Publications

Hands-on data science for librarians available for pre-order!

Librarians understand the need to store, use and analyze data related to their collection, patrons and institution, and there has been …

Hands-on data science for librarians

Hands-on data science for librarians (forthcoming 2023) is a guide to doing data science in R geared directly for library & …

10 Ways Data Science Can Help Law Librarians

Data science brings opportunities to work more quickly and easily with data. It provides better reporting formats by incorporating …

Ten quick tips for making things findable

The distribution of scholarly content today happens in the context of an immense deluge of information found on the internet. As a …

Machine Learning: My Journey into AI

Soon after starting a new position as a librarian at a data science software company, I saw that my employer was offering a workshop to …

Managing technical services long distance: tips for successful collection management

Managing a library collection requires consistency and meticulous attention to detail, but managing remotely requires even more of …

Collection management 2016: from anecdotal to analytic

If you attended SLA’s recent 2015 Lawmaggedon webinar, you may have heard Jean O’Grady reference the term …

Pressure points in vendor relationships: tips for working with outsourced staff

Acquisitions is the central part of a technical services department, yet at some libraries not all technical services duties are …

Risk avoidance through succession planning

My library director, Ronda Fisch, interviewed me about recent a succession planning project in our library’s technical services …