habitually probing generalist

[Update 3 Nov 2008: Just uploaded a revised PPT with updated Notes which are much closer to what I spoke from. Although, they clearly are not what I said verbatim.] ASIS&T is going well.  I arrived late Saturday afternoon in Columbus (OH) and am getting along fine with my roommate whom I met over the [...]

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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 [...]

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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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The end approaches and Tuesday I spent preparing for it. A few weeks ago I sent in a petition to the Grad College to move my “additional” 2 hours from my MS (42 vs. 40-required) to my CAS. That was approved last Friday (Feb 1st). Seeing as I had 72 completed hours that put me [...]

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Welcome new readers On the 14th of Jan, Blake posted a story at LISNews, The LINews 10 Blogs To Read in 2008. My lowly little blog was included in that list. I have at least 29 new readers in Bloglines, which means, perhaps, 80-120 total new readers since then. Of course, the fact that the [...]

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Sunday, 20 Jan 2008 Hjørland, B., & Albrechtsen, H. (1995). Toward a New Horizon in Information Science: Domain-Analysis. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 46, 400-425. Re-read for bibliography. Monday, 21 Jan 2008 Liddy, Elizabeth D. “Natural Language Processing for Information Retrieval and Knowledge Discovery.” In Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, [...]

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Officially, I am registered for one 8-hour “class” this semester, LIS593 CAS Project. Individual study of a problem in library or information science; forms the culmination of the Certificate of Advanced Study program. Only 8 hours will apply to the CAS degree [catalog]. As to what I’m doing there pick pretty much any post from [...]

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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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… the wrong thing at the right time, or, perhaps, can it just be there are too many right things to do at overlapping right times? I know I haven’t fully explicated my bibliography topic yet but a potential change has arisen already. This change is both negative and beneficial; as most changes are. [And [...]

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This morning I read a post at Nicole Engard’s blog, What I Learned Today…, about a Library Camp session. The post is titled “Library Camp – Weinberger & Cataloging.” Before I begin, I want to make explicit that I am not picking on Nicole, the participants in this session, or anyone in particular. I may [...]

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