A talk given to the Librarians' Christian Fellowship in April 2009 at St Nicholas' Church, Nottingham, England. Uses the motif of Adam naming the animals to develop a theological approach to knowledge-based work particularly librarianship.

1. Talk: LCF, 25April 2009, St Nic's Nott'm title: Adam & Dewey dam and Dewey session 1/1

2. Bless to us our thinking; and learning, may we glorify You. Bless to us our senses; and perceiving, may we delight in what you make . Bless to us our conversation; In speaking may we build up all. So may we think more truly; know more clearly and grow together in loving service. Amen.

4. Dewey?

5. Genesis 2 19 So out of the ground the Lord God formed every animal of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. 20 The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the air, and to every animal of the field; but for the man there was not found a helper as his partner.

6. Naming: Contemplation and taxonomy

7. In " The Analystical Language of John Wilkins ," Jorge Luis Borges describes a mythical Chinese encyclopedia, the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge , that divides all plants and animals into fourteen wonderful, fanciful categories as a means to refute ... those, like Wilkins, who had long sought to produce a universal language.

8. http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html

9. http://nouslife.blogspot.com/search/label/homo_loquens

10. (Pedagogical) constructivism: people construct their own understanding and knowledge of the world, through experiencing things and reflecting on those experiences. http://nouslife.blogspot.com/search/label/homo_loquens

11. Folksonomy: the bottom-up classification systems that emerge from social tagging.. http://nouslife.blogspot.com/search/label/homo_loquens

12. Image of God ...