The Most Exciting Thing About Web Standards Is … umm …
As you may have heard, we’re currently in the process of redesigning NYPL.org from the ground up – a huge undertaking that seems to get bigger the deeper we get into it. We in the UX team have taken...
View ArticleCalling All Widget Builders! (#2)
The New York Public Library is updating its earlier request for the development of widgets for our homework resources (posted Feb. 27, 2009). Rather than building several widgets at all at once we’ve...
View ArticleStat of the Week No. 5 – The Most Popular Search Term at the Library is…
OK, so Stat of the Week has returned! Can we just agree to pretend those twelve skipped weeks never happened? Thanks. Recently, the Digital Experience Group gave a presentation to the occasional...
View Article65 is a magic number
We’ve reached a milestone in our list of Basecamp projects. 65 projects! And, we have more in our queue that have been submitted but not approved. Over the past few months, we’ve developed a process...
View ArticleYesterday at “Digital Dilemmas”
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...
View ArticleVisualizing search data: What’s the right amount of visibility?
In a fortuitous bit of timing for us here at the Library, Google released its Analytics API last week. We had already been discussing ways of exposing site usage statistics to NYPL staff, and the API...
View ArticleInfomaki goes Open Source!
We’re happy to announce that, as promised, our Infomaki usability testing tool has been released Open Source under the GNU General Public License. If you would like to tinker with its inner workings,...
View ArticleBatch Reindexing for Drupal + Solr
Crossposted to thesecretmirror.com. Sorry for any duplication! Hey, do you use Drupal on a site with several thousand nodes? Do you also use the Apache Solr Integration module? If you’re like me,...
View Articlem-Libraries 2009: Thinking about the mobile future
I just returned from the 2009 m-Libraries conference at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (which–let’s get this out of the way up front– was an exceptionally beautiful and well-organized...
View Article“Summer Camp For Archivists” Sounds So Much Better
Crossposted to thesecretmirror.com. I’m staying with colleagues and good friends during my week-long stint in Charlottesville, Virginia for Rare Book School. If you’re here – particularly if you’re in...
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