Galen Charlton

I commend reading the "Statement of Facts" filing in the US v. Practice Fusion to anybody who works in software, particularly software that is meant to make any kind of recommendation: courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… [PDF] (thread)

The fact that people today feel comfortable looking back at Y2K and laughing is because enough people took the problem seriously and fixed it before anything catastrophic could occur. It was a real problem, fixing it took real work. Even if many just remember it as a joke. 🧵

@NoetheMatt Looks like this is a recording of the meeting and public hearing where it happened: youtube.com/watch?v=O7n9aK… The automatic YouTube transcript is already available.

@kmlussier Your cat likes to live dangerously, I see ;)

He is also keeping me out of reach of my coffee cup.

I was going to start my work day early this morning, but this guy had other plans. #AlwaysListenToTheCat

Back home from #evgils23. Here's part of the reception committee.

Heading home from the Evergreen Conference. I've had a wonderful time, and it's been awesome and amazing to reconnect with folks in person! #evgils #evgils23

@gmcharlt Stealing post-its at

The post-its from my table during the brainstorming session at the Evergreen Conference #evgils #evgils23

Also, major kudos to Elaine Hardy of PINES (also retiring soon) who has been a bedrock of the Evergreen and Evergreen cataloging community. #evgils #evgils23

You can work in a project for a long time and still be surprised. Example: at the #EVGILS Cataloging IG meeting, learning that Bin Lin of PINES, who is retiring soon, was the person who suggested "Evergreen" as the project's name. #evgils23

A tuit cookie to get the day started. Really looking forward to @kmlussier's talk this morning. #evgils #evgils23

I though it would be a cakewalk, teaching that naughty ebook a lesson. Until we discovered its special nature and super power... its encoding in EBCDIC!

Ran across a neat resource today - a German-language handbook of library IT that was produced over a few days during a book sprint: it-in-bibliotheken.de #libtech #code4lib

Earth, 27 August 31,375 (Old Calendar Mark XXII): "Jones, we have done it! All questions of life, the universe, and everything have been settled!" "Cool! Oh, what about that old one about the proper interpretation of the 3M SIP2 specification? "Crap." #libtech

@babrahamse The perils of reading too quickly - for one, shining moment I had "charged with creating a finding aid" in my head.

@kmlussier @roganhamby *cough*

@roganhamby @gmcharlt To @gmcharlt's point, shouldn't you be sitting on your hands then rather than biting your tongue? Also, I can't tell you how many geeky references I've seen in the dev meetings over the years. "thedoctor" is probably the least obscure of them.

I had to bite my tongue during a dev meeting when a "time-controller" account was proposed. I really really want to name such an account "thedoctor" ... and no, I'm not ashamed of my love of geeky references though I know they can be too obscure in practice.

Evening reading at #NYLA2022

Perhaps not the airport breakfast of champions, but this Lancaster County boy appreciates the childhood callback. Off home to Atlanta in a bit.

Some population trends in rural PA: - most rural counties have more deaths and births - rural PA is aging; e.g., by 2030 47/67 counties are projected to have more seniors than youth #PaLA2022