Luther King Day at Wikipedia
High as the Listening Skies, Loud as the Rolling Sea at Ramblings by Laura Crossett.
Search Engines Commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day via Resource Shelf.

Five years ago today—well, it was [...]

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Sunday, 13 Jan 2008
Toolan, Michael. 1997. A Few Words on Telementation. Language Sciences 19, no. 1:79-91.
I had read this before (28 Oct 07) as it is in: Harris, Roy, and George Wolf, eds. Integrational Linguistics: A First Reader. 1st ed, Kidlington, Oxford, UK: Pergamon, 1998.
Sunday - Monday, 13 - 14 Jan 2008
Harris, Roy, ed. 2002. [...]

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Officially, I am registered for one 8-hour “class” this semester, LIS593 CAS Project.
Individual study of a problem in library or information science; forms the culmination of the Certificate of Advanced Study program. Only 8 hours will apply to the CAS degree [catalog].
As to what I’m doing there pick pretty much any post from last year, [...]

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Don’t worry … I’m not looking for a new name for this wittily named blog (wasn’t christened by me anyway ). I’m starting a 2nd blog and no worries. I am not breaking my thoughts here, either. This is nt a professional/other stuff split like has been discussed here before from assorted angles.
My intention [...]

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The LISNews 10 Blogs To Read In 2008
Kirsten gets the credit for bringing me the news.
Congratulations to all the outstanding company I found myself amongst. Wow!
Thanks Blake and the perhaps one person who nominated me!
I really love the write-up Blake gave me. If those aren’t your reasons, and you have [...]

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