Off the Mark

Anyone who has read my blog for more than a few months knows that I took Bibliography with Dr. Krummel last Fall. My project in that class was a short bibliographical essay and an annotated bibliography on the connections between Roy Harris and Birger Hjørland in preparation for my capstone CAS paper.
Recently I converted the [...]

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Sunday - Thursday, 20 - 24 Apr 2008

Lodge, David. 1992. Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses. New York: Penguin Books.

Wasn’t sure if I was going to continue this but I read it on and off on Sunday and made a big dent at dinner in the Alley on Monday. I’m 66% [...]

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Sunday - Friday, 13 - 18 Apr 2008

2007. Running & Philosophy: A Marathon for the Mind. Malden: Blackwell Pub.

Ch. 6 : Running Religiously by Jeffrey P. Fry (Sun)
Ch. 7 : Hash Runners and Hellenistic Philosophers by Richard DeWitt (Mon)
Ch. 8 : A Runner’s Pain (Mon)
Ch. 9 : What Motivates an Early Morning Runner? [...]

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What a question. I feel like I need a recap of some of it myself sometimes.
I hope to have some semi-substantial blog posts and/or Flickr sets for some of these but I’d like to get them mentioned before they all become old news.
[some kind of division]
Been watching a fair few movies, started running (4x 5x [...]

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Sunday, 6 Apr 2008

Chan, Lois Mai. 1977. Alphabetical arrangement and subject collocation in Library of Congress Subject Headings. Library Resources & Technical Services 21, no. 2:156-169.

Read this for Tom’s presentation/discussion of his project this coming Tuesday (see Tom’s bibliography mentioned last week).

Marshall, Linnea. 2003. Specific and generic subject headings: increasing subject access to [...]

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Harris, Roy. 1998. Introduction to Integrational Linguistics. 1st ed. Kidlington, Oxford, UK: Pergamon.
Harris, Roy, ed. 2002. The Language Myth in Western Culture. Richmond Surrey: Curzon.
Harris, Roy. 2005. The Semantics of Science. London: Continuum.
Harris, Roy, and Indian Institute of Advanced Study. 2003. History, Science, and the Limits of Language : an Integrationist Approach. Shimla: Indian [...]

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Of course I was planning on attending ASIS&T this year in Columbus, OH, but now I have an even better reason than simply because I enjoy it. Some friends (and real researchers) “roped me into” being on a panel and we just heard today that it was accepted.
“Tagging as a Communication Device: The Impact [...]

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I guess I ought to give some kind of update on my issues with Comcast. Honestly though, it’s all just highly demoralizing.
Let me start with the good. I do think that the local folks care. And the technician that came out—Will—spent about an hour here trying to get things working with both computers and with [...]

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Feel free to ignore this post. I am simply testing the new version of WP with the COinS generator plugin that I have been using.
One of the main things I checked after the upgrade was whether it was working. Past posts still showed the data and the draft of last week’s readings did, too. [...]

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Note: Not that it matters to anyone but me but my chronology may be a bit off due to Comcast pretty much taking over my life for most of this week and the end of the last one.
Sunday - Thursday, 30 Mar - 3 Apr 2008
Budd, J. (2008). Self-Examination: The Present and Future of Librarianship. [...]

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