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
October 2014
Abusing the Thesaurus
By Melody Smith|October 8th, 20142014-10-06T16:54:31-04:00
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 Melody Smith|October 7th, 20142014-10-08T20:33:53-04:00
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 Melody Smith|October 6th, 20142014-10-05T19:22:47-04:00
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 Melody Smith|October 6th, 20142014-10-05T18:57:45-04:00
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 Melody Smith|October 3rd, 20142014-10-02T22:42:49-04:00
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 Melody Smith|October 3rd, 20142014-10-02T22:18:50-04:00
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 Melody Smith|October 2nd, 20142014-10-01T21:36:06-04:00
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 Melody Smith|October 2nd, 20142014-10-01T21:26:59-04:00
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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Terminology of Days Gone By
By Melody Smith|October 1st, 20142014-09-30T21:21:40-04:00
A peek into the past is what Words in Time and Place provides its readers. Exploring the language and terminology of days gone by and using the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary as the source.
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