What is your relationship to the written word? What does recorded knowledge or the words chosen by another mean to your life? How does it become something to you? Why does it?
There are many stories of folks finding identity with others through the written word. There are also stories of folks rejecting dominant epistemologies present in the majority of recorded knowledge (e.g., Mary Daly [1]). Still others that were too busy with their own thoughts (So was Dorothy Wordsworth according to Gertrud Stein). We are also told by Eco, that some would rather die than share recorded knowledge - and we don't need fiction to know this to be the case.
If we focus on this and ask ourselves how and what part of the written word is accessible - beyond our current conceptions of our information institutions [2] - we might come to a new bibliography with a new set of requirements for knowledge organization.
References
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Daly#Works
[2] Furner, J. (2007). Dewey deracialized: A critical race-theoretic perspective. Knowledge Organization 34: 144-168. http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/jfurner/papers/furner-ko07-revised.pdf
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Librarians and Sponsorship
National Post of Canada: "Even Libraries have been put on notice to ensure that they’re complying with all registered Olympic sponsors and partners. Librarians have been asked to help ensure corporate brands like Coke and McDonald’s get exclusive coverage during the Olympics.
“Do not have Pepsi or Dairy Queen sponsor your event,” read guidelines sent to VPL branch heads and supervisory staff last fall. “Coke and McDonald’s are the Olympic sponsors. If you are planning a kids’ event and approaching sponsors, approach McDonald’s and not another well-known fast-food outlet.”
Libraries have been instructed to “ensure all equipment/goods meets VANOC’s sponsorship brand requirements for things like food, clothing, merchandise.” So that means if a Telus employee is a speaker at a library event, he has to remove any symbols that identify Telus, since Bell is the official sponsor of the Games."
Read more: http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2010/01/13/adrian-macnair-with-glowing-hearts-olympics-kills-the-arts.aspx#ixzz0cbmIvpEb
“Do not have Pepsi or Dairy Queen sponsor your event,” read guidelines sent to VPL branch heads and supervisory staff last fall. “Coke and McDonald’s are the Olympic sponsors. If you are planning a kids’ event and approaching sponsors, approach McDonald’s and not another well-known fast-food outlet.”
Libraries have been instructed to “ensure all equipment/goods meets VANOC’s sponsorship brand requirements for things like food, clothing, merchandise.” So that means if a Telus employee is a speaker at a library event, he has to remove any symbols that identify Telus, since Bell is the official sponsor of the Games."
Read more: http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2010/01/13/adrian-macnair-with-glowing-hearts-olympics-kills-the-arts.aspx#ixzz0cbmIvpEb
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