making distinctions.

Ah, Melvil Dui, bless you and your crazy spelling ideas. Crazy compared to what? Oh I don’t know… I admire your ardor for efficiency and consistency.

And this made me laugh and laugh:

–From pages 6 and 7 of Dewey’s Simplified Library School Rules: Card Catalog, Accession, Book Numbers, Shelf List, Capitals, Punctuation, Abbreviations, Library Handwriting, Boston: Library Bureau, 1904, as found on Google Books.

paperless office cites.

(cleaning up some old directories, and there’s some stuff I don’t want to lose. it could even be helpful to someone… here’s a bibliography for a class project, circa 2002. sure to be very useful… 🙂 )

The Paperless Office: Works Consulted

“Is the Paperless Office Working?” Managing the General Ledger 1, no. 6 (2001): 8.

Bielski, Lauren. “So, What Ever Happened to the Paperless Office?” ABA Banking Journal 94, no. 6 (2002): 57-60.

Britz, Maria Bruno. “Giving Documents the Ditch.” Insurance Networking 6, no. 7 (2003): 21.

Bush, Vannevar. “As We May Think.” The Atlantic Monthly 176, no. 1 (1945): 101-8.

Case, Donald Owen. “Collection and Organization of Written Information by Social Scientists and Humanists: A Review and Exploratory Study.” Journal of Information Science 12, no. 3
(1986): 97-104.

—————. “Conceptual Organization and Retrieval of Text by Historians: The Role of Memory and Metaphor.” Journal of the American Society for Information Science 42, no. 9 (1991): 657-68.

—————. “The Use of Anthropological Methods in Studying Information Management by American Historians.” In Information Technology: Planning for the Next Fifty Years: Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science. Medford, NJ: Learned Information, Inc, for American Society for Information Science, 1988.

Cole, I. “Human Aspects of Office Filing: Implications for the Electronic Office.” In Proceedings of the Human Factors Society 26th Annual Meeting. Santa Monica: Human Factors Society, 1982.

Dahlgren, Bruce. “The fine print.” Web page, September 2001 [accessed 21 April 2003]. Available at http://www.lexmark.com/US/virtual_press_room/pdf/printmovemanage.pdf.

Flynn, Gillian. “An Ad Agency Pitches for the Virtual Office.” Workforce 76, no. 11 (1997): 56.

Greengard, Samuel. “Getting Rid of the Paper Chase.” Workforce 78, no. 11 (1999): 69.

Jupitermedia Corporation. “Webopedia.” Web page, [accessed 21 April 2003].
Available at http://www.webopedia.com/.

Kwasnik, Barbara H. “Factors Affecting the Naming of Documents in an Office.” In Information Technology: Planning for the Next Fifty Years. Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science. Medford, NJ: Learned Information, Inc, for American Society for Information Science, 1988.

—————. “The Importance of Factors That Are Not Document Attributes in the Organisation of Personal Documents.” Journal of Documentation 47, no. 4 (1991): 389-98.

Malone, Thomas W. “How Do People Organize Their Desks? Implications for the Design of Office Information Systems.” ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems 1 (1983): 25-32.

Seifman, Donald H., and Craig W. Trepanier. “Electronic Administration of Personnel, Benefit Plans, and Direct Payroll Payment.” Employee Relations Law Journal 21, no. 4 (1996): 61-90.

Sellen, Abigail J., and Richard H. R. Harper. The Myth of the Paperless Office. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2002.