Ruth Kitchin Tillman

On Friday, I attended the Penn State Commission on Women awards lunch.

There’s yet another journal article making the rounds in which researchers find that, sure enough, men in the study generally overestimate their abilities, underestimate those of women, and women underestimate their own abilities.

…that nuclear weapons haven’t killed Americans.

cross-posted and adapted from a post on our internal staff blog In our work on the Penn State Libraries’ Bento search project, part of our larger-scale work to improve discovery, one of the challenges we encounter is that we really do control what goes in…

At first, we tried to continue as before: hacking our cars free of the clutching tendrils which grew up every night, bumping along highways until our combined weight pulverized vines into a grimy sludge.

I’ve just had an article come out in Journal of Archival Organization.

My article on the development of support for linked data in Encoded Archival Description (including an overview of support which existed before EAD3), “Opportunities for Encoding EAD for Linked Data Extraction and Publication,” published by Taylor & Franc…

At Penn State, we’re planning a discovery revamp which will include presenting our catalog with a Blacklight layer over the MARC records and creating a Bento landing page for the front-page search, which currently goes to Summon.

I want to preface this by saying that I’m not about to die.

Unlike Eira, who I totally get on this, I’m not quite yet ready to say goodbye to Twitter.

As a part of my ongoing interest in reading about death customs in modern and historical societies, I spent some time on Goodreads, recently, adding books to my to-read list.

Writing a useful technical support ticket can make a huge difference in the kind of interaction you’ll have with the people providing support.

This is one of those posts which I realize has to be done in several parts because it’s going to be very long and include a lot of photographs.

Mennonites don’t vote.

I’ve talked for a while about possibly writing a brief introduction to linked data aimed at librarians who are still figuring out what it means/library students.

Update, I redid my presentation as an article published in issue 31 of Code4Lib Journal.

When writing my introduction to SQL, I included sample queries that all dealt with the same hypothetical database.

Update!

Four years ago I wrote a post on my thoughts one year after donating bone marrow stem cells.

A short list of blog posts and articles that I’ve written on other sites: “Editorial: Beyond Posters: On Hospitality in Libtech” Code4Lib Journal 40 (2018) “Editorial: Introspection as Activism, or, Getting Our Houses in Order.”

I guest-posted on Hack Library School about two basic tips for working with patrons with disabilities.

I’m in my seventh and final semester of library school and I suddenly have a piece of advice for people who are starting library school this semester: Buy a tablet.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY OLD TUTORIAL.

On my Accessibility for Librarians blog, I wrote up basics for librarians taking a relay or TTY call.

As I’ve been in library school, I’ve become more aware of disability and the need for accessibility.

After having worked on it for the last 7 months or so, I’ve finally finished creating EADiva, a site which functions as a friendlier version of the EAD tag library.

I’m working on my field study right now, arranging and describing a collection which had previously been kept in piles on shelves and in boxes.

This is the appendix to Ruth Kitchin Tillman and Molly Schwartz’s 2012 MARAC Presentation on Archivists’ Toolkit and EAD.

In LBSC 605, Intro to Archives, I did a literature review of articles on blog archival.

Sometimes, during a class, I want to write about something it brought up that is in no way related to the assignments and probably not relevant in class discussion.

Wednesday, the 27th, is the one year anniversary of losing my mom.

Last November 16th, I donated hematopoetic stem cells (the stem cells that form bone marrow–adult stem cells) to a man with MDS whose best chance of surviving was a stem cell transplant.

On Sunday afternoon, I got out of the shower to find Micah waiting for me.