Posts Tagged ‘Classification’
Breaking Grounds
I confess. I am in a not-so-secret deeply committed relationship with Joe, a.k.a. coffee, java, go juice, liquid energy. I came to this relationship later in life than most. I was 30 before I took the plunge. I admit it was a practical decision. With me having gone back to college while working a full…
Read MoreBig Picture Management
What is information lifecycle management? It is the practice of applying certain policies to effective information management. This includes every phase of a record from its beginning to its end. And while it is generally applied to information that fits the classic definition of a record, it applies to any and all informational assets. This interesting topic came to us…
Read MoreThe Dog Days of Summer
“It didn’t use to be this hot when I was younger.” I have heard that phrase for as long as I can remember. I can only assume that the ice ages must not have been as long ago as I had originally been taught. In all seriousness, has the average temperature changed in these summers…
Read MoreA Look at Women in Fiction
Over the years the availability of books and films that have improved upon the cliché roles women are given is getting better, though there are miles of opportunities for improvement in both. In the vein of “we’ve come a long way baby”, I took a look back at the classifications of female roles in fiction…
Read MoreYour Very Own Taxonomy
There are many places where taxonomy affects our lives, the least of which is certainly not where you choose to shop, as one couple recently discovered. This interesting and humorous information came to us from CMS Wire in their article, “How To Not Fail at Taxonomy.” You interact with taxonomy every day, whether it is locating…
Read MoreProvenance Based Classification Schemes
Libraries don’t catalog government information like traditional collections. Traditional material is catalogued using a subject based classification system, such as the Dewey Decimal System or Library of Congress Classification. The Government, however, uses provenance-based schemes for their publications, which are hard to fit into traditional library cataloging systems. This makes it hard for non-government information librarians to…
Read MoreIt’s Summer Reading Time!
Summer reading. These two words can instill both excitement and dread at the same time for a youth services librarian. Libraries across the country begin preparing for children and adult summer reading programs pretty much after the last summer reading program ends! A lot of preparation goes into creating exciting themes, distributing marketing materials, booking…
Read MoreClassifying the Classics
Taxonomy is about naming and classifying. That can be animals, minerals, music or even genres of literature. This interesting information came to us from The Collation in their article, “What’s in a genre? Metadata, Controlled Vocabularies, and the Folger’s Digital Anthology.” Carl Linnaeus, the father of modern taxonomy, created the system we use today. Categories of…
Read MoreOrganizing Knowledge
Humans classify and categorize everything from types of writing instruments to breeds of animals. Marjorie Hlava in her Taxobook states “you could even say that taxonomies and thesauri exist to further the objective of organizing knowledge.” It seems it is in our nature as humans to try and classify things. One example of human classification…
Read MoreGo Baby Go!
The Kentucky Derby may be the most widely anticipated and discussed two-minute sports event of the year. For folks outside the 30-mile radius of Louisville, Kentucky, it is just a horse race. For folks inside that radius, “derby” is a culture, one of big hats, bow ties, and bourbon. As an aside, let me say…
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