NCSU Libraries well represented at 2016 Code4Lib

NCSU Libraries heads to the City of Brotherly Love in early March to present at the 2016 Code4Lib. Jason Ronallo, Eka Grguric, and Andreas Orphanides will all speak at the annual conference for technologists in libraries, archives, and museums with a commitment to open technologies.

Ronallo will talk about how desktop applications can offer benefits over cloud-based ones in “Building Desktop Applications using Web Technologies with Electron.” Grguric will deliver a talk entitled, “Guerrilla Usability Testing and Communicating Value,” about how low-cost, fast-paced usability testing can improve project management workflow. Orphanides’ talk, entitled, “Architecture is politics: the power and the perils of systems design,” addresses how systems design choices influence user behavior, express organizational priorities, and affect conflicts between organizational and user interests.

Our librarians will also hold two pre-conference workshops. Jason Casden joins Orphanides for “Fail4Lib 2016: Failadelphia,” to show how embracing failure is an important part of the creative process. Kevin Beswick and Bret Davidson offer a “lodash.js API tour” workshop to get participants up to speed on JavaScript applications.