habitually probing generalist

I have decided that I will not write my thesis and thus will not finish my Certificate of Advanced Study (CAS) from UIUC. Earlier this morning I emailed my Dean, who is also my advisor, with my decision. As some of you know, circumstances arose almost exactly 3 years ago that, at the time, I [...]

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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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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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This is my 2nd book review for 12 Books, 12 Months Challenge although it is the 3rd book I’ve finished. I’ll be writing some comments on the other book shortly. Lakoff, George, and Mark Turner. 1989. More than Cool Reason : a Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. I thoroughly enjoyed [...]

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Tuominen, Kimmo, Reijo Savolainen, and Sanna Talja. 2005. Information Literacy as a Sociotechnical Practice. The Library Quarterly 75, no. 3 (July 1): 329-345. doi:10.1086/497311. I found this article on the main page of Library Quarterly‘s website as one of the most cited when I went looking for Archie Dick’s 1988 article on epistemologies in LIS [...]

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McNeill, William Hardy. 1986. Mythistory and Other Essays. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. I read this book over the last 9 days and I loved it.  I have previously read one other McNeill book and have had another that I have meant to read.  The other book was The Pursuit of Power and I read [...]

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Yesterday I finished reading Walt Crawford’s “Zeitgeist: hypePad” article in the newest Cites & Insights. Walt did a fine job of summarizing a lot of blowhards and a few sane persons. But. The further along I got the stronger my apprehension got. Was Walt going to notice something I was noticing or was he buying [...]

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As April is National Poetry Month, April is also National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo) [or see Wikipedia]. We have a good friend who has committed to NaPoWriMo and her email alerting us to this and to the blog she will be using to do so awakened our thoughts. So this morning Sara and I decided [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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