Free Makerspace Starter Guide for Libraries

All of us here in the Artefacto team are creative technologists, makers or artists of some kind, so the concept of makespaces as creative spaces for learning and collaboration has always been appealing to us.  Makerspaces are many things to many people. They can be permanent, temporary, stationary or mobile. They come in different shapes, […]

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A brief guide to online exhibit platforms

Online exhibits can be a great way to engage users in your collections. Whether these are standalone narratives or designed to consolidate or compliment exhibitions and experiences in the physical spaces of museums, libraries, galleries and archives, it’s important that these exhibits are accessible and user friendly for both visitors and curators alike. We often […]

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Top library links of 2021

2021 was another year of uncertainty and again the library and information community have continued to write, research, blog and tweet in support of libraries and each other.  Over the past year we’ve sent out 24 issues of Newslet, our fortnightly newsletter and in this post we’re going to take a look back at what […]

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Adding dynamic library content to your WordPress site

WordPress is the content management system (CMS) that now powers an estimated 39.5% of all websites, including more than a few library sites. A big part of the ongoing appeal of building WordPress-based websites is its usability and extensibility. Because of the range of features, plugins and documentation available, you don’t need to be a […]

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Five for Friday – Gamification

Five or so links from around the web about new and interesting applications of technology. Gamification has well and truly been through the hype cycle at least once, but again we emerge from the trough of disillusionment and tentatively enter a slope of enlightenment as we all aspire to escape the boredom of Zoom-based interactions […]

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3 ways to get started with User Research

Many cultural sector organisations are aware of the benefits of user-driven services, but when budgets are tight and time is short, what steps can we take to help ensure that we’re putting our users first? In this post we want to share some of our experience conducting user research to help libraries and cultural organisations […]

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