Dear friends,

You have may noticed on Twitter last week that it is an end of an era for NYPL Labs (https://twitter.com/subsublibrary/status/781471551103303680). If you’d like to catch up & share stories about NYPL Labs, a few of us will be at Swift Bar on Friday, 10/7 from 6pm onward.

http://www.swiftnycbar.com/

Hoping to see many of you there!

The New York Public Library and The Moth are excited to announce Open Audio Weekend, a two-day hackathon to make audio accessible for the public good.

Libraries and public media are putting a wealth of recorded audio online, in the form of oral histories, podcasts, and radio news. But without full-text transcripts or deeper descriptions, much of…[Read more]

NYPL Labs and the Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy are excited to announce the launch of Emigrant City, the Library’s newest, online participatory project. Emigrant City invites the public to help transcribe recently digitized mortgage and bond record books from the Emigrant Savings Bank…[Read more]

Join Authors Alliance’s Pamela Samuelson and Michael Wolfe for a workshop at The New York Public Library on November 3 at 6pm that will explore how authors can manage their legal rights and choose publication outlets with an eye on securing long-term impact and availability.

Among the questions to be discussed:

What are terms to look for in p…[Read more]

For the sixth annual call for proposals, Triple Canopy is pleased to announce a partnership with New York Public Library Labs, which will support two commissions. Triple Canopy invites applicants to propose projects that engage a collection or body of materials, physical or digital, in the NYPL’s holdings. Applicants are asked to consider a…[Read more]

John Palfrey, “Bibliotech: Why Libraries Matter More than Ever in the Age of Google”

Tomorrow, June 2, 2015 @ 6:30pm
Mid-Manhattan Library, Sixth Floor

In this illustrated lecture, educator and technology expert John Palfrey argues that anyone seeking to participate in the 21st century needs to understand how to find and use the vast stores…[Read more]

Dear all,

NYPL Technology has an exciting opportunity for a talented Project Manager to guide the development of our core digital collections platforms & experimental projects. The full description is below. Please help us spread the word!

Overview:
The New York Public Library (NYPL) is seeking a talented Project Manager to guide the…[Read more]

Dear all,

We’re thrilled to offer an internship in Linked Open Data this semester and would love your help in getting the word out!

NYPL Labs Linked Open Data Internship

NYPL Labs has an exciting internship opportunity for an intern interested in learning about and working with linked open data in a library context. The selected candidate…[Read more]

Reclaim and make the most of the public domain at Open Book Hack Day on January 14, 2015 at The New York Public Library, brought to you by NYPL Labs and The Readium Foundation.

During this day-long event, we’ll push the limits of what’s possible with ebooks and open texts, liberate public domain documents onto the open web, play with tools to mak…[Read more]