Blog archive
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2023
- How to hold a content strategy meeting • Dec 4, 2023
- How to get statistics about your institution’s accessibility needs • Oct 23, 2023
- How to ask about race on a web form • Oct 8, 2023
- Why you should ask users to test your website on their own devices • Sep 18, 2023
- How to host a website cleanup event • Aug 22, 2023
- How to make a bad web form • Jun 12, 2023
- The value of live prototyping • Apr 25, 2023
- Use your reference interview skills to do user research • Feb 27, 2023
- Why you should think of stressed users as your default audience • Jan 23, 2023
- Books I read in 2022 • Jan 18, 2023
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2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
- Heads Up! in PowerPoint for library class sessions • Nov 17, 2015
- What did I do this year? 2014–15 edition • Sep 25, 2015
- CollectiveAccess work environment • Jun 15, 2015
- The faculty toolbox for online learning • May 15, 2015
- Updating the Murder Mystery Challenge library game • Apr 1, 2015
- Bootstrapping an emergency library backup site • Mar 5, 2015
- See through the Internet: workshop handout • Feb 11, 2015
- Create a topic map of (some of) your institution's publications in Gephi • Feb 5, 2015
- Update to 'Using Instagram for your library' • Jan 29, 2015
- METROcon 2015 notes • Jan 16, 2015
- Books I read in 2014 • Jan 4, 2015
2014
- CollectiveAccess workflow • Nov 17, 2014
- Questions from children about my job • Nov 17, 2014
- Using the Internet of Things to wake up in the morning • Sep 23, 2014
- What did I do this year? 2013–14 edition • Jun 11, 2014
- Some notes from Theorizing the Web 2014 • Apr 28, 2014
- Analyzing EZproxy logs with Python • Apr 22, 2014
- Downloading all the items in an Internet Archive collection using Python • Mar 24, 2014
- Data Viz Hack Day Resources • Feb 18, 2014
- Find a book by call number (bookmark template) • Jan 31, 2014
- Successful social media in our library + using Bit.ly • Jan 31, 2014
- What are emerging tech librarians into this year? • Jan 30, 2014
- Digital & paper journaling • Jan 18, 2014
- Books I read in 2013 • Jan 2, 2014
2013
- Coming soon: Lloyd Sealy Library Digital Collections • Dec 13, 2013
- Recent presentations • Dec 13, 2013
- Life With Pi: Microcomputing in Academia • Dec 7, 2013
- The Murder Mystery Challenge: a pilot project with an impressive turnout • Dec 4, 2013
- Google educational materials • Nov 8, 2013
- LibGuides customization tutorial + CSS template • Oct 30, 2013
- Making a Twitter bot in Python (tutorial) • Oct 24, 2013
- Using Instagram for your library: 9 strategies • Sep 30, 2013
- Elsewhere on the web • Sep 29, 2013
- Horse_ebooks • Sep 25, 2013
- Games I play • Sep 18, 2013
- Rethinking what I do as an emerging tech librarian • Aug 16, 2013
- Implementing a simple reference desk logger • Aug 1, 2013
- Gephi + MALLET + EMDA • Jul 3, 2013
- Introducing myself to MALLET • Jun 30, 2013
- Introducing myself to MALLET • Jun 26, 2013
- Gentle SEO reminders • Jun 19, 2013
- What did I do this year? • Jun 17, 2013
- Python + BeautifulSoup + Twitter + Raspberry Pi • Jun 13, 2013
- Raspberry Pi + Twitter • Jun 12, 2013
- Other redesigned LibGuides: VCU, UMich, Stanford • Jun 11, 2013
- Updated post: more from my web design past • Jun 4, 2013
- Librarify it! Considering Raspberry Pi and Arduino projects • May 29, 2013
- A reminder • May 24, 2013
- Generating red link links for Wikipedia • May 24, 2013
- Algorithms and academic research • May 20, 2013
- Review of the Jawbone UP wristband after 3 months • May 19, 2013
- Making a Superfish menu faster by removing animation • May 17, 2013
- New toy: Raspberry Pi • May 16, 2013
- Device and browser testing tools • May 10, 2013
- Technical details pages • May 9, 2013
- Site icons • Apr 29, 2013
- Great digital collections site from Duke • Apr 25, 2013
- Wearable tech • Apr 24, 2013
- Drupal's WSoD (White Screen of Death) • Apr 23, 2013
- From Wikipedia to the Lloyd Sealy Library • Apr 22, 2013
- Using Drupal and Git for a library website • Apr 16, 2013
- Librarians and MOOCs • Apr 15, 2013
- Side-effect of emerging technologies • Apr 12, 2013
- Library website usability testing: sample scripts • Apr 10, 2013
- Trying out GeoStoryteller • Apr 5, 2013
- Sketchy mocks • Apr 4, 2013
- More map quilt photos • Mar 31, 2013
- Link: What could a library do with a gigabit Internet connection? • Mar 27, 2013
- I like this Alot • Mar 25, 2013
- Keeping a professional journal • Mar 20, 2013
- Instant night mode for Mac and iOS • Mar 19, 2013
- Building a database directory in Drupal 7 • Mar 18, 2013
- Notes from recent un/conferences • Mar 13, 2013
- Easy LibGuides makeover • Mar 13, 2013
- What does emerging tech in the library look like? • Mar 13, 2013
- Winter update • Feb 28, 2013
2012
- Books I read in 2012 • Dec 30, 2012
- An interview with my grandmother: Hawaii in December 1941 • Dec 7, 2012
- Hello from New York! My new job, how I got here, and the value of my MLIS • Nov 5, 2012
- A Mucha Tour of Prague • Aug 19, 2012
- Notes on digital preservation and Jason Scott's JCDL keynote • Jun 18, 2012
- Reading Experience Database text mining project • Mar 27, 2012
- Testing out the NLTK sentence tokenizer • Feb 18, 2012
- Whalers, sailors, and libraries at sea [part 3] • Jan 26, 2012
- 4 tips for a responsive, readable blog design • Jan 25, 2012
- Books I read in 2011 • Jan 15, 2012
- Whalers, sailors, and libraries at sea [part 2] • Jan 11, 2012
- Whalers, sailors, and libraries at sea [part 1] • Jan 9, 2012
2011
- Impromptu iPhone book scanner • Dec 21, 2011
- Shedd Aquarium: GIFs! • Nov 13, 2011
- Terraria, pt. II, ft. a tutorial • Nov 8, 2011
- Archivists as creators • Oct 10, 2011
- And now, please enjoy some photos of jellyfish • Sep 27, 2011
- Chez nous, in photographs • Sep 21, 2011
- Map quilt of Providence, R.I. • Sep 19, 2011
- Autoantonyms • Sep 14, 2011
- My bookshelves • Sep 10, 2011
- Archive vs. archives, Internet vs. internet • Sep 9, 2011
- What I did this summer: Smithsonian Institution Archives internship • Sep 1, 2011
- Project: Grandma's letters • Aug 30, 2011
- The Setup • Aug 29, 2011
- Andy Goldsworthy installation at the National Gallery of Art • Aug 10, 2011
- Custom searching in Chrome • Aug 4, 2011
- Apparently it's the end of July... • Jul 25, 2011
- Summercolor • May 12, 2011
- New lens • May 3, 2011
- No soliciting or trespassing • Apr 26, 2011
- Can you spot it? Gangsterland, Chicago edition • Apr 17, 2011
- Convergence: relics, paperweights • Apr 13, 2011
- Monkey martini • Mar 29, 2011
- Floor, by Do-Ho Suh • Mar 27, 2011
- Time traveling in my web design past • Mar 23, 2011
- My new business card • Mar 22, 2011
- Descent • Mar 13, 2011
- Books I read in 2010 • Mar 7, 2011
- A Bedouin, a Balloonist • Mar 4, 2011
- College Hill and Fox Point, Providence, R.I., 1875 vs. 2011 • Mar 2, 2011
- San Francisco 2 • Feb 28, 2011
- San Francisco 1 • Feb 26, 2011
- Missing the ocean (state) • Feb 25, 2011
- The future of marginalia • Feb 22, 2011
- Rimbaud, à la mode • Feb 18, 2011
- Butternut squash wontons (recipe) • Feb 16, 2011
- Westinghouse • Feb 11, 2011
- In rainbows • Feb 7, 2011
- Post-impressionist gossip drama • Feb 1, 2011
- Drizzle fog • Jan 18, 2011
- Creature Comforts: America — Fears & Phobias • Jan 15, 2011
- Terrarium • Jan 14, 2011
- Lake Tahoe: photographs • Jan 2, 2011
2010
- And, and then — • Dec 28, 2010
- Trees, winter, Illinois • Dec 26, 2010
- A present from Robin c. 1995 • Dec 17, 2010
- Limbo: gorgeous video game • Dec 12, 2010
- Description of a London printing office in 1834 • Dec 7, 2010
- Excerpt from The Deeper Meaning of Liff (Douglas Adams & John Lloyd) • Nov 28, 2010
- Books I read in 2009 • Nov 26, 2010
- Andy Goldsworthy • Nov 26, 2010
- Salad tree • Nov 25, 2010
- WPA posters • Nov 16, 2010
- Alphaville • Nov 10, 2010
- Apology for literature, from literature • Nov 6, 2010
- How to Hitchhike, ft. Clark Gable • Oct 31, 2010
- Swarm theory of leaves • Oct 18, 2010
- Engulfment • Oct 9, 2010
- Thinking about searching • Sep 25, 2010
- The Lion's Mouth of Ben Franklin • Sep 23, 2010
- The definition of "adorable" • Sep 19, 2010
- PSA: Jumpcut is the best add-on • Aug 26, 2010
- "Desk Set" (1957) • Aug 19, 2010
- Mercalli • Jul 8, 2010
- "Glitter-Tresses and the Ursine Trio" by Charles M. Brown • Jun 28, 2010
- Wikipedia... the printed copy? • May 11, 2010
- Words! • May 6, 2010
- Photography prophecy • Mar 14, 2010
2009