For the past few months, we’ve been laying the groundwork for a new nypl.org to match the new structure of the Library. NYPL’s website is at this point about thirteen years old; that’s thirteen years of changes, elaborations, tweaks and idiosyncracies, all sitting in flat HTML files (with a few ColdFusion apps powering things like [...]
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Bootstrapping off of Jay’s previous post, I want to mark this with a bit more pomp and fanfare, and provide a bit of context. The short version, though, is that the NYPL’s now officially blogging.
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A few days ago, Jessamyn put up a post about “technostress,” which essentially boils down to a disconnect between expectations of what can be done with technology and what we’re actually capable of doing with it. The idea here resonated with one of the most influential things I’ve read about user experience, Lucy Suchman’s [...]
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Howdy. We’re the New York Public Library Digital Labs. Formerly the Digital Library Program, we’re broadening our reach from the process of digitizing, describing and presenting online collections to the overall digital experience of NYPL. In the next few months, we’ll be working to generalize the best practices developed over years of building the Digital [...]
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In the first step of a long journey toward reinventing the NYPL’s digital experience, we’re refreshing the design of the NYPL home page. If you’re within the NYPL firewall, you can view the live beta here – otherwise, here’s a screenshot of the new site:
As redesigns go, this isn’t an earth-shaking one; most of the [...]
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