Library Innovation Lab

We're building things in libraries.

About

What’s the Library Innovation Lab?

The Library Innovation Lab is a forward-looking group of thinkers and doers working at the intersection of libraries, technology, and law.

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Projects

Caselaw Access Project The Caselaw Access Project is making all U.S. case law freely accessible online. With the Caselaw Access Project API (CAPAPI) and bulk data service, we can share 40 million pages of published U.S. court cases.
H2O H2O is a platform for creating, sharing and remixing open course materials.
The Nuremberg Project The Nuremberg Project is digitizing our collection of materials from the Nuremberg trials.
Perma.cc Perma.cc prevents link rot.
Alterspace Alterspace gives library visitors control over light, color, sound, and space.
Time Capsule Encryption Time Capsule Encryption provides tools for time travel.
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Sketches

OK, I've seen your projects. What’s a sketch?

Before it’s a project it’s a sketch. Sketches are a way to get a handle on an idea and see where it goes. It’s what’s on our mind. Lend a hand if something here interests you, too.

CAP Timeline
  • Plots case law, legislation, U.S. and world events on a timeline. Shows relationships between case law and events.
  • November 2019
CanIFairUse.It
  • Crowdsourced fair use predictions
  • March 15, 2016
Community Portraits
  • Pop-up photo booth that allows libraries to collect and showcase portraits of people in their community over time
  • June 5, 2017
FTL Topic Mapping
  • Visualizing California cases by topic
  • February 16, 2016
Guerrilla Library Cookbook
  • A guide and resource for people who want to start their own free form library
  • June 5, 2017
Local Memory
  • Participatory archiving by local communities and libraries
  • March 15, 2016
Private Talking Spaces
  • Secure and private spaces for cell phone conversations
  • June 24, 2016
Recollected
  • Collects stories from people about the things that would hurt for them to lose
  • March 2019
SquareWave
  • SquareWave is a wishlist for adding and upvoting your digitization dreams
  • September 26, 2016
Trash Exchange
  • Web application for collecting and exchanging digital trash
  • June 5, 2017
Web Archive Comparison Tools
  • Web archive comparison
  • January 2017
See everything we’re sketching