habitually probing generalist

The What
Wednesday afternoon I posted the following to my facebook status:
I have recently instituted a personal goal of trying to catch up with at least 1 interesting person a week (or so) just to see what’s rockin’ their (LIS) world, whether there are any areas of overlapping interest, if we can challenge/cheer each other on [...]

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Twice in the last week I have been disappeared from assorted campus directories.
Recently the Library debuted a new website for staff, including a new personnel directory. The personnel directory is available in 3 versions (that I noticed): Faculty by name, Staff by name, and by Department. I was in the old directory. I have been [...]

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In Vancouver, BC for ASIST 2009 Annual Meeting: Thriving on Diversity: Information Opportunities in a Pluralistic World.
Today is the 20th SIG-CR (Classification Research) Workshop: Bridging Worlds, Connecting People: Classification Transcending Boundaries.
1st session, which I’m in now, is titled: Crossing Cultural Boundaries: Indigenous Knowledge Organization. Moderator: Hope Olson. Papers are: Language, Text and Knowledge Organization: One [...]

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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 assorted, of Slavic languages [...]

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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 blogging at [...]

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He’s incommunicado
No comment to make
He’s saying nothing at all
Yeah but in the communique
You know he’s gonna come clean
…
[Communique - Dire Straits]
Seems I don’t have much to say anymore. We’ve all read of the death of blogging. The move to Friendfeed and Twitter. XYZ.
None of those are entirely true. I have plenty to say and a [...]

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I am at The Ethics of Information Organization conference in Milwaukee for the next two days and I am really looking forward to the presentations.
Hopefully I will find time to blog about this soon; unlike so many other things. With any luck the conference site will have wireless available. It is in the public library. [...]

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Not sure where this blog is going this year. I said some things last year about where I wanted to take it / thought it might go and it got nowhere near any of those places.
I read through all of my posts for 2008 on the 1st and 2nd. Wow! What a year! Talk about [...]

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[Update 3 Nov 2008: Just uploaded a revised PPT with updated Notes which are much closer to what I spoke from. Although, they clearly are not what I said verbatim.]
ASIS&T is going well.  I arrived late Saturday afternoon in Columbus (OH) and am getting along fine with my roommate whom I met over the Internet [...]

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I’m still a little unsure since I do not have confirmation from the Board of Trustees—which is the official notice of employment—but based on my acceptance of the draft offer letter last Friday and receipt of the formal offer letter Tuesday I have a professional position. For a while anyway.
As of Monday, 6 October, I [...]

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