Some things read this week, 5 -11 August 2007
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 &...
View ArticleOn Assumptions about language use in tagging
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...
View ArticleSome things read this week, 12 -18 August 2007
Monday, 13 Aug Wilson, Patrick. “Situational relevance.” Information Storage and Retrieval 9 (1973): 457-471. Cited by Raber in The Problems of Information, ch. 9, en13, p. 186 for the whole article in...
View ArticleSome things read this week, 2 – 8 September 2007
Sunday, 2 Sep Bade, David. “I Know Where I Am Going, Do You?” Remarks at the ALCTS Serials Section, Continuing Resources Cataloging Committee, Update Forum “Continuing Resources Cataloging: Where in...
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[This was started and mostly finished early Friday morning, with some additions Saturday morning.] Things are normal here—great in some areas, horrible in others. I am almost completely exhausted after...
View ArticleASIS&T 2007 Annual Meeting Sessions, part 1
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...
View Article3rd blogging anniversary and welcome to new readers
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...
View ArticleSome things read this week, 10 – 16 February 2008
Sunday, 10 Feb 2008 Maxwell, Robert L. 2008. FRBR: A Guide for the Perplexed. Chicago: American Library Association. Most of the holdup on this post was in trying to get good comments on this down. I...
View ArticleSome things read this week, 23 – 29 March 2008
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...
View ArticleFaux-Twitter re Michael Gorman’s visit today
Mark thinks Gorman had some important things to say, and that anyone who meets the core competencies could have said them. He’s also disingenuous and superficial. AKA my current Facebook status. I also...
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