Off the Mark

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 […]

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Anyone who has read my blog for more than a few months knows that I took Bibliography with Dr. Krummel last Fall. My project in that class was a short bibliographical essay and an annotated bibliography on the connections between Roy Harris and Birger Hjørland in preparation for my capstone CAS paper.
Recently I converted the […]

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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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Atlanta’s a distant memory
Montgomery a recent blur
and Tulsa burns on the desert floor
like a signal fire
I got Willie on the radio
a dozen things on my mind
and number one is fleshing out
these dreams of mine
Cowboy Junkies — 200 More Miles
A little over a week ago I wrote to a handful of those I consider myself […]

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Sunday, 2 Mar 2008
Toolan, M. J. (1996). Total speech: an integrational linguistic approach to language, Post-contemporary interventions., 337. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press.

Read Ch. 4: Further Principles of Integrational Linguistics, or, On Not Losing Sight of the Language User

 
Sunday - Friday, 2 - 7 Mar 2008
 
Aitchison, J. (2003). Linguistics, Teach yourself. (6th ed), 257. […]

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Sunday, 17 Feb 2008
 
Decker, S. et al. 2000. The Semantic Web: the roles of XML and RDF. Internet Computing, IEEE 4, no. 5:63-73.
 

For Ontology Development.

 
Monday - Friday, 18 - 22 Feb 2008
 
 
Harris, Roy, and Indian Institute of Advanced Study. 2003. History, Science, and the Limits of Language : an Integrationist Approach. Shimla: Indian Institute of […]

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The end approaches and Tuesday I spent preparing for it.
A few weeks ago I sent in a petition to the Grad College to move my “additional” 2 hours from my MS (42 vs. 40-required) to my CAS. That was approved last Friday (Feb 1st).
Seeing as I had 72 completed hours that put me at […]

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Sunday, 27 Jan 2008
Nonmonotonic Logic. Leora Morgenstern. MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science.
Suggested by fellow classmate Tom Dousha for additional elucidation for Ontologies Development. Highly understandable resource for non-experts in logic, although having a basic grasp probably helps.
Sunday - Wednesday, 27 - 30 Jan 2008
Harris, Roy, and International Association for the Integrational Study of Language and […]

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Sunday, 13 Jan 2008
Toolan, Michael. 1997. A Few Words on Telementation. Language Sciences 19, no. 1:79-91.
I had read this before (28 Oct 07) as it is in: Harris, Roy, and George Wolf, eds. Integrational Linguistics: A First Reader. 1st ed, Kidlington, Oxford, UK: Pergamon, 1998.
Sunday - Monday, 13 - 14 Jan 2008
Harris, Roy, ed. 2002. […]

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Officially, I am registered for one 8-hour “class” this semester, LIS593 CAS Project.
Individual study of a problem in library or information science; forms the culmination of the Certificate of Advanced Study program. Only 8 hours will apply to the CAS degree [catalog].
As to what I’m doing there pick pretty much any post from last year, […]

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