Unclutterer, a blog about getting organized and uncluttered, recently asked its readers to share a bit about themselves and (among other things) the kind of topics they would like more coverage on, what issues they need help with.
On the wrap-up short-list: Photograph and video organization.
Also: Organizing digital data and Paper clutter
OK, so my […]

So, in a name authority record, the birth and death dates of a person are often added:
Gorey, Edward, 1925-2000
For living persons, a birth date is often added and left open:
Winterson, Jeanette, 1959-
When a living person whose date has been left open dies, the death date can be added. But you need a source of information […]

Today I’ve been looking at several of the papers from Spink, Amanda H., and Charles Cole, eds. (2006) New directions in human information behavior. Dordrect: Springer.
I’ve been rather disappointed. The whole book seems to have been slapped together fairly carelessly, including papers by the editors. Maybe especially in papers by the editors.
The most […]

I think Martha Yee is swiftly becoming one of my heroes.
Anyone who writes a new set of cataloging rules as an alternative to AACR2/RDA gets props from me.
I’ve looked at her rules a bit, and I like the way in which they are written, but I haven’t had a chance to dig into […]

I have a question on which I’d like any opinions… this has been coming up for me lately, as I assess what I can do in the future to develop a more efficient, faster research/writing process.
Here is the type of situation I wonder about. I’ve made up a hypothetical one:
Let us say I […]

(C) 150 Aquaman (Fictitious character) [Not Subd Geog] [sp2008001579]
450 UF Arthur Curry (Fictitious character)
450 UF Curry, Arthur (Fictitious character)
450 UF Orin (Fictitious character)
(C) 150 Clichés in literature [Not Subd Geog] […]

This is the current introduction to the literature review I have written in preparation for my comprehensive exams and as a step toward the dissertation proposal. It includes the questions my dissertation will address and an overview of the relationships between topics covered in the review and my questions.
(This monster is currently 138 […]

As library and information scientists, we do not have a tradition of focusing on normative problems in which we can approach a line of inquiry with some measure of certainty. We cannot be sure that our areas are well defined and that our problems are important. We have no central theory or body of interrelated […]

Classification by attraction: The classification of a specific aspect of a subject in an inappropriate discipline, usually because the subject is named in the inappropriate discipline but not mentioned explicitly in the appropriate discipline. (source)
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The lesson from this installment is that Washington State has the best mountain names EVAR.
(C) 150 A.T.O.M. (Fictitious characters) [Not Subd Geog] [sp2007005947]
450 UF Alpha Teens on Machines (Fictitious characters)
(C) 150 Baby carriages [May Subd Geog] [sp2008001936]
450 UF Baby buggies
450 UF Buggies, Baby
450 UF Perambulators
450 UF Prams (Baby carriages)
550 […]