What kinds of interventions can library tech workers or those with above-average technical aptitude make to improve their coworker's morale after a migration? I share some of the results of survey and interview research on morale and migration and the importance of small acts that keep possibility alive.| Ruth Kitchin Tillman
full copy of my slides with speaker text as annotations Good afternoon, everyone. When finalizing a date for this, I really did not think enough about how it’s only a week after the national elections and how the fraught leadup and outcomes could impact my writing this or your attending. So thank you for being here, or watching after. I hope that what I’ve brought will be useful to you in some ways, even though I know some of us will not be in the best mental place for it. As Marianne sai...| Talks | Ruth Kitchin Tillman
What does it mean to consider the "human aspects of library automation" when we approach a migration or other technological shift in the workplace? In this talk, I reflect on the contexts and experiences of workers over the history of library technology and share preliminary insights from my research.| Ruth Kitchin Tillman
When you're used to having the tools you need, it's easy to expect things to just work. And unless you specialize in thinking about how systems come together or study how they were made, it may be hard to identify all the things that have to get done between "we have a BIBFRAME standard" and "we can make BIBFRAME records" or "we can make BIBFRAME records" and "we can use BIBFRAME with the same degree of friction as we use MARC now." This makes it tricky to attend a presentation where someone ...| Ruth Kitchin Tillman
This was recorded for CNI's 2022 Project Briefing Series.| Ruth Kitchin Tillman
This was presented at the ALA Core Catalog Management Interest Group on March 9, 2022.| Ruth Kitchin Tillman
Text of a keynote given by Sandy Rodriguez and Ruth Kitchin Tillman at the 2020 New York Archives Week Symposium, October 22, 2020. Other than the paragraphs in which we each describe our own positionality, we share joint authorship of the talk.| Ruth Kitchin Tillman
This written tutorial and prerecorded demo are derived from a 1-hour webinar held on March 26, 2020.| Ruth Kitchin Tillman
After bringing their card catalogs online in the 90s, many libraries have maintained decades-old interfaces even as they adopt new systems focused on the discovery and use of subscription materials such as single journal articles. Though antiquated in design, such “classic catalogs” remain popular with librarians and faculty. As libraries move into a third generation of catalogs and discovery systems, those charged with leading such transitions are choosing to rethink the classic catalog ...| Ruth Kitchin Tillman
Download slides to view text or download PDF of slides to accompany below [Slide 1] Good afternoon, my name is Ruth Kitchin Tillman. I’m the Cataloging Systems and Linked Data Strategist at the Penn State University Libraries. In my presentation, I’m going to be talking about a project we recently completed with the Association of Religion Data Archives, a multi-institution data catalog located in Penn State’s Social Science Research Institute. I want to highlight two elements of the pr...| Ruth Kitchin Tillman
This is the text of a presentation I recorded for an IST 616 course at Syracuse's library school. I was asked to introduce library discovery in 10 minutes, or less, with some focus on how metadata is created and used.| Ruth Kitchin Tillman