In the past few years I’ve created a couple of part-time, then full-time, staff positions on the web team at VCU Libraries. We now have a web designer and a web developer who’ve both been with us for a while, but for a few years it was a revolving door of hires. So let’s just say I’ve hired lots […]

This week the Ada Initiative is announcing a fundraising drive just for the library community. I’m pitching in, and I hope you will, too. The Ada Initiative’s mission is to increase the status and participation of women in open technology and culture. The organization holds AdaCamps, ally workshops for men, and impostor syndrome trainings; and […]

Cross-posted from VCU Libraries’ intranet with minor edits. Last week a New York Times employee leaked an internal digital strategy report that’s a stark case for change in the organization. Here are some of the things that resonated with me about how this report dovetails with our digital strategies at VCU Libraries and in libraryland. Takeaways Automate → Innovate →  Transform […]

If you made it through the tome that was the four big ideas, you’ll enjoy this list of smaller ideas from the Code4Lib conference. EasyArticle at Brown U – Among other things, this app allows people to request items through ILL/document delivery with the click of a button. Users never see the ILLiad form. Article problem reporting […]

I got crafty last week and decided to see if I could make a standing desk from found materials around my office. The result was pretty cool, and so far I’m enjoying testing it out. Ingredients: base of monitor stand: 1 plastic stacking file crate from Staples I’d been using for recycling table for monitor stand: […]