Off the Mark

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.
Sunday, 23 [...]

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Back in December, a few days before the deadline passed for comments on the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, I wrote a post called just that.
In it I expressed much frustration; with both the big picture issues facing bibliographic control and those of my daily frustration in trying to [...]

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There will be changes in this blog this coming year. Not necessarily, and, in fact, not particularly, intended. Those intended may well not happen.
“Some things read this week, …” posts will likely continue. They will be reconfigured somehow—not yet discerned—by the change in my reading habits, at least through mid-May.
As the year begins, I am [...]

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I read it. I made plenty of notes. I fully intended to write up my comments and submit them and to also post them here. I began writing them up.
I stopped.
And that is where I’m staying. Stopped.
It truly isn’t that I don’t care. I do. All the way down to the marrow care.
There is [...]

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Sunday, 2 Dec
Brantley, Peter. “The Traditional Future.” O’Reilly radar 17 Sep 2007.
Recommended in a comment by Nathan on a weekly reading post in mid-Oct., esp. for the Abbott article mentioned by Brantley. Have that saved in the “print me at GSLIS” folder (38 p.) for reading later.
Thanks, Nathan. There are some interesting things in [...]

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Life. What the fuck is that anyway? How do we know if we’re living it?
Mama I’m strange
The thoughts and the wants are the locks on the back of my brain
Melissa Etheridge. “Mama I’m Strange.” breakdown.
Last week ended … weirdly. In a flattering way mind you, but nonetheless weirdly. One could do with more of (parts [...]

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NOTE: CommentPress version of LC Working Group Draft Final Report needed
Please see last entry. We really need a CommentPress install of the LC Working Group’s Draft Final Report. Can anyone do this service quickly?
Sunday - Tuesday, 25 - 27 Nov
Winograd, Terry and Fernando Flores. Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design. Reading, Mass: [...]

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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 Response to the [...]

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Sunday, 22 Jul
Crawford, Walt. Cites & Insights 7 (9): August 2007 [pdf]
An excellent issue covering the LIS literature; authority, worth and linkbaiting (Britannica, Gorman, et. al.), disagreement and discussion; and ethics and transparency.
I think you did a fine job, Walt. As I said elsewhere (probably as a comment on your blog), I was/am interested in [...]

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In a recent post I asked why “keeping up” always seems to be forward looking and recommended that we remember to learn from the past.
Wednesday night when I was out to say goodbye to a friend and colleague (Kurt), and Sarah Shreeves, the Coordinator of our institutional repository, IDEALS, gave me some wonderful news based [...]

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