Introduction Bibliographic information organization is the process of taking metadata about pieces of information such as books and journal articles, standardizing the metadata into a common format to act as a stand-in for the original information, and organizing the metadata to support information seeking needs. Enough metadata must be retained for the information seeker to … Read more
One of the primary tasks of librarians is the classification of materials. Classifying materials into logical groupings and orderings is essential in order to ensure individual items in a collection can be located and to allow for serendipitous discovery of related works via browsing. All classification systems to some extent encode the reality of the … Read more
As an autistic, I’m eager to share my experiences and thoughts about how those experiences differ from the neurotypical ones I’m surrounded by. When I heard that the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee was seeking input about autistic experiences, I thought I’d share some of those thoughts with them. If you’d like to share your thoughts, … Read more
I used to be primarily employed as a healthcare provider. If you’ve read my articles before, this may come as a surprise to you, because I’m a situationally mute autistic person. The care I provided was often during the first time a patient interacted with a medical condition with long-lasting effects, such as asthma, heart … Read more
I’m Autistic. I enjoy reading, producing, and especially participating in research. It’s something that I specifically set aside time to do because I find it rewarding, but also because I want the output of research to include the experiences of people like me. It’s one of the ways I advocate for improvements in the world … Read more
Last time, we took a look at some of the challenges archivists face as the world transitions to digital. The restriction and loss of access to information is a significant concern, but it’s not the only one. The digital revolution has given birth to an era of surveillance capitalism. Across all digital domains, corporations hungrily … Read more
The advent of digital information technology has produced some fantastical results. Digital publishing has made it easier than ever to disseminate information. I can press Publish on a blog post and instantly make it accessible to billions of people (not that any of them will read it). I can buy a book online and have … Read more
I often write here about my experiences as an autistic MLIS student and library patron and researcher. That’s pretty much the point of this blog. I write about it because it’s important to me that libraries be an inclusive and accessible space for people with different types of neurology (and other types of diversity), both … Read more
Libraries used to have apprenticeship programs. Rather than attending a university to learn the ins and outs of information science, folks who wanted to learn to be a librarian could just start being a librarian. And they’d start off pretty bad at it, but the other people in the library would teach them as they … Read more
The year is 2023. Accessibility has been included in discussions around the world-wide web since Tim Berners-Lee talked about it in 1994. And here we are nearly 30 years later, using the web for all sorts of things that Berners-Lee couldn’t have imagined. One of those things is online learning platforms which allow fully remote … Read more
