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Some things read this week, 4 - 10 May 2008

May 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Sunday - Saturday, 4 - 10 May 2008

Wilson, Patrick. 1968. Two Kinds of Power : an Essay on Bibliographical Control. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Ch. III : Relevance (Sun)
Ch. IV : Bibliographical Instruments and Their Specifications (Mon)
Ch. V : Subjects and the Sense of Position (Wed)
Ch. VI : Indexing, Coupling, Hunting (Thu)
Ch. VII : Consultants [...]

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Tags: Articles · Books · Food and Drink · Librariana · Relevance

Shh!

May 13th, 2008 · 6 Comments

I got a quick IM from a friend the other night wondering how I was doing as I have been quiet lately.
Yes. Yes I have.
There are a lot of reasons for this. Some of it is lack of time to do all the things I’d like to. There are probably other reasons, too, in certain [...]

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Some things read this week, 27 April - 3 May 2008

May 6th, 2008 · 4 Comments

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

Integrating LIS : My LIS511 Bibliography and Essay

April 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Anyone who has read my blog for more than a few months knows that I took Bibliography with Dr. Krummel last Fall. My project in that class was a short bibliographical essay and an annotated bibliography on the connections between Roy Harris and Birger Hjørland in preparation for my capstone CAS paper.
Recently I converted the [...]

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Tags: Bibliography · CAS Project · Education · Language and word issues · Librariana · My Life · Philosophy

Some things read this week, 20 - 26 April 2008

April 27th, 2008 · No Comments

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

Some things read this week, 13 - 19 April 2008

April 22nd, 2008 · 2 Comments

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 have I been up to?

April 20th, 2008 · 3 Comments

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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Some things read this week, 6 - 12 April 2008

April 13th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Some things read this week, 30 March - 5 April 2008

April 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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

Some things read this week, 23 - 29 March 2008

March 30th, 2008 · No Comments

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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