Who are you, and what do you do?
I’m Jessica. I just finished up the urban planning masters program over at the GSD. I’m hanging out at the lab for the summer, working primarily on Time/Slice, a project I started in the Library Test Kitchen. The Lab is very awesome.
Read more of "The Setup - Jessica Yurkofsky"office from Harvard Library Innovation Lab on Vimeo.
Who are you, and what do you do?
Hi, my name’s Jeff. I do design and new ideas here at the Lab. The Lab ROCKS! It’s a great job. Sometimes I help make websites (like this one), sometimes I do classes and right now, even working on some policy-ish stuff with folks from here and the Berkman Center.
Read more of "The Setup -- Jeff Goldenson"LIL offices are located in Langdell Hall, about 20 feet away from Pound Hall. Part of Pound Hall is currently being jackhammered and bulldozed to make way for a new outdoor common space. Here’s a snapshot of what we see when we enter Langdell.
Read more of "Down with Pound"We’re regular readers of The Setup. We really like it. We like it so much that we’re doing a local version for the Lab. Matt is up first.
Who are you, and what do you do?
I’m Matt Phillips.
I work in the Harvard Library Innovation Lab. I try to make libraries better, usually by writing software.
My name is Jessica and I’m hanging out at here for the summer to work on a Library Lab project called Time/Slice. The idea behind it is that activity and events are part of the “data” associated with a community, but that there is no one responsible for organizing/archiving/analyzing them as such. Time/Slice is a digital bulletin board for a physical place (eg a school or neighborhood) which can be housed in the library associated with that community. It takes event submissions via email with photo/video attachments. It can also pull in video of previous events (from youtube/vimeo feeds, etc.) Everything is added and sorted automatically.
Read more of "Time/Slice!"We’ve been having fun with the Awesome Box lately. Signage work.
Read more of "Awesome Box signs, a work in progress"Read all about it! Library Test Kitchen made the news! Well, more accurately, we made the newsPAPER.
Read more of ""Extra - Extra""Here is a letter from our very own Paul Deschner, to the Harvard Library community (and—now—beyond). It was so well received here that we thought it worth sharing more broadly.
Read more of "Quality Rules"
UPDATE: Awesome Box is now well beyond the pilot phase. Visit awesomebox.io to learn how to get one at your library.
The Harvard community now has the chance to declare something Awesome. Just by dropping it in a box. Amazing, useful and entertaining library materials can now be returned to the Awesome Boxes in Widener and Lamont.
Read more of "Awesome Box Pilot"Paul, David, and I spent part of last week in San Francisco at DPLA West.
Read more of "LIL on the West Coast"