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.
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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”
Code4Lib 2015: Closing Keynote
While I didn’t make it to Code4Lib 2015 this year, I did manage to catch the closing keynote on the livestream, so here are the notes. Continue reading “Code4Lib 2015: Closing Keynote”
Presentation: Making Accessible Content Easy and Part of Your Work
This was originally presented as an online workshop for the Center for Instructional Development & Distance Education, University of Pittsburgh on February 5, 2015. If you’re familiar with my presentations, everything up to and including the introduction to universal design is quite similar to my past presentations (especially the most recent one). However, after that, this presentation focuses solely on creating content, both online (such as using WordPress) and using software (such as Microsoft Word). As you can imagine, this presentation was geared towards non-technical users, going into much more detail on content guidelines than in any of my other presentations, and for UPitt faculty and staff. Continue reading “Presentation: Making Accessible Content Easy and Part of Your Work”