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Cataloging Model and Theory

Technicalities article, V40, N4, July/August 2020.

Public Library (Mostly) Technical Servics

Technicalities article, V41, N1, January/February 2021.

Language Coding

See below for "Why is language coding so bad?" which includes some public library data.

Things to look for when checking a catalog for errors.

A critical look at signage and wayfinding in some of the (urban) branches of the Las Vegas library system.

My initial reaction to the deployment of a BiblioCommons OPAC at the Las Vegas Library.

The letter I would send to an imaginary new library director.

Rather than a book review, these are my thoughts on signage and wayfinding in reaction to Polger's book.

This is my input to:

  • The Frederick County Public Libraries (FCPL) 2023-2025 Three Year Plan, and
  • An effort in an unnamed Virginia public library to "update and reinvigorate Technical Services"

A laundry list of OPAC features that are useful to patrons, prefaced with some motivation for the features mentioned. This might be useful in preparing an RFP for an ILS or discovery layer.

Conference Presentations

Presentation to ALA Core CNIG February 1, 2021

You can find the data described in this presentation, and the code used to generate it, in my other repository, https://github.com/lagbolt/catalog-errors, specifically seriescheck.py and files/seriescheck_Jan2021.xlsx

Presentation to ALA ALCTS CaMMS CNIG (now ALA Core CNIG) June 9, 2020

CORE Blog Posts

(various posts to ALA Core News)

Privacy and How to Lose It

POV

Patron-focused Cataloging

Metadata Quality

My own blog at lagbolt.wordpress.com

Which I post to quite infrequently.

Subject Headings

Displaying Availability on a Phone Screen

2019 is the Year of ... What?

In search of the perfect library patron

Janus, the God of Cataloging

Here I seem to have been infected by cutesy title syndrome. This post is about how catalogers vs. patrons see the catalog.

Keeping track of the books you want to borrow

What do seniors want from the library?

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