Off the Mark

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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Except this is no game to me.
I seem to be really struggling with writing my bibliographical essay and bibliography (primarily as an ancillary issue). I have realized that this is vastly new writing territory for me. There are, in fact, several pieces of writing by me of which I am particularly proud. Many of these [...]

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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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Saturday, 13 Oct
Goody, Jack. The Interface Between the Written and the Oral. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Preface
Ch. 1: The historical development of writing (Sat-Sun)

Highly recommended by Dr. Hjørland in several places.
Chen, Hsinchun. “Semantics Issues for Digital Libraries.” In Harum and Twidale, Eds. Successes & Failures of Digital Libraries. 35th Annual Clinic on Library Applications [...]

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How far down the rabbit holes can I fall, and can I then tunnel between them whilst still falling?
Do I deserve my “little ducklings” or would I be better served by spectators at my self-immolation?
I offer the ducklings/spectators the option of deciding for themselves and changing their minds as they see fit, just as I [...]

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… the wrong thing at the right time, or, perhaps, can it just be there are too many right things to do at overlapping right times?
I know I haven’t fully explicated my bibliography topic yet but a potential change has arisen already. This change is both negative and beneficial; as most changes are. [And as [...]

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Thursday - Sunday, 6 - 9 Sep
Capurro, Rafael and Birger Hjørland. “The Concept of Information.” ARIST 37, 2003: 343-411.
This is an excellent and lengthy review article on the concept of information. It is much broader in coverage than just IS, though, looking also at the concept interdisciplinarily and, in specific, in the natural sciences, the [...]

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Information
What the hell is it? What has been thought about it? How has it been theorized? In which disciplines has it been used as a concept? Do we even need it as a theoretical concept? Might we be better of without it?
It seems that I have acquired another area of deep interest. Perhaps some of [...]

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Sunday, 20 May
Harris, Roy. The Language Machine. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987.
Read chap. 4-5, but over 2 separate occasions.
Jacob, Elin K. “Communication and Category Structure: The Communicative Process as a Constraint on the Semantic Representation of Information.” Advances in Classification Research, Vol. 4. Proceedings of the 4th SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop, held at [...]

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This morning I actually got fresh, hot cookies straight from the oven for the 1st time in almost two years! I stepped into The Cookie Jar and saw that there weren’t any chocolate chip with walnut cookies and was immediately disheartened. Then I realized I was in a bit early and just perhaps….
Ed, the [...]

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