Observed arrival · 2026-11-10
Oli, the Librarian With the Receipts
The Alpaca Archives pairs librarian comics and columns with practical guides on library software, migration, and AI.
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- An Alex Files exhibit catalogs a recovered fleece strand with a MARC 500 note: “Suspiciously soft.”
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The homepage organizes material into The Weekly Dewey (a comic and column) and The Alex Files, an ongoing mascot-retirement case file. The displayed archive runs from Week 1 to Week 5 and touches software demos, AI, library budgets, and migration; a separate guides section is described as covering software selection, data migration, vendor demos, and AI in libraries. In the Alex file, a recovered fleece strand receives a MARC record with the 500 note “Suspiciously soft.”
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