I have to complete a 3000 word comparison between a virtual reference and a face-to-face reference session by Monday for “Information Resources and Services” AKA the Reference course. It seems longer than it is, because we have to detail the transaction with each and tell how we felt, then compare the two. I […]

I have been sometimes questioning the difficulty of my classes in a few posts, and the nature of the program, but I take it back now. I have this great class right now, FIS2142 Theories of Knowledge Organization AKA Classification.

My professor is Clare Beghtol who I actually enjoyed in Bibliographic Control. I […]

To: Friedrich Schiller, Sämtliche Werke, 1835, and the other German works of PT 2XXX

Dear Werke:

I am sorry I had to take you from the shelves, in all 12 volumes of beautiful cracking covers and yellowing paper. Apparently your lack of barcode signaled that no one had checked you out in almost 20 years. […]

The Globe and Mail has a great article about Canada’s “thriving” libraries.

Long the subject of warnings that the Internet would spell their demise, public libraries are booming through new branches, more resources and more computers.

The article notes how libraries are expanding to be become public spaces which just happen to hold books. I didn’t […]

Just got a link in my del.icio.us inbox that the university down the highway from me, McMaster is disbanding their catalouging department.

I seem to remember my Bibliographic Control professor mentioning the name of one US institution which attempted to stop cataloging but lived to regret it, but the name has slipped my mind. Does […]