Ruth Kitchin Tillman

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With Dorothea Salo.

The idea for this quilt came to me several years ago.

Note: While this was first published in 2017, I significantly revised it in October 2022 after Musk’s Twitter buy and my own 5 years of experience on the platform.

Good morning, everyone.

Hello, my name is Ruth Kitchin Tillman and I lead work on discovery at the Penn State University Libraries.

With Elizabeth Russey Roke

The real Hillbilly Elegy problem is, of course, the author, though I think if you’d been listening to Appalachian scholars (unlike Ron Howard), you’d have known that in 2016/2017.

The 21st century academic library runs on an increasingly interconnected network of systems, from the traditional ILS to emerging technologies.

I’ve previously shared highlights from my 2018 and 2019 reading.

What happens when you try to build a new catalog based on the MARC standard?

Contact me at my first and last names at gmail.

Part of Lighting the Way: Illuminating the future of discovery and delivery for archives (IMLS LG-35-19-0012-19).

A confluence of events this past week have inspired and challenged me to reflect on my time as a Code4Lib Journal editor, its positive effects in the field, and how its structural/organizational weaknesses undermine its potential.

January 5, 2021:1 I query DBpedia to see whether Barack Obama is still listed as President of the United States2.

I’ve been debating how to order this post, which contains both an update and an apology.

Sometimes, when working with spreadsheet data, you need to get one or more values from spreadsheet A into spreadsheet B, matching them with the correct row.

Thanks to my Traveller’s Notebook system, I keep pretty good track of books I read.

What’s up in the Society of American Archivists?

This is one where I’m pulling the whole post because some recent experiments indicate that the method I shared no longer works.

You can reach me at a gmail address comprised of my first and last name (same as the domain name).

This post is based on the eulogy I gave at my father’s funeral.

Recently, I conducted a workshop with catalogers at Penn State on how we might use our skills to create or enhance records about people on Wikidata.

When I picked up “Out of the Hollinger Box: the Archivist as Advocate” at Eira Tansey’s recommendation, it was with rather minimal expectations.

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.

I let them bury my father in a sealer coffin.

Here at Penn State, we recently redid our “Get It!”

This is observational.

My name is Ruth Kitchin Tillman.

As I’ve written before, I’m a Deathling, a member of the Order of the Good Death, and what’s called “death positive.”

… and that’s why it can be so hard to learn.

Download slides to view text or download PDF of slides to accompany below [Slide 1] Good afternoon, my name is Ruth Kitchin Tillman.

When I learned of Rachel Held Evans’ death, I sat down on the kitchen floor and sobbed.

For the first 8.5 years of our marriage, my husband spent his life as some combination of grad student/grad teacher/dissertation writer or adjunct professor.

I revisit my childhood library in dreams.

This year, I kept pretty good track of what I was reading.

While I was working as the Metadata Librarian at the NASA Goddard Library, one of the projects I tackled was providing public access to 488 issues of the Goddard News, from 1960-1999.

This tutorial is aimed at metadata workers who may be using Traject, a ruby gem which can index MARC records for Solr.

As someone who came of age and into the peace movement during the first years of the Iraq war, I’ve been going to protests, rallies, and demonstrations—if sporadically—for nearly 15 years now.

When I started off at Notre Dame, I already knew that getting contraceptive health care would be complex.

Sometimes, when you’re passionate about a thing, your friends start to notice it to and tell you whenever they see it too.

I am an information scientist.

5 years ago, on May 18, 2013, posted introduced EADiva to the world.

I had to put this together for another purpose today and I tracked down how to do it through a video, I thought I’d make a screenshot/instruction blog post of the steps I took.