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ASIS&T 2008

October 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments

[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 Internet [...]

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Tags: ASIS&T Annual Meeting · ASIST · Conferences · Librariana · My Life · Theory · Vocabularies

Some things read this week, 27 April – 3 May 2008

May 6th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Saturday – Sunday, 26 – 27 April 2008
Abbott, Andrew. (2008). “Library Research and Its Infrastructure in the Twentieth Century.” Spring 2008 Windsor Lecture, 12 March 2008
Read the pdf, below. [Note: Audio in Real format.]
Windsor Lecture Series
“Library Research and Its Infrastructure in the Twentieth Century”
Dr. Andrew Abbott, University of Chicago
PDF format | audio recorded 3/12/2008
Sorry. Taking [...]

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Tags: Articles · Books · Cataloging · Classification · Information Retrieval · Language and word issues · Librariana · My Life · Philosophy · Theory

Some things read this week, 20 – 26 April 2008

April 27th, 2008 · Comments Off

Sunday – Thursday, 20 – 24 Apr 2008

Lodge, David. 1992. Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses. New York: Penguin Books.

Wasn’t sure if I was going to continue this but I read it on and off on Sunday and made a big dent at dinner in the Alley on Monday. I’m 66% [...]

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Tags: Articles · Books · Cataloging · Classification · Information · Language and word issues · Librariana · Morality · My Life · Ontologies · Philosophy · Theory

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

Some things read this week, 23 – 29 March 2008

March 30th, 2008 · Comments Off

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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Tags: Articles · Authority Control · Books · CAS Project · Cataloging · Classification · Information Retrieval · Language and word issues · Librariana · Literature · Metadata · Morality · My Life · Philosophy · Relationships · Society · Theory · Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control

Some things read this week, 9 – 15 March 2008

March 16th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Sunday, 9 Mar 2008
Smith, L. C. (1981). ‘Memex’ as an image of potentiality in information retrieval research and development In , Proceedings of the 3rd annual ACM conference on Research and development in information retrieval (pp. 345-369). Cambridge, England: Butterworth & Co.
Linda cited this article when talking about her research on a panel discussion we [...]

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Some things read this week, 2 – 8 March 2008

March 9th, 2008 · Comments Off

Sunday, 2 Mar 2008
Toolan, M. J. (1996). Total speech: an integrational linguistic approach to language, Post-contemporary interventions., 337. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press.

Read Ch. 4: Further Principles of Integrational Linguistics, or, On Not Losing Sight of the Language User

 
Sunday – Friday, 2 – 7 Mar 2008
 
Aitchison, J. (2003). Linguistics, Teach yourself. (6th ed), 257. [...]

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Some things read this week, 24 February – 1 March 2008

March 2nd, 2008 · Comments Off

Monday, 25 Feb 2008
White, Alan R. Introduction. In White, Alan R, ed. 1968. The Philosophy of Action. London: Oxford University Press.
This edited volume on the philosophy of action includes articles by J. L. Austin, Danto, Davidson, Anscombe, and others (some classics). I probably won’t read much more of it and I think I grabbed [...]

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Books Read in 2007

December 30th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Late last year I decided to participate in a reading challenge (2007 TBR) that I found at Joy Weese Moll’s blog, Wanderings of an online librarian. I generally don’t do these sorts of things but when I had looked back over 2006 at the hundreds of article I had read I found that I had [...]

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Some things read this week, 23 – 29 December 2007

December 30th, 2007 · Comments Off

This has been a very light week due to my visiting relatives and friends in the Washington, DC area.
Toolan, Michael J. 1996. Total Speech: An Integrational Linguistic Approach to Language. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press.

Finish Ch. 1: On Inscribed or Literal Meaning (21-25 Dec)
Ch. 2: Metaphor (26 – 29 Dec)
Ch. 3: Intentionality and Coming into [...]

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