You're a librarian for a small community and someone hands you an SSD. Opening it up you discover three folders named eBooks, Magazines, and Comics. Total file count: 6,271. You nod, fire up some software, and tell your community "Yeah, I can make this work."

• Calibre - The best eBook management system
• Calibre - Supported formats
• Kovid Goyal - The primary developer of Calibre
• Komga - Your next digital comic and magazine management system
• Comics metadata from Comic Vine
• Comics metadata from The League of Comic Geeks
• Bandes dessinées metadata from Bubble
• Bandes dessinées metadata from Bedetheque
• Manga metadata from Kitsu
• Manga metadata from MyAnimeList
• A list of digital comic reading software

All tracks by Smooth Genestar from the album Music for Sleepless Cities.

• Downtempo Gangstas and Time Thieves
• Bars & Hookers
• Tokyo Codes
• Sleepless in Reykjavik

Opening track - Bellydance at Ebisu by Ryo Miyashita

• SFX_Magazine - Freesound
• Magazine.wav - Freesound

Your community, your library. Whether you’ve got a small group of friends, or a small town, the Cyberpunk Librarian has the solutions for your ILS problems! Join Dan for an introduction to a fantastic, easy to use ILS that’ll make your library life easier without breaking your budget!

• The Shane Company - Advertising slogan: You have a friend in the diamond business
• https://cyberpunklibrarian.com/blog/theres-gotta-be-someone-better.html - A blog post I wrote about why Dewey sucks
• BISAC - Book Industry Standards and Communications cataloguing system. Human readable subject headings and classifications.
• UNIX Philosophy - One damn thing at a time
• TinyCat - The best ILS solution for regular people
• TinyCat Pricing - While TinyCat isn't free, it's incredibly affordable
• Handheld USB Barcode Scanner - $14.99 at the time I composed these notes.
• WoneNice USB Laser Barcode Scanner Wired - $20.99 at the time I composed these notes.
• Tanglewood Hill OPAC - My personal library at Tanglewood Hill. Have a look around!
• Make your own barcodes using this spreadsheet! But first, you'll need to install this font.

• A New Life by Napz
• Not Found by Daizy
• Sunken Streets by Sro
• Slow Vibing by Ketsa
• Light Year by Anitek
• Bellydance at Ebisu by Ryo Miyashita

Whether you’re disconnecting out of necessity or choice, you don’t have to shut down when you go offline! Join the Cyberpunk Librarian for tips, tricks, and tactics for working and keeping yourself entertained when the lights go out and/or your phone says “Searching for signal.”

• YouTube
• PeerTube

Entertainment - Audio

• Apple Music
• Spotify

Entertainment - News

• Internet Archive
• The Magazine Rack - Tonnes of magazines freely available for download from the Internet. Archive!
  • The Computer Magazine Archives
  • Gaming and Gamer Magazine Archives
  • Starlog Magazine Archive
  • ZZap!64 Magazine Archive
• Pocket
• Wallabag
• Zinio

Entertainment - Reading

• Amazon Kindle
• Audible
• Comixology

Entertainment - Video

• CrunchyRoll
• Hulu
• Netflix
• Prime Video

Library Apps

Check your local library to see if any of these services are available to you! All libraries are different and some will have access to different services, with different collections. All of these apps are available on iOS and Android.

• Axis360 - An eBook service for public libraries.
• cloudLibrary - Downloadable eBooks for public libraries.
• ComicsPlus - A comic book and graphic novel service for libraries.
• Flipster - Digital magazines and newspapers services for libraries.
• Freading - Downloadable eBooks for public libraries. Usually offers a more esoteric collection than the other eBook services.
• Freegal - Download, and keep, MP3 every single week. Streaming music is also available, depending on your library's options.
• Hoopla - The service with almost everything. Read eBooks and comics, listen to music and audiobooks, watch movies and TV.
• Kanopy - Indie movies, award winning documentaries, The Great Courses, and more.
• OverDrive (aka Libby) - OverDrive is the service and Libby is their app. OverDrive is the biggest service in downloadable eBooks and eAudio in the North American public library space.
• RBDigital - A little bit of everything. eBooks, eAudiobooks, digital magazines.

Software

• Ampps - Easily set up a MariaDB, Apache, and PHP development environment on your Mac, Windows, or Linux. Then install various programmes using Softaculous.
• Calibre - Your eBooks, organised, converted, and managed your way. 100% cross platform.
• Chunky - My preferred comic book reader for iPadOS.
• Dark Noise - Soothing sounds for your ears. Available on iOS and iPadOS.
• GoodNotes - Handwritten notebooks done right in the digital world. The first big reason to own an iPad Pro and an Apple Pencil.
• GoodReader - Excellent PDF reader for iOS and iPadOS.
• iA Writer - An excellent and affordable Markdown editor.
• Joplin - Ditch Evernote and discover something better, and simpler, than Notion. Joplin is a cross platform and available iOS, iPadOS, and Android.
• MindNode - Mind mapping software for iPad, iOS, and macOS. See below for an example of how I organised this show using MindMap.
• Procreate - Drawing, sketching, and painting on the iPad Pro. This is the second big reason to own an iPad Pro and an Apple Pencil.
• Typora - The best Markdown editor for macOS, Windows, and Linux.
• Visual Studio Code - My preferred code editor. Oddly enough, even though it's made by Microsoft, it's totally cross platform for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
• VLC - One of the best video apps in the world. Free, open source, cross platform, and will play damn near anything you throw at it.

Everything else

• CGP Grey - Dead man's/Detained man's switch. (Specific part of the video.)
• Cortex - The origin of the terms Greycation and Hurleyday.
• Publii - Version 0.36 released with a new spell check, and a whole lot of other new features!

• Bellydance at Ebisu by Ryo Miyashita
• Call Your Grandma by Bodysurfer
• Wants to Know by Bodysurfer
• 17-17 by Bodysurfer
• Jax-Trax by Bodysurfer
• Tears In My Heart by Psychadelik Pedestrian

Oh my god, he's back! After over a year of craziness and massive life changes, the Cyberpunk Librarian is back!

Join Dan in this comeback episode where he helps you get acquainted with static site generators and introduces you to the one he prefers!

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• Tanglewood Hill - Check out my personal blog, powered by Publii!
• Energy Hogs: Can World’s Huge Data Centers Be Made More Efficient?
• The Internet Cloud Has a Dirty Secret
• Stooge - A little programme that clears fines on patron accounts by automating Polaris Leap.
• Jekyll - Probably the most popular static site generator.
• Hexo - A static site generator powered by Node.js.
• Hugo - Likely the fastest static site generator. Powered by Go.
• Publii - My static site generator of choice. Beautiful, easy to use, and it makes blogging a joy rather than a job.
• Publii Marketplace - Lovely, free themes for Publii along with a few paid options.
• If you're interested in other static site generating options, check out this article from CreativeBloq.
• Typora - My favourite Markdown editor.

• Radio Interference/Static - from Freesound
• Epsilon by Auditive Escape
• Fluvial Aspen by Auditive Escape
• Yurtifale by Auditive Escape
• Bellydance at Ebisu by Ryo Miyashita

Are you tired of paying for content? Do you have four or five services you subscribe to for music, eBooks, or movies? Maybe even more than five? Feeling a bit burned out pitting one service over another? Well Dan has just the thing for you: Free digital content from your public library! Release yourself from all (or at least some) of those services, and check out what's on offer from your local library! You'll be amazed how you can download eBooks, listen to music and audiobooks, watch movies, and more... and all you pay is the price of your library card!

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• OverDrive - Audiobooks, eBooks, and more
• RBDigital - Audiobooks, eBooks, magazines, comics, and more
• Hoopla - Audiobooks, eBooks, music, comics, and more

• OverDrive - Audiobooks, eBooks, and more
• Hoopla - Audiobooks, eBooks, music, comics, and more
• Freading - eBooks outside the Times... the New York Times.
• Freading Help

• RBDigital - Audiobooks, eBooks, magazines, comics, and more
• Hoopla - Audiobooks, eBooks, music, comics, and more
• Magazine Rack - The Magazine Rack at the Internet Archive. Tonnes of classic magazines.

• Hoopla - Audiobooks, eBooks, music, comics, and more
• Kanopy - A fantastic collection of indie, arthouse, classic, and documentary film

• Freegal - Download and stream music, free and legally
• Hoopla - Audiobooks, eBooks, music, comics, and more

• Bellydance at Ebisu by Ryo Miyashita
• Elektro Attitude by Chuzausen
• When the Rain Comes by saQi (featuring Cheraki)
• Falling Under Water by saQi (featuring Marya Stark)
• Bunker by Meter
• Ocean Hotel by Uncan
• Weirder by Drake Stafford

The Cyberpunk Librarian is back and he’s talking about software… His own software! Join Dan for a look at The FOSSiL Projects and discover what he’s been working on for the past couple of months! And hey, maybe there’s something in the Projects that can help make your library life just a little easier!

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Holy crap! Cyberpunk Librarian is back! On this episode, Dan talks about the projects that have been holding up the show and what’s going on in his life. It’s a conversation over coffee with your friendly neighbourhood Cyberpunk Librarian!

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Join Dan for a special episode of Cyberpunk Librarian where he looks at what it is to be human in an increasingly technological world, and within the world of one of the greatest novels in the cyberpunk genre!

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Sounds

Sometimes it’s far harder than it should be to find that academic paper or research article. Papers and journals are locked behind paywalls, paywalls that don’t matter to your patrons. So let Dan help you break the walls down, and get those articles you and your patrons need!

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After a way–to-long hiatus due to some bad craziness with moving, promotions, and upgrades… The Cyberpunk Librarian is back! Join Dan as he shares his tools and techniques for downloading massive amounts of, well… everything!

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