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A Librarian’s Guide to OpenRefine
This originally appeared on the ACRL TechConnect blog. Academic librarians working in technical roles may rarely see stacks of books, but they doubtless see messy digital data on a daily basis....
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This originally appeared on the ACRL TechConnect blog. In April of this year, the two most popular free citation managers–Mendeley and Zotero–both underwent some big changes. On April 8th, TechCrunch...
View ArticleCollecting Data: How Much do We Really Need?
This originally appeared on the ACRL TechConnect blog. Many of us have had conversations in the past few weeks about data collection due to the reports about the NSA’s PRISM program, but ever since...
View ArticleDigital Content: Who May Publish? Who May Sell? Who May Access?
This originally appeared on the ACRL TechConnect blog. No matter whether a small university press focusing on niche markets to the Big Six giants looking for the next massive bestseller, the publishing...
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Creating themes in Omeka 2.0
This originally appeared on the ACRL TechConnect blog. Omeka is an easy to use content management system for digital exhibits created by the Ray Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. It’s very...
View ArticleFor future reference: Event Calendar plugin problem
This probably doesn’t come up often, but it took awhile to piece this together, so here it is so I can find it again. If you use the Event Calendar plug-in for WordPress and don’t want the dates to...
View ArticleA Brief Look at Cryptography for Librarians
This originally appeared on the ACRL TechConnect blog. You may not think much about cryptography on a daily basis, but it underpins your daily work and personal existence. In this post I want to talk...
View ArticleSuzanne Briet: Antelopes can be documents
In honor of Ada Lovelace Day, #LibTechWomen is blogging about one of the great early library and information science theorists, Suzanne Briet. You can read all our blog posts on Twitter using the hash...
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Review of Using OpenRefine by Ruben Verborgh and Max De Wilde
Using Openrefine by Ruben Verborgh My rating: 4 of 5 stars Disclosure: the publisher of this book provided me with a free copy in exchange for a review. The opinions expressed in the review are my own....
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Summer Reading Program Form: SO SIMPLE
Last time I posted I was still months away from having a baby, now I have a four month old. Time to get back into blogging. I have some things specifically about babies and being a working mother and...
View ArticleOn Time and a Few Other Things
I sit here with a Steven Covey matrix open and then a list of priorities and I realize the one thing I don’t really have anything doing in is this, my poor blog, which has been going in one way or...
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Notes on Measuring and Calculating Impact in Institutional Repositories
Note: I gave this presentation at LITA Forum on November 7, 2014 as “What Does Your Repository Do? Measuring and Calculating Impact”. This is an on-going research project, which I will be expanding and...
View ArticleMargaret and Mike Explain Things to Me: an Introduction
Starting in December 2014, my husband Mike and I started a podcast loosely based on the “mansplaining” premise. Ok, we shamelessly appropriated the cover of Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me...
View ArticleCreating (Functional) ILLiad URL Templates for Alma General Electronic Services
This is one of those things I wish had been Google-able when I was trying to figure this out. I can’t promise these cover all cases, but here’s what I’ve got. Just as a note, the reason you need to...
View ArticleRural Life
I live in a dense urban environment surrounded by apartments, taxis, etc., but I happen to live in a house with a wonderful backyard where we grow vegetables, fruit, and flowers in addition to a lawn I...
View ArticleI’m Running for LITA Board
I’m running for the LITA (Library Information Technology Association) board as a Director-at-Large. My official statement and ballot information is available on the LITA website. I thought it would be...
View ArticleTime Tracking and the Reality of Self Care
Everyone likes to talk about the importance of self care. I did a podcast episode on it last fall. I think where we are in the discourse on this is that what we call self care for some people we call...
View Article“The Dark History of HathiTrust” by Alissa Centivany
“The library community is very catty. Because they’ve been deprived of power for so long they engage in horizontal violence at the local level.” -Unnamed early HathiTrust participant as quoted by...
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Healing in the Middle
I went to the doctor yesterday to confirm that my broken foot was healed. He showed me the X-ray and said “My diagnosis is confirmed. That’s always a good feeling.” What I didn’t know is that it was...
View ArticleSome Library Intentions for 2020
One’s daily work can seem useless in moments of looming geopolitical crisis. I wrote in my journal the other day about some household organization that made me feel more calm that it did feel like...
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