Off the Mark

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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I wrote about this once before (last July) when it had begun but now the major announcement has gone out. If I hadn’t already known about it I would be downright giddy!
The University Library has digitized the following publication series from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science:
Allerton Park Institute Proceedings (1954-1997) [502 [...]

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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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Harris
At the start of break I found a treasure when I was down in the Basement West stacks looking for another “Harris book”: Harris. Roy. 1990. The Foundations of Linguistic Theory: Selected Writings of Roy Harris. Ed. Nigel Love. London: Routledge.
Actually, I found 2 treasures. The edited volume I had so far overlooked; I [...]

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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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Sunday, 28 Oct
Davis, Hayley, and Talbot J. Taylor, eds. Redefining Linguistics. London: Routledge, 1990.

Ch. 4: Talbot J. Taylor. Normativity and Linguistic Form. (Sat-Sun)
Ch.5: Paul Hopper. The Emergence of the Category ‘Proper Name’ in Discourse. (Sun)

The Taylor chapter was particularly excellent.
Zwicky, Arnold M. and Ann D. Zwicky. “Register as a Dimension of Linguistic Variation.” In [...]

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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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