News archive 2005

April

• April 26. Travel notes from Romania are posted on my new English language blog Pliny the Younger. After Bucharest I need a restful book ..

• April 12. Back from Florence (3 weeks) yesterday and off to Bucharest (1 week) on Sunday (April 17). But there is also a bus running between the two cities - and Italian firms use call centres in Rumania. A new Latin Europe is taking shape.
  
  In Bucharest, I will vist CIMEC - a public resource center for the rich cultural heritage of Rumania - with a strong emphasis on digital documentation and dissemination.

March

• The conference paper A poem lovely as a tree? (2001) has finally reached print, in Carl Gustav Johannsen and Leif Kajberg (eds.) New frontiers in library research (Scarecrow Press, 2005).

February

• February 26. IFLA is not the only Oslo event of the year. People that study childhood will meet for a major conference in Oslo from June 29 to July 3. The emerging knowledge society involves intellectual production on a massive scale: more than a thousand proposals for papers have been received!
• February 13. Jane Inman describes A Librarian's Experience of e-Government in the January issue of Ariadne.
• She also notes that only 4% of those who define themselves as Librarians earn more than £40,000 - as opposed to 16% of the Information managers and 52% of the Information Directors.
• February 6. It sounds Chinese, it looks American - but it is Norwegian: Pandia search central. Check it out.

January

• January 14. - Ready reference: Wikipedia and other free sources are combined at answers.com.
• Some years ago, answers.com was the name of a US-based commercial reference service - which collapsed. Progress ...
• January 7. - They key for understanding both action and the reflection is, according to Bakhtin, that nothing is constant. Everything is negotiated. More
• January 6. A fresh and useful book note on Hardt & Negri`s Empire - by anthropology professor William Washabough. He has also good ideas - on university teaching. Which he seems to practice. Wow!
• - The new knowledge we produce has a very specific thrust. It is marginocentric. Briefly, this means that the voices and practices that are conventionally ignored in everyday life gain visibility and assume fresh importance as a result of our anthropological and historical studies.
• Antonio Negri (Wikipedia).
  Michael Hardt (faculty bio)
• January 5. In Januar last year I promised to document one of my BIG interests - books and reading - more systematically

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