Stories from my Life as a Technologist
This lightning talk was presented at Code4lib BC 2016.
For a copy of the slides, please see the presentation on SpeakerDeck (also below) or the version on GitHub.
Continue reading “Code4libBC Presentation: Getting Things Done: Discovering Efficiencies in Workflow”
Can you tell I’ve been doing a lot of MARC work? Continue reading “Using Regex in MarcEdit to Fix Repeated Subfields in MARC records”
So there does exist a document already on this topic, Getting OCLC numbers into your vendor records using MarcEdit but I found the instructions difficult to refer to. I ended up writing my own version with the added instructions on creating a set of MARC records specifically for this purpose. After doing this sort of thing again today, I finally decided to share them. Continue reading “Merging Control Numbers into Records Using MarcEdit”
I taught a workshop last week on doing usability on a budget. Usability is such a big topic that it’s impossible to cover everything in just 3 hours, but it’s a quick overview of how to put some of these methods into practice in a low cost, low resource way.
These are the notes I have along with all the links and such. Continue reading “Code4LibBC Workshop: Usability On a Budget”
As part of the redesign for the new site, the main thing that I really wanted to change in terms of the look was the front page. Continue reading “Guerrilla Usability: Choosing the Front Page with Mockups”