dcpl labs

Projects

iPhone Application

Mobile access to library information makes things easier for some library patrons. The iPhone is an amazing and popular device so we’ve built an application that lets people search CityCat. read more

Flickr Commons

We want to share the library’s resources as widely as possible! Part of the library’s image archive is now in the Flickr Commons. read more

Website Redesign

Increased usability, two-way communication and a great new look are some of the thing DCPL employees and patrons have to look forward to.

Content Creation Stations

As the digital divide is closed and everyone that wants access to computers and the web has it, a new, equally significant inequality forms: the participation gap. The participation gap is the space between people who are able to operate in the new information landscape of blogs, YouTube, social networking sites and user generated content. Read more about how the DCPL is helping close the participation gap.

Library 2.0 Interest Group

DCPL employees interested in learning more (or talking to like-minded folks!) about forward thinking technology and attitudes in libraries can attend these meetings. read more

DCPL Learns

The library will be facilitating a program designed to give DCPL employees experience with fun web technologies. We’re calling it DCPL Learns.

Infobunny Game

An experiment with the “internet of objects” and teaching information literacy in the form of a game. read more