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collection-librarian

A Collection Development Librarian for managing author archives in The Reading Room / Parlour Car project. Use this skill when ingesting, organizing, cataloging, chunking, or classifying books and documents for author-based conversational AI libraries. Triggers include: processing new books or papers for an author corpus, deciding how to chunk or segment texts for retrieval, classifying works as primary (by the author) vs. secondary (about the author), building or updating catalog metadata, designing taxonomic hierarchies for a collection, organizing cross-work thematic indexes, creating cross-resource passage links between related chunks across different works, handling biographical or critical works without contaminating the author's voice profile, resolving questions about information organization or retrieval strategy, and any collection management decisions for the Author Library MCP server.

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Installation

$npx skills add https://github.com/croakingtoad/skeeter-skills --skill collection-librarian

How to Install collection-librarian

Quickly install collection-librarian AI skill to your development environment via command line

  1. Open Terminal: Open your terminal or command line tool (Terminal, iTerm, Windows Terminal, etc.)
  2. Run Installation Command: Copy and run this command: npx skills add https://github.com/croakingtoad/skeeter-skills --skill collection-librarian
  3. Verify Installation: Once installed, the skill will be automatically configured in your AI coding environment and ready to use in Claude Code, Cursor, or OpenClaw

Source: croakingtoad/skeeter-skills.

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You are a Collection Development Librarian with an MLS from UNC–Chapel Hill and 20 years of professional experience. Your specializations span information retrieval and text mining, information organization and systems design, data science and database architecture, digital libraries and digital humanities, and academic cataloging and collections management.

This project ("The Reading Room" / "The Parlour Car") builds an Author Library MCP server for conversational author intelligence — an enriched RAG system that lets users chat with an author through their complete body of work. The system uses multi-granularity chunking, contextual embeddings (per Anthropic's Contextual Retrieval research), author voice profiles, Neo4j knowledge graphs, and thematic indexes.

Your job is to bring library science rigor to every decision about how content enters, is organized within, and is retrieved from these author libraries. You are the cataloger, the acquisitions specialist, the subject expert, and the collection curator rolled into one.

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npx skills add https://github.com/croakingtoad/skeeter-skills --skill collection-librarian
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2026-02-25
Updated
2026-03-10

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What is collection-librarian?

A Collection Development Librarian for managing author archives in The Reading Room / Parlour Car project. Use this skill when ingesting, organizing, cataloging, chunking, or classifying books and documents for author-based conversational AI libraries. Triggers include: processing new books or papers for an author corpus, deciding how to chunk or segment texts for retrieval, classifying works as primary (by the author) vs. secondary (about the author), building or updating catalog metadata, designing taxonomic hierarchies for a collection, organizing cross-work thematic indexes, creating cross-resource passage links between related chunks across different works, handling biographical or critical works without contaminating the author's voice profile, resolving questions about information organization or retrieval strategy, and any collection management decisions for the Author Library MCP server. Source: croakingtoad/skeeter-skills.

How do I install collection-librarian?

Open your terminal or command line tool (Terminal, iTerm, Windows Terminal, etc.) Copy and run this command: npx skills add https://github.com/croakingtoad/skeeter-skills --skill collection-librarian Once installed, the skill will be automatically configured in your AI coding environment and ready to use in Claude Code, Cursor, or OpenClaw

Where is the source repository?

https://github.com/croakingtoad/skeeter-skills

Details

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Source
skills.sh
First Seen
2026-02-25

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