theorywatch

Delighted to find out that my paper on the axiologies of the anti-collection was chosen for presentation at the Library Research Seminar V in Maryland this October. This one isn’t about theories or practice theories, for a change! But it’s ironic to think that I presented at Library Research Seminar I way back in 1996 and never even tried to publish the resulting paper, though it was actually a fairly novel look at how websites about the Civil War “competed,” congregated,” and “cooperated.” Interestingly, I’m still working on another aspect of the same problem, though I’ve contextualized it much better since then, as I have much more theory at my fingertips these days! Ah, the opportunities that students let slip through their fingers (as I like to scold my own students now when they do something exceptional and then just put it away in a drawer!)

In any case, this should be another very interesting seminar: certainly the one in Tallahassee was well worth attending, as presenters there included Elfreda Chatman, Corinne Jorgensen, and Gary Radford, to name a few that I recall.