[Sigcr-l] Words: an invitation

Fran Miksa miksa at gslis.utexas.edu
Mon Nov 25 13:10:50 EST 2002


Barbara--The woman you are referring to is probably Barbara Kyle.  FRAN M.

At 04:03 PM 11/22/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi,
>There was a member of the CRG (a woman) that Ia MacIlwaine always mentions 
>in her talks. She was, I think, a specialist in scientific info. Can't 
>remember her name, but she didn't publish  much and died early. Ia says her 
>works are "classics" but I've not been able to find them. Maybe when I'm in 
>London next spring I'll ask Ia and go look at their lbirary.  B.
>
>>>> "Shawne Miksa" <SMiksa at unt.edu> 11/22/02 03:40PM >>>
>I would also like to join Kathryn and thank everyone who help put the 
>workshop together. I enjoyed very much the conversations and the papers 
>presented.  It seems would should also add "taxonomy" to that list--in every 
>sessions I attended over the last few days that was the one word that always 
>came up. 
>
>I want to restate my intention to digitize some of the older and/or 
>out-of-print works that were mentioned several times at the workshop.  I've 
>made a (very) preliminary list, some of which are just the names of the 
>authors themselves, and am including it below.  If anyone has suggestions 
>for other titles or authors please let me know.  I plan to seek some 
>funding, if possible, and approach the Texas Center for Digital Knowledge 
>(TxCDK) here at SLIS/UNT about using the digital lab to begin the scanning.  
>Here is the list:
>
> 
>Dorking Conference 1957
>Elsinore Conference 1964
>Faceted Classification—Vickery
>Berwick-Sayers
>Bliss
>Ranganathan
>Richardson
>Dewey?
>D.J. Foskett
>E. Coates
>Fairthorne
>Farradane 
>Mills’ Modern Outline for Library Classification
>Pollard, Bradford
>Taube?
>CRG minutes
>Any CRSG minutes
>
>Again, this is very preliminary--just me brainstorming on the flight home. 
>Edie Rasmussen expressed interest in using this for a class project.  
>Please give me your thoughts and suggestions. 
>most sincerely,
>S.
>  
>
>
>Shawne D. Miksa, Ph.D.
>Assistant Professor
>School of Library and Information Sciences
>University of North Texas
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