http://subjectobject.net/2006/07/23/serendipitous-browsing-a-summary-and-commentary-of-thomas-manns-whats-going-on-at-the-library-of-congress/ Steven Chabot Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:44:46 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://subjectobject.net/2006/07/23/serendipitous-browsing-a-summary-and-commentary-of-thomas-manns-whats-going-on-at-the-library-of-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-125721 Regaining passion after losing it during my master’s degree / Subject/Object Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:49:13 +0000 http://subjectobject.net/2006/07/23/serendipitous-browsing-a-summary-and-commentary-of-thomas-manns-whats-going-on-at-the-library-of-congress/#comment-125721 <p>[...] Just coincidentally, I was looking at my old posts, and I discovered that tomorrow it will be three years to the day that I started this blog.  Not the actual start, because I do have some imported posts from an early Blogger site, but with my post about Thomas Mann and the Library of Congress. [...]</p> [...] Just coincidentally, I was looking at my old posts, and I discovered that tomorrow it will be three years to the day that I started this blog.  Not the actual start, because I do have some imported posts from an early Blogger site, but with my post about Thomas Mann and the Library of Congress. [...]

]]> http://subjectobject.net/2006/07/23/serendipitous-browsing-a-summary-and-commentary-of-thomas-manns-whats-going-on-at-the-library-of-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-17149 serendipity and the biblioblogosphere « omg tuna is kewl Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:22:27 +0000 http://subjectobject.net/2006/07/23/serendipitous-browsing-a-summary-and-commentary-of-thomas-manns-whats-going-on-at-the-library-of-congress/#comment-17149 <p>[...] Serendipitous browsing (Subject/Object) [...]</p> [...] Serendipitous browsing (Subject/Object) [...]

]]> http://subjectobject.net/2006/07/23/serendipitous-browsing-a-summary-and-commentary-of-thomas-manns-whats-going-on-at-the-library-of-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-43 Things I Haven’t Had Time to Think About « Life as I Know It Tue, 05 Sep 2006 00:41:08 +0000 http://subjectobject.net/2006/07/23/serendipitous-browsing-a-summary-and-commentary-of-thomas-manns-whats-going-on-at-the-library-of-congress/#comment-43 <p>[...] Serenditpitous Browsing: A summary and commentary of Thomas Mann’s “What’s Going on at the Library of Congress?”- from Subject/Object. Steven Chabot has a great summary of Thomas Mann’s paper. Steven writes “I think that this is the main point we have to remember. All of these things are not difficult to implement. Let us have Google-like searches, Amazon-like ratings and Del.icio.us-like tagging alongside subject classification. We can gain much from folksonomies, and we don’t have to do so at the loss of traditional hierarchical ontologies. The digital catalogue is flexible enough for both.” I like this point. [...]</p> [...] Serenditpitous Browsing: A summary and commentary of Thomas Mann’s “What’s Going on at the Library of Congress?”- from Subject/Object. Steven Chabot has a great summary of Thomas Mann’s paper. Steven writes “I think that this is the main point we have to remember. All of these things are not difficult to implement. Let us have Google-like searches, Amazon-like ratings and Del.icio.us-like tagging alongside subject classification. We can gain much from folksonomies, and we don’t have to do so at the loss of traditional hierarchical ontologies. The digital catalogue is flexible enough for both.” I like this point. [...]

]]> http://subjectobject.net/2006/07/23/serendipitous-browsing-a-summary-and-commentary-of-thomas-manns-whats-going-on-at-the-library-of-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Subject/Object :: Steven Chabot :: ALA testimony against Library of Congress cataloguing changes Wed, 09 Aug 2006 00:38:52 +0000 http://subjectobject.net/2006/07/23/serendipitous-browsing-a-summary-and-commentary-of-thomas-manns-whats-going-on-at-the-library-of-congress/#comment-8 <p>[...] Update on the changes at the Library of Congress. I have written about them before. The American Library Association weights in in a Congressional Committee: ALA’s testimony emphasized that any diminution of the quality or quantity of cataloging provided by the Library of Congress will force the nation’s public, school, and academic libraries to take on this work themselves or abandon it altogether. “When the Library of Congress decides to cut cataloguing services to our nation’s libraries, thousands of Americans’ ability to locate and identify desired information is diminished,” Gorman said. [...]</p> [...] Update on the changes at the Library of Congress. I have written about them before. The American Library Association weights in in a Congressional Committee: ALA’s testimony emphasized that any diminution of the quality or quantity of cataloging provided by the Library of Congress will force the nation’s public, school, and academic libraries to take on this work themselves or abandon it altogether. “When the Library of Congress decides to cut cataloguing services to our nation’s libraries, thousands of Americans’ ability to locate and identify desired information is diminished,” Gorman said. [...]

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