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Digital Library Initiatives Projects

NCSU Libraries Mobile

An effort to provide more enhanced library services for mobile devices. Contact: Jason Casden.

WolfWalk

A mobile historical guide to the NC State campus. Contact: Tito Sierra.

Item Locator Service

A catalog-based service for finding items on the shelf. Contact: Joseph Ryan.

Virtual Shelf Index

A web service that provides access to a shelf-order index of the Libraries' collections. Contact: Cory Lown.

Activity Wall

An application for helping students meet up in groups at the library. Contact: Joseph Ryan.

Catalog Research Testbed

A hosted environment for conducting user research on faceted catalog interfaces. Contact: Joseph Ryan.

North Carolina Architects and Builders

User interface and search system for digital publication. Contact: Markus Wust.

Computer Availability Display Application

Up-to-the-minute status of available computers in the library. Contact: Tito Sierra.

Library Course Views

Dynamically generated course-centric views of library resources and services. Contact: Jason Casden.

Library Widget System

Infrastructure for assembling and serving dynamic and reusable bits of library content. Contact: Jason Casden.

Scholarly Publications Repository

Online archive of NCSU faculty publications in DSpace. Contact: James Tuttle.

North Carolina Geospatial Data Archiving Project (NCGDAP)

GIS archive that forms part of the Library of Congress's National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP). Contact: Steve Morris.

Electronic Theses and Dissertations in DSpace

Initiative to migrate NCSU theses and dissertations into the DSpace digital repository system. Contact: James Tuttle.

User Studies & User-Centered Design

Program of usability testing, focus group research, and other user-centered design efforts.

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Digital Library Initiatives Past Projects

CatalogWS Applications

Applications using the CatalogWS API. Contact: Tito Sierra.

CatalogWS

A Web API to the NCSU Libraries catalog. Contact: Tito Sierra.

MobiLIB

Library web services for mobile devices. Contact: Tito Sierra.

Library Article Linker

Tool for creating stable links to articles that work on and off campus. Contact: Tito Sierra.

Smart Subjects

Application and collection independent subject recommendations. Contact: Tito Sierra.

Quick Search

A single search box interface to the NCSU Libraries. Contact: Tito Sierra.

Subject Browse

A user-centered approach to helping people find information on the library's web site.

NCSU Libraries Website Redesign Usability Tests

Web site usability test conducted to assess the redesigned NCSU Libraries website.

My Courses

Web-based tool that provides students with a personalized view of library course reserves and other course-related library materials. Contact: Tito Sierra.

Find Articles Usability Tests

Web site usability tests conducted to compare various methods of helping users find articles on a library's web site. Contact: Tito Sierra.

North Carolina Sociolinguistic Archive and Analysis Project (NCSLAAP)

A digital audio archive of North Carolina speech with analytical tools designed for linguists.

FAQ Application

A homegrown web-based staff tool for deploying searchable knowledgebases for public websites or staff intranets. Contact: Tito Sierra.

Communication and Collaboration Applications

A series of communication and collaboration tools (discussion forums, weblogs, and wikis) on the Libraries' public website and staff intranet. Also an in-house instant messaging system based on the open source Jabber protocol. Contact: Angie Ballard .

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