The Portable Consultant

library science, past and present
Many, many, moons ago The Portable Consultant was involved in the classification of audio-visual materials for a university library. I recall that the classification scheme in favour at the time was a modified Lamy-Rousseau which attempted to bring uniformity to a library’s A/V collections.
One of the issues I had with the [...]

When I received a job posting from Grassroots via LinkedIn recently I was entertained by their request for the following:
- What’s the second coolest thing you’ve ever done?
- Write a haiku about online technology.
- What’s your slogan (or soundtrack)?
- What would you do with an extra 6 hours a day?
- What question should [...]