Knowledge Commons | William Buck | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/williambuck/activity/ Activity feed for William Buck. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:14:28 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 72fbb224f6d237568993e4bc41bc0b13 William Buck deposited Classification, Controlled Vocabularies, and Syntactic Relations: Philosophical Perspectives On Information Search in the group Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1673199/ Sat, 21 Dec 2019 16:25:46 -0500 Semantic and syntactical judgments play a central role in the development of classification systems. Syndetic relationships are relationships between indexing terms, sometimes referred to as cross references. Due to the extensiveness of synonyms for different concepts in natural languages, subject indexing has historically focused on developing…[Read more]

]]> 0 ce6e23531aca6b31d8fc7b9717a637a4 William Buck deposited Classification, Controlled Vocabularies, and Syntactic Relations: Philosophical Perspectives On Information Search in the group Library & Information Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1673198/ Sat, 21 Dec 2019 16:25:41 -0500 Semantic and syntactical judgments play a central role in the development of classification systems. Syndetic relationships are relationships between indexing terms, sometimes referred to as cross references. Due to the extensiveness of synonyms for different concepts in natural languages, subject indexing has historically focused on developing…[Read more]

]]> 0 13731a49793eba413d33e095a2392dd6 William Buck deposited Classification, Controlled Vocabularies, and Syntactic Relations: Philosophical Perspectives On Information Search https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1673102/ Fri, 20 Dec 2019 21:12:40 -0500 Semantic and syntactical judgments play a central role in the development of classification systems. Syndetic relationships are relationships between indexing terms, sometimes referred to as cross references. Due to the extensiveness of synonyms for different concepts in natural languages, subject indexing has historically focused on developing…[Read more]

]]> 0 eb2e1422663faf62ecb73dcb572e68e2 William Buck deposited Power : A Brief Introduction For Libraries And Information Organizations in the group Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1670650/ Thu, 21 Nov 2019 16:25:37 -0500 Social organizations, institutions, governments, and bureaucracies are all manifestations of power distribution. Many contemporary theories on power are at least partly informed by notions that were introduced in General Systems Theory. Public libraries are open systems. In an average organization, a hierarchy divides tasks, sets rules, and…[Read more]

]]> 0 b14aa5ce93c5c179c8abc6810e3ffcc5 William Buck deposited Power : A Brief Introduction For Libraries And Information Organizations in the group Library & Information Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1670649/ Thu, 21 Nov 2019 16:25:32 -0500 Social organizations, institutions, governments, and bureaucracies are all manifestations of power distribution. Many contemporary theories on power are at least partly informed by notions that were introduced in General Systems Theory. Public libraries are open systems. In an average organization, a hierarchy divides tasks, sets rules, and…[Read more]

]]> 0 e52bcbd50fa1c846949b58338f0cdc17 William Buck deposited Power : A Brief Introduction For Libraries And Information Organizations in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1670648/ Thu, 21 Nov 2019 16:25:21 -0500 Social organizations, institutions, governments, and bureaucracies are all manifestations of power distribution. Many contemporary theories on power are at least partly informed by notions that were introduced in General Systems Theory. Public libraries are open systems. In an average organization, a hierarchy divides tasks, sets rules, and…[Read more]

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Social organizations, institutions, governments, and bureaucracies are all manifestations of power distribution. Many contemporary theories on power are at least partly informed by notions that were introduced in General Systems Theory. Public libraries are open systems. In an average organization, a hierarchy divides tasks, sets rules,…[Read more]

]]> 0 3df3d344210f0b7b44842f0f3e298afd William Buck's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1670593/ Wed, 20 Nov 2019 20:03:21 -0500 0 4b98e0cd6738be3eeef3522e61fd0807 William Buck deposited Precision And Recall : An Ontological Perspective in the group Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1664350/ Tue, 24 Sep 2019 16:25:42 -0400 There is a traditional narrative within information studies regarding precision and recall measures. Precision and recall have been the most commonly used retrieval metrics and are the basis for more complicated and accurate information retrieval evaluations. Relevance, which is the criterion by which both recall and precision are judged, is…[Read more]

]]> 0 c991ab9b48269f1c5a2f6245847b9ebb William Buck deposited Precision And Recall : An Ontological Perspective in the group Library & Information Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1664349/ Tue, 24 Sep 2019 16:25:37 -0400 There is a traditional narrative within information studies regarding precision and recall measures. Precision and recall have been the most commonly used retrieval metrics and are the basis for more complicated and accurate information retrieval evaluations. Relevance, which is the criterion by which both recall and precision are judged, is…[Read more]

]]> 0 332f8e6f44a6a36d5e8f0953d774bcb1 William Buck deposited Precision And Recall : An Ontological Perspective in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1664348/ Tue, 24 Sep 2019 16:25:28 -0400 There is a traditional narrative within information studies regarding precision and recall measures. Precision and recall have been the most commonly used retrieval metrics and are the basis for more complicated and accurate information retrieval evaluations. Relevance, which is the criterion by which both recall and precision are judged, is…[Read more]

]]> 0 d7ebf1e44b9e0688726cfeb496d73d82 William Buck deposited Precision And Recall : An Ontological Perspective https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1664233/ Mon, 23 Sep 2019 19:26:06 -0400 There is a traditional narrative within information studies regarding precision and recall measures. Precision and recall have been the most commonly used retrieval metrics and are the basis for more complicated and accurate information retrieval evaluations. Relevance, which is the criterion by which both recall and precision are judged, is…[Read more]

]]> 0 09973d1e9efec0d4b388e0ec84f41fa4 William Buck deposited Organizational Integration, Strategic Planning, And Staff Assessment In Publicly Funded Libraries in the group Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1663959/ Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:25:47 -0400 Library and information center services are at risk during times of extensive budget reductions. Publicly funded institutions labeled as inessential or as auxiliary departments may lose the revenue necessary to maintain full staffing. Financial circumstances of recent years highlight the importance of strategic planning in library and information…[Read more]

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]]> 0 de618c03bca7608a43aaeb6c25f05306 William Buck deposited Organizational Integration, Strategic Planning, And Staff Assessment In Publicly Funded Libraries in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1663957/ Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:25:35 -0400 Library and information center services are at risk during times of extensive budget reductions. Publicly funded institutions labeled as inessential or as auxiliary departments may lose the revenue necessary to maintain full staffing. Financial circumstances of recent years highlight the importance of strategic planning in library and information…[Read more]

]]> 0 07e18777cd5b8b5f0d8947b7587b4421 William Buck deposited Organizational Integration, Strategic Planning, And Staff Assessment In Publicly Funded Libraries https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1663828/ Wed, 18 Sep 2019 20:05:49 -0400 Library and information center services are at risk during times of extensive budget reductions. Publicly funded institutions labeled as inessential or as auxiliary departments may lose the revenue necessary to maintain full staffing. Financial circumstances of recent years highlight the importance of strategic planning in library and information…[Read more]

]]> 0 4755616959e571efcd62a0e02669efc6 William Buck deposited Privacy And Censorship : Another Look in the group Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1663794/ Wed, 18 Sep 2019 16:25:34 -0400 A traditional expectation for publicly funded libraries is that they should be institutions where patron records are kept confidential and a standard of privacy is maintained. After the events of 911, methods increasing search and surveillance powers and reducing legal protections were drafted into law as the “Patriot Act”. Searching patron rec…[Read more]

]]> 0 ff6e2d3a1f5ccfb5c5d74a3a5dc8aaea William Buck deposited Privacy And Censorship : Another Look in the group Library & Information Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1663793/ Wed, 18 Sep 2019 16:25:30 -0400 A traditional expectation for publicly funded libraries is that they should be institutions where patron records are kept confidential and a standard of privacy is maintained. After the events of 911, methods increasing search and surveillance powers and reducing legal protections were drafted into law as the “Patriot Act”. Searching patron rec…[Read more]

]]> 0 e415e2bfdc3efd8be41a940adf8ac398 William Buck deposited Privacy And Censorship : Another Look in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1663792/ Wed, 18 Sep 2019 16:25:21 -0400 A traditional expectation for publicly funded libraries is that they should be institutions where patron records are kept confidential and a standard of privacy is maintained. After the events of 911, methods increasing search and surveillance powers and reducing legal protections were drafted into law as the “Patriot Act”. Searching patron rec…[Read more]

]]> 0 7b8b17e00d0446b6193232022296887e William Buck deposited Privacy And Censorship : Another Look https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1663730/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 19:06:18 -0400 A traditional expectation for publicly funded libraries is that they should be institutions where patron records are kept confidential and a standard of privacy is maintained. After the events of 911, methods increasing search and surveillance powers and reducing legal protections were drafted into law as the “Patriot Act”. Searching patron rec…[Read more]

]]> 0 b26f0eda4439456549f18f8e1294cb39 William Buck deposited Providing Help In Hard Times : A Blueprint For Successful Strategic Planning in the group Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1663707/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 16:25:57 -0400 In response to a lack of funding during the 2007–2009 recession, many library systems reduced or eliminated professional and library support positions. Traditional outcome measurements were not sufficient to convince tax-depleted legislatures to allocate more funds to libraries. In response to the crisis authors recommended cost-saving measures a…[Read more]

]]> 0 749afeff17a237e9464d35f478c86bb8 William Buck deposited Providing Help In Hard Times : A Blueprint For Successful Strategic Planning in the group Library & Information Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1663706/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 16:25:53 -0400 In response to a lack of funding during the 2007–2009 recession, many library systems reduced or eliminated professional and library support positions. Traditional outcome measurements were not sufficient to convince tax-depleted legislatures to allocate more funds to libraries. In response to the crisis authors recommended cost-saving measures a…[Read more]

]]> 0 8d8a31c6e2f23c60e3383e8a7038a195 William Buck deposited Providing Help In Hard Times : A Blueprint For Successful Strategic Planning in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1663705/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 16:25:44 -0400 In response to a lack of funding during the 2007–2009 recession, many library systems reduced or eliminated professional and library support positions. Traditional outcome measurements were not sufficient to convince tax-depleted legislatures to allocate more funds to libraries. In response to the crisis authors recommended cost-saving measures a…[Read more]

]]> 0 dbdfcd587fec56fc4b109bee1e994569 William Buck's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1663384/ Sat, 14 Sep 2019 23:30:32 -0400 0 c2181a13e613cc38ae210e0ed54a3758 William Buck deposited Providing Help In Hard Times : A Blueprint For Successful Strategic Planning https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1663383/ Sat, 14 Sep 2019 22:58:04 -0400 In response to a lack of funding during the 2007–2009 recession, many library systems reduced or eliminated professional and library support positions. Traditional outcome measurements were not sufficient to convince tax-depleted legislatures to allocate more funds to libraries. In response to the crisis authors recommended cost-saving measures a…[Read more]

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