While we wear many hats, building things has always been central to our work at Artefacto. We’ve always described ourselves as both makers and librarians and our consultancy, training and design work fits within these identities. We are especially excited when we can build and share tools, resources and platforms that deliver a user-friendly experience. […]
We’re excited to be part of the upcoming Health Libraries Group Conference 2024. Kate from Artefacto will be presenting at the HLG conference, where she’ll talk about our ongoing partnership with a network of fantastic UK health libraries. Health Library and Information Services Directory (HLISD), affectionately known as health lizard🦎, is a directory for the […]
It’s been a while since we held an in-person event, so we thought it was time to dip our toes back into the world of tech meetups for libraries. We also wanted to try a new kind of tech meetup that celebrates those small and thoughtful innovations that we are often banging on about. So […]
We are very excited to be partnering with CILIP on their recently announced Digital Leadership for Libraries project. This project embodies many of Artefacto’s values and brings together our past works of promoting digital skills in libraries in interesting and engaging ways. The project aims to inspire public library staff of all levels to become […]
We’re pleased to announce that the Health Library and Information Services Directory (HLISD) now has an open API. An Application Programming Interface (API) means that the data available in HLISD is now available in a machine readable format and can be reused in other applications. Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are the secret sauce of the […]
Over the last few months, we’ve been working with CILIP Cymru Wales on For the Record, a participatory archive of the experiences of library workers in Wales during the COVID-19 global pandemic. Inspired by the ‘citizen journalist’ approach of the Mass Observation Project and its voluntary, qualitative social research on everyday life, For the Record […]
Yesterday was a big day, first with a library makers event at Clapham Library where staff from a bunch of different libraries came to hear about makerspaces and participate in some speed making. It was attended by staff from Essex, Surrey, Bexley, Hackney, Kent, Oxfordshire and more. And of course our awesome hosts from Lambeth. […]