Off the Mark

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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Let me begin by saying that I had a wonderful “Christmas.”
I put Christmas in quotes because, as it has been for a long time, Christmas is really a couple to a bunch of Christmases at different places over what may be a several week period (only 6 days this year).
It was great to see almost [...]

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Unproductive consumption of goods is honourable.
I recently finished this little, but powerful, book [OWC]. Actually, I believe it is an excerpt from a much larger work, The Theory of the Leisure Class, edited and introduced by Robert Lekachman (Penguin Classics, 1994) [OWC].
I bought this book in the Penguin Books . Great Ideas series. This is [...]

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"Well, well, well."   Let’s see what the University of Illinois Board of Trustees does with this.  (Local version)  Will it finally be the goad they need to do the right thing?
I am not one of the folks out protesting and raising a fuss, but I do consider Chief Illiniwek to be racist.  There is simply [...]

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I finally went for a run today, 16 minutes.  "So what!" you might say.  Well, it’s been 10-11 months since I last went running, so that’s "What!"
Normally I ought to be up to at least 30 minutes by mid-May, but this isn’t normally.  The important thing, of course, is that I keep at it.  This [...]

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…I never saw this one coming.
Went to visit a friend in Chicago yesterday and hung out and watched the Illinois - Louisville game.  His family is from Louisville so he was back-and-forth on the phone trash talking.
I actually enjoyed the game.  It was well played, the level of sportsmanship was quite high, and I was [...]

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