habitually probing generalist

Katzer, Jeffrey. 1987. User studies, information science, and communication. Canadian Journal of Information Science 12, no. 3: 15-30. Argues that changes in technology, the economics of info systems, and previous research into information behavior is pushing information science to more complexity and predicts that it will become more like the field of communication. “What has [...]

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Tuominen, Kimmo, Reijo Savolainen, and Sanna Talja. 2005. Information Literacy as a Sociotechnical Practice. The Library Quarterly 75, no. 3 (July 1): 329-345. doi:10.1086/497311. I found this article on the main page of Library Quarterly‘s website as one of the most cited when I went looking for Archie Dick’s 1988 article on epistemologies in LIS [...]

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McGrath, William E. 2002. Explanation and Prediction: Building a Unified Theory of Librarianship, Concept and Review. Library Trends 50, no. 3 (Winter): 350-370. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/8420.   McGrath advocates that we need a Unified Theory of Librarianship and outlines what he considers to be “some of the traditional areas of concern to librarianship” which will have to [...]

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This blog used to have a “feature” entitled “Some Things Read This Week” but I ended it before my blogging dropped completely from sight. With no promises one way or the other I’d like to start blogging again about some of the things I read. As I said a couple of posts back: I am [...]

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The What Wednesday afternoon I posted the following to my facebook status: I have recently instituted a personal goal of trying to catch up with at least 1 interesting person a week (or so) just to see what’s rockin’ their (LIS) world, whether there are any areas of overlapping interest, if we can challenge/cheer each [...]

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Twice in the last week I have been disappeared from assorted campus directories. Recently the Library debuted a new website for staff, including a new personnel directory. The personnel directory is available in 3 versions (that I noticed): Faculty by name, Staff by name, and by Department. I was in the old directory. I have [...]

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In Vancouver, BC for ASIST 2009 Annual Meeting: Thriving on Diversity: Information Opportunities in a Pluralistic World. Today is the 20th SIG-CR (Classification Research) Workshop: Bridging Worlds, Connecting People: Classification Transcending Boundaries. 1st session, which I’m in now, is titled: Crossing Cultural Boundaries: Indigenous Knowledge Organization. Moderator: Hope Olson. Papers are: Language, Text and Knowledge [...]

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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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Change of blog name I have changed the name of my blog. Again. This time it should not break any of the Internet nor should you need to change feeds; I hope. 3 years ago tomorrow I moved my blog to WordPress and renamed it Off the Mark. This was after a few years of [...]

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He’s incommunicado No comment to make He’s saying nothing at all Yeah but in the communique You know he’s gonna come clean … [Communique - Dire Straits] Seems I don’t have much to say anymore. We’ve all read of the death of blogging. The move to Friendfeed and Twitter. XYZ. None of those are entirely [...]

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