Melody Smith

About Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.

Learn More About Thesauri

By |October 8th, 2014|News, Standards|Comments Off on Learn More About Thesauri

The Association for Information Management (ASLIB) is offering a course on Thesaurus Basics. It is a distance learning platform and is scheduled for October 15, 2014. This course introduces the ideas behind the thesaurus, the most sophisticated gold-standard controlled vocabulary for information organization and retrieval. It enables participants to understand what thesauri are, why and how they are used, and why they are worth the intellectual effort needed to construct and maintain them.

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New SLA Officers for 2015

By |October 8th, 2014|News|Comments Off on New SLA Officers for 2015

Tom Rink, an instructor for library services at Northeastern State University (NSU) in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, will lead the Special Libraries Association (SLA) as president in 2016

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Abusing the Thesaurus

By |October 8th, 2014|News|Comments Off on Abusing the Thesaurus

A new twist in using technology to take shortcuts lands in universities, where students are using a thesaurus app to procure changes on essays copy-and-pasted from the internet. Their belief is that it no longer falls under plagiarism after they make a few changes. However, the results are often hilariously inept.

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Bob Kasenchak to Facilitate Taxonomy Boot Camp Workshop

By |October 7th, 2014|Access Insights, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Bob Kasenchak to Facilitate Taxonomy Boot Camp Workshop

As we announced yesterday, our own Margie Hlava was named winner of the 2014 ASIS&T Award of Merit. Because she will be in Seattle on November 4th to receive this award, Bob Kladkfa;ceck will be leading the workshop "So You Have a Taxonomy - Now What?" in her place.

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Marjorie M.K. Hlava Named Winner of the 2014 ASIS&T Award of Merit

By |October 6th, 2014|Access Insights, Featured|Comments Off on Marjorie M.K. Hlava Named Winner of the 2014 ASIS&T Award of Merit

ASIS&T, the American Society for Information Science and Technology, has announced that it has selected Marjorie Hlava, President of Access Innovations, Inc., as the 2014 Award of Merit winner.

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Segue Into Spelling

By |October 6th, 2014|indexing, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Segue Into Spelling

Segue is an odd word. It's conjugated versions defy normal grammar and spelling rules, i.e. segueing, segued, etc. Pronunciation is a whole new challenge as many understand the meaning and use it in day to day conversation, but when it comes time to spell it -- that is a whole different story.

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Classifying History

By |October 3rd, 2014|indexing, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Classifying History

The American Historical Association (AHA) recently put together a draft revision of its taxonomy of the discipline and is inviting comment from members as it moves toward a final form of the document. The deadline for comment is September 30.

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Strong Data Needs Strong Management

By |October 3rd, 2014|metadata, News|Comments Off on Strong Data Needs Strong Management

Docassist Desktop has been released for easy transition to the cloud for mail or print documents to Docassist.

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Publishing and Libraries – The Relationship Evolves

By |October 2nd, 2014|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Publishing and Libraries – The Relationship Evolves

If you aren't attending the Taxonomy Boot Camp, maybe you will find this conference a little closer to your interests. "The Library as Publisher: Details, Practice, and Potential Outcomes" addresses the creation of new content sets by virtue of a university open access repository, or putting together custom courseware and how this practice is turning many libraries into de facto publishers. This is actually a pre-conference to the Charleston Conference in...you guessed it, Charleston, South Carolina.

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Ordinal Oddities

By |October 2nd, 2014|News|Comments Off on Ordinal Oddities

Many linguist believe that English is one of the most difficult languages to learn and not because of the pronunciation challenges, but for the exceptions to every rule. For us word geeks, this is more than just humorous, it is educational (and a bit frustrating). This was found in the blog post, "Why is today the first, not the oneth?" in the blog, Wordlady.

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