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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…
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…
An op ed and discussion about the school library as a third space.
My project is a short Google Presentation of a digital exhibition I created showcasing Armenian books, both manuscript and printed, found in special collections in New York City….
Jessica worked directly with the Lloyd Sealy Library, of John Jay College of Criminal Justice, to plan and conduct a heuristic usability evaluation of their Digital Collections website.
This lightning talk explains why peer learning is a powerful teaching tool in school libraries.
This case study employs the concepts of universal design for learning and multiple intelligences to convey the life of a teen who is blind and her usage of…
Cyberdyne_DigitalPrototype (Interactive PDF) Presentation link The Cyberdyne Systems team proposed a complete re-design of the Amethyst Women’s Project website, including a completely overhauled information architecture and user interface….
Sam, Ngozi, and Susan developed and ran a card sorting study – using students from LIS643 as participants – to propose a new information architecture for the Services…
Working with Prof. Craig MacDonald, seven SILS students designed and conducted a user experience evaluation of the Brooklyn Visual Heritage website, presenting actionable suggestions to improve the site’s usability to the Project CHART team in April.
During this talk we will discuss the Flipped Classroom Model and how it can be used in academic libraries to enhance the information literacy of students. We will discuss how we applied this model to a video we created for Stevens Institute of Technology.
The Dancers on Dance: Oral Histories of Ballet digital archive collects audio interviews with ballet greats and makes them available through a browsable and searchable Omeka interface, with improved discoverability provided by Dublin Core metadata elements.
This mapping project examines stop and frisk data and public housing data.
MiNYstories are short multimedia narratives about New York City inspired by literary works. John Moore will be presenting stories inspired by From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg, and Will Dean will present stories inspired by Lightning: A Novel by Jean Echenoz (a fictionalized account of Nikola Tesla’s life).
Students collected social media website of the federal government for archiving prior to the 2012 presidential election. Lauren and Rachel will describe the project and the class contribution to the End of Term harvest, in collaboration with the Library of Congress, the Internet Archive and University of North Texas.
To say that knowledge of foreign languages is useful for librarians in the city public libraries is an understatement. And yet library schools are not preparing future librarians to deal with barriers to access resulting from foreign languages, and past research on the topic in library science journals has been sparse. In order to understand this vital yet ignored part of public librarianship, I will analyze the different approaches that the NYPL and BPL take in developing foreign language collections, and I will make recommendations for future changes in the field.
A paper tying the theory of social epistemology with the use of Web 2.0 tools in library environments, and how these tools can be used to enhance the social library experience amongst young users.
Jamie Prince will describe her research for two mini papers. The first will be an exploration of various editions of Puss in Boots. The 2nd will be an…
Cataloging images and graphical materials is an inherently complex and potentially problematic endeavor. This project looks at techniques and standards for cataloging images, both long-established and emerging practices, as well as some of the complications and issues inherent to the process.