techno-babble as a second language
The other day I went along to a meeting at the New South Wales Parliament library. It was basically an in-person meeting to talk about some issues they were having with Koha. It’s a pretty huge...
View Articleit is tough
Part of my job is doing IT support for Koha software. I tend to pick the low-hanging fruit from our bug-tracking hub, the stuff that needs settings tweaking, not code rewrites. It’s fun when I can...
View Articleintroducing yourself to clients avec suavity
On Thursday I got to do something that falls right in the sweet spot of my skill-set. When I’m doing Koha tech support and querying databases and the like, I’m learning so much as I go, I get the...
View Articlejobs using productivity software
Today at work I spent a lot of time doing some final error-checking of a website. It was a nitpicky un-fun job that culminated in watching my boss debug javascript errors for the better part of a...
View Articlethe matter of experience
I see training in Koha as one of my most marketable things I do at Prosentient. It also feels weird to be thinking about how things will look on a resume, but whatever, the job market I’m going into is...
View Articleon the use of social media for inforgs
I wrote about the use of social media for inforgs on Librarianautica. Filed under: library, school, tech Tagged: affordances, australia, blog, catalogue, community, ils, information, institution, koha,...
View Articleon quashing participation
I wrote a post on quashing participation at Librarianautica. Filed under: library, school Tagged: administration, angry, annette de faveri, australia, beth davies, blog, bureaucracy, communications,...
View Articleknowing my niche
I can get a little lost in my job here, working with Koha, troubleshooting code, trying to make things work for our clients, doing training courses and the like. Not that I can’t do it. A lot of my job...
View Articleday in the life of a librarian not in a library
This week librarians all over the internet are keeping track of what they do in a day and blogging about it for Library Day in the Life. This happens a couple of times a year and I decided to...
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