For people with visual impairments, navigating the Seattle public transportation system without assistance is challenging due to the reliance on visual cues. With the help of Where-able, people with visual impairments are able to input their bus number and route so that the wearable vibrates when the bus is approaching, signaling the arrival of the bus. Our app and hardware enables users with visual impairments to be better supported when getting around the city of Seattle by eliminating one of the struggles of the public transportation system.

“William S. Boyd School of Law: The First 20 Years” is an online archives and physical exhibit which invites members of the Nevada legal community to reflect upon the growth of our state’s only law school since its founding in 1998. The Wiener-Rogers Law Library at the UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law sponsored this project. From the sponsor’s existing holdings, over 200 artifacts were selected for digitization. Roughly half of the digitized artifacts were added to a newly created online collection. Certain other artifacts were selected for physical exhibition, on display in the sponsor library through December 2019.

Companies are being called to change their policies around harassment response and the enforcement of these policies to better support reporters and to create positive cultures. Despite this pressure, only 20% of companies have made systemic change to end harassment (EEOC June 2016 Report). Currently, there is no clear, direct way to report harassment or communicate resolutions. Our solution is an enterprise system that allows for both first person and bystander reports. By digitally tracking reports, trends of behavior can be visualized within our system and targeted policy changes can be made to improve company culture in regards to harassment.

In 2015, the Santa Monica Public Library (SMPL) established a Strategic Plan (SP) that identified four focus areas, Vibrant Learning Center, Wellbeing Cultivator, Dynamic Third Place, and Community & Cultural Connector. Unfortunately, a year into the project the Library underwent some changes in administration, causing the Plan to be neglected. The new Director of Library Services seeks to revitalize the SP. The project includes reassessing and updating the Plan, its four focus areas, the SP website, creating an internal (staff) and external (public) communication plan, and the actual reintegration of the Plan in a fun way.

Refugee Women’s Alliance’s Early Learning Center is a preschool for children three to five years old, providing multilingual and multicultural childcare and education. The ELC’s classroom libraries are made up of primarily donated materials, and therefore have no cohesive organizational structure. ReWA’s ELC preschool teachers needed an organizational system for their classroom collections, as well as instructor guides to aid them in identifying books for lessons on specific subjects. After completing an inventory and evaluation of the collection our team developed an organizational system, identified gaps in the collection, and offered recommendations to fill those gaps.

This project is meant to determine the feasibility and willingness for libraries to use virtual, augmented, and mixed reality technologies (digital realities) in order to solve modern information problems. As a whole, library employees were generally enthusiastic about the technology. Unfortunately, research on AR/VR software and a survey of library professionals revealed a lack of training, budget concerns, uncertainty of its usefulness, and a lack of meaningful software. However, the secondary aspect of this project would help alleviate some of these concerns with the creation of freely available software that are meaningful and relevant toward libraries and makerspaces.

The Virginia Beach Public Library compiles its key data into a single spreadsheet that is then used to create strategic planning documents. This spreadsheet contains a compilation of data from the various branches and is subdivided into strategic planning categories. The Virginia Beach Public Library staff recently acquired a new business intelligence tool and requested that I try to make their data live rather than static. This would reduce time and effort in creating their periodic reports to the city of Virginia Beach. My efforts with led to the creation of a dashboard accessible via the web and mobile devices.

We do not believe that having a disability limits a person’s potential. Everyone should have the equal access to the “new world”. We adopted the four principles published by the Department of Justice (DOJ) for the UW record management websites, to make sure they are perceivable, operable, understandable and robust. This project is going to help both Records Management Services and its over 20,000 users.

Successful marketing strategies can be expensive and elusive for startups running on limited personnel and budget. Mistargeted ad campaigns often result in failure, wasting time and resources. Adticipate offers startups a marketing workflow and Facebook ad campaign algorithm combined with machine learning that guarantees predictable results with minimal effort.