Monday - Tuesday, 12 - 13 May 2008
Budd, John. 1992. The Library and Its Users: The Communication Process. New York: Greenwood Press.
Got back to this finally.
- Finished ch. 4 : The Library in the Communication Process
- Ch. 5 : The Librarian in the Communication Process
- Ch. 6 : Noise
- Ch. 7 : Conclusion
Finished this Monday, started back on it about a week ago I think. Not particularly interested in commenting on it right now.
Barnes, Bill. 2007. Read Responsibly: An Unshelved Collection. Seattle, Wash: Overdue Media LLC.
Actually read over the past week or so.
Tuesday, 13 May 2008
Fallis, Don. 2001. Social epistemology and LIS: how to clarify our epistemic objectives. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science, Ed. D. Grant Campbell, 175-183, Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec http://www.cais-acsi.ca/proceedings/2001/fallis_2001.pdf (Accessed May 4, 2008).
Discusses how social epistemology (You have read Egan and Shera 1952 haven’t you?) can help decide what the proper objectives are for library and information services. If the idea of social epistemology is new to you then this is an excellent short read with a few key sources in the bibliography.
Tuesday - Saturday, 13 - 17 May 2008
Harris, Roy. 1996. Signs, Language, and Communication : Integrational and Segregational Approaches. London; New York: Routledge.
Started this one over; had only read the preface and first 2 chapters back in March. This is one of 2 books that I really need to read and absorb before I write my CAS paper. Anything else is probably gravy, or even excessive, but this and the other are pretty much foundational.
- Ch. 2 : Before communication (Wed)
- Ch. 3 : Communication and choice (Thu)
- Ch. 4 : Communication and intention (Fri-Sat)
Wednesday, 14 May 2008
Meadow, Charles T. 1999. Information retrieval–a view of its past, present, and future. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science, 190-196, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec http://www.cais-acsi.ca/proceedings/1999/meadow_1999.pdf (Accessed May 4, 2008).
A short history of information retrieval. Kind of hard to evaluate at this point in history but it seems pretty fluffy and while not poorly written it is not well written either.
As much as I do not like claims of the “this is the kind of thing every LIS student should know before they graduate” kind this seems to be to be such. I have no doubt that many don’t, especially those oriented towards reference, and children/youth/adult services. If ALA were doing its job in accreditation then it would be something any newly graduated librarian ought to be able to spout off off the top of their head.
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