Off the Mark

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 all a [...]

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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 is on [...]

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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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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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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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It’s Sunday morning and I’ve been in Milwaukee since Friday evening. Had a longish, but nice drive up with fellow student Tom Dousa. Lots of great conversation and if I could only remember 10% it would be most useful. Of course, the most useful 10% would be even better. Tom is incredibly brilliant and [...]

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[This was started and mostly finished early Friday morning, with some additions Saturday morning.]
Things are normal here—great in some areas, horrible in others.
I am almost completely exhausted after Dr. Hjørland’s visit (more in a moment). I have not been sleeping well, and despite it going well it has been a strain. I have come home [...]

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