This morning I finally got around to reading Thomas Mann’s most recent essay, “The Peloponnesian War and the Future of Reference, Cataloging, and Scholarship in Research Libraries” [.pdf].
HIGHLY recommended for everyone who has anything to do with research libraries.
Recommended for anyone because just in reading it, I learned one bibliographic research trick I didn’t know […]

Mark Lindner’s in-depth notes start here.
  

Listserv on the future of subject analysis.
Functional Requirements for Authority Data draft for review.
  

150 Animal carcasses in art [Not Subd Geog] [sp2007001374]
150 Dignity in literature [Not Subd Geog] [sp2007001471]
150 Godzilla films [sp 86005141 ]
* 550 BT Motion pictures CANCEL
(A) 150 Mexican Mafia […]

Today I attended the following:
EXPRESSIVITY VS. UNIFORMITY: Are controlled vocabularies dead, and if not, should they be?
When: 1:00 to 2:00pm April 2nd, 2007
Where: Pleasants Family Room in Wilson LibraryFrom Dr. Haas: ‘Controlled vocabularies, nomenclatures, LC or MeSH subject headings have a long history in LIS. They make classification, categorization, aggregation, sorting, and other operations easier. […]

Getting around to reading the Brief Meeting Summary of the Users and Uses of Bibliographic Data Meeting on March 8, 2007 in Mountain View, CA by Nancy J. Fallgren.
Some thoughts pop up, not even necessarily about bibliographic control…
1. The need for good, browseable representations of domains of knowledge that can be incorporated into our systems. […]

Andrew Pace says that Bibliographic Control Has a Future. I hope so. What we do know is that it has a working group.
I am, of course, very keen on harnessing the power of computational analysis of data to create richer, better forms/methods/systems of bibliographic control. But I have a hard time believing that computational […]