Posts by Melody Smith
Unlocking the Classification of Plants
Linnaeus originally began designing and developing his taxonomic system by studying and classifying plants. This is the core, the foundation of the science and art of taxonomies today.
Read MoreMoving On Up
Moving is never fun. All the packing, all those boxes, and then carrying it all to the clouds. What?
Read MoreLearn 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.
Read MoreNew 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
Read MoreAbusing 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.
Read MoreBob 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.
Read MoreMarjorie 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.
Read MoreSegue 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.
Read MoreClassifying 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.
Read MoreStrong 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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