Category Archives: Syracuse University

Syracuse University iSchool Mural

Posted on September 8, 2010 by Josh Kitlas

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Observations on “FRBR and the History of Cataloging” by William Denton and “Toward a Worldwide Digital Library” by Edward A. Fox and Gary Marchionini

Posted on September 6, 2010 by Josh Kitlas

“Toward a Worldwide Digital Library” by Edward A. Fox and Gary Marchionini was a flat out disaster of an article. The authors easily used the term ‘worldwide’ yet throughout the article I saw no mention of: Any South American nation … Continue reading →

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511 – The first class

Posted on September 6, 2010 by Josh Kitlas

When I first came to Syracuse University many months ago it was for an interview with the new Program Director of the MLIS program, Dr. R. David Lankes. At one point in the interview he looked, somewhat manically, straight into … Continue reading →

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601 aka the Intro class

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Josh Kitlas

So before this falls into the ‘I should have written that’ category, I wanted to get some pen on the iSchool introductory class -IST601 – Information and Information Environments. In short – awesome. Really awesome. The content delivered and the … Continue reading →

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The Man Who Wanted to Classify the World

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Josh Kitlas

Saw this movie in class tonight about Paul Otlet, who, among other things, invented an international classification scheme called Universal Decimal Classification used for books, photographs and other documents, microfilm, and the index card catalog system used in most libraries. … Continue reading →

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