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Karin Dalziel
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Assistant Director, Digital Strategies @ University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
Dev team lead, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities

I also like cats […]

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Inbox zero!
Three folders labeled: 0_2023_Archive 0_2024_Archive 0_2025_Archive (highlighted) I put all my emails in a folder, hurray!
December 19, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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My coworker gave me some of these silicone glasses hook things and I love them so much. They are especially useful with masks, my glasses keep sliding off when wearing a mask.
Product photo of silicone ear things on a pair of glasses, they slide on the arm to go around behind the ear and hold the glasses on.
December 18, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Goat!
A picture of a bunch of people surrounding a goat with their faces scribbled out. The goat is wearing a Santa hat and has fabulous long wavy white fur
December 15, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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I got a clearance halloween skeleton for 85% off but don't really have anything to do with it so I guess it's now my home office buddy
zoom screenshot with my name (Karin Dalziel) in the lower left corner. I am wearing a shirt that says "metadata" in the "metallica" logo font. behind me I have a skeleton propped up in the corner, a woodcut that says "ope" and a green chalkboard with doodles on it.
December 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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New content for Nebraska Newspapers!

https://cdrhdev.unl.edu/log/2025/nebraska-newspaper-updates-part-i-community-papers/

https://nebnewspapers.unl.edu
A crop of a newspaper, featuring headlines such as "Scenes in Cairo" "House Gown" "Farmers who have made a test of silo" There is a large illustration of a woman in a gown with a super small waist for the House Gown headline
November 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Karin in front of posters in their office. Karin is wearing a black beanie hat, a purple and gray shawl, and fingerless gloves.
October 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Really digging my new office poster wall. See alt text for details on posters.
Some posters on a wall, using magnets to stick to metal rails held up with command hooks. There are a couple of screen prints (a justice themed one and one that says "velo love"), posters for the Nebraska authors website and the video games and the humanities forum, an ACLU poster, a poster with an Andy goldsworthy sculpture on a prairie on fire for "violence, the arts, and cather", a little print that says "libraries are magical" featuring a character from girls with slingshots by Danielle corsetto, and a welcome to nightvale art print showing 3 pairs of shaking hands but one is a tentacle
October 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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I was using the powerpoint designer thing and the icon it chose for a bullet point on "archiving" was... this
a blue icon of a paper shredder
August 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Reviewing some fixes for the Whitman Archive and feeling really sorry for the programmer that's having to troubleshoot milestones in TEI (We're editing XSLT that was created years and years ago).
A screenshot of a GitHub diff with code added, the XSLT template match has a test for "preceding::delSpan[@spanTo=$id]" and then adds, via a CDATA section, an end span.
August 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Our National Digital Newspapers Grant may be no more (😢) but my colleague Laura Weakly is still posting fun newspaper related content https://cdrhdev.unl.edu/log/2025/chronamparty-pets/
Old newspaper image featuring a black and white photo of a cat with a decorative border and a line drawing of three cats above that with massive bows on.
May 2, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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I hate this
An uptime robot screenshot showing that a site had 99% uptime over 365 days, 96% over 30 days, 92% over 7 days, and 63% over the last 24 hours
April 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Today's frustrating moment: Some images weren't showing up on a page, I checked to make sure the filenames were correct and they were. I finally thought to paste in the filename into a text editor, which showed there is some kind of zero space, invisible […]

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two filenames, one has a highlights ? character in the text editor that the other does not
March 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Airtable is redoing their community help pages, and instead of leaving the old pages up while it's in progress, they took EVERYTHING down. So thousands of google links now lead to this.
Something new is coming! We're putting the finishing touches on the 4 new Airtable Community, designed to make it easier than ever to connect, learn, and collaborate with each other. While we're getting things ready, you can continue learning with Airtable Academy or find answers in the Help Center. Stay tuned—our new community experience launches VERY soon! X Powered by
March 5, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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My coworker is storing a bunch of plants in my office and it looks so nice. I should really get some plants
Three windows with lots of plants on the windowsills, 16 plants in all of all different types
January 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Last year at the annual Whitman Archive lunch I won the coveted Whitman trophy for the first time and it has sat on my desk all year. Today it (probably) goes to a new home.

This was full of water when they first made it. #whitman
A snow globe only half full of water with a Whitman photo inside. The photo is partially obscured, but it is of Whitman and peter Doyle and their hats have been photoshopped into a Santa and elf hat
December 19, 2024 at 3:35 PM
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Oogie boogie and me (I'm on the left) #Dogs
Me on the left in glasses and a bright plaid shirt, smiling. Leaning against my shoulder with my arm around him is a brown fluffy lab mix dog, oogie boogie. He's doing a tiny blep
November 5, 2024 at 3:17 PM
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Paparazzi #cats
Two cats on an ottoman, a larger white cat (Bleys) is stretched out and around a smaller tortie (dara). Bleys appears to be asleep, dara is looking up at the camera, her eyes are light green and very bright.
November 4, 2024 at 9:36 PM
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Happy Halloween! Here I am in my new favorite sweatshirt
Photo of me standing awkwardly as usual in front of a wall painted green. My sweatshirt is half dark gray, half white, with two skeletons appearing to be dancing and making a heart with their hands.
October 31, 2024 at 2:48 PM