by KimBoo York | Dec 26, 2011 | From the archives, Information Science
I have started my new job at the Claude Pepper Library, which is part of the Claude Pepper Foundation at FSU and is also aligned with the FSU Libraries Special Collections Department (I think…the inter-relationships of these organizations defeats even the most...
by KimBoo York | Nov 22, 2011 | Information Science
Title of vid: The Humanist, the Library, and the Digital Future of Cultural Materials and their Interpretation by Johanna Drucker (2010) Drucker’s lecture is pretty much a distillation of many broad, sticky topics I’ve been thinking on since I started my MLIS. She...
by KimBoo York | Oct 27, 2011 | Information Science
October will be forever remembered, by me, as the Month of User Interface Fail. I don’t have dates/times for events, but they happened in a cascade, and makes me wonder WTF is up. Is the new goal to make helpful and convenient services utterly unusable? Because...
by KimBoo York | Oct 23, 2011 | Information Science
They come from everywhere, and go everywhere. This was hit home yesterday for me when I had the pleasure and honor of getting a tour of the amazing Pebble Hill Plantation in Georgia. The Registrar, Anne Wade, spoke at the ALA Student Chapter/FSU on Friday night, and...
by KimBoo York | Sep 18, 2011 | Information Science
This entry is part [part not set] of 9 in the series The MLS Project“The purpose of this book is to recount the reason ALA enacted the [MLS Project] and to consider its consequences by reviewing relevant data.” (The MLS Project by Keith Boyd Swigger, page...
by KimBoo York | Aug 22, 2011 | Information Science, Review, Book
Common as Air by Lewis Hyde (2010). Quote: “Simply put, my project has been to enlarge the set of stories that might usefully guide our thinking about the ownership of art and ideas.” (p. 214) Short form: This is not a legal treatise on copyright law. It...
