habitually probing generalist

Thought I’d post a little update regarding my plans for fall. First, a quick update on where I am currently. Update My hours at the BCU library were bumped up to 6 (from 5) hours/week so I could take on a weeding project of my own. I had already cataloged the backlog and current acquisitions [...]

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I thought I’d bring folks up-to-date on what I’m doing work-wise. Since mid-September 2010 I have been working 5 hours/week as a feral cataloger at Briar Cliff University’s Bishop Mueller Library. Technically, I am an independent contractor, not an employee. The majority of what I do is copy cataloging,  although I have derived a couple [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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% of [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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