Category Archives: LIS bits

Morsels from my studying and surfing in Library and Information Sciences

ALA membership

Posted on February 11, 2007 by

I finally sent in my application for membership to American Library Association mid-December. I didn’t realize early enough how big a deal is that their midwinter conference was right here in Seattle in January. I should have registered earlier for … Continue reading →

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kPod: Selecting Kosher Products Faster

Posted on January 23, 2007 by

For one of my classes I had to write a proposal in which I ” describe how the affordances of the technology (broadly conceived) are inspired by at least one piece of work from each of the fields of Information … Continue reading →

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Investigating AskMoses.com based on the Value Sensitive Design methodology

Posted on January 17, 2007 by

For one of my classes I was asked to “working with the Value Sensitive Design methodology, please write 1-2 pages if you were reporting briefly on a small conceptual investigation. Here is what I submitted. AskMoses.com is an “online resource … Continue reading →

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Reflecting on the Evolution of the Book

Posted on January 14, 2007 by

For one of my classes I had to reflect on Kilgour’s The Evolution of the Book. These were the questions, followed by my answers. 1. How does Kilgour define the book? Is this definition too narrow or broad? What does … Continue reading →

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Theodor Holm Nelson, hypertext, and Xanadu

Posted on January 8, 2007 by

As an assignment for my IB/HCI (Information Behavior in Human-Computer Interaction) class I was supposed to “select an individual (or a single project made up of multiple people) from history that had a significant impact on the progression of HCI … Continue reading →

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Winter 2007 courses

Posted on December 28, 2006 by

My strategy for picking classes is trying to go through the required classes starting from bottom up and take elective classes that sound interesting and relevant to what I would want to do in the future. Thus from the three … Continue reading →

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Autumn 2006 courses

Posted on December 28, 2006 by

In my first quarter at the iSchool I took 3 classes. At this time I had to take preset classes, from the next quarter one I can select my own. Up to a certain degree, because in order to graduate, … Continue reading →

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