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Feeling Defeated
I’ve been struggling lately, friends. Who isn’t? My sense that we have created a broken society grows stronger every day. The problems feel so overwhelming, so systemic that they can’t be resolved. I think those of us who work in professions focused on creating a better society (which I believe librarianship very much is) are…
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Why I Changed My Mind About e-Books
When I first got a Kindle in December of 2010, I was so excited. I couldn’t believe how easy it was to buy a book and be able to start reading it instantly. And e-books were cheaper! I can’t resist a good bargain. Not to mention that that Kindle made travel far less of a…
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More on Serials and Linked Data
Last year I wrote an article on serials, FRBR, and linked data in the Journal of Library Metadata. My main goal was to re-think how libraries can make connections between articles and the journals in which they’re published using linked data. I used the FRBR model to link the article and the journal together at…
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Onward and Upward
It seems way too recent that I was writing a similar blog post, but life is ever changing, right? Yes, I’m moving on yet again. I’ve accepted a new position as the Web Services Librarian at Sonoma State University. I’ve been so lucky to be a part of the California Digital Library, for however brief…
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I fixed it!
Last week I discovered some wonkiness happenings with pages in my wordpress installation. I recently moved from one hosting account to another, and I figured something off must have happened when I was re-setting up this site. And I was right. I had some extra lines in my .htaccess file that were causing some issues,…
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I busted it
You might notice that some of the links on this site are broken. Sad face! I recently transferred my domain to a new hosting account, and somewhere in the process of setting up this site, I busted it. I’m trying valiantly to fix it, so keep your fingers crossed that I can. In the meantime,…
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Supporting Infrastructure
I recently read a quote in OCLC’s report, “Libraries at Webscale”: Leslie Crutchfield says that “The expectation that collaboration can occur without a supporting infrastructure is one of the most frequent reasons that collective efforts fail.” That quote really stuck with me because it so aptly describes the project I’ve been working on for the…
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100 Best Novels
Awhile ago, I posted a list, purportedly from the National Endowment for the Arts, of “great books” which supposedly people didn’t read. However, the list was weird and I think the whole exercise would have been better served with a better list. So I’m going to try to re-start this meme with the list from…