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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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Tags: Articles · Books · Cataloging · Communication · Education · Language and word issues · Librariana · Sports · Vocabularies

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

Omega and Alpha

February 10th, 2008 · 3 Comments

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 at [...]

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Tags: CAS Project · Cataloging · Classification · Education · GSLIS · Job search · Librariana · My Life · Serials · Vocabularies · Work

3rd blogging anniversary and welcome to new readers

January 29th, 2008 · 6 Comments

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 list [...]

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Tags: Cataloging · Current Affairs · Education · IFSI · Language and word issues · Librariana · Metadata · Morality · My Life · Philosophy · Pop Culture · Society · Story · Vocabularies · Web/Tech · Weblogs · Work

Some things read this week, 20 - 26 January 2008

January 26th, 2008 · Comments Off

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, and University [...]

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Tags: Articles · Books · Conferences · Information Retrieval · Language and word issues · My Life · Science · Vocabularies

Spring 2008 courses, 1st impression

January 19th, 2008 · Comments Off

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 last year, [...]

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Tags: CAS Project · Education · GSLIS · Interdisciplinarity · Language and word issues · Librariana · Vocabularies · XML

ASIS&T 2007 Annual Meeting Sessions, part 1

October 27th, 2007 · Comments Off

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 had some impact [...]

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Is it now the right thing at the wrong time, or…

September 22nd, 2007 · 7 Comments

… 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 as [...]

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Tags: ASIS&T Annual Meeting · Bibliography · Books · CAS Project · Education · GSLIS · Interdisciplinarity · Language and word issues · Librariana · My Life · Philosophy · Relevance · Theory · Vocabularies

On Assumptions about language use in tagging

August 15th, 2007 · 18 Comments

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 [...]

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Some things read this week, 27 May - 2 June 2007

June 3rd, 2007 · Comments Off

Note: Sorry for the non-existent annotations. It was a light week as I prepped for and then attended NASIG.
Sunday, 27 May
Harris, Roy. The Language-Makers. London: Duckworth, 1980.
Finished chap. 2.
Monday, 28 May
Harris, Roy. The Language-Makers. London: Duckworth, 1980.
Read chap. 3.
Tennis, Joseph. “SKOS and the Ontogenesis of Vocabularies.”
Cited by Harper, Corey A. and Barbara B. [...]

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