habitually probing generalist

This is the 3rd update to the Two-Thirds book Challenge. E  2/3 Book Challenge: A Visit from the Goon Squad E read this for her book club back in November but didn’t get the review posted until early January. She has been having a legitimately busy life the last several months. Hopefully things will calm [...]

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The Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and History (Princeton Classic Editions) Mircea Eliade, M. Eliade; Princeton University Press 2005 WorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder This is the 5th book that I have read for My Two-Thirds Book Challenge. I stated at the end of my review of Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces that I hoped [...]

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Registration time is soon upon us at BCU. This time it will be for J-Term (January 3-20) and Spring semester. I am open to any feedback you might have but here is what I am considering for both. Descriptions, where provided, are from my discussion with the profs—trying to take notes while also being courteous [...]

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Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart Bonnie A. Nardi & Vicki L. O’Day; MIT Press 2000 WorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder This book should be required reading for all librarians and for anyone using technology. Oh, yeah, everyone. I read this immediately after Brown and Duguid which was about “information” and thus IT, and which sought a middle [...]

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Green, R. (1991). The Profession’s Models of Information: A Cognitive Linguistic Analysis. Journal of Documentation, 47(2), 130-148. I read this at the coffee shop one morning a couple of weeks ago and, as usual, was quite impressed. She shows that a model of communication is mandatory for information science but that one of information seeking [...]

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Wilson, M. L., & Elsweiler, D. (2010). Casual-leisure Searching: the Exploratory Search scenarios that break our current models. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 22 August 2010. Presented at the HCIR 2010, New Brunswick, N.J. Retrieved from http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/ryenw/hcir2010/docs/HCIR2010Proceedings.pdf When clearing out my aggregator a [...]

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Dervin, Brenda. 1976. Strategies for Dealing with Human Information Needs: Information of Communication? (Part One of Information: An Answer for Every Question? A Solution for Every Problem?). Journal of Broadcasting 20, no. 3 (Summer): 324-333. I quite enjoyed this Dervin article.  But what I did not enjoy was not having access to any of the [...]

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Kapitzke, Cushla. 2003. Information Literacy: A Positivist Epistemology and a Politics of Outformation. Educational Theory 53, no. 1: 37-53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-5446.2003.00037.x. I wrote on the paper after finishing it, “provides a valuable critique of entrenched views (positivist?) of knowledge, information, and learning; but assumes postmodernism and the digital age have changed everything, when in fact, these [...]

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In the last two days I have read two papers by Archie L. Dick.  Yesterday I read “Epistemological Positions and Library and Information Science” and this morning I read “Restoring knowledge as a theoretical focus of library and…”.  [OK, we all know that is not its title but more on that later.] [Really were read [...]

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Katzer, Jeffrey. 1987. User studies, information science, and communication. Canadian Journal of Information Science 12, no. 3: 15-30. Argues that changes in technology, the economics of info systems, and previous research into information behavior is pushing information science to more complexity and predicts that it will become more like the field of communication. “What has [...]

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