Below is a way to hide drop-down menus from popping up suggesting values in fields like the 260/264 field in the Alma Metadata Editor, e.g. this kind of thing: Please be aware that it does… Read More

This is a web version for reference of a docx file originally produced for the Mashcat 2012 session I did called How Big Is My Book. Resurrected to form the Manual for Meret, a regular expre… Read More

Below are some articles I wrote for Catalogue & Index, the periodical of the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group (CIG). They are all now freely available as PDFs in UCL’s reposito… Read More

This is a brief documentation of how I used Marcedit to import correct URLs from an Excel spreadsheet into a large file of MARC records. The name of the ebook supplier has been changed to pr… Read More

Install the bookmarklet by dragging the link to your bookmarks toolbar: Search on Google Books Or, create a bookmark manually, and change the Location property to the following: javascript:(… Read More

RLUK and the European Library (of which the RLUK is now a member) have just released 17 million records as linked open data. They have released three sets (via Mike Mertens), for which links… Read More

Last I managed to see six species of bumblebee in Sandy* and another one further afield in Bedfordshire**. This year I managed to spot eight in Sandy, all but one in the garden. I’m ho… Read More

Below is described a way to add tables of contents to RDA Toolkit workflows automatically, i.e. without manually adding anchors and creating a list. You can see an example of it action on th… Read More

Recent changes to the standard Twitter timeline have resulted in all images in posts being expanded, thereby interrupting the compressed textual display. Here is a simple way to minimise emb… Read More

This year I have a bee hotel attached to the house which provides somewhere for solitary bees to nest. The most commonly seen garden solitary bee is the red mason bee (Osmia bicornis) which… Read More

BIBFRAME has worked on modelling works as Works within the BIBFRAME model, similar to the RDA modelling work, itself modelled on the work on the FRBR model of Works and Expressions. A BIBFR… Read More