It’s not everyday that Cliff Lynch and Dan Cohen are in the same city, let alone at the same meeting. But yesterday New York was lucky enough to have both of them in town for a one day workshop Digital Dilemmas hosted by the Metropolitan New York Library Council in association with OCLC. If you’ve [...]
We have become part of our own experiment. Digital Experience Group (which includes Labs and Producers) has moved to the big house at 42nd Street. For 10 years in one incarnation or another, we have been housed graciously at the Science, Industry and Business Library. Now for 2 months we will be the guests of [...]
As advertised in my previous post – “untitled…”, the Labs group packed up their laptops and headed downtown to get some much needed “paperwork” out of the way.
Mark did some homework and found a bar on Bleecker Street that had wifi and was relatively easy to get to. I left the office with Greg and [...]
We have been very quiet lately. Last post on the blog was 2 1/2 weeks ago. Not what you would expect from folks who are supposed to be on the cutting edge of development. But there are good reasons.
In the past month two new members have joined our team, Michael Lascarides and Trevor Thornton. Both [...]
Hackathon
Join fellow coders, hackers and tech-enthusiasts for a two-day WorldCat Hackathon at the New York Public Library. Sponsored by the OCLC Developer’s Network and NYPL Labs of The New York Public Library, the WorldCat Hackathon gives participants the opportunity for two full days of brainstorming and coding mash-ups with local systems and other Web services [...]
When Tigger looks in the mirror and says “I’m the only one!” it is the most delightful moment. The humor turns on Tigger’s inability to see beyond his own self-centered world and the absolute charm of being confronted by the evidence of another’s (his) image. Of course the flip side of uniqueness is solipsism [...]
New York Public Library has joined the universe of cultural and educational institutions making their content available on iTunes U.
Take a look at our new site.
Thanks to Brian Hurley, Don Mennerich, James Briggs Murray, Rich Stalzer and Michelle Misner who worked together to make this happen.
Last week Susan Schreibman (recently of UMD) and David Kennedy (presently at UMD) visited NYPL Labs to share their experiences with operationalizing FEDORA as a digital collections management tool. Susan spoke mostly to the organizational challenges and successes and David spoke to the technical implementation and goals for the project. Their presentation was a reprise [...]
Check out the new site LGBT@NYPL – Connecting you with the LGBT collections, programs and expertise that The New York Public Library has to offer.
Kudos to Jason Baumann, Jennifer Anderson and Michelle Misner who worked on putting it together.
Watch for it!
