http://infomotions.com/blog/2008/07/origami-is-arscient-and-so-is-librarianship/ Thoughts in libraries and librarianship Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:26:26 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://infomotions.com/blog/2008/07/origami-is-arscient-and-so-is-librarianship/comment-page-1/#comment-1042 Infomotions Mini-Musings » Blog Archive » TFIDF In Libraries: Part III of III (For thinkers) / Eric Lease Morgan Sun, 31 May 2009 20:36:26 +0000 http://infomotions.com/blog/?p=42#comment-1042 [...] marriage between the social characteristics of librarianship and the logic of mathematics. (Think arscience.) The application of TFIDF in libraries is just one [...] [...] marriage between the social characteristics of librarianship and the logic of mathematics. (Think arscience.) The application of TFIDF in libraries is just one [...]

]]> http://infomotions.com/blog/2008/07/origami-is-arscient-and-so-is-librarianship/comment-page-1/#comment-990 Infomotions Mini-Musings » Blog Archive » Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Essays / Eric Lease Morgan Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:32:50 +0000 http://infomotions.com/blog/?p=42#comment-990 [...] comes from the ability to think both artistically as well as scientifically, an idea I call arscience: …science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with [...] [...] comes from the ability to think both artistically as well as scientifically, an idea I call arscience: …science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with [...]

]]> http://infomotions.com/blog/2008/07/origami-is-arscient-and-so-is-librarianship/comment-page-1/#comment-989 Infomotions Mini-Musings » Blog Archive » Henry David Thoreau’s Walden / Eric Lease Morgan Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:32:30 +0000 http://infomotions.com/blog/?p=42#comment-989 [...] Arscience — art-science — is a term I use to describe a way of thinking incorporating both [...] [...] Arscience — art-science — is a term I use to describe a way of thinking incorporating both [...]

]]> http://infomotions.com/blog/2008/07/origami-is-arscient-and-so-is-librarianship/comment-page-1/#comment-982 Infomotions Mini-Musings » Blog Archive » TFIDF In Libraries: Part I (For Librarians) / Eric Lease Morgan Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:57:41 +0000 http://infomotions.com/blog/?p=42#comment-982 [...] proves to be quite useful too. The approaches compliment each other — they are arscient. Much of how we have used computers in libraries has simply been to automate existing processes. We [...] [...] proves to be quite useful too. The approaches compliment each other — they are arscient. Much of how we have used computers in libraries has simply been to automate existing processes. We [...]

]]> http://infomotions.com/blog/2008/07/origami-is-arscient-and-so-is-librarianship/comment-page-1/#comment-914 Infomotions Mini-Musings » Blog Archive » Code4Lib Conference, Providence (Rhode Island) 2009 / Eric Lease Morgan Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:16:19 +0000 http://infomotions.com/blog/?p=42#comment-914 [...] I did not have the luxury for staying the last day of the Conference. I’m sure I missed some significant presentations. Yet, the things I did see where impressive. They demonstrated ingenuity, creativity, and as the same time, practicality — the desire to solve real-world, present-day problems. These things require the use of both sides of a person’s brain. Systematic thinking and intuition; an attention to detail but the ability to see the big picture at the same time. In other words, arscience. [...] [...] I did not have the luxury for staying the last day of the Conference. I’m sure I missed some significant presentations. Yet, the things I did see where impressive. They demonstrated ingenuity, creativity, and as the same time, practicality — the desire to solve real-world, present-day problems. These things require the use of both sides of a person’s brain. Systematic thinking and intuition; an attention to detail but the ability to see the big picture at the same time. In other words, arscience. [...]

]]>