Off the Mark

… but broken for much longer.
This blog, Off the Mark, is 2 years old today. I shall refrain from calling it an anniversary, as such, since last year we sort of decided that my blogging anniversary ought to be from the start of my 1st public blog, …the thoughts are broken…, which debuted in January [...]

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Sunday, 10 Feb 2008
Maxwell, Robert L. 2008. FRBR: A Guide for the Perplexed. Chicago: American Library Association.
 
Most of the holdup on this post was in trying to get good comments on this down. I cannot finish them right now, though, so I have cut what I did write and moved it to a separate [...]

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Sunday, 4 Nov
Romero Guillém, María Dolores. “Graeco-Latin vocabulary in ESP texts and its pedagogical implications.” In Inchaurralde, Carlos (Ed.) Perspectives on Semantics and Specialised Languages. Universidad de Zaragoza, Departamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana, 1994: 285-293.
Green Rebecca. “Conceptual Universals in Knowledge Organization and Representation.” [Keynote Address] In López-Huertas, María J. Challenges in Knowledge Representation [...]

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Sunday, 2 Sep
Bade, David. “I Know Where I Am Going, Do You?” Remarks at the ALCTS Serials Section, Continuing Resources Cataloging Committee, Update Forum “Continuing Resources Cataloging: Where in the World Are We Going?” ALA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, June 25, 2007. [pdf available at E-LIS]
You folks do have the E-LIS feed in your readers [...]

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Sunday - Monday, 15 - 16 Jul
Allgood, Julian Everett. “Serials and Multiple Versions, or the Inexorable Trend towards Work-Level Displays.” Library Resources & Technical Services 51 (3), July 2007: 160-178.
Monday, 16 Jul
Crawford, Walt. First Have Something to Say: Writing for the Library Profession. Chicago: American Library Association, 2003.
Read chaps. 1-6
Nhat Hanh, Thich. Peace is [...]

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Conference photos here. More touristy photos here [includes some conference attendees]. Everyone’s photos here [which means jennimi and me.]
Rebecca Green has a much better synopsis than I will produce at 025.431: The Dewy Blog.
Plenary: Issues in Knowledge Organization Research: An Interactive Panel Discussion. Joe Tennis, moderator.

James Turner, Professor, University of Montreal.
Clare Beghtol, Professor, University of [...]

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Possibly another light week due to all-day on campus class (Topic Maps begins) and travel to Toronto for NASKO.
Sunday, 10 Jun
Van de Sompel, Herbert and Oren Beit-Arie. “Generalizing the OpenURL Framework beyond References to Scholarly Works.” D-Lib Magazine 7 (7/8) July/August 2001.
Pepper, Steve. The TAO of Topic Maps: Finding the Way in the Age of [...]

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This past weekend I attended my first North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) conference (their 22nd) in Louisville, KY.
It was fun, interesting, and casual. I rode down and stayed with Steve Oberg, who I found out (from someone else) once we got there is a Past President of NASIG. Actually, over the course of [...]

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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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Jennifer Bowen - Head of Cataloging, University of Rochester, and of one the co-principal investigators on the eXtensbile Catalog (XC) project
Recently stepped down as the American Library Association representative to the Joint Steering Committee for the Revision of Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules; i.e., RDA.
[Arrived back from lunch a few minutes late and thus missed Jennifer's [...]

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