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The Municipal Archives’ tax photos collection, a.k.a. 1980s New York City...
The New York City Municipal Archives (part of the Dept. of Records) digitized and uploaded thousands of photos of buildings in New York, taken in 1983-88. The photos were taken for tax documentation,...
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GoSoapbox for library class sessions
Screenshot of a GoSoapbox poll (results below) I've spent the last year experimenting with incorporating active learning practices into my library "one-shot" sessions (so-called because you have one...
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This step-by-step workflow illustrates how I import objects (metadata + files) into CollectiveAccess. I'm writing this post partly to give others an idea of how to import content into CollectiveAccess...
View ArticleBooks I read in 2016
I read 34 books for pleasure in 2016, the most I've read in one year since 2009. Bold = faves (doesn't include rereads) * = rereads A Long Way Gone (Ishmael Beah) All the Birds, Singing (Evie Wyld)...
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OER17 report-back: Four takeaways
I attended the OER17 Conference in London, April 5–6, 2017, with my colleague Ellen Sexton and with support from the Teaching & Learning Center here at John Jay. Though I'm relatively new to the...
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To scope or not to scope?
Our library homepage's main search area currently looks like this: The tab box has served us well for years, but it's about time we upgraded to something simpler and easier to use. We plan to give our...
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What did I do this year? 2016-17 edition
Every year, I take all of my "Done" tasks in my daily work log, normalize them, and run them through a word cloud visualizer to see what I've been spending my time doing. This helps me as I write my...
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Using Twine for non-linear tutorials
Bird's eye view of my ebooks tutorial I was first introduced to Twine through Birdland, a delightfully weird bit of e-lit. Its engine, Twine, is designed specially for interactive, nonlinear stories...
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I read 22 books for pleasure in 2017. This number is below average for me, but do consider that 4 of them were dense 600+–page fantasy novels. Bold = faves (doesn't include rereads) * = rereads Sing,...
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Migrating from WordPress to Jekyll
I installed WordPress on this website when I first bought the robincamille.com domain name in spring 2008. It’s been a great CMS for me over the years, but lately I’ve been pining for a simpler site...
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Optional scoping in a Primo widget: actual use
In May 2017, I wrote a blog post about whether or not to pre-scope the Primo search box on the library website. After a discussion with my colleagues and some preliminary testing, I ended up designing...
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I read 41 books for pleasure in 2018, almost double last year’s count and the most I’ve read in a single year since college (!). Of those, 26 were written by women, so I have achieved my yearly goal of...
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Hello from Raleigh! My new job as User Experience Librarian
In June of this year, I moved from Brooklyn, NY, to Raleigh, NC, with my husband (just married!) and started a new job at NC State University Libraries as User Experience Librarian.The new gigI...
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I read 59 books for pleasure in 2019, tying my record set in 2009. I thought I had myself beat but I suffered a double-counting error! Oh, well. I read more books by women than by men; in years past...
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NaNoGenMo project: Book of Horoscopes
Every November, I get excited for NaNoGenMo— National Novel Generation Month, which challenges you to write code that generates a 50,000-word novel (we’re using novel loosely here). Your output doesn’t...
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What does a UX librarian do?
A library & information science (LIS) student recently contacted me to ask how I came to be a User Experience (UX) Librarian at NC State University Libraries, where I’ve worked in the User...
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