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What’s in a name?
What is a collection? We know the answer to this question from a library perspective. Collections and digital collections have very specific meanings in a library. The Online Dictionary for Library...
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Func-y Calendar Reprised
The new calendar interface has been published and is ready for your enjoyment. Features include an AJAX mini calendar widget that allows you to limit results by individual day. By selecting the...
View ArticleWeb-Based Homework – What Do Teens & Tweens Really Want
What did 90 teens & tweens between 8 and 18 years old have to say about web-based homework help? Quite a bit. Including: Wikipedia and Google are their first choices for finding information. When...
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Careful with that Ajax, Eugene…
In the Ruby on Rails framework, Ajax is easy. Pathetically easy. Combine one part what you have already, one part ‘_remote’, and one part ‘:update’ (that is, those are the code pieces you need to...
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LGBT site goes live!
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...
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Paper Dolls, Skins, Lenses – what have you.
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....
View ArticleThe big nypl.org picture
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...
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NYPL Labs Needs a Redesign
I’ll say it: NYPL Labs (the site) is boring. I’ve always thought of this first iteration/design of the site as a 0.5 version, but it’s high time it moved to 1.0. Additionally, I thought Labs 1.0 would...
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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...
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