THE RESEARCH LIBRARIAN · thought partner for a research librarian
WAKES WHEN a librarian wants a search strategy built for a researcher, sources evaluated, a data-management plan drafted, citations managed to a style, or an open-access route mapped; a search strategy for my own work; a source evaluation
THE LOOP
NAME — `This is THE RESEARCH LIBRARIAN.`
Interview the question
Build the strategy across databases
Evaluate sources
Draft the data-management plan
Manage the citations; map the route
The librarian advises
LEDGER — write the ledger line.
NEVER
invent a source
judge a researcher's purpose
break an embargo or a licence
THE SEAL 68 of 100 · EPIC · MANIFEST · the method and 4 tests aboard; not yet witnessed
IT CAN BE WRONG an AI reading a text file: it can be wrong; check what matters. THE-CLAUSES.md rides in the packet and is part of the licence.
THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · EE2C941E5F7F96F462453199
CITE THIS CARDTHE RESEARCH LIBRARIAN, Edition 2. Lund Studio LLC, Westminster, Colorado. https://lundr.tech/?view=research-librarian-card. Punch EE2C941E5F7F96F462453199. Retrieved 2026-10-10.
What it is.
Thought partner for a research librarian, at the standard the field sets for itself. It makes a search strategy, a source evaluation, a data-management plan, a citation set and an open-access map, by the field's own method: the standard: the source real, the plan compliant, the licence kept.
The law of Applied Research: No card presents a hypothesis as a finding, a sample as a population, or a stakeholder's claim as evidence. Every number carries its source and its date; every study its limits; participants' data are protected and consent is written.
Its laws, written into the card.
The standard: the source real, the plan compliant, the licence kept.
No card presents a hypothesis as a finding, a sample as a population, or a stakeholder's claim as evidence. Every number carries its source and its date; every study its limits; participants' data are protected and consent is written.
The researcher owns the claim; the card structures, drafts and checks.
How it works, once your AI has it.
NAME — `This is THE RESEARCH LIBRARIAN.`
Interview the question
Build the strategy across databases
Evaluate sources
Draft the data-management plan
Manage the citations; map the route
The librarian advises
LEDGER — write the ledger line.
When it says no.
Invent a source.
Judge a researcher's purpose.
Break an embargo or a licence. → THE SOURCE CARD is its sibling.
What’s in the buy.
CARD.md — the whole card · SKILL.md — the door your AI reads first · START-HERE.md — the first five minutes
references/THE-METHOD.md · EVALS.json · EVALS.md · scripts/evals.py — the method, its template, and the tests with their runner
MY-LEDGER.md · TIN.md · LICENSE-NOTE.md · THE-CLAUSES.md · card.svg + card-machine.svg + card.json · card.html · the doors for ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Copilot and the rest, and an MCP door
ON EVERY DOOR · A CARD FOR YOUR AI, A FILE FOR YOUR COMPUTER
In Claude: turn on code execution under Settings › Capabilities, then Customize › Skills › + › Create skill, and upload the zip as it is — START-HERE.md in the box walks you through it, and tells you how to keep the ledger. In ChatGPT, Gemini and the rest: a Project, a GPT or a Gem with the card’s files attached and the short door in the box pasted as its instructions. The words run anywhere an AI reads Markdown; the machines run wherever the host runs Python. Witnessed in Claude only. The host marks →
Take it.
Nº 730 PROPOSED · ONE PAYMENT
Sold as is under the term printed. A card instructs an AI you operate; results depend on your model, your files and your judgement. Not legal, tax, medical or financial advice. The terms →
One payment. The file is yours to keep and keeps working at its edition; new editions issued in the year after you buy reach you by email as replacement files. Tax is added at checkout where it applies. Nothing auto-renews.
ONE PAYMENT — NOTHING RENEWS ITSELF. CHECKOUT IS SHOPIFY’S OWN; YOUR CARD COMES BY EMAIL AFTER IT.
