Crossposted to thesecretmirror.com.
I’m staying with colleagues and good friends during my week-long stint in Charlottesville, Virginia for Rare Book School. If you’re here – particularly if you’re in my class (Daniel Pitti’s Designing Archival Description Systems) – let me know. I’m looking forward to a heady week dealing with descriptive standards, knowledge representation, and as [...]
Crossposted to thesecretmirror.com. Sorry for any duplication!
Hey, do you use Drupal on a site with several thousand nodes? Do you also use the Apache Solr Integration module? If you’re like me, you’ve probably needed to reindex your site but couldn’t be bothered to wait for those pesky cron runs to finish – in fact, that’s [...]
The other Labs denizens and I are going off the rails on a crazy train deeper down the rabbit hole of reimplementing the NYPL site in Drupal. As I pile my work on the fire, I’ve found that building things in Drupal is easier than I’d ever thought it to be. It’s a scary thought, [...]
A week ago today, a few of my DEG colleagues and I went to see Liz Lawley from RIT’s Lab for Social Computing give a talk entitled “Libraries as Happiness Engines.” It was a modified version of a talk she gave at this year’s CiL conference. The gist of the talk was that gaming in [...]
Getting up to speed is hard anywhere, and it’s especially difficult in a large, complex institution like NYPL. Other than just understanding the projects that you’re given, you also are thrown headfirst into making sense of the culture, the organization, and all the unspoken and occasionally unseen things that allow you to do your job. [...]
