Wednesday... already?

Yesterday was busy! Not that any of my days aren't but for some reason I was running for most of the day. I did some emailing in the a.m. and got myself downtown to print and copy things. That was a good thing. There are several other things that need to be copied, but since the journals have just been moved to the lower level in Hagerty it isn't really feasible to do everything. A few items are AWOL, so I will return to this task after I go to the WebWise conference next week. I copied several articles from a visual literacy resource I had IIL'd and I copied a bit of a dissertation which also comes from the vis lit discipline.

I was also able to give Jenn the articles and the CD I burned for her which was on my list. ;-) I didn't get any of Caswell read, but I did read an early article (1975) on relevance by Saracevic. It gives a nice history of the term relevance and situates it among the discourse of several disciplines (philosophy, logic, and info science). Another source I was reading through is a nice little book edited by Jana Varlejs titled Information Seeking. It is a bit old (1987), but the several articles in the book are interesting reads (by Belkin, Saracevic, Kuhlthau, Varlejs, and Vandergrift) about information behaviors. I need to seek out more recent literature on the subject, but for now these early things are keeping me busy. I tend to like to read early things since it sets the stage for the later research. I can often see the progression of ideas more easily by doing this -- plus it gives a sort of genealogy to the research.

I have been trying to get more participants involved. Hopefully the research gods will smile favorably upon me soon. I do need the artist and architect participants. Eeeep. I will keep trying. It is difficult not being discouraged at their lack of interest. I don't want to drop them from the study!

Ok, so I have about 3 solid hours to work today and I will spend it reading. But here is the complete list of things that need doing:

1. Read: rest of Saracevic, Varlejs, Bradley.
2. Do annotations!
3. Clean my desk - it feels a bit claustrophobic with all the stacks.
4. Call sitter about next Wednesday and Thursday.
5. Shopping.
6. Camp and Miami call.
7. Poster blurb for conference.
8. Smile!

Tomorrow:
1. Appt. downtown.
2. Read!
3. Rosemont
4. Bala meeting.
5. Finish poster blurb.
6. Cobbler for boots.
7. Bank for deposit.
8. Recruit!