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Uncontrolled Vocabulary #49 – The systems can be gamed.

By Greg | July 9, 2008

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #49 is now available for download. Here’s a direct link to the mp3.

You can subscribe to the podcast (as well as this blog) via the following feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/uncontrolledvocabulary

The sound quality is a little rough at first, but I implore you to tough it out. The rest of the show sounds good and the conversation is most definitely worth hearing.

On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Christa Burns, Nebraska Library Commission
Steven Cohen
Ryan Deschamps, Halifax Public Library
Sonya Green, Library Thing
Robin Hastings, Missouri River Regional Library
Jenny Levine, American Library Association
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission
Tim Spalding, Library Thing

Links to the show topics:

1. Judge: Hoosiers Who Sell Mature Materials Aren’t Adult Booksellers (AL Online)

2. The New LJ Index (Library Journal)

3. SirsiDynix Report Corrected (Library Journal)

4. Build the Open Shelves Classification (Thingology)

5. ALA Contradicts Itself With Verizon Grant (Library Stuff)

6. On not being scammed (Digital Reference)

Topics: Episodes | 3 Comments »

3 Responses to “Uncontrolled Vocabulary #49 – The systems can be gamed.”

  1. Dawn of the Dewey: What About A New Standard? « The Other Librarian Says:
    July 11th, 2008 at 9:27 am

    [...] July 11, 2008 in Community Development, Customer Service, GTD, Heroes, Leadership, Networking, Professional Development, Reading, Science, Trends, art and design, communications, diversity, e-learning, ideas, politics, projects, rants Tim Spalding of Library Thing has initiated an idea for an open source, crowd created replacement for the Dewey Decimal System called OSC.   On the whole, I am for starting anything.   I think entrepreneurialism like this is a good thing.   Competition of any kind cannot hurt the process of information organization — it makes everyone stronger, smarter and more productive.  There’s more discussion about it by Tim from this Wednesday’s Uncontrolled Vocabulary. [...]

  2. Jenny Levine Says:
    July 11th, 2008 at 3:34 pm

    Extra points for the title – nice one :)

  3. Greg Says:
    July 11th, 2008 at 3:36 pm

    Thanks, Jenny. I’ve got clever going for me, if nothing else.

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