Tech

A challenge we encountered in our Bento Box library discovery project: how do we write helpful, caring messages for searches with no results?

A brief overview of how to write a useful tech support ticket, aimed at an audience of librarians of varying tech levels.

An introduction to the basic concepts of RDF, how it can be expressed, and what its potential actually means. This post is aimed at metadata librarians.

Presentation notes and code from a process used to create a local linked data reconciliation service and augment other local metadata in Fedora.

Follow-up to the Introduction to SQL for Librarians, this tutorial sets you up with an easy online space to practice your SQL queries.

An overview and introduction to SQL based on the skills librarians already use.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY OLD TUTORIAL. THIS POST WAS WRITTEN IN DECEMBER 2010. It has not been updated except with some images many years back.

A blog post on how to take a relay or TTY call and basic instructions as a flier.

In LBSC 605, Intro to Archives, I did a literature review of articles on blog archival. I found so little that dealt with actual blogging that I had to expand it to blogs and dynamic websites. It was a bit disappointing, but preparing that review reminded me of a little blog that I wanted to save. The Blog In the fall of 2004, my mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer. One of her many concerns became the preservation of family stories, mostly the ones she’d told us as kids or the ones which had been told her by older relatives who were already gone.