Border Crossings: Reflections on a Decade of Metadata Consensus Building
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Sunday, November 20, 2005
Thursday, November 10, 2005
Thursday, November 03, 2005
Wednesday, November 02, 2005
Expanded Sick Time Policy
Excerpt: "Sick time may be used for those family members in the following circumstances:
The care of an eligible family member who is ill or injured
Accompanying an eligible family member to a medical or dental procedure or checkup related to illness or injury
Attending to an eligible family member who is hospitalized
Monday, October 31, 2005
Critique of LCC and other "Ontologies"
Shirky arhived his speech on his own blog: Ontologies are Overrated.
William Denton on Web4Lib recommends a provokative talk by Clay Shirky. Shirky contends that LC Classification and other "ontologies" (which he defines as "assertions about essnece and relations among a group of items") may have outlived their usefulness. In the case of LCC, he maintains that driving force has been arrangement of things (i.e., books on shelves) rather than authentic relations among ideas. Complains about inconsistencies in LCC, where "Balkan Penninsula" stands as a top geographic category alongside "Asia." (What does he mean by this? In the G1994 Atlases part of the schedule, the region is subsumed under Southeastern Europe; in GB457 "Physical geography" section, it's subsumed under Medeterranean Sea region; I checked other areas as well, and nowhere does it appear as a top term).
He also complains that LCC is flat, and that it doesn't accommodate polysemy (though he refers to it as polypheny): "it enforces cookie-cutter categorization that doesn't reflect the polyphony of its contents--there is a literature of creativity, for example, made up of books about art, science, engineering, and so on, and yet those books are not categorized (which is to say shelved) together". LCC does allow multiple classification, though, and in any case, it is complemented by the LC Subject Headings which can accomodate as many different conceptual relationships as people can think of.
Shirky delivered his remarks at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. The audio recording is archived at ITConversations
Friday, October 28, 2005
"Google is replacing the professional librarian"
Article in indystar.com on PR expenses, but also source of quotation
Thursday, October 27, 2005
Stew and Terri Wedding
How close is Timberline Lodge to Crater Lake? Here's a pdf map of the Crater lake area. Not very close I'm afraid.
There's an exhibition on the Lewis & Clark expidition at the Oregon Historical Society, but that doesn't start until November 11th. Currently there's an exhibition on Hessian Art, including the Madonna and other paintings by Hans Holbein.
Stew and Terri's wedding blog. Event to take place Saturday, Oct. 29, 5pm. Left comment, that we're staying at Timberline Lodge Oct. 29 through Nov. 1.
From invitation: Timberline Lodge, Mt. Hood, Oregon.
Rooms available at Lodge: 503-622-7979; rm. reservations 800-547-1406.
Mazama Lodge, already rented for guests. On southern slope of Mt. Hood. Staying there is free; only pay for breakefast 7 dollars, lunch 10 dollars and dinner same. Dormitory style with a few private rooms. private rooms don't costs extra but are first come first serve. Bring sleeping bag if taking this option. For reservations etc call Clif and Dae Todd at 503-272-9214 or email lodge@mazamas.org.
Gift: http://www.heifer.org. Prefer that we by a gift animal for family living in poverty. Rather than Crate and Barrel (though they are registered there too at number 8802513), or Home Depot gift certificate, etc.
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
NELINET courses
Here is a browse display of upcoming courses from NELINET. Of particular interest (to me) is the "bibliographic services conference" entitled "Google vs. the OPAC: The Challenge is On!", taking place in Worcester Friday, November 18th.
Here are the topics and speakers:
10:45am "Metadata That Supports Real User Needs"
David Lindahl, Director of Digital Library Initiatives, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
11:30am "The Social Life of Metadata"
Casey Bisson, Software Developer and Information Technologist, Lamson Library, Plymouth State University
1:15pm "OCLC in a Web-based World"
OCLC Research Speaker (TBA)
2:30pm "Catalogers Wanted: Metadata Practice in the Web Era"
Mary Kurth, Head of Metadata Services, Cornell University Library
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
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