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• Post #2522821

  These literal thousands of recorded shows digitized from someone's tape recording collection are incredible https://archive.org/details/aadamjacobs?tab=collection currently listening to the 1989(!!!) Nirvana shows but there's decades of content from hundreds of bands h/t the Code4Lib Slack

• Post #2191130

  Bibliocommons kind of solved FRBRization and, perhaps because it's mainly used in public libraries, I don't really see anyone talk about it. I use a few different Bibliocommons instances of local public library systems & they combine records according to some more-intuitive idea of Work which combines things like audiobook, ebook, print, large print but does separate records for translations. It makes search results so much more legible than almost any academic library se...

• Post #1843609

  Idle curiosity, if you were going to talk about one library technology development you're really excited about right now, what would it be? The ADA Title II deadline might be my answer. Yes, I know it's been postponed. Luckily, they waited so long to announce the delay that most institutions have already done the good work. Semantic / vector search? Bibframe?!?!? I feel like there has always been something exciting on deck but lately I am less sure what it is.

• Post #1405900

  An excellent webinar on critical cataloging today as part of Fresno State's Womack Lecture Series. Every part I caught was amazing, but Emily Drabinski led with this slide which I just could not love more.

• Post #252439

  There are free IRS-certified tax preparation services for folks below a certain income level all over and I wish more people knew https://freetaxassistance.for.irs.gov/s/sitelocator The income limits vary by site but it doesn't hurt to check. Most students who are not working full time qualify, for instance. There's many multilingual sites. This is also a great program to volunteer for if you are at all inclined. You make a direct positive economic impact on your community.