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About Laurie N. Taylor

As the Senior Director for Library Technology & Digital Strategies, I provide leadership for technology and partnerships with the UF Libraries across the university, regionally, nationally, and internationally. I work closely with colleagues to create and sustain supports for collaborations for building collections, community, and capacity, including for the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) and LibraryPress@UF. My work is geared towards enabling a culture of radical collaboration that values and supports diversity, equity, and inclusion. Thoughts are my own. Pronouns: she, her.

Laurie N. Taylor, Librarian

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Position announcement: Metadata Librarians, Cornell University Library, Ithaca, NY

2010-10-01
By: Laurie
On: October 1, 2010
In: job, metadata

Job posting below: Cornell University Library seeks two creative, productive librarians who will explore, lead, and collaborate on diverse projects. The successful candidates will work at the intersection of many user-focused services and projects, which may include technical services, archives, data curation, and digital libraries. One librarian will primarily work on projects related to the humanities and special collections, and the other position will include responsibilities related to e-science and research data. The successful candidates will be comfortable in exploring emerging technologies and standards for description and access, and they will welcome working in a collegial and collaborative environment. The positions will be an integralRead More →

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Open Source METS Metadata Editor

2009-12-19
By: Laurie
On: December 19, 2009
In: metadata, SobekCM, standards, technologies, UFDC

Source code is available on the SourceForge project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/metseditor/files/ Email Discussion List in Google Groups: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/sobekcm-discuss Open Source METS Metadata Editor: Download About the Open Source METS Metadata Editor One of the newest of the continual upgrades to the UF Digital Collections is online metadata editing. To make that fully operational our programmer, Mark Sullivan, revised the current standalone METS Metadata Editor application to ensure it remained in parallel. In doing so, Mark noticed that he could quickly adapt our METS Metadata Editor to serve the needs of all of the State University Libraries in Florida. Mark made those updates and the METS MetadataRead More →

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Mobile World Congress

2008-01-22
By: Laurie
On: January 22, 2008
In: Academia, gis, metadata, semantic web, web 2.0

The Mobile World Congress is coming up soon (February 11-14) and it should lead to exciting new advances for libraries, and general mobile users as well. A recent AP story covered the rise of geotagging photos and creating mashups from the geographically referenced photos. While this is wonderful for small projects and for much larger projects (of the scale that will later build into Web 3.0 or the Semantic Web), it’s also great for the middle area of development where academic institutions like libraries are slowly building geographical information into our collections. It’s great to see a friend’s vacation images tagged with locations, but it’sRead More →

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A Lump of Kryptonite by Any Other Name

2008-01-02
By: Laurie
On: January 2, 2008
In: Library, metadata, objects

The discovery of Kryptonite, or at least a new mineral matching the chemistry described in Superman Returns, was found earlier this year. As a feral librarian (a librarian who hasn’t attended library school) I haven’t had a cataloging course, so I’m curious as to how articles on the new mineral will be cataloged for both its scientific and humanistic uses. Articles on a regular new mineral would just need to be listed via scientific categories, or so I’d think. But the hierarchical nature of subject headings would seem strange–at least to me–if the full scientific and full literary/popular culture hierarchy were included in the sameRead More →

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The @zorafestival #academic conference is moving online. Check out our exploration of the sound of #afrofuturism. https://zorafestival.org/schedule/overview/ @CALMSU @MSUEnglish @Prof_Kennedy @redclayscholar @SPOHP @DrTonieshaT @eriksteinskog @Hardcore888 @Dieselfunk @msulibraries @MSUMuseum

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Next issue of SOURCE, Special Series: Destination Places and Spaces in the Libraries http://laurientaylor.org/?p=15779

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#ArturoSchomburg, whose birthday is today, 1/24, was the bibliophile whose collection of books and manuscripts became the cornerstone of the #SchomburgCenter’s collections. Learn where to read free digital copies of the books similar to the ones he owned. https://www.nypl.org/blog/2021/01/20/digital-glimpse-arturo-schomburgs-collection?utm_campaign=schomburgsocialmedia&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

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Gertie loves the dryer vent when the dryer is going! This was new adorableness to @zen_commie and me.

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UF Libraries Job, Come work with our amazing team! http://laurientaylor.org/2021/01/24/uf-libraries-job-come-work-with-our-amazing-team/

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