Rapid Communications

Rapid, but irregular, communications from the frontiers of Library Technology

Thursday, June 19, 2025

Posting Org-Mode captures to Mastodon

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 I keep my personal reading log in an Emacs org-mode table. It's nice and small, and works on every computer I use, and thanks to org-m...
Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Mac OS vs Emacs: Getting on the right (exec) PATH

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One of the minor annoyances about using Emacs on Mac OS is that the PATH environment variable isn't set properly when you launch Emacs f...
Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Finding ISBNs in the the digits of π

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For some reason, a blog post from 2010 about searching for ISBNs in the first fifty million digits of π suddenly became popular on the net ...
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Saturday, March 10, 2012

Software Upgrades and The Parable of the Windows

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A librarian friend of mine recently expressed some surprise at the fact that a library system would spend almost $140,000 to upgrade their I...
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Sunday, January 02, 2011

Using QR Codes in the Library

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This started out as a set of internal guidelines for the staff at MPOW, but some friends expressed interest in it, and it seems to have stru...
Monday, April 06, 2009

A Manifesto for the Library

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Last week John Blyberg , Kathryn Greenhill , and Cindi Trainor spent some time together thinking about what the library is for and what its...
Sunday, April 05, 2009

I'm a Shover and Maker!

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Since only a few people can be named "Movers and Shakers" by Library Journal, Joshua Neff and Steven Lawson created the " Sh...
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I'm a former software developer who's now the web services librarian at a university. The great thing about that job title is that nobody knows what I do.
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