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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…

Op-Ed: Find the Light in Your Library

An op ed and discussion about the school library as a third space.

Digital Exhibition of Armenian Books

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….

Heuristic Evaluation of the Lloyd Sealy Library Digital Collections at John Jay College of Criminal Justice

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.

Peer Teaching in School Libraries

This lightning talk explains why peer learning is a powerful teaching tool in school libraries.

Blind Teens in Public 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…

Amethyst Women’s Project Website Redesign

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….

NYU Library Services Card Sort Study

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…

Evaluating the User Experience of Brooklyn Visual Heritage

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.

The Flipped Classroom Model in Academic Libraries

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.

Creating Dancers on Dance: Oral Histories of Ballet

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.