Posts By: jessica

A new use for Tony’s project…

LABRARY Kickoff! from Harvard Library Innovation Lab on Vimeo.

  Come by the first event in our Friday “Librarians Talk” open discussion series! Friday 12-1pm at 92 Mt Auburn. Bring your lunch, coffee and dessert will be provided. We’ll discuss and rethink the role of reference, including: What is reference? How do you teach research skills? What are the bounds of reference? How does… Read more »

In class today, Tony and Arielle and I checked out a couple of pretty interesting Kickstarter projects. These two videos are made by the same guy, and both are wildly successful. Scanbox aimed for $12,500 and raised almost $200k, while LIFX was looking for $100k and ended up with over $1.3 million — with 29… Read more »

Between now and the next class, our goal is to document the physical and social life of Harvard Library space. We’ll be doing some fieldwork: observing and interviewing students and staff at libraries around campus (see map above). The assignment has two parts: 1. Documentation. Each student will spend some time hanging out at two… Read more »

I’ve spent the last two days digging into some public library datasets from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). IMLS has yearly data at the state as well as the individual library level (pdf documentation here). I’ve been using some javascript libraries with the data to see if I can create some easy visualization… Read more »