Off the Mark

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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Saturday - Sunday, 22 - 23 Mar 2008
Mann, T. (2008). “On the Record” but Off the Track” a review of the Report of The Library of Congress Working Group on The Future of Bibliographic Control, with a further examination of Library of Congress cataloging tendencies. , 38. Washington, DC: AFSCME 2910. Retrieved from http://www.guild2910.org/WorkingGrpResponse2008.pdf.
Sunday, 23 […]

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All week
DeLillo, D. (1986). White noise, Contemporary American fiction., 326. New York: Penguin Books.
 

I didn’t say it. The computer did. The whole system says it. It’s what we call a massive data-base tally. Gladney, J. A. K. I punch in the name, the substance, the exposure time and then I tap into your computer history. […]

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Sunday, 9 Mar 2008
Smith, L. C. (1981). ‘Memex’ as an image of potentiality in information retrieval research and development In , Proceedings of the 3rd annual ACM conference on Research and development in information retrieval (pp. 345-369). Cambridge, England: Butterworth & Co.
Linda cited this article when talking about her research on a panel discussion we […]

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Late last year I decided to participate in a reading challenge (2007 TBR) that I found at Joy Weese Moll’s blog, Wanderings of an online librarian. I generally don’t do these sorts of things but when I had looked back over 2006 at the hundreds of article I had read I found that I had […]

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Friday - Wednesday, 14 - 19 Dec 2007
Harris, Roy, and George Wolf, eds. Integrational Linguistics: A First Reader. 1st ed, Kidlington, Oxford, UK: Pergamon, 1998.

Ch. 16: Hutton, Christopher. “Analysis and Notation: The Case for a Non-Realist Linguistics.”
Ch. 17: Harris, Roy. “How Does Writing Restructure Thought?”
Ch. 18: Harris, Roy. “Writing and Proto-Writing: From Sign to Metasign.” […]

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Saturday, 12 May [due to early posting last week]
Paglia, Camille. Break, blow, burn. 2005. Read:

Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself” [a snippet]
Emily Dickinson, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Emily Dickinson, “Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers”

Tuesday, 15 May
Ward, Jewel. “Unqualified Dublin Core Usage in OAI-PMH Providers.” OCLC Systems & Services: International Digital Library Perspectives 20 (1), […]

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Sunday, 1 Apr 2007
Paglia, Camille. Break, blow, burn. 2005. Read:
William Blake, “The Chimney Sweeper”
William Blake, “London”
William Wordsworth, “The World Is Too Much With Us”
Babik, Wieslaw. “Terminology as a level for the compatibility of indexing languages. Some remarks.” Compatibility and Integration of Order Systems: Research Seminar Proceedings of the TIP/ISKO Meeting, Warsaw, 13-15 September 1995. Warsaw: […]

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Sunday, 25 Mar 2007
Schmitz-Esser, Winfried. “Language of general communication and concept compatibility.” Compatibility and Integration of Order Systems: Research Seminar Proceedings of the TIP/ISKO Meeting, Warsaw, 13-15 September 1995. Warsaw: Indeks-Verlag, 1996. 11-22.
This book is very difficult to get a hold of. I could have sworn that I had blogged about receiving this book […]

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Sunday, 18 Mar 2007
Machery, Edouard amd Luc Faucher. “Social construction and the concept of race.” Philosophy of Science 72 (5): Dec 2005 Proceedings of the 2004 Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part I Contributed Papers, ed. by Miriam Solomon: 1208-1219.
[BTW, if anyone noticed the discrepancy in my comment that I received this […]

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