App and Tool Development Projects
Projects on this page represent a selection of the work of multiple departments.
Accessibility fix-a-thons
In 2026, we held two accessibility fix-a-thons for developers to collaborate on accessibility issues in real time.
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Contributing departments: User Experience, Digital Library Initiatives (DLI)Databases usability study 2025
After launching a new set of features for our research databases discovery platform, we conducted a series of usability tests and interviews to evaluate user attitudes towards the new features. We received positive feedback about the new features from participants, with the majority completing all tasks successfully.
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Contributing departments: User Experience, Collections & Research EngagementAnnonatate Usability Study
Students provided feedback on Annonatate, a web app for annotating images. Their feedback focused on the appearance of the application and confusion regarding navigation and sharing their work.
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Contributing departments: Digital Library Initiatives (DLI), User Experience
Visualization Spaces Development Kit for Unity Game Engine
Augmenting an industry-standard creative tool to better suit the needs of our students, instructors, researchers, and other campus creators in a one-of-a-kind Libraries space.
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Contributing departments: Collections & Research Engagement, Learning Spaces & Services
Readability Widget + Tiny Café
Participants gave us feedback on a pilot project—the Readability Widget. Overall, they had positive feedback. They especially liked the “Warm Background” option.
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Contributing departments: User ExperienceeMammal Lite
A publicly available web application and Hunt Library video wall exhibit that allows users to explore and identify animals captured in over 4,000 camera trap images from research projects around the world. eMammal lite was decommissioned in February 2022.
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Contributing departments: Digital Library Initiatives (DLI)Jekyll Academic
A Jekyll theme designed specifically for that academic community.
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Contributing departments: Digital Library Initiatives (DLI)NC State University Libraries Mobile
The redesigned site provides access to library-oriented services for users of mobile, web-enabled devices.
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Contributing departments: Digital Library Initiatives (DLI)Special Collections Asset Management System
The Special Collections Asset Management System manages the metadata for digital collections. The web-based interface allows authenticated users to edit descriptive metadata. Parts of digitization workflow and descriptive metadata are automated through semantic identifiers.
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Contributing departments: Digital Library Initiatives (DLI), Special Collections Research CenterMobile Exhibits
An initiative to develop a tool set for creating mobile enhancements to exhibits.
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Contributing departments: Digital Library Initiatives (DLI)Virtual Shelf Index
The Virtual Shelf Index is a web service that returns sets of titles held by the library in shelf order.
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Contributing departments: Digital Library Initiatives (DLI), Information TechnologyLibrary Widget System
Infrastructure for assembling and serving dynamic and reusable bits of library content.
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Contributing departments: Digital Library Initiatives (DLI)Library Article Linker
Tool for creating stable links to articles that work on and off campus.
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Contributing departments: Digital Library Initiatives (DLI), User ExperienceNorth Carolina Sociolinguistic Archive and Analysis Project (NCSLAAP)
A digital audio archive of North Carolina speech with analytical tools designed for linguists.
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Contributing departments: Digital Library Initiatives (DLI)
StudiosBot: Custom Automation for Studios Service
StudiosBot is an in-house automation suite designed to streamline operations across the Libraries' five staffed experiential learning spaces that comprise The Studios. By layering structured administrative workflows over a low-friction communication hub, the bot leverages Discord to automate elements of personnel scheduling, documentation, and reservation management for a large, collaborative student workforce.
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Contributing departments: Learning Spaces & Services
The Inaugural Collegiate Game Jam
The inaugural NC State Collegiate Game Jam was a four-day creative sprint held on September 25-28, 2025 that mobilized NC State students to build playable games and digital art from the ground up.
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Contributing departments: Learning Spaces & Services, Finance & Business, Information Technology, User Experience, Libraries Communications, Operations, Logistics, & Environments, Non-Library Faculty, Development
Videorama
A versatile video exhibit format created for immersive projection spaces.
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Contributing departments: Digital Library Initiatives (DLI), Learning Spaces & ServicesCirca
An open-source, browser-based application for managing special collections requests.
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Contributing departments: Digital Library Initiatives (DLI), Special Collections Research CenterCollection Views
A tool created using collections data to help the Libraries understand how resource expenditures relates to subjects of relevence to different departments and colleges at NC State.
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Contributing departments: Collections & Research EngagementCollections Review Tool
A tool to engage the campus community in decisions about cuts to the journal and database collection.
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Contributing departments: Collections & Research EngagementE-Matrix at the NC State University Libraries
E-Matrix is the locally developed serial and electronic resource management system in use at the NC State University Libraries. This tool acknowledges that the issues associated with electronic resources mirror those that face our serial collection as a whole, regardless of format. E-Matrix therefore supports the effective management of the Libraries' serial collection by managing print and electronic journals and databases.
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Contributing departments: Acquisitions & Discovery, Digital Library Initiatives (DLI)Reserves Direct
An open source, integrated reserves management system that provides faculty, students, and staff with tools to manage and access physical and electronic course reserves.
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Contributing departments: Access Services, Digital Library Initiatives (DLI)Cedar: Media Display Management
Cedar is a web application that schedules and runs content for the Hunt Library video walls.
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Contributing departments: Digital Library Initiatives (DLI), Information TechnologyMy Account
My Account is a one-stop location for library users to see their checkouts, requests, course reserves, and upcoming room reservations.
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Contributing departments: Access Services, Digital Library Initiatives (DLI)EZAdmin
An open source, web-based application that allows staff to easily manage EZProxy resource configuration files without requiring direct access to the EZProxy server.
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Contributing departments: Digital Library Initiatives (DLI)CORAL
CORAL is an open source, electronic resources management system consisting of interoperable modules designed to facilitate the workflows associated with electronic resources.
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Contributing departments: Acquisitions & Discovery, Digital Library Initiatives (DLI)Room Reservation System
A web-based user interface for viewing availability and reserving student and faculty spaces in the Hill and Hunt Libraries.
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Contributing departments: Information Technology, User ExperienceEndeca at the NCSU Libraries
An online catalog interface that leveraged advanced search and the Guided NavigationⓇ capabilities of the Endeca ProFind™ platform to provide a fast and flexible search interface to catalog records.
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Contributing departments: Information TechnologyTextbook Search
A web-based application for discovering textbooks available at the library.
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Contributing departments: Digital Library Initiatives (DLI)NC State Scholarly Publications Repository Web Service
The Web API to the NC State Scholarly Publications Repository (SPR) is designed to allow access to SPR citations and metadata in a machine readable format. By providing a documented interface to the citation repository the Web Service both facilitates data reuse and encourages contributions to the repository.
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Contributing departments: Digital Library Initiatives (DLI)NC State Scholarly Publications Repository
The NC State Scholarly Publications Repository, contains citations to over 42,000 scholarly publications produced by NC State-affiliated authors since 1997, with limited pre-1997 publications.
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Contributing departments: Digital Library Initiatives (DLI)
QR Codes in Public Spaces
The QR Codes in Public Spaces project is an effort to improve local awareness of library services and resources.
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Contributing departments: Digital Library Initiatives (DLI)GroupFinder
An application for helping students meet up in groups at the library.
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Contributing departments: Digital Library Initiatives (DLI)Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Initiative to develop a repository-agnostic ETD submission system.
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Contributing departments: Digital Library Initiatives (DLI)
WolfWalk
A historical guide to the NC State campus optimized for mobile devices.
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Contributing departments: Digital Library Initiatives (DLI), Special Collections Research CenterSuma
A tablet-based toolkit for collecting, managing, and analyzing data about the usage of physical spaces.
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Contributing departments: Digital Library Initiatives (DLI)