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Barreau, Deborah K. The persistence of behavior and form in the organization of personal information. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. forthcoming.
Bernstein, Michael; Van Kleek, Max; Kargar, David, and Schraefel, Monica. Information scraps: how and why information eludes our personal information management tools. Transactions on Information Systems. in review.
Danskin, Alan. Tomorrow never knows: the end of cataloguing? Presented at. World library and information congress: 72nd IFLA General Conference and Council, IFLA-CDNL Alliance for Bibliographic Standards; Seoul. 2006 Jun 6; c2006.
Hertzum, Morten. Small-scale classification schemes: A Field study of requirements engineering. Computer Supported Cooperative Work. 2004 Jan; 13(1):35-61.
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Wu, Harris; Gordon, Michael D., and DeMaagd, Kurt. Document co-organization in an online knowledge community. CHI 2004; Vienna. 2004; c2004.
Tomorrow some heavy note-wrangling and writing begins.
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Turner, James M. and Bélanger, François Papik. Escaping from Bable: Improving the terminology of mental models in the literature of human-computer interaction. Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science. 1996; 21(3/4):35-58.
Miksa, Francis L. The Concept of the Universe of Knowledge and the Purpose of LIS Classification. In: Williamson, Nancy J. and Hudon, Michèle, Eds. Classification research for knowledge representation and organization : proceedings of the 5th International Study Conference on Classification Research; Toronto, ON, Canada. New York: Elsevier; 1992; c1991: 101-126.
Boter, Jaap and Wedel, Michel. User categorization of public library collections. Library & Information Science Research. 2005; 27(2):190-202.
Grinter, Rebecca E. Words about Images: Coordinating Community in Amateur Photography. Computer Supported Cooperative Work. 2005; 14(2):161-188.
Hjørland, Birger and Pedersen, Karsten Nissen. A substantive theory of classification for information retrieval. Journal of Documentation. 2005; 61(5):582-597; ISSN: 0022-0418.
Lu, Hsi-Peng and Hsiao, Kuo-Lun. Understanding intention to continuously share information on weblogs. Internet Research. 2007; 17(4):345-361.
Hudon, Michèle; Mas, Sabine, and Gazo, Dominique. Structure, logic, and semantics in ad hoc classification schemes applied to Web-based libraries in the field of education. Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science-Revue Canadienne Des Sciences De L Information Et De Bibliotheconomie. 2005; 29(3):265-288; ISSN: 1195-096X.
Thompson, E. D. and Kaarst-Brown, M. L. Sensitive Information: a Review and Research Agenda. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 2005 Feb 1; 56(3):245-257.
Olson, Hope A. The power to name: locating the limits of subject representation in libraries. Dordrecht: Kluwer; 2002. 261 pages. (Chapters 1-2)
read today…
1. Barat, Agnes Hajdu. 2007. Human perception and knowledge organization: visual imagery. Library Hi Tech 25, no. 3: 338-51.
2. Chen, Chaomei. 2007. Holistic sense-making: conflicting opinions, creative ideas, and collective intelligence. Library Hi Tech 25, no. 3: 311-27.
3. Enser, Peter G. B., Christine J. Sandom, Jonathon S. Hare, and Paul H. Lewis. 2007. Facing the reality of semantic image retrieval. Journal of Documentation 63, no. 4: 465-81.
4. Hepworth, Mark. 2004. A Framework for Understanding User Requirements for an Information Service: Defining the Needs of Informal Carers. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 55, no. 8: 695-708.
5. Jacob, Elin K., and Aaron Loehrlein. 2003. What ontologies are not:a [draft] theoretical framework for the analysis of representational systems. Presented at School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University-Bloomington.
6. Kipp, Margaret E. I, and D. Grant Campbell. 2006. Patterns and inconsistencies in collaborative tagging systems: an examination of tagging practices. Proceedings of the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
7. Kipp, Margaret E. I. 2007. Tagging for Health Information Organisation and Retrieval. Poster presented at Joint Conference on Digital Libraries.
8. Kipp, Margaret E. I. 2007. Tagging Practices on Research Oriented Social Bookmarking Sites. Presented at Canadian Association for Information Science.
9. Pattern, Dave. 2007. Are you happy with your OPAC? Update 6, no. 10: 32-34.
assault.
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 before (which could have been saving me LOADS of time recently).
Basically, this essay is a passionate yet reasoned, articulate argument that the direction many researchers/theoreticians in our field and library managers seem convinced is the right one for research libraries is an assault on the culture of scholarship and the ability to conduct scholarly research.
Keyword searching, relevance ranking, folksonomies, federated search, etc are useful additions to our systems, and are obvious good solutions for the Web. But they are not acceptable substitutes for professional subject cataloging and all of the structure it brings to the catalog and the library’s carefully built collections.
It is dangerous to conflate the the needs of person doing a quick information search with the scholar doing scholarly research, who engages in an intensive process of iterative information seeking and knowledge building.
Libraries are based on principles that serve the needs of scholars. Are we ready to admit that scholarship is archaic, unnecessary, and not worth supporting in today’s world? In today’s market? It’s not sexy. It’s not quick and easy. The cash value of it isn’t readily apparent.
I think LIS educators should definitely read this, and not just those who teach subject cataloging. It is highly relevant to reference and bibliographic instruction as well.
We need to continue to teach and champion the power and relevance of the principles on which libraries are based, without either clinging to the way things have been done in the past or claiming that everything needs to change.
(and this post is an example of why i don’t blog more. i’ve spent far too much time on it and it is still all over the place and doesn’t make my point well. practice?)