Andromeda Yelton

Earlier I blogged on how to get me to want you as a keynoter. Now that LITA Forum acceptances & rejections are out, I think I can safely blog on how to get me to want to accept your concurrent session proposals. I clearly gravitate toward some different things than many of my fellow committee [...]

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I was ego-surfing, as one does, and, well… Also considering registration for the pre-conference workshop, Introduction to Python. Co-taught by Andromeda Yelton, the Unglue.it librarian! Holy hell! I am starstruck. – The Global Librarian I’ve been starstruck. Still am, sometimes. I was a babybrarian three years ago — only three! A library school student at [...]

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So hey, I want you to come learn Python with me! tl;dr It’ll be awesome, and I’m so psyched about this workshop and I want to teach you Python, and early bird registration closes on Friday; register soon so you don’t miss out on the discount. What: The Library Code Year interest group is sponsoring [...]

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The official announcement won’t be for a few days, and I haven’t read the article yet (so curious), but I guess I can tell you now because… …this is the photo on the front page of Library Journal right now, and that’s me having a dance party with Justin Hoenke and Kirby McCurtis and Kate [...]

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ALA elections are March 19 through April 26 via email. I’m endorsing Courtney Young for ALA President. Here’s why. Courtney’s been extremely involved with ALA governance at many levels, most notably ALA Executive Board and the Budget Analysis & Review Committee. This means that she knows the major, high-level issues facing ALA, and how things [...]

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I have been reading this New Yorker article on Aaron Swartz, which is quite justly making the rounds of the internet this morning. And of all the threads that twine through it and around me and make me think, the one I want to talk about is this: context. It jumps out at me, over [...]

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As part of my campaign for LITA Board, I’m interviewing a wide range of library techonology people about their involvement with the association. Today’s interviewee is Evviva Weinraub Lajoie. About Evviva Weinraub Lajoie Evviva Weinraub Lajoie is the Director of Emerging Technologies & Services at Oregon State University Libraries & Press. Her team is responsible [...]

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