Post written by David Bawden and Lyn Robinson And little he knew of the things that ink may do, how it can mark a dead man’sthoughts for the wonder of later years, and tell of happenings that are gone clearaway, and be a voice for us out of the dark of time, and save many… Continue reading A voice out of the dark of time; the once and future LIS discipline
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Changing classifications
When teaching and writing about the classification of documents ('bibliographic classification'), I try to remember to make the point that document classifications very often draw from, and less often contribute to, more general classifications and taxonomies of knowledge, and of entities in the physical world. So it is worth keeping an eye on classification in… Continue reading Changing classifications
Both a borrower and a lender be? Is LIS research used outside the discipline?
Library/information science academics have been troubled for a long while as to whether anyone outside our discipline takes any notice of our research, since the issue was first thoroughly discussed in a paper by Blaise Cronin and Stephen Pearson. It is well-known that much of LIS's toolkit of theories and concepts, and the data to… Continue reading Both a borrower and a lender be? Is LIS research used outside the discipline?
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