Entries Tagged as '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
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
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
Sunday – Friday, 13 – 18 Apr 2008
2007. Running & Philosophy: A Marathon for the Mind. Malden: Blackwell Pub.
Ch. 6 : Running Religiously by Jeffrey P. Fry (Sun)
Ch. 7 : Hash Runners and Hellenistic Philosophers by Richard DeWitt (Mon)
Ch. 8 : A Runner’s Pain (Mon)
Ch. 9 : What Motivates an Early Morning Runner? [...]
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Tags: Articles · Books · Cataloging · Communication · Librariana · Literature · Morality · My Life · Philosophy
What a question. I feel like I need a recap of some of it myself sometimes.
I hope to have some semi-substantial blog posts and/or Flickr sets for some of these but I’d like to get them mentioned before they all become old news.
[some kind of division]
Been watching a fair few movies, started running (4x 5x [...]
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Tags: ASIS&T Annual Meeting · ASIST · Articles · Books · Cataloging · Conversation · Education · Family · Film · Flickr · Food and Drink · Friends · GSLIS · Job search · Librariana · Military and War · My Life · UIUC
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
Note: Not that it matters to anyone but me but my chronology may be a bit off due to Comcast pretty much taking over my life for most of this week and the end of the last one.
Sunday – Thursday, 30 Mar – 3 Apr 2008
Budd, J. (2008). Self-Examination: The Present and Future of Librarianship. [...]
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Tags: Articles · Bibliography · Books · Cataloging · Classification · Language and word issues · Librariana · Ontologies · Relationships · Theory · Vocabularies
March 30th, 2008 · Comments Off
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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Tags: Articles · Authority Control · Books · CAS Project · Cataloging · Classification · Information Retrieval · Language and word issues · Librariana · Literature · Metadata · Morality · My Life · Philosophy · Relationships · Society · Theory · Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control
Sunday, 9 Mar 2008
Smith, L. C. (1981). ‘Memex’ as an image of potentiality in information retrieval research and development In , Proceedings of the 3rd annual ACM conference on Research and development in information retrieval (pp. 345-369). Cambridge, England: Butterworth & Co.
Linda cited this article when talking about her research on a panel discussion we [...]
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March 2nd, 2008 · Comments Off
Monday, 25 Feb 2008
White, Alan R. Introduction. In White, Alan R, ed. 1968. The Philosophy of Action. London: Oxford University Press.
This edited volume on the philosophy of action includes articles by J. L. Austin, Danto, Davidson, Anscombe, and others (some classics). I probably won’t read much more of it and I think I grabbed [...]
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