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One of the talks that has really stuck with me from this year’s Code4Lib conference was the opening keynote, “UX Is A Social Justice Issue,” given by Sumana Harihareswara. She is an Engineering Community Manager at the Wikimedia Foundation, and you can read more about her (very impressive) work on her website.

If you’re an archivist, you should either watch the recording of her talk, or read the transcript that is posted on the Code4Lib website. That’s right, I mean you. Go ahead, I’ll wait.

I’m just back from Code4Lib, a conference of people who work with technology in libraries and archives, held this year in Raleigh, North Carolina. This is the third time I’ve been to Code4Lib, and as before, I found it a conference that is both stimulating and exhausting; that takes a lot, but gives a lot in return.

Since a number of people weren’t able to make today’s lunch presentation, I thought I’d post the slides so those who missed out could catch up. They are pretty bare-bones, so if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask!

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been looking into systems which will help us do a better job handling research requests that come in to us via email. You can see what our current workflow looks like in this chart.

In case you’re interested, I wrote a guest blog posting on the ACRL TechConnect blog about some of the more technical work I’ve been up to lately. Those of you who’ve completed the command line tutorial assigned to the D-Recs committee should see some familiar commands.