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Oddball Film and Video Website Redesign Project

Our team selected a website and performed a redesign using information architecture and user design principles. Throughout the semester we created comparative reviews, site maps, user research and…

Place-things: Cataloging the Ephemeral

  This presentation explores the description of art works that are temporary in nature — in other words, works which are subject to change, alteration, or removal.  The…

Protective Boxes and Enclosures

The goal of this project was to create book enclosures, which are usually made to protect fine and rare books. For our boxes students used only archival, acid…

DPLA Exhibition: The Show Must Go On! American Theater in the Great Depression

The Show Must Go On! American Theater in the Great Depression, is an exhibition created in LIS 665 Projects in Digital Archives for the DPLA Digital Curation Pilot. The exhibition was launched on the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) in Spring 2014

Community Design: West 104th Street Block Association

The Community Design team proposed a complete re-design of the West 104th Street Block Association website, including a completely overhauled information architecture and user interface. Project work included…

Brooklyn Borough President Website Redesign

The LUX team proposed a complete re-design of the Brooklyn Borough President’s website. This proposed redesign followed a series of steps beginning with an analysis of the current…

Adamo Art Gallery Website Redesign Project

The Corn Huskers design team proposed a complete re-design of the Adamo Art Gallery website, including a completely overhauled information architecture and user interface. Project work included a…

Hidden Worlds: Masking Gender in Science Fiction

This project conducted network analysis research on an online database of female-identified science fiction writers who wrote under pseudonyms, focusing particularly on those that used pseudonyms that were…

Engaging from Behind the Desk: A Case Study of Different Reference Interactions at the Brooklyn Historical Society

My project is titled “Engaging from Behind the Desk: A Case Study of Different Reference Interactions at the Brooklyn Historical Society” and investigates the various types of reference…

Graphic Novel

This is a short music video of digital photos of the final graphic novel project of student J.D. Arden. The goal of this project was to create an…

Why Feminism Still Matters (Graphic Novel)

For our final project we were asked to create a 5-8 page comic book with educational aims. I chose to focus on the 3rd Wave of Feminism, or…

User Experience Practicum at NYU Libraries

A panel discussion with the six students who completed a User Experience practicum this semester at NYU Libraries.

Folk Music Society of New York Website Redesign

The Well Wired team proposed a complete re-design of the Folk Music Society of New York website, including a completely overhauled information architecture and user interface. Project work…

Idlewild Books Website Redesign

The SteinKranzStein team proposed a complete re-design of the Idlewild Books website, including a completely overhauled information architecture and user interface. Project work included a content inventory, site…

Folk Music Society of New York Website Redesign

The R&J Industries team proposed a complete re-design of the Cutchogue New Suffolk Free Library website, including a completely overhauled information architecture and user interface. Project work included…

Oral Histories: Veterans and Outreach at the Brooklyn Public Library

In 2000, the United States Congress passed legislation to create the Veterans History Project.  This archive – kept at the American Folklife Center in Washington D.C. – aims…

Agricultural Economics of Lebensraum: Beyond Good and Evil

The title of this visualization is the Agricultural Economics of Lebensraum; Beyond Good and Evil. Lebensraum is German for living space, and agriculture was a mainstay for its…

The Cultural History of Tattoos (Graphic Novel)

The final project of LIS 615 Graphic Novel was to create an educational graphic novel. Partners Emily Crouch and Jordan deButts teamed up to create a five-page graphic…

Instructional Videos in Library Settings

This session will explore several uses of video for instruction in library settings. Students in LIS 680 created a few varieties of instructional videos and reflected on both…

Community Building & Engagement Across NYC Institutions

Communities play a vital role in the life of cultural heritage organizations. Social medial tools present new opportunities for engaging with existing community members and expanding the reach…