habitually probing generalist

In Fall 2005 I took a class with Prof. Chip Bruce on Pragmatic Technology. One of our assignments was to: Produce an analysis of one keyword of your choice (see Raymond Williams, Keywords A vocabulary of culture and society. Revised edition. New York: Oxford University Press) for examples. This keyword is not just an index [...]

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Biggs, M. (1991). The Role of Research in the Development of a Profession or a Discipline. In C. McClure & P. Hernon (Eds.), Library and information science research : perspectives and strategies for improvement, Information management, policy, and services (pp. 72-84). Norwood  N.J.: Ablex Pub. Corp. Read 19 October 2010 Argues that “Librarianship is neither [...]

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Green, R. (1991). The Profession’s Models of Information: A Cognitive Linguistic Analysis. Journal of Documentation, 47(2), 130-148. I read this at the coffee shop one morning a couple of weeks ago and, as usual, was quite impressed. She shows that a model of communication is mandatory for information science but that one of information seeking [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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