I’ve been a bad blogger. Sorry about that.
I am now a month into the doc program at UW, and I’m having the time of my life. I particularly love my history of science course: Historiography and Methods. It’s basically a history of the discipline of history of science. Perhaps the most significant/practical thing that [...]
If we look at LCSH as a text or a narrative, we can analyze it in a way that is similar to Edward Said’s criticism of 19th and 20th century novels in Culture and Imperialism.
A crucial aspect of Said’s premise is that the novel as we know it couldn’t exist without imperialism and that when we [...]
Looking back to literary criticism in the late 19th century we find Matthew Arnold’s work, including Culture and Anarchy and Essays in Criticism, in which he advances his beliefs that literature may be judged objectively, that a perfect society is attainable through intellectualism, and that the instrument of social perfection is the state. He is [...]
Palmer and Malone examine representations of women in classification structures, which are “artifacts of a society’s intellectual history” that “reveal commonly held beliefs and assumptions” (179). They show how subject headings can be temporary in nature and can depend upon and influence relationships between published knowledge and organization and retrieval of that knowledge. They trace [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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