The Harvard Library Innovation Lab is looking for a highly creative and motivated developer to dream up and develop innovative projects that chart the future of libraries.
We are a tightly knit team of six and are passionate about solving problems, having fun, and improving lives through libraries. Join us!
This is definitely a dream job for somebody out there.
The best way to get a feel for what we do is by looking at our projects.
A sample of our work
Awesome Box is current project in the Lab
StackLife, our soon-to-launch Library Browser
Library Test Kitchen is a course we run in the Fall, in it we launched LABRARY, a Pop-Up Library Experiment
What you’ll do
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Work on a range of software projects, from large to small, that can bring immediate benefit or prototype the future.
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Make stuff with modern web technologies. Some will be larger LiL projects, others are your own.
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Work alone with a good bit of freedom, which means a great deal of initiative is required.
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Work collaboratively on long-term and short-term projects.
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Rely on your good design sense and user-centricity.
Two possible misnomers
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While we are part of the Harvard Law School Library, which is awesome, our mission and work applies to the entire Harvard Library and academic and public library worlds.
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Our vision of the library is a flexible and ever-changing one.
We are open to a wide range of skills, from a front-end “wow the user in the browser” nerd, to a back-end “organize the world” geek. If you build cool things and can show us products that you’ve shipped, we want to talk to you.
Chat with us at lil @ law.harvard.edu or apply directly to job ID 28133BR at http://www.employment.harvard.edu/careers/findingajob/