Off the Mark

Late last year I decided to participate in a reading challenge (2007 TBR) that I found at Joy Weese Moll’s blog, Wanderings of an online librarian. I generally don’t do these sorts of things but when I had looked back over 2006 at the hundreds of article I had read I found that I had [...]

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Plenary: Issues in Knowledge Organization Research: An Interactive Panel Discussion. Joe Tennis, moderator.
Tennis’ intro:
Do we all come with the same purpose?
Dow we all come with the same conceptualization of the problem space?

James Turner, Professor, University of Montreal.
Clare Beghtol, Professor, University of Toronto.
Jens-Erik Mai, Professor and Vice Dean, University of Toronto.

James Turner
Initial comments were on papers [...]

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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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Last Wednesday morning I headed out for Toronto, Canada with my advisor, Kathryn La Barre, for the North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization, June 14-15, 2007.
The conference was Thursday afternoon and all day Friday with approximately 40 people in attendance. Big names, little names, old names, young names, academics (mostly), corporate folks, those in various [...]

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Let me just state for the record: As much as I will miss all my friends who will be at ALA (including the wholesale category I forgot when I was making decisions) and as much as I wish I had been able to accept the offer to be on a panel discussion of a topic [...]

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