Information Technology Projects

About this department: The Information Technology Department ensures the smooth integration and maintenance of emerging services and delivery of information technology to the Libraries' diverse constituency. For more information about the Information Technology Department, see the IT Unit Descriptions. More about Information Technology

Projects on this page represent a selection of the work of this department.

  • Table-tent sign in front of desktop computer

    Survey on Libraries desktop computer use

    We noticed how users frequently rearranged desktop computer environments in the Hill and Hunt Libraries and surveyed users to try and find out why.

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    Collaboration with Learning Spaces & Services, User Experience

  • 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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  • Hunt Library Touchscreen

    Hunt Library Touchscreens

    An in-house, custom web application -- including wayfinding, room availability, events, and an "explore" feature -- is available on touchscreens in the Hunt Library.

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  • Front Pages

    Front Pages dynamically displays the front page of newspapers from around the world.

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  • Hunt Color Wall

    The Hunt Library Color Wall is a digital representation of D. H. Hill Jr. Library’s Color Wall, an art sculpture by Joe Cox.

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  • Cedar: Media Display Management

    Cedar is a web application that schedules and runs content for the Hunt Library video walls.

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  • 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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  • Endeca 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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  • CatalogWS

    A Web API to the North Carolina State University Libraries catalog.

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    Collaboration with Digital Library Initiatives (DLI)