CodeAcademy is offering an excellent opportunity for anyone interested in getting started with coding: Code Year. Each week they’ll be emailing out to anyone that signs up an interactive lesson on coding. Code Academy offers some fantastic interactive courses, so you learn in a supportive environment.
Naturally this has piqued the interest of a number of catalogers that have been interested in learning to code or want to brush up or learn new code languages, myself included. Catalogers work with massive amounts of curated bibliographic data, and being able to manipulate it in new and different ways and in ever increasing amounts is key as we move forward into the bibliographic future and the world of linked data and the semantic web.
So I started compiling names. This is my curated list of catalogers on Twitter participating in CodeYear so far:
@slmcdanold (me)
@lauramac95
@jaleh_f
@erinaleach
@HLPitts
@yo_bj (no longer has cataloger in her title but it’s in her soul)
@jen_young
@cjclib
@cursedstorm
@enimsakont
@debdegeorge
@evil_jen
@chrpr (not a cataloger…but we like him anyway)
@amyrpennington
@skiddie2
@johnmac38
@wabashcanonball
@EstherArens
@lagina
@sidesmirk
@libdespot
@shelitwits
@AnneWelsh
@yanajenn
@orangeaurochs
@maryacat
@campbell_b
@strong_stuff
@dchud
@lrobare
@ahitchens
@dorevabelfiore
@kate80
@jenniferswright
@SuzanGriffiths
@lynncorrigan
@alyssa_briggs
@springyrice
@caschwartz (no longer has cataloger in her title but it’s in her soul)
@HtebLuap
@prburley
@frleibo
@cololibrarygirl
@srodr2
@htomren
@shomj
@rachelmcw
@schammond
@StephenTEarly
@cindywho23
@Headstrongways
@ynde
@ces43
@infod1va
@teagueamania
@israelcsus
@meta_cat
@diriwh
@bibliosaurustxt
@pikesar
@BarbaraBrownell
@tminchew
@keribrary
@lrts
@barnlib
@adriennerad
@spaghettiwall
@zemkat
@AhavaCohen
@deans
@catlib56
@bookmender11
@diseming
@jnavia
@violibrarian
@egelliott
@koklbr
@plummerkaren
@nossis
@PhillyKatia
@jmyntti
@mrlindner
@metalib
@AllisonJaiODell
@strettoc
@bohyunkim
@wendyrlibrarian
@maggienunley
@alison_felstead
@RachaelCohen1
@bibliographics
Add yourself to the list by posting your Twitter handle as a comment. I’ll update as needed. 🙂 You can also send me a message via Twitter (@slmcdanold) and add yourself that way. Or use the newly created hashtag #catcode (thanks @chrpr for the suggestion)!
There is now an actual LIST on Twitter: catcode. Subscribe!
If you’re not on Twitter, let me know where we should email you when we get some sort of wiki/webpage/IRC channel going so we can all suffer learn together and help each other.
Non-Twitter list:
Cecilia G. (gener002@umn.edu)
Joe O. (Joe_Orth@ca6.uscourts.gov)
Martin J. (martin.jenkins@wright.edu)
Nancy H. (nancy.hunter@colostate.edu)
Ann H. (alh5456@sbcglobal.net) [on Twitter as @alh5456 but forgets to use it. 😉 ]
chrisallenstanton@gmail.com
Susie R. (sridgeway@me.com)
Deborah Tomaras (dtomaras@southportland.org)
Melodie Frances (mfrances@gtu.edu)
Linda Frankel (lf92355@gmail.com)
Leigh Billings (rednaal@umich.edu)
Bill Anderson (William.Anderson@ct.gov)
Catherine Kellett (catherine.kellett@yale.edu)
Christine DeZelar-Tiedman (dezel002@umn.edu)
Cindy (cbarrilleaux@slol.lib.la.us)
Ashley Dietrick (akdietrick@gmail.com)
Joan Milligan (jmilligan1@udayton.edu)
Chris Blackman (cblackma@williams.edu)
Kristi Bergland (krisser@gmail.com)
Euem C. Osmera (eosmera@unmc.edu)
flinchba@umbc.edu
David A. Johnson (djohnson@highline.edu)
deg7@nyu.edu
Pauline (myrtlebell@centurylink.net)
Mike Mitchell (deeptexas10@gmail.com)
R.A. Stewart (rstewart@indiantrailslibrary.org)
Melissa VanTine (melissa.vantine@yale.edu)
Tina (spielmat@uwm.edu)
Carolyn (chufford@gmail.com)
Julie (julie.howe@kctcs.edu)
Peter Rolla (peter_rolla@hms.harvard.edu)
lloydgerard@hotmail.com
kvalenzuela@csustan.edu
Just signed up. No Twitter account, but you can email me at rstewart@indiantrailslibrary.orgThanks!
Melissa VanTine (melissa.vantine@yale.edu)
@PhillyKatia
Tinaspielmat@uwm.edu
@jmyntti
Just signed up my Twitter account is @metalib
@bohyunkim (Bohyun Kim)
Carolynchufford@gmail.com
I'm in.julie.howe@kctcs.edu
Shana – Thanks for compiling this list. I signed up for the courses, so please add me. Thanks!peter_rolla@hms.harvard.edu
@maggienunley
I am new to coding so I am trying a few lessons first.
New to coding: lloydgerard@hotmail.com so sign me up
@alison_felstead
Thank you! Email: kvalenzuela@csustan.edu
@RachaelCohen1
@bibliographics
@SnezaninSmehI would love to be a part of this! Thank you! – Bojana