U.S. News and World Report’s Rankings of Schools of Information and Library Science are out. University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill’s School, where I am on faculty, finished Number One (again). We did tie with University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign and were a slight bit above Syracuse.
For rankings in speciality areas see the press release on the UNC SILS website and for other UNC Schools ranking see the UNC Press Release.
Month: April 2006 (Page 4 of 4)
We’re on Boone for the Odyssey of the Mind state competition. Tucker’s team from Smith Middle School finished second in their division. As a result, they not only got medals and a trophy, but they will be going on to the World Competition in Ames, Iowa.
The teams has been wearing their very large medals around like, well, bling.
The Bling tag additional to HTML has already had an effect on me (see ibiblio home page for today). Yes, I too was surprized. I wondered how long I had lived a life without BLING.
BLING Team members, Joey, Jonathan and Dan say:
Much has been said in recent years regarding the imperative to separate the concerns of presentation and content. Mechanisms of presentation are subject to radical change, whether merely stylistic or mandated by technological progression. The Hyper-Text Markup Language that fulled the early days of the web revolution has been reincarnated as XHTML. It is joined by its newborn cousin, RSS, in heralding a new revolution that some have called Web 2.0.
Here at ibiblio, we take a more philosophical view regarding the separation of presentation and content. We cannot dismiss the importance of presentation as “mere style.” The aesthetic perception of an utterance is inextricably tied up with its semantics as well as its rhetorical impact. As Marshal McLuhan famously said: the medium is the message.
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