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diff --git a/_posts/2025-03-10-enhancing-marc-language-metadata-with-ruby-and-indigenous-tenacity.md b/_posts/2025-03-10-enhancing-marc-language-metadata-with-ruby-and-indigenous-tenacity.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ spot: 5
 location: mcdonnell
 speakers:
 - beck-davis
-speaker-text: Beck Davis, , 
+speaker-text: Beck Davis
 title: "Enhancing MARC Language Metadata with Ruby and Indigenous Tenacity"
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 There are many Indigenous and minority languages that are grouped in broader MARC language codes, limiting the ability to find materials in a specific language. I was inspired by the University of Hawaii’s Indigenous Pacific Languages cataloging project, which highlighted the limitations of the MARC Language Codes. I undertook this project to improve language-related discoverability by parsing free text language metadata from MARC field 546 to create new 041 fields with matching ISO 639-3 language codes. The goal was improving the discoverability of Indigenous and minority language materials by enhancing language metadata accuracy. ISO 639-3 language codes can supplement MARC Language Codes for more accurate language representation. In the process, I identified many candidate materials in the library’s collection. This talk will discuss the importance of supplementing with ISO 639-3 language codes, as well as the challenges I encountered as I developed software tools to make that easier for catalogers. 
diff --git a/_posts/2025-03-10-getting-everyone-on-the-same-page-building-a-shared-governance-structure-for-digital-projects.md b/_posts/2025-03-10-getting-everyone-on-the-same-page-building-a-shared-governance-structure-for-digital-projects.md
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ location: mcdonnell
 speakers:
 - lauren-gallina
 - john-dewees
-speaker-text: Lauren Gallina, John Dewees, 
+speaker-text: Lauren Gallina, John Dewees
 title: "Getting Everyone on the Same Page: Building a Shared Governance Structure for Digital Projects "
 ---
 Coordinating the work of multiple people on projects can be a thorny problem. This can be especially difficult when folks work in different departments and on different levels of the org chart. The University of Rochester has been working on a governance structure to ensure that the handling of digital projects can be done consistently, that the management of these projects does not depend on a particular person being in a role, and to foster clear communication and greater trust. This presentation will include a discussion of how this iterative process came about, how the framework developed for digital projects management came to be, what artifacts were necessary to create along the way, and how we are going to guarantee that this model will keep us on track and help accomplish our goals well into the future. 
diff --git a/_posts/2025-03-10-if-you-give-a-girl-a-website-she-ll-ask-for-metadata-searching.md b/_posts/2025-03-10-if-you-give-a-girl-a-website-she-ll-ask-for-metadata-searching.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ spot: 3
 location: mcdonnell
 speakers:
 - sarah-hensler
-speaker-text: Sarah Hensler, , 
+speaker-text: Sarah Hensler
 title: "If You Give a Girl a Website (She'll ask for metadata searching)"
 ---
 When non-library platforms want to integrate online archival materials into their project, they often turn to pre-made web content management systems to lessen the need for advanced coding and metadata skills. This was the case for Windows to the World (W2W), a digital humanities curriculum platform that uses material from several different archival repositories. The W2W website, which was designed by university WCMS developers, has very limited metadata functionalities for featured museum items and no metadata for the curricula. For a platform that aims to make creative educational connections between otherwise disparate primary sources, this has become a crushing problem. However, a new grant- and a young MLS student learning to code- offer the chance to change that. This talk showcases one MLS student’s efforts to transition a non-functional WCMS into a platform where metadata drives educational engagement. Using a combination of library science pedagogy, inter-institutional collaborations, and some hot-off-the-press skills in GitHub CollectionBuilder and HTML, this grad student explores how librarians can reframe educators’ understanding of archival materials when they prioritize the metadata around each item. 
diff --git a/_posts/2025-03-10-infosec-for-a-world-at-war.md b/_posts/2025-03-10-infosec-for-a-world-at-war.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ spot: 1
 location: mcdonnell
 speakers:
 - bess-sadler
-speaker-text: Bess Sadler, , 
+speaker-text: Bess Sadler
 title: "Infosec for a world at war"
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 What does it mean to host digitized library collections that state actors would like to destroy? Or to have custody of data and documents that are evidence in a political battle? What responsibilities do we have to Justice, when we might hold evidence relevant to land back lawsuits, which powerful interests would like to destroy? This talk will discuss how to apply agile and DevOps principles to the question of information security for digital libraries, and provide some examples about why it matters.
diff --git a/_posts/2025-03-10-lc-subject-heading-remapping-making-good-on-good-intentions.md b/_posts/2025-03-10-lc-subject-heading-remapping-making-good-on-good-intentions.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ spot: 1
 location: mcdonnell
 speakers:
 - monique-rio
-speaker-text: Monique Rio, , 
+speaker-text: Monique Rio
 title: "LC Subject Heading Remapping: Making Good on Good Intentions"
 ---
 Library of Congress subject headings don't always reflect the values of the institutions using them, and they change at the speed of Congress. Over the years there has been a desire for institutions to choose for themselves what words to use for LC terms, and there have been a variety of ways to do this.
diff --git a/_posts/2025-03-10-making-the-development-process-inclusive-of-disabilities.md b/_posts/2025-03-10-making-the-development-process-inclusive-of-disabilities.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ spot: 5
 location: mcdonnell
 speakers:
 - katherine-kate-deibel
-speaker-text: Katherine "Kate" Deibel, , 
+speaker-text: Katherine "Kate" Deibel
 title: "Making the Development Process Inclusive of Disabilities"
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 With accessibility, we often think about the finished technology. Disabled people, however, are not just users. Many developers, managers, testers, etc. have disabilities that our work practices may be problematic but addressable. This talk will highlight several common practices and tools used in development (e.g., Slack, agile) and how to make them more inclusive for sensory disabilities and neurodivergence.
diff --git a/_posts/2025-03-10-marc-record-validation-with-python-and-pydantic.md b/_posts/2025-03-10-marc-record-validation-with-python-and-pydantic.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ spot: 4
 location: mcdonnell
 speakers:
 - charlotte-kostelic
-speaker-text: Charlotte Kostelic, , 
+speaker-text: Charlotte Kostelic
 title: "MARC record validation with Python and Pydantic"
 ---
 Pydantic is a widely used data validation library for Python favored for its speed and extensibility. With Pydantic users can define schema or models against which to validate data. Users receive detailed reports of any validation errors after passing data into or validating a data object against a model. In my presentation I will outline how I have used Pydantic to validate vendor-supplied MARC records to improve their quality. As NYPL has expanded the use of shelf-ready services for some research materials, we have increased the points at which we can introduce inconsistencies into our catalog. In this presentation I will describe how to define models to validate embedded order data (EOD), highlight how to customize models to account for slight differences between required fields in vendor records, and outline how to create one’s own Pydantic models. In addition to describing my pilot project to validate vendor-supplied data for shelf-ready MARC records, I will also outline how one can use Pydantic to validate the structure of MARC records. 
diff --git a/_posts/2025-03-10-preserving-history-through-advanced-3d-scanning-a-case-study-on-gaussian-splat-photogrammetry.md b/_posts/2025-03-10-preserving-history-through-advanced-3d-scanning-a-case-study-on-gaussian-splat-photogrammetry.md
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ location: mcdonnell
 speakers:
 - brandon-patterson
 - matthew-elliott
-speaker-text: Brandon Patterson, Matthew Elliott, 
+speaker-text: Brandon Patterson, Matthew Elliott
 title: "Preserving History Through Advanced 3D Scanning: A Case Study on Gaussian Splat Photogrammetry"
 ---
 In the realm of historical preservation, innovative technologies play a crucial role in capturing and safeguarding the essence of culturally significant objects and structures. This presentation highlights a cutting-edge 3D scanning project undertaken by our library team, wherein we took over 3,600 photos of multiple rooms of a historically significant building using a novel photogrammetry technique. At the core of our method lies the Gaussian Splat approach, which facilitates real-time radiance field rendering, resulting in highly detailed and realistic 3D models. Our project not only emphasizes the practical applications of this advanced technology in historical documentation but also showcases the challenges and successes encountered during the process. Through this initiative, we aim to inspire further exploration of photogrammetry in cultural heritage conservation and encourage interdisciplinary collaborations between libraries, coding experts, and preservationists.
diff --git a/_posts/2025-03-10-publishing-and-archiving-large-datasets-in-data-repositories.md b/_posts/2025-03-10-publishing-and-archiving-large-datasets-in-data-repositories.md
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ location: mcdonnell
 speakers:
 - jerry-kuang
 - reid-boehm
-speaker-text: Jerry Kuang, Reid Boehm, 
+speaker-text: Jerry Kuang, Reid Boehm
 title: "Publishing and Archiving Large Datasets in Data Repositories"
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 Researchers collect and analyze large datasets in a majority of academic areas. At Purdue we receive a lot of requests from researchers who desire to publish and share the large datasets in the university’s data repository, which is the platform for researchers to share and publish datasets and meet federal funding agency recommendations and requirements for dataset sharing.  
diff --git a/_posts/2025-03-10-text-embeddings-for-entity-resolution-and-name-disambiguation-in-the-library-catalog.md b/_posts/2025-03-10-text-embeddings-for-entity-resolution-and-name-disambiguation-in-the-library-catalog.md
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ location: mcdonnell
 speakers:
 - timothy-a-thompson
 - gavin-mendel-gleason
-speaker-text: Timothy A. Thompson, Gavin Mendel-Gleason, 
+speaker-text: Timothy A. Thompson, Gavin Mendel-Gleason
 title: "Text Embeddings for Entity Resolution and Name Disambiguation in the Library Catalog"
 ---
 Library catalogs have long grappled with the challenges of entity resolution, hindered by legacy string-based workflows for authority control. Standards that were suitable for printed card catalogs have become a significant source of technical debt in the digital era. For instance, current systems for automated authority control fail to disambiguate common names that represent multiple individual identities. Traditional full-text search platforms may partially mask this problem for users, but it becomes increasingly pronounced in linked data discovery environments, where accurate entity resolution is crucial. To address these persistent challenges, a novel approach that utilizes text embeddings, vector databases, and machine learning is proposed. This method clusters identities based on weighted semantic similarity rather than simple string matching. It offers a scalable solution that can reduce technical debt and promote effective identity management as libraries shift toward more dynamic, interconnected data ecosystems.
diff --git a/_posts/2025-03-10-the-best-and-worst-widgets-ai-tools-and-browser-extensions-for-ada-compliance.md b/_posts/2025-03-10-the-best-and-worst-widgets-ai-tools-and-browser-extensions-for-ada-compliance.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ spot: 4
 location: mcdonnell
 speakers:
 - alyssa-panetta
-speaker-text: Alyssa Panetta, , 
+speaker-text: Alyssa Panetta
 title: "The Best (and Worst) Widgets, AI Tools and Browser Extensions for ADA Compliance"
 ---
 From commercial overlay widgets promising quick fixes for compliance to usability experts recommending the use of AI to generate custom user interfaces on the fly, the landscape of accessibility tech is growing more and more complex. With the updated Section 508 deadlines looming for state and local entities, what tools will help you meet WCAG 2.1 AA standards (and avoid lawsuits) and which are just hype?
diff --git a/_posts/2025-03-10-the-subtle-art-of-not-giving-a-f-ck-about-getting-things-done.md b/_posts/2025-03-10-the-subtle-art-of-not-giving-a-f-ck-about-getting-things-done.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ spot: 1
 location: mcdonnell
 speakers:
 - mike-kastellec
-speaker-text: Mike Kastellec, , 
+speaker-text: Mike Kastellec
 title: "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck About Getting Things Done"
 ---
 Productivity advice is overwhelming, with endless systems promising to change your life. I'm not an evangelist for any single system; I'm just a cog in a same flawed machine we’re all part of, trying to get my sh*t done and staving off burnout. I've read every productivity book in existence and tried enough task management tools and I have come to the conclusion that they work about as well as fad diets: they can help in the short-term but it's nearly impossible to stick to one rigorously. If you discard the chaff, though, there are insights to glean from each, and these fundamentals can form the basis of a flexible, individualized productivity system. I’m not offering a one-size-fits-all solution—just the building blocks to help you craft your own.
diff --git a/_posts/2025-03-10-utsa-libraries-presents-the-sounds-of-san-anto-exploring-how-digital-tools-can-enhance-storytelling.md b/_posts/2025-03-10-utsa-libraries-presents-the-sounds-of-san-anto-exploring-how-digital-tools-can-enhance-storytelling.md
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ location: mcdonnell
 speakers:
 - diane-lopez
 - javier-ruedas
-speaker-text: Diane Lopez, Javier Ruedas, 
+speaker-text: Diane Lopez, Javier Ruedas
 title: "UTSA Libraries presents the Sounds of San Anto: exploring how digital tools can enhance storytelling"
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 Sounds of San Anto is a project created at UTSA Libraries’ digital humanities hub, CEDISH. It aims to present several different datasets on the history of music in San Antonio, Texas, to general audiences, using innovative data visualization and application design. In this presentation, we discuss two parts of the project. Part one is a GIS-based text analysis of the Mexican ballad (corrido) "El Corrido de Gregorio Cortez." An NLP pipeline was used to perform named entity recognition (NER) on locations mentioned in the corrido, and to create a map providing geographical positions for ghost towns and incorporated municipalities in Texas. Part two uses the Mapbox API to display a dataset of 18 thousand historical concerts using the Mapbox API. Using best practices in application design, we created user requirements and Figma designs, used Python to transform the data from CSV to JSON, implemented the designs as a mobile-friendly web application, and used UX testing to refine the implementation. As a whole, the project explores the potential for innovative applications of programming in library-based digital humanities projects, aimed at general rather than academic audiences.
diff --git a/_posts/2025-03-10-whisper-at-high-volumes-how-to-transcribe-an-archive.md b/_posts/2025-03-10-whisper-at-high-volumes-how-to-transcribe-an-archive.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ spot: 5
 location: mcdonnell
 speakers:
 - ryan-harpo-harbert
-speaker-text: Ryan "Harpo" Harbert, , 
+speaker-text: Ryan "Harpo" Harbert
 title: "Whisper at High Volumes: How to transcribe an Archive"
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 The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) hosts over 200,000 digitized video and audio assets from over 200 contributing stations, across many decades. A collaboration between the Library of Congress and GBH (WGBH Boston), the collection spans over 100 years of media history.
diff --git a/_posts/2025-03-10-whisper-speech-to-text-for-digitized-historical-audiovisual-materials.md b/_posts/2025-03-10-whisper-speech-to-text-for-digitized-historical-audiovisual-materials.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ spot: 4
 location: mcdonnell
 speakers:
 - emily-lynema
-speaker-text: Emily Lynema, , 
+speaker-text: Emily Lynema
 title: "Whisper speech-to-text for digitized historical audiovisual materials"
 ---
 There is significant activity in the cultural heritage community exploring the use of Whisper to improve accessibility of audiovisual materials. As a freely available model capable of automated speech recognition across multiple languages, it has the potential to enable institutions to create transcripts for large collections in a cost-effective manner. As a result of the massive media digitization project at Indiana University, we have a collection of over 350,000 digitized items that represent a range of physical formats, from wax cylinders to audiocassettes, motion picture film, VHS, and more. Owned by many units across the Indiana University system, the content varies in genre and includes field recordings, raw unedited TV footage and home recordings, in addition to lectures and events, broadcast TV and radio, and educational recordings. As we think about the accessibility of this collection, we are asking if Whisper can be leveraged to provide transcripts across this diversity.
diff --git a/_posts/2025-03-10-why-marc-is-terrible-but-brilliant-and-you-should-be-nice-to-yourself.md b/_posts/2025-03-10-why-marc-is-terrible-but-brilliant-and-you-should-be-nice-to-yourself.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ spot: 2
 location: mcdonnell
 speakers:
 - andromeda-yelton
-speaker-text: Andromeda Yelton, , 
+speaker-text: Andromeda Yelton
 title: "Why MARC is terrible but brilliant and you should be nice to yourself"
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 MARC must die, right? Certainly if you’ve ever tried to computationally process it, you’ve been frustrated by the not-quite-structured data, the ways it just doesn’t play nice with the expectations of modern applications. I’m ready to grab my best pitchfork and line up with you, and yet – if you look at it in its historical context, MARC is amazing. Henriette Avram’s papers, as she grappled in public with this new format, are a problem-solving tour de force…she just wasn’t solving the same problems we’re solving today. We’ll walk through this collision of needs, illuminating why MARC is brilliant from a computational standpoint, even if it’s terrible from our computational standpoint. Hopefully along the way you’ll feel better about your own legacy code.
diff --git a/_posts/2025-03-11-a-search-intent-detection-api-or-what-if-we-tried-to-understand-incoming-keyword-searches-instead-of-just-throwing-the-words-at-a-search-engine-and-hoping.md b/_posts/2025-03-11-a-search-intent-detection-api-or-what-if-we-tried-to-understand-incoming-keyword-searches-instead-of-just-throwing-the-words-at-a-search-engine-and-hoping.md
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ location: mcdonnell
 speakers:
 - jeremy-prevost
 - matt-bernhardt
-speaker-text: Jeremy Prevost, Matt Bernhardt, 
+speaker-text: Jeremy Prevost, Matt Bernhardt
 title: "A search intent detection API: or, what if we tried to understand incoming keyword searches instead of just throwing the words at a search engine and hoping?"
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 Have you ever wondered if there was a way to understand what type of search a user was doing? Have you ever considered what types of interventions might be possible if we understood a user was looking for topical information and not a specific item (or vice versa)?
diff --git a/_posts/2025-03-11-bots-behaving-badly-how-we-learned-to-tolerate-crawlers-without-losing-our-minds.md b/_posts/2025-03-11-bots-behaving-badly-how-we-learned-to-tolerate-crawlers-without-losing-our-minds.md
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ location: mcdonnell
 speakers:
 - jon-page
 - mike-kastellec
-speaker-text: Jon Page, Mike Kastellec, 
+speaker-text: Jon Page, Mike Kastellec
 title: "Bots Behaving Badly: How We Learned to Tolerate Crawlers Without Losing Our Minds"
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 When your website gets swarmed by bots, it's time to pull out the banhammer. But how to stop the next swarm BEFORE it takes down your site? Our library formed a team to tackle this issue and our findings offer practical insights for others facing similar challenges. Between Fix on Fail and Block All the Things! there's a middle path: a behavior-driven strategy of tolerating bots ... if they behave.
diff --git a/_posts/2025-03-11-building-my-own-tools-creating-reusable-python-scripts-for-my-most-common-spreadsheet-tasks.md b/_posts/2025-03-11-building-my-own-tools-creating-reusable-python-scripts-for-my-most-common-spreadsheet-tasks.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ spot: 4
 location: mcdonnell
 speakers:
 - michelle-janowiecki
-speaker-text: Michelle Janowiecki, , 
+speaker-text: Michelle Janowiecki
 title: "Building my own tools: Creating reusable Python scripts for my most common spreadsheet tasks"
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 This presentation will discuss how I, as a beginner/intermediate coder, created a set of easily reusable Python scripts in a GitHub repository to handle my most frequent spreadsheet tasks like merging, matching, evaluating, and cleaning-up data. It will cover common problems that have I encountered, from "what does this script do again" to "why did my barcodes turn into scientific numbers" as well as what I've learned about how to best organize, name, and update reusable Python scripts for longevity, findability, and minimal frustration. Finally, I will share five of my favorite reusable scripts and why I have found them to be so helpful.
diff --git a/_posts/2025-03-11-continuing-the-conversation-building-open-source-semantic-discovery-tools.md b/_posts/2025-03-11-continuing-the-conversation-building-open-source-semantic-discovery-tools.md
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ location: mcdonnell
 speakers:
 - david-schober
 - brendan-quinn
-speaker-text: David Schober, Brendan Quinn, 
+speaker-text: David Schober, Brendan Quinn
 title: "Continuing the Conversation: Building Open-Source Semantic Discovery Tools"
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 Northwestern University was recently awarded an IMLS Leadership Grant to extract an installable toolkit based on its recently launched open-source chat-based semantic search for Digital Collections <https://www.library.northwestern.edu/about/news/library-news/2024/grant-supports-northwestern-libraries-launch-of-generative-ai-based-chat-search.html>. We'll discuss our work with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures, generating embedding vectors at scale in production, and the challenges of grounding AI responses in data managed by experts at the library. We will also discuss developing a toolkit that will allow other institutions to explore this impactful technology with their own data. Learn about opportunities, challenges, and discoveries we've made so far. 
diff --git a/_posts/2025-03-11-ensuring-institutional-repository-accessibility-integrating-automated-accessibility-checks-and-remediation-workflows.md b/_posts/2025-03-11-ensuring-institutional-repository-accessibility-integrating-automated-accessibility-checks-and-remediation-workflows.md
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ location: mcdonnell
 speakers:
 - sarah-smulligan
 - binky-lush
-speaker-text: Sarah Smulligan, Binky Lush, 
+speaker-text: Sarah Smulligan, Binky Lush
 title: "Ensuring Institutional Repository Accessibility: Integrating Automated Accessibility Checks and Remediation Workflows"
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 We will outline an enhanced Institutional Repository deposit workflow that includes new accessibility testing protocols, feedback mechanisms, and seamless integration into the existing institutional repository deposit process. This workflow includes integrated accessibility testing tools, allowing researchers to receive feedback on their submissions in real time.  
diff --git a/_posts/2025-03-11-making-an-accessible-winnie-the-pooh.md b/_posts/2025-03-11-making-an-accessible-winnie-the-pooh.md
diff --git a/_posts/2025-03-11-replacing-digital-repository-infrastructure-at-los-alamos-national-laboratory.md b/_posts/2025-03-11-replacing-digital-repository-infrastructure-at-los-alamos-national-laboratory.md
diff --git a/_posts/2025-03-11-the-dev-designer-power-duo----secrets-to-seamless-collaboration.md b/_posts/2025-03-11-the-dev-designer-power-duo----secrets-to-seamless-collaboration.md
diff --git a/_posts/2025-03-11-transforming-museums-harnessing-the-power-of-digital-technologies.md b/_posts/2025-03-11-transforming-museums-harnessing-the-power-of-digital-technologies.md
diff --git a/_posts/2025-03-11-wait-why-are-we-doing-this-again-cultural-humility-approaches-to-metadata-remediation.md b/_posts/2025-03-11-wait-why-are-we-doing-this-again-cultural-humility-approaches-to-metadata-remediation.md
diff --git a/_posts/2025-03-12-an-introduction-to-trankskribus-an-ai-tool-for-digital-interpretation-of-historical-documents.md b/_posts/2025-03-12-an-introduction-to-trankskribus-an-ai-tool-for-digital-interpretation-of-historical-documents.md
diff --git a/_posts/2025-03-12-fits-and-starts-onboarding-into-an-old-role-as-a-new-leader.md b/_posts/2025-03-12-fits-and-starts-onboarding-into-an-old-role-as-a-new-leader.md
diff --git a/_posts/2025-03-12-inheriting-messy-metadata-acquiring-an-institutional-repository-from-non-librarians.md b/_posts/2025-03-12-inheriting-messy-metadata-acquiring-an-institutional-repository-from-non-librarians.md
diff --git a/_posts/2025-03-12-reimagining-harvard-collections-ai-enhanced-discovery.md b/_posts/2025-03-12-reimagining-harvard-collections-ai-enhanced-discovery.md
diff --git a/_posts/2025-03-12-the-3d-herbarium-and-3dexhibits4learning-a-new-student-powered-learning-platform.md b/_posts/2025-03-12-the-3d-herbarium-and-3dexhibits4learning-a-new-student-powered-learning-platform.md
