I started drafting something similar to this post for our website and decided to make it a blog post first. People ask me all the time about accessible formats (aka alternate formats) and the differences between the various types. Continue reading “A Rundown on Accessible (Alternate) Formats”
Musing: Playing Around with the NNELS Logo
It’s come up recently that we might consider revising our logo. I saw a coworker playing around with it and thought I’d give it a try. Continue reading “Musing: Playing Around with the NNELS Logo”
Using MarcEdit to Populate (Sub)fields Using Data from Fixed Fields
Was supposed to post this last week, but didn’t actually have time. Big thanks to Terry Reese (MarcEdit developer) who helped me over twitter of all things. While not the most complicated, I just couldn’t find any documentation on this, so here it is. Continue reading “Using MarcEdit to Populate (Sub)fields Using Data from Fixed Fields”
Open Everything in Libraries
I started writing this blog post quite a while ago as you can tell from the intro, but I had forgotten about it and decided to recently finish it.
Intro
Listening to the talks at Code4LibBC last week, I began to think about open data and collections, but then starting to also think about the role of libraries and the idea that it’s a public space.
Continue reading “Open Everything in Libraries”
Using Regex in MarcEdit to Fix Repeated Subfields in MARC records
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”