High tech, low budget
I wanted to post a quick heads up that I’m migrating from one webhost to another and, for the next few days, Cyberpunk Librarian might be up and down depending on where I am in the process. That will include the RSS and podcast feeds since they’re ultimately pulling from this website. Now, at the…
Over the last few days, a couple of people (literally, two… maybe three) asked if I could talk about some use cases for SiReS Ex. Basically, what does this thing do and why it might be useful to librarians working with Polaris and SimplyReports. Rather than answer everyone in chat or in the comments, I…
Come with me on a journey. I may have written one of the most laser focused, single minded, small target browser extensions ever. If you work with Polaris ILS, you may have also worked with SimplyReports. It’s a cool and useful bit of browser-based kit that allows you to build reports, pulling data from the…
Goddess above, it’s been a long time since I last wrote a blog post here on the site. But you see, I need to get this off my chest, because it’s been irritating me for a while. And it has to do with fundamentalist religion, book banning, and history. When you read articles and the…
In the time since the last episode of Cyberpunk Librarian I have: Moved house Actually, I moved to a different state (Arizona to Kentucky) Got a new job Bought a new house I’ve been searching for some stability, so I can sit down and start writing. Writing notes that turn into outlines that turn into…
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a librarian tasked with redesigning a library card must be in want of examples. I’ve been in on a few conversations here and there, both online and in meatspace, where librarians are tasked with redesigning their institution’s library cards. It’s almost a given part of the process to…
Over the month of October I made a series of podcasts to celebrate the spookiness, the paranormal, and the overall joy of one of my favourite holidays. When I was cleaning up the podcast files for archiving, I glanced at my folder full of text and realized, hey… there’s a small book right there. I…
I consume a tonne of online content every day. That shouldn’t surprise anyone. I’m sure many of you reading this do too. Hey, you’re having a look at this post, so I assume you’ve read other things before this and that you’ll click on something afterwards. I seriously appreciate you taking a few minutes to…
Music is, oddly enough, an incredibly important part of the shows, or at least it is for me. I say that it’s odd because, well, these are shows about libraries, technology, cyberpunk, Generation X, and librarians in space. Sure, lots of podcast have music breaks or a musical intro or outro. But for me, the…
I’ve got a lot of projects I’m currently working on, both professionally and personally. I don’t think I have quite too many, though I think it might be approaching some kind of limit. At the very least I started to consider some options for trying to apply some level of organization to them, even if…