[Sigcr-l] Culture/language affecting KO

[Marcia J. Bates]

Folks,

Hope Olson has written a very nice and wide-ranging article on 
"Social Influences on Classification" for the upcoming Third Edition 
of the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences--due out in 
November 2009.

Nudge your local librarian to purchase ELIS 3 for your library!  This 
article and dozens of other articles relevant to KO will appear in 
ELIS 3.  The encyclopedia will be available online and in SEVEN 
volumes in paper.   Over 550 articles in all, most averaging over 
5,000 words in length.  Many written by members of SIG-CR!!

Also, regarding the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis--linguists have pretty 
much rejected the idea in any strong form.

Marcia
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Marcia J. Bates, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Editor, Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences
Department of Information Studies
Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1520 USA
Tel: 310-206-9353
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Web: http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/bates/