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How not to train someone is Slavic or Cyrillic cataloging

October 17th, 2009 · 4 Comments

Please consider this a sort of thought experiment. And, please, I beg you, do not do this to any one!
Need to either train or assist someone in training themselves to do Slavic/Cyrillic cataloging?
Do NOT:

dump, without warning, a cataloger of Western European languages into Slavic/Cyrillic cataloging.
give them, willy-nilly, a complete mixture, randomly assorted, of Slavic languages [...]

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Tags: Cataloging · Language and word issues · Librariana

habitually probing generalist

July 19th, 2009 · 6 Comments

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 blogging at [...]

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Tags: ASIS&T Annual Meeting · ASIST · CAS Project · Communication · Conferences · Education · GSLIS · Language and word issues · Librariana · My Life · UIUC · WordPress

O, most frabjous day

July 8th, 2008 · 6 Comments

Things have sort of “settled down” around here; here being the blog. Related things in my daily life got “interesting” and have only progressed. Today was a most enlightening day. [Yes, Christina, that "interesting" was purposefully vague, and for you.  ]
Wow. What to say, or not say? Been working on this for a [...]

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Tags: Communication · Education · Friends · Language and word issues · Librariana · My Life · Professionalism · UIUC

Wordle memelet

June 26th, 2008 · Comments Off

After seeing several posts about Wordle I finally decided to play. The easiest thing for me to play with were my del.icio.us tags. Even these are not entirely representative or, I should say, not accurately representative.
Based on previous (faulty) workflow, it is the case that there are hundreds of posts in Bloglines that I commented [...]

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Tags: Education · Games · Language and word issues · Librariana · My Life · Web/Tech · WordPress

I am a failure

June 19th, 2008 · Comments Off

I have come to realize that I am a failure at the professional role that I have been trying to adopt for the last several years.  It is one which, in many ways, I am perfectly suited for.  For instance, I can shoot holes in most any argument presented by most anyone, preferably with the [...]

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Tags: Communication · Conversation · Language and word issues · Librariana · Morality · My Life · Professionalism · Work

Some things read this week, 11 – 17 May 2008

May 18th, 2008 · Comments Off

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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Tags: Articles · Books · CAS Project · Communication · Language and word issues · My Life

Some things read this week, 27 April – 3 May 2008

May 6th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Saturday – Sunday, 26 – 27 April 2008
Abbott, Andrew. (2008). “Library Research and Its Infrastructure in the Twentieth Century.” Spring 2008 Windsor Lecture, 12 March 2008
Read the pdf, below. [Note: Audio in Real format.]
Windsor Lecture Series
“Library Research and Its Infrastructure in the Twentieth Century”
Dr. Andrew Abbott, University of Chicago
PDF format | audio recorded 3/12/2008
Sorry. Taking [...]

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Tags: Articles · Books · Cataloging · Classification · Information Retrieval · Language and word issues · Librariana · My Life · Philosophy · Theory

Integrating LIS : My LIS511 Bibliography and Essay

April 29th, 2008 · Comments Off

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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Tags: Bibliography · CAS Project · Education · Language and word issues · Librariana · My Life · Philosophy

Some things read this week, 20 – 26 April 2008

April 27th, 2008 · Comments Off

Sunday – Thursday, 20 – 24 Apr 2008

Lodge, David. 1992. Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses. New York: Penguin Books.

Wasn’t sure if I was going to continue this but I read it on and off on Sunday and made a big dent at dinner in the Alley on Monday. I’m 66% [...]

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Tags: Articles · Books · Cataloging · Classification · Information · Language and word issues · Librariana · Morality · My Life · Ontologies · Philosophy · Theory

Some things read this week, 6 – 12 April 2008

April 13th, 2008 · Comments Off

Sunday, 6 Apr 2008

Chan, Lois Mai. 1977. Alphabetical arrangement and subject collocation in Library of Congress Subject Headings. Library Resources & Technical Services 21, no. 2:156-169.

Read this for Tom’s presentation/discussion of his project this coming Tuesday (see Tom’s bibliography mentioned last week).

Marshall, Linnea. 2003. Specific and generic subject headings: increasing subject access to [...]

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Tags: Articles · Books · Cataloging · Communication · Education · Language and word issues · Librariana · Sports · Vocabularies