The Portable Consultant

The Internet isn’t our modern version of the Library of Alexandria, Brewster Kahle’s Internet Archive is closer in spirit to that ancient centre of knowledge.
link rot
Over time, especially Internet time, web links break. It’s a part of the natural changing order of things. But the Portable Consultant is particularly sorry to see knowledge, freely offered […]

The other morning The Portable Consultant caught the second part of a two part interview (RealMedia ram) with Canada’s Industry Minister Jim Prentice on CBC’s (very) early morning business show, The Business Network.
(It’s sad that this business show is relegated to the ridiculously early time slot of 5:45 AM in Canada’s centre of business, […]

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 […]