Trying out GeoStoryteller
At today’s fantastic LACUNY Institute here at John Jay, Anthony Cocciolo (Pratt Institute) gave a very good presentation on “Rebuilding Post-War Europe: New York and Digital Archives as Reconstitutive...
View ArticleWearable tech
As sensors become cheaper and more prevalent, we’re beginning to collect more data from our own movements and the objects around us. Moreover, it’s becoming a less geeky thing to do! I’ve been...
View ArticleDevice and browser testing tools
If you’re impatient, like me, you might agree that the worst part of making an online resource is testing the interface across devices and browsers. The golden rule that I tout is that all websites I...
View ArticleNew toy: Raspberry Pi
So, first, let me just say that this toy is new only in that it is newly in my possession. I know I’m behind the game by quite a while. When my software engineer dad excitedly told me he’d gotten on...
View ArticleGenerating red link links for Wikipedia
On Global Women Wikipedia Write-In Day, I was extremely impressed with user Dsp13′s lists of red links — lists of notable women that hadn’t yet been written about on Wikipedia. I used that page as a...
View ArticleIntroducing myself to MALLET
Backstory In my text mining class at GSLIS, we had a lot of ground to cover. It was easy enough to jump into Oracle SQL Developer and Data Miner and plug into the Oracle database that had been set up...
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Implementing a simple reference desk logger
Hi readers! I just got back from a wonderful month at the Folger for Early Modern Digital Agendas. Some blog posts resulting from that program are coming soon, but in the meantime, here’s something...
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Sketchy mocks
In designing the new Lloyd Sealy Library website, I used Balsamiq, a sketchy wireframing tool, to plan page layouts, information architecture, and user flows. I like the sketchiness particularly. Too...
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Life With Pi: Microcomputing in Academia
Presentation given December 6, 2013, as part of the CUNY IT Conference held at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Co-presenters and fellow librarians: Allie Verbovetskaya Stephen Zweibel Junior...
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Analyzing EZproxy logs with Python
We use EZproxy to provide off-campus users with access to subscription resources that require a campus-specific login. Every time a user visits an EZproxy-linked page (mostly by clicking on a link in...
View ArticleThe faculty toolbox for online learning
When I code, I love simply copying and pasting from an example website or someone’s open source code. Most of my projects begin as a collage of different code samples that are gradually tuned to my...
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