Classificatory horizons

Reading Stephen Paling’s article on the application of material rhetoric in classification theory and his concept of a Classificatory horizon makes me feel like I’m definitely on the right track, and it’s providing me with some solid fundamental theories.
Material rhetoric here concerns “the accretions, from prefaces to classificatory marks, that are attached to texts and [...]

libarything

Check out my library:
http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=madler
I really am going to use this for my studies….I think it’s really interesting to watch how people use this….what tags they assign, how they communicate, etc.

Tunnel vision and blind spots

Wiegand’s article retraces the history of American librarianship from 1893 and demands that scholars critically examine LIS in ways that theorists study other disciplines. He argues that, despite the fact that libraries are ubiquitous in American society, LIS is one of the most “understudied of American institutions” (2).
I found a number of points relevant to my project:

The American Library Association’s motto in [...]

Information studies is too important an area to be left to the philosophers.

So says Mike Heine, Department of Information and Library Management University of Northumbria at Newcastle United Kingdom.
I’ve just finished reading an article by John Budd entitled “Discourse Analysis and the Study of Communication in LIS,” and although the article itself wasn’t all that revealing, it did lead me to some other texts that look really [...]