Riot Librarian

The revolution will be organized.

  • A Week in the Life of a Web Services Librarian: Day Three

    8:30: Arrived at work after another sweaty walk. I’m a little baffled by the fact that it’s actually kind of cool out, but I still get to work and am a sweaty mess. I managed to get a lot checked off my To Do list right away, though: Emailed tech services staff to talk about…

  • A Week in the Life of a Web Services Librarian: Day Two

    You would think in summer, when the sun rises earlier, it would be easier to get out of bed in the morning but the past few weeks I’ve had to force myself out of my cozy bed. I’m trying to get up early enough to get some exercise before work: this morning I went for…

  • A Week in the Life of a Web Services Librarian: Day One

    For many years, Bobbi Newman hosted a blog round-up, Library Day in the Life, in which librarians around the world shared information about their day-to-day work lives in order to give people a better sense of the wide variety of jobs that take place in libraries. I always loved reading about how other librarians spent…

  • 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…

  • Jumping Right In

    I can hardly believe it’s almost September. I know I’m not the only person saying this. Summer seems to have flown by, as usual. And this summer has been more exciting than most, at least for me. I’ve made it through my first week in my new job as Web Services Librarian at Sonoma State…

  • 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…

  • ALA Annual Chicago 2013

    Once again, I find myself packing my schedule with overlapping events as I prepare for ALA Annual. I’m excited to go to Chicago: The few times I’ve been there before I’ve really enjoyed it. I’m flying in Thursday afternoon and leaving Tuesday morning, so I have a nice chunk of (already over scheduled) time there.…

  • Learning about Linked Data: SPARQL and Content Negotiation

    My ad hoc learning about linked data continues, and this past week I feel like my knowledge grew in leaps and bounds. A few weeks ago I installed Joseki on my local machine. Joseki is a SPARQL query engine (and apparently is no longer being developed; I guess I will have to upgrade to Jena…

  • Goals (NISO BIBFRAME Roadmap Meeting, Part 3)

    Over the course of the two-day NISO BIBFRAME Roadmap Meeting last week, I kept circling back to thinking about our goals. There was a discussion subgroup that focused on Goals and Strategies, and they raised some very important issues, but I didn’t come away feeling that we had a strategy for addressing them. There were…

  • What’s Wrong with MARC? (NISO BIBFRAME Roadmap Meeting, Part 2)

    Librarians have been talking about what’s wrong with MARC for so long, at this point it seems like you shouldn’t even have to ask. It was 11 years ago that Roy Tennant published his now infamous article, MARC Must Die in Library Journal. But MARC is far from dead. At the NISO BIBFRAME Roadmap Meeting,…