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 [...]

(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] [...]

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)
Dewey Blog has a Dewey (almost)crossword puzzle.
  

what if this is salient to my lit review??
150 Amateur architecture [May Subd Geog] [sp2008001492]
550 BT Architecture
I wonder if warrant for the creation of this heading came from books in the Who pooped in the park? series…
150 Animal droppings [May Subd Geog] [sp2007010638]
* 450 UF Animal dung
* 450 UF Animal scat
150 Captive [...]

In a statement published yesterday, Michael J. Klag, the Dean of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health writes that has “directed that the POPLINE administrators restore “abortion” as a search term immediately.” He is also launching an inquiry to determine why the change occurred. And also:
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is [...]

POPLINE is “the world’s largest database on reproductive health, containing citations with abstracts to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished reports in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues.”
If you do a subject keyword search in POPLINE for abortion, the result is:
No records found by latest query.
If you do a subject keyword [...]