Meta Interchange

Meta Interchange
Libraries, computing, metadata, and more
	Trading for images
Let’s search a Koha catalog for something that isn’t at all controversial: What you search for in a library catalog ought to be only between...
	Entering 2019
A very brief post to start the new year. I’m not inclined to make elaborate resolutions for the new year other than being very firm...
	Data cleanup as a force for evil
A quotidian concern of anybody responsible for a database is the messy data it contains. See a record about a Pedro González? Bah, the assumption of...
	On being wrong, wrong, wrong
Yesterday I gave a lightning talk at the Evergreen conference on being wrong. Appropriately, I started out the talk on the wrong foot. I intended...
	Fostering a habit of nondisclosure
It almost doesn’t need to be said that old-fashioned library checkout cards were terrible for patron privacy. Want to know who had checked out a...
	Scaling the annual Code4Lib conference
One of the beautiful things about Code4Lib qua banner is that it can be easily taken up by anyway without asking permission. If I wanted...
	Amelia, 2000-2017
Last year, I wrote about the blossoming of the Mellie-cat, and closed with this line: “Sixteen years is not long enough to get to know...
	Mashcat at ALA Annual 2017 + shared notes
I’m leaving for Chicago tomorrow to attend ALA Annual 2017 (and to eat some real pizza), and while going over the schedule I found some...
	What makes an anti-librarian?
Assuming the order gets made and shipped in time (update 2017-06-22: it did), I’ll be arriving in Chicago for ALA Annual carrying a few tens...
	IMLS support for free and open source software
The Institute of Museum and Library Services is the U.S. government’s primary vehicle for direct federal support of libraries, museums, and archives across the entire...