habitually probing generalist

… 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 [...]

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Things have sort of “settled down” around here; here being the blog. Related things in my daily life got “interesting” and have only progressed. Today was a most enlightening day. [Yes, Christina, that "interesting" was purposefully vague, and for you.  ] Wow. What to say, or not say? Been working on this for a while [...]

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After seeing several posts about Wordle I finally decided to play. The easiest thing for me to play with were my del.icio.us tags. Even these are not entirely representative or, I should say, not accurately representative. Based on previous (faulty) workflow, it is the case that there are hundreds of posts in Bloglines that I [...]

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I have come to realize that I am a failure at the professional role that I have been trying to adopt for the last several years.  It is one which, in many ways, I am perfectly suited for.  For instance, I can shoot holes in most any argument presented by most anyone, preferably with the [...]

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Mark thinks Gorman had some important things to say, and that anyone who meets the core competencies could have said them. He’s also disingenuous and superficial. AKA my current Facebook status. I also figure I killed any chance of getting a job in the UIUC Library at this point. Ah well. I refuse to listen [...]

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Tomorrow, Wednesday, 18 June 2008, 2 – 3:30 PM Library Colloquium: Michael Gorman : Are Libraries Still Vital to Research? Why do we keep bringing him here? And, yes, I am well aware of his connection to UIUC. But, honestly, you’d think people might have outgrown him by now. Perhaps if more of our students [...]

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Sunday, 18 May 2008 Sutton, Michael J. D. 2001. Proposal for a provisional knowledge management taxonomy. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science, Ed. D. Grant Campbell, Vol. 255-266 of, Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec http://www.cais-acsi.ca/proceedings/2001/sutton_2001.pdf (Accessed May 4, 2008). Sunday – Monday, 18 – 19 May 2008 Harris, [...]

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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, [...]

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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, [...]

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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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