Leave it to the Annoyed Librarian to take everything I was thinking about “We Know What Library 2.0 Is and Is Not” and say it much more…. Annoyingly (in a wonderful way).

Just to let you know, Library Five-0 is all about technology:

Some of the twopointopians claim that Library 2.0 isn’t just about technology, that it’s […]

Updating my post on Michael Casey and Laura Savastinuk’s recent statement on Library 2.0. A blog I have just discovered, the Proletarian Librarian (adding another to The ‘X’ Librarian trend), has some comments on the Library 2.0 post as well.

An insightful addition to the discussion:

I’m all for finding out what our users want and […]

Nicholas Carr has a great reply to Larry Sanger’s article in Edge about Citizendium. Carr’s reply is lengthy, but a damn fine read. Sometimes I think Carr is the only one who understands basic facts like this:

Whatever happens between Wikipedia and Citizendium, here’s what Wales and Sanger cannot be forgiven for: They have […]

After spending a few weeks focused on class assignments, my Google Reader feeds have overwhelmed me. Particularly, my library related blogs feed category has some unknown number of unread posts in it. And I am not particularly interested in catching up.

The dilemma: every once and and a while, hell often every day, […]

The critique I can give to her position is that classification schemes give only the illusion of order and hierarchy where it doesn’t truly exist. We all know that classifications have their own cultural–i.e. relativist–biases. What we don’t like to admit is that these classification systems come from not only group discussion and agreement amongst professionals, but also the cultural environment where the system is developed. And societies will cover over the fact that the classification systems used to define its reality have no fundamental basis (Foucault). Peterson doesn’t consider the possibility that reality is relativist, thereby making “traditional” classification are static, possibly not reflective of current cultural beliefs, or even the tool of dominate power structures. This is not something I am arguing is true, mind you, but traditional classifications do have their own philosophical problems.