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 [...]
Steven Bell challenges academic librarians to engage in a discourse that includes constructive criticism the way that other disciplines do.
…“perhaps we have become too welcoming, too complacent to remember that we share a responsibility to take our profession forward through intellectual discourse.”
My comments are on his page.
I’ve come up with some questions inspired by Charles Taylor:
What are the inter-subjective meanings embedded in library practices and institutions, e.g. public libraries, research libraries, LoC, authority controlled vocabularies, standards, acquisitions, policies, etc?
How are these meanings expressed, e.g. bias, equity of access, readership, marketing, etc?
What self-definitions are reflected in practices, and how did they [...]
I’m still working through articles by Charles Taylor, so for now I’m mostly going to post my notes. Hopefully, a few breakthroughs will strike along the way. Mainly, what I’m getting from
Taylor is that we should use a hermeneutical approach to understand the human sciences, that common meaning is essential for understanding, and that self-definitions [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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