Articles & Letters “Putting the Wagon Before the Horse: Implementing CCO in Gallery System’s TMS” (2011). “CCO as a Metadata Standard for the Retrieval of Museum Cataloging Records: A Critical Review” (2011). Both of these articles were accepted for publication... Continue reading →

Articles & Letters   “Putting the Wagon Before the Horse: Implementing CCO in Gallery System’s TMS” (2011). “CCO as a Metadata Standard for the Retrieval of Museum Cataloging Records: A Critical Review” (2011). Both of these articles were accepted for... Continue reading →

Projects Library Website in WordPress (2016) This is a prototype of a library website in WordPress which I enjoyed creating. EverythingAutism.org (2014) Everything Autism is a resource guide for the autism community in Clear Lake, created and maintained by me, but... Continue reading →

The User Experience of the New Academic Library nitially, everyone in the library was excited and curious about this strange animal called a “new library,” and the promise of new opportunities and new roles it might bring. Like the blind... Continue reading →

Contemptus Mundi: The Original “Black Celebration” I’ve mentioned a few times in class discussion the Contemptus Mundi tradition, going back to our study of Augustine. It is an important theme in Medieval literature, probably the most important. There were many... Continue reading →

I don’t blog. I started to, and it morphed into a book-length Aesthetic Philosophy of Librarianship. It started out as a contemplation of what makes a good library good for users, and to develop an objective assessment framework around that.... Continue reading →