If you use the web and excel get this now

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/cekbgkmeapobkbadclnkjfjdbpbcaobd

We'll be using this to update our TV/Broadcast section at the Resource Library into a proper relational database in instances where Needlebase  is overkill.

In other news, I'm working on a nifty project in Needle using metadata extracted from the Grateful Dead collection on the Internet Archive. So far it has just been de-duping and some keyword clean-up but I have a couple ideas for what I'm thinking of as data-centric/visualizer based "enhance" finding aid. Will publish the results when I'm done!

PS - Found this gem while combing through the archives 

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Fantastic blog:

http://awfullibrarybooks.wordpress.com/

Horrible News:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/opinion/03tue3.html

How's this for a mind-bender?

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/07/using_squirrels_as_a_power_source_v.html

“I figured they could be put to work,” McHugh said. And that was the acorn that grew into his second career as a kinetic artist.