Off the Mark

Saturday - Sunday, 22 - 23 Mar 2008
Mann, T. (2008). “On the Record” but Off the Track” a review of the Report of The Library of Congress Working Group on The Future of Bibliographic Control, with a further examination of Library of Congress cataloging tendencies. , 38. Washington, DC: AFSCME 2910. Retrieved from http://www.guild2910.org/WorkingGrpResponse2008.pdf.
Sunday, 23 [...]

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Saturday, 12 May [due to early posting last week]
Paglia, Camille. Break, blow, burn. 2005. Read:

Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself” [a snippet]
Emily Dickinson, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Emily Dickinson, “Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers”

Tuesday, 15 May
Ward, Jewel. “Unqualified Dublin Core Usage in OAI-PMH Providers.” OCLC Systems & Services: International Digital Library Perspectives 20 (1), [...]

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I was quite disappointed with the amount [not the quality] of public testimony. I did not work up anything to say as I figured that there would be many people far more “qualified” than me jostling for room at the microphone. Sadly, that was not the case. The 3 hours set aside for public testimony [...]

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Sunday, 6 May 2007
Ingwersen, Peter and Peter Willett. “An Introduction to Algorithmic and Cognitive Approaches for Information Retrieval.” Libri 45 (3/4), Sep/Dec 1995:160-177.
Cited by Radford, Gary P. and Marie L. Radford. “Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, and the Library: de Saussure and Foucault.” Journal of Documentation 61 (1) 2005: 60-78. DOI 10.1108/00220410510578014 Read back in late Jan.
Post-structuralist [...]

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Sunday, 15 April 2007
The first 3 items are from my Bloglines backlog and are all also from the wonderful 3 Quarks Daily.
Smith, Justin E. H. “Selected minor works: Where’s the philosophy?” 8 May 2006
This is absolutely brilliant and if I start quoting it I’ll just have to reproduce the whole thing. So just go read [...]

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Sickness and death
Been having odd sick-like things going on for a couple months now. Went to the doc last week. Sinus x-rays showed an infection and I’m a third of the way through 20 days of antibiotics. My electrolytes were also off and I had to have them retested. Go back Monday [...]

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Sunday, 4 Mar
Zeng, Marcia L. and Yu Chen. (2003) “Features of an integrated thesaurus management and search system for the networked environment.” In McIlwaine, I. C., Subject retrieval in a networked environment: Proceedings of the IFLA Satellite Meeting held in Dublin, OH 14-16 August 2001 and sponsored by the IFLA Classification and Indexing Section, the [...]

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got a garden of songs
where i grow all my thoughts
wish i could harvest one or two
for some small talk
seems like i’m starving for words
whenever you’re around
nothing on my tongue
and so much in the ground
nothing on my tongue
and so much in the ground
Ani DiFranco. “this bouquet.” Not A Pretty Girl.

Looking back at the [...]

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Saturday - Sunday, 24 - 25 Feb
Lakoff, George. Women, fire and dangerous things: What categories reveal about the mind. Chaps 6-8.
Sunday, 25 Feb
Vizine-Goetz, Diane. 2004. “Terminology services: Making knowledge organization schemes more accessible to people and computers.” OCLC Newsletter 266 (October/November/December). Available online from http://www.oclc.org/news/publications/newsletters/oclc/2004/266/ in either pdf (PDF:181K/1p.) or html formats.
Vizine-Goetz, Diane, Carol Hickey, [...]

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Sunday, 18 Feb
Section 5, “Review of current terminology service activity,” in Tudhope, Douglas, Traugott Koch and Rachel Heery. Terminology Services and Technology: JISC State of the Art Review [pdf version] Read for Independent Study.
Henson, Jim, The Muppets and Friends. It’s not easy being green and other things to consider. Reviewed by The Gypsy Librarian.
Don’t care [...]

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