An overview of the challenges in assigning field weights in a library catalog. This uses the example of a book about Hillbilly Elegy to explain demonstrate where challenges arise.
Handouts and exercise design from a wikidata workshop designed to introduce catalogers to how they can reuse their skills to create and update wikidata records.
On how the language of nonfiction and choices in the Dewey Decimal System's Taxonomy led me to believe in Bigfoot.
Intended for folks whose institutions may be using traject to index their MARC records and want to be able to test fields/subfields locally. It's also another way you can engage with and understand your MARC data.
A walkthrough, with screenshots, of how to register a new batch processing operation in MarcEdit 7.
A challenge we encountered in our Bento Box library discovery project: how do we write helpful, caring messages for searches with no results?