habitually probing generalist

[This post title is, for me, multi-meta in that it refers to several things.] It has been a long time since I’ve been here. Part of me is sad about this fact and part of me thinks that is just fine. A lot has happened since I last wrote here: I quit my job as [...]

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In Vancouver, BC for ASIST 2009 Annual Meeting: Thriving on Diversity: Information Opportunities in a Pluralistic World. Today is the 20th SIG-CR (Classification Research) Workshop: Bridging Worlds, Connecting People: Classification Transcending Boundaries. 1st session, which I’m in now, is titled: Crossing Cultural Boundaries: Indigenous Knowledge Organization. Moderator: Hope Olson. Papers are: Language, Text and Knowledge [...]

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Change of blog name I have changed the name of my blog. Again. This time it should not break any of the Internet nor should you need to change feeds; I hope. 3 years ago tomorrow I moved my blog to WordPress and renamed it Off the Mark. This was after a few years of [...]

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[Update 3 Nov 2008: Just uploaded a revised PPT with updated Notes which are much closer to what I spoke from. Although, they clearly are not what I said verbatim.] ASIS&T is going well.  I arrived late Saturday afternoon in Columbus (OH) and am getting along fine with my roommate whom I met over the [...]

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Today is Christina Pikas’ (of Christina’s LIS Rant) birthday.  Seeing as I’ll be seeing her in pretty much exactly a month at ASIS&T and she’ll be able to personally kick me for this, I decided to write her a little birthday ditty. Tis just a wee fuss for my friend Pikas I awoke this morning [...]

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Is anyone looking for a roommate for ASIS&T 2008 in Columbus, OH this October? I am a reasonably quiet, non-smoking, male, old enough not to be partying late into the night. Sharing a room is pretty much a necessity since I’m still a student, work for hourly pay and the entire cost of the conference [...]

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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 [...]

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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; [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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