Dear colleagues,
I thought perhaps some of you may be interested in my upcoming radio
interview with David Weinberger today on my program, The Library
Cafe, a weekly series of interviews about books, scholarship, and
libraries broadcast on Vassar's radio station, WVKR. The program
can be accessed live Tuesdays at noon EDT through the station's
internet feed at http://www.wvkr.org/, and all interviews are
archived and accessible after air time via the program's web sit at
http://library-cafe.org.
David will be talking about his book Everything is Miscellaneous: The
Power of the New Digital Disorder, which includes his own
philosophical and historical takes on information organization
practices, interesting remarks about the history of alphabetizing,
V.S. Rangantathan's faceted classification system, Amazon's
serendipity strategies, Wikipedia, and more.
There are also on the site links to past programs that focus on
information and library issues, including interviews with ALA's Emily
Sheketov, historian of science Geoffrey Bowker, linguist, K. David
Harrison, public knowledge advocate John Willinsky, Chicago UP's
Susan Bielstein, and the U of M's Perry Willett. The interviews with
scholars also contain interesting anecdotal information on the way
scholars use libraries and archives since I aim the interviews in
this direction, apart from offering a forum for academic authors to
explicate their research to one another and the general public. Also
on the site are screencasts of interviews with Vassar's Frances
Lehman Loeb Art Center curators about major exhibitions at the Center.
Next Tuesday, April 8, I will be talking with Alex Byrne, 2005-07
President of IFLA and one of the founders of IFLA'a FAIFE program,
about the links between librarianship, internationalism, and
intellectual freedom advocacy.
As this is a weekly program I have been loath to bombard the
listserves with announcements about it, so if you are interested in
our programming do add us to your RSS feed or make a bookmark and do
spread the word among your colleagues -- we're presently just a
word-of-mouth-letter-of-blog operation. Also, although I don't seem
to get many, I welcome comments to the blog site.
Please forgive the cross-postings.
Best wishes,
Thomas
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Thomas E. Hill
Art Librarian,
Vassar College
Maildrop 512 Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, NY 12604
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