habitually probing generalist

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 [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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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Sunday, 28 Oct Davis, Hayley, and Talbot J. Taylor, eds. Redefining Linguistics. London: Routledge, 1990. Ch. 4: Talbot J. Taylor. Normativity and Linguistic Form. (Sat-Sun) Ch.5: Paul Hopper. The Emergence of the Category ‘Proper Name’ in Discourse. (Sun) The Taylor chapter was particularly excellent. Zwicky, Arnold M. and Ann D. Zwicky. “Register as a Dimension [...]

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Sunday, Oct 21 Who Is Tagging Information? – Edward C. Lomax (Georgia State U), Hsin-liang “Oliver” Chen (U of MO-Columbia), and June Abbas (SUNY-Buffalo). Lomax spoke about Social Tagging in K-12 Education; Chen spoke about Social Tagging and Newspapers; Abbas spoke about Tagging and Libraries and Museums. The panel was down two members so that [...]

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Hjørland, Birger. “Semantics and Knowledge Organization.” ARIST 41 (2007): 367-405. Originally read 18 June 2007 because it was cited by Zhang, J. (2007). Ontology and the Semantic Web. Proceedings of the North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization. Vol. 1. Available: http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/1897 Re-read 28-29 Sep 2007 for two reasons: (1) Seems vastly relevant to my CAS [...]

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Sunday, 30 Sep van Rijsbergen, C. J. (1986). A new theoretical framework for information retrieval. Proceedings of the Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 194-200. Retrieved via ACM Portal. Cited by Hjørland (2007). Semantics and knowledge organization. ARIST 41: 370. A useful paper in that the author declares: I [...]

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Sunday, 5 Aug Gnoli, Claudio. “Progress in synthetic classification: Towards a unique definition of concepts.” UDC Seminar: The Hague: 4-5 June 2007. Preprint of the paper published in Extensions & corrections to the UDC, 29, 2007. Available at dLIST. Tuesday, 7 Aug Miksa, Shawne. “You Need My Metadata: Demonstrating the Value of Library Cataloging (A [...]

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Sunday, 1 Jul Uta Priss, “Associative and Formal Concepts,” Conceptual Structures: Integration and Interfaces, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, 2002, http://www.upriss.org.uk/papers/icc02.pdf (accessed July 1, 2007). Cited by Tennis (2005) “Experientialist Epistemology and Classification Theory: Embodied and Dimensional Classification.” Knowledge Organization 32 (2), 2005: 79-92. Read 13-14 June 2007. Monday, 2 Jul [...]

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