Eric Willey
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Eric Willey
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Librarian interested in DEI work in metadata, linked open data (especially Wikidata), Star Trek, and other geeky stuff.
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The (Star Trek themed) vibe I bring to the party.
Animated GIF from Star Trek: The Next Generation with Reginald Barclay seated in a chair while beams of light him him on the top and back of his head. Captain Picard, Riker, and Worf are looking at him, and in large white capital letters across the bottom of the image it says, "Mr. Barclay, remove yourself from the computer system."
October 21, 2024 at 12:51 AM
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Major Challenges City of Gotham Archives Face for FY 2025
-Unprocessed backlogs
-Decreasing staff levels and increased demand for services
-Batman stealing our shit to fight ghosts!
Image from Batman: Caped Crusader cartoon showing a very old document saying "Deed of Land" across the top in a file folder. A caption across the bottom reads, "It was in the historical archives, just as I suspected."
August 15, 2024 at 3:49 PM
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Love it. Reminds me of one of my favorite pictures I digitized when I was at Wisconsin Historical Society.

www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Imag...
A woman wearing a red dress, brown shoes, and a beehive or bouffant hairstyle is sitting on a rolling chair with an adjustable back at a desk. She is composing a letter on a typewriter. On the he desk is a clock and a small, shallow dish, possibly an ashtray. The floor and part of the wall around the desk are covered in a brownish-yellow-green colored carpet.
April 7, 2024 at 2:42 PM
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One of my favorite "do not" examples of a digital preservation strategy.
Half of a purple folder is on a light wood table. On the inside of the folder is a 3 and 1/2 inch floppy disk that has been duct taped to the folder with two strips of tape going horizontally and a third strip going vertically.
March 16, 2024 at 3:24 PM
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That's why you gotta borrow your mom's jeep and go mobile for your high school pirate radio broadcast.
"Pump Up the Volume" starring Christian Slater promo image with Slater seated, smoking a cigarette, in front of a radio broadcasting setup. Text says "Talk hard. Steal the Air."
February 6, 2024 at 2:47 AM
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In other news today I got to cross "Use the LCSH's for Outhouses |v Poetry and Urinary incontinence |v Poetry" off my bucket list. Book is Hold Everything! by Robert Edmund Sherwood for the curious.
search.worldcat.org/title/1919308
Page of a book with an image of an outhouse at the top. Under that is written The torture of that icy seat would make a Sparton sob, For needs must scrape the gooseflesh with a lacerating cob, That from a frost-encrusted nail, was suspended by a string. My father was a frugal man and wasted not a thing. Under the last line of text is an illustration of an adult pointing to a sign saying "Waste not want not" with a child looking on. Half of a set of curtains can be seen to the left of a sign, and some structure (perhaps a chair?) can be seen directly under the sign.
February 5, 2024 at 10:21 PM
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From the Star Trek original series episode "Spock's brain," the character Kara has a very frustrated grimace on her face. The image caption says, "Brain and brain what is brain?" in bright green all cap outlined letters.
January 20, 2024 at 11:40 PM
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I don't know how long International Harvester's "funky" advertising period lasted, but it was glorious.
Cover of an International Harvester catalog. Across the top in all caps black font is says,"International Industrial Equipment Buyers Guide." Below that "1971" is written in yellow in a "groovy" font with gold flourishes to either side. On the bottom 3/4 of the cover there are five drawings of industrial equipment mostly colored yellow with some black and white coloring. The background on each is vertical lines in various colors (sorry I'm not a graphic design person doing my best).
December 22, 2023 at 2:58 PM
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Ordered this today, can't wait to read it.

Ethics in Linked Data
Editors: Alexandra Provo, Kathleen Burlingame, and B.M. Watson
litwinbooks.com/books/ethics...
Primarily white cover with scribbles across the bottom edge in shades of blue, grey, and black. The top right corner has the title of the book and editors names.
November 13, 2023 at 1:19 PM