by KimBoo York | May 15, 2012 | Information Science, Project Management
People often assume that project management (PM) is all about someone “in charge” telling other people what to do. That is fairly accurate, but gives PM a reputation as being the refuge of the bossy and the incapable. The truth is that PM is all about someone “in...
by KimBoo York | May 8, 2012 | Observations and Opinions, Information Science
With popular vlogs like tumblr and pinterest making the idea of “curation” as common as milk, the concept of curation has taken a pop-culture hit that most scholars, academics and InfoSci professionals turn their nose up at. But for InfoSci professionals,...
by KimBoo York | Apr 24, 2012 | Information Science, Observations and Opinions
In my Information Organization class, the one with the cement-brick equivalent textbook that is already two years out of date (you know the one) , there was a whole section (chapter? I don’t know, I gave the wretched thing to a friend taking the class) full of...
by KimBoo York | Apr 23, 2012 | Observations and Opinions, Information Science
LibChat is a weekly twitter event that is, in a way, a crowdsourcing of brainstorming. Someone poses a question about their job, the field in general, or a specific topic to the moderator, who then reposts it to all followers of the hashtag (#libchat). Suggestions,...
by KimBoo York | Apr 17, 2012 | Information Science, Observations and Opinions
I recently attended a small day-long symposium put on by FSU’s Center for Everyday Writing (doesn’t have a web presence yet, but will soon), and even presented on the topic of “Curating Archives” along with my colleague Ben Yadon. The event was archives-centric, in...
