putting the rarin back in librarian since 1999
Folksonomy, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mess. An impressionistic transcript by Cory Doctorow.
It’s a deep philosophical issue: Ontology is a controversial subject. The idea that it’s possible to cleave nature at the joints is controversial. Yes, there are countries, Uzbekistan is a country, but ask a physicist or a biologist and the categories are very fraught.
I don’t spend a lot of time reading what the American Family Association says about ALA and pornography, but from time to time I check in. You never know when someone will use one of these pages as a “to do” list and show up at your library. So, without further commentary – except to note that “pray” appears before “reaserch” on the AFA’s list of steps — please see Plan2Succeed’s Library Porn Removal page and The American Family Association’s Library Internet Filtering page
Hi. This blog has tags, thanks to the WordPress tags beta plugin. Actually right now it has one tag, affectionately called “tag” but I’ll be changing that. I figured if I was ever going to even try to backtag 1100 or so entries, I’d better get on it before Winter was over.
No seriously. Found this blog post from Fil, a member of the “video game community” talking about meeting some librarians at a symposium about the future of libraries.
I imagined droning on about the Dewey Decimal System, and waxing rueful over the “good old days†before the internet ruined research.
I could not have been more wrong.
The people (at my table, at least) were dynamic, technically savvy people who are trying very hard to keep information “alive.†I had some great conversations about user interface, podcasting, RSS feeds, and the digitization of collections.
Another voice on the “classes” topic with a different spin what classes would you like to take in library school. John raises a good point, I don’t think I learned the word vendors until I was way out of library school.