Library Innovation Timeline - Digital Services Programme

2024

Oct

Collection Wall prototype #3

The Collection Wall prototype #3 explores new ways of enhancing visitor interaction with the physical books at the wall. The AI Librarian Holo-vitrine experience combines artificial intelligence and RFID technology to offer students career predictions based on the books they scan. Positioned between the shelves, it works with a new book recommendation system, where expert educators highlight recent titles. The goal is to engage visitors in exploring the physical collection in a playful way, emphasizing how reading can help to shape their future careers.

Jul

New Repository

The TU Delft Library is proud to announce the launch of its new Repository on 2 July! The new TU Delft Repository is a comprehensive online platform that provides access to outputs created or managed by the TU Delft.

Apr

Collection Wall prototype #2

Through course collaborations, students drew inspiration from the library’s extensive collections to create their own works. The CW prototype #2 explores how the Collection Wall can become a co-curated source of knowledge for academic pursuits across campus. The creative results are now showcased on the Wall, offering an interactive experience for the visitors. The authors’ names and photos are prominently featured, celebrating the students’ contributions.

2023

Oct

Collection Wall prototype #1

In the research and development phase of the Collection Wall project, a section of the book wall has become a prototyping area. Prototype #1 is our first attempt to integrate screens within shelves, displaying data from online repositories, and merging digital and physical academic collections. Books and tokens can be scanned for digital recommendations, focusing on master theses and dissertations, and publications by “Best Graduates” (nominated annually by faculties). Historic dissertations are paired with associated physical objects from our Academic Heritage collection, and displayed in vitrines, with AI-generated keywords used to link content.

Sep

Copyright Information Point

“Teachers, students and researchers often have questions about copyright. TU Delft Library has launched a new Copyright website where you can find almost tailor-made answers to copyright questions about re-using materials, publishing your own work, copyright exceptions and agreements/contracts, plagiarism and more. This step-by-step APA style website, serves as an information desk and demonstrates best copyright practices used at TU Delft. Take a look and found out the answers to your questions yourself!”

Sep

VR Customer Service

Sep

NMC Live

We create immersive experiences that connect you with your audience by recording and live streaming events. Imagine that you can make your in-person event available for remote attendance in real time or just bring your story to a bigger audience worldwide and make it serve you for years.

Aug

Educational Resource Lists

Educational Resource Lists tool (Talis Aspire) enables academic institutions to manage and provide access to course materials. Teachers can easily create and manage resource lists for their courses by searching for and adding resources to the lists. These resources can include books, articles, multimedia, web pages, and more, from a variety of sources.

Jul

XR Cone

The XR Cone is a proof-of-concept station designed to visualize and navigate our nonstandard format collections, such as videos, maps, and 3D scans. It transforms the floors of the central cone into shelves of animated visualizations. In a single XR experience, users can interact with collections which are otherwise dispersed across various websites and have limited physical presence.

Apr

DIY Video & Podcast

If you want to create your own Video, podcast or voice-over, you can do so in our Video Box or Podcast Box. Currently there is a Podcast Box in the NewMedia Centre and a Video Box in the Teaching Lab. The Video Box in the Teaching Lab is only available for Teachers but soon a New Video Box will open at the Library for the whole TU Delft Community.

Apr

Djehuty Open Source Repository software

The launch of our in-house developed free and open source repository software, called Djehuty. With this launch, 4TU.ResearchData was proud to move to a free and open-source software, in support of our open science efforts and overall vision.

2022

Oct

Oracle 1.0 prototype

A custom–built discovery, serendipity, and data-mining application and installation, The Oracle of Delft, is a prototype using Ai trained on TU Delft collections for human-machine knowledge interaction.

Jul

Service Design Team & Studio

As front-runners in the field, we utilize a people-centered process to enhance the user experience of our services. Through collaborative methods that engage both customers and service delivery teams, we gain a holistic understanding of our users and the services we provide. Join us in revolutionizing service delivery by exploring our page to learn more about our service design projects.

2020

Nov

NMC Media Lab

Innovation is in our DNA. We test, develop and experiment with new media technology to explore its potential and increase its value for education and research. Our lab is located in room 084 at the TU Delft Library. That’s where the new communication tools are born to serve the TU Delft Community: many of the ideas and experiments turn into projects and move on to a production stage.

Jul

Allmaps

100,000s of maps are available through IIIF, across libraries, archives and museums worldwide. Allmaps makes it easier and more inspiring to curate, georeference and explore collections of digitized maps.

2019

Dec

TU Delft Research Portal

The TU Delft research portal provides a searchable and browsable public interface for all research output at the TU Delft.The portal is designed to showcase researchers at the TU Delft. It allows anyone from outside TU Delft to search for and browse researcher profiles and view your publications.

Nov

TU Delft OPEN Pubishing

We publish high-standard publications on subjects that are relevant to TU Delft, offering a community-driven, open access communication channel. We explore new forms of scholarly communications, providing innovative and trusted home for journals, books and textbooks.

Aug

Topdesk: One Stop Shop customer service

TU Library implemented the Customer Service Management System Topdesk as a backend for their One Stop Shop Customer Service. A first step in becoming the most customer friendly academic library.

Jul

VR Zone (now XR Zone)

We extend the possibilities of reality with the use of Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality technologies. We are here to become your portal to the immersive world of XR (extended reality) and to assist students, lecturers and researchers in using, building and exploring this tech in education and research.

2017

Dec

Data Stewards

2016

Aug

Tinker Table

Trying out new technology in the public space.

May

Access anywhere with Lean Library

When you browse and search the internet for articles, journals or databases you may find content licensed by us. However, if you are not on campus or not connected to the campus network, the website you visit does not know and will not give you access to web pages or publications. Or worse, asks you to pay for access (paywall). In these cases, the Lean Library Browser Extension will automatically show you a notification and give you access to the licensed content offered by the library.

Apr

4TU

The 4TU.Federation, the alliance of the four universities of technology in the Netherlands, aims to boost and pool technical expertise.

Jan

PURE

PURE replaces Metis Pure is a web-based research information system (RIS). It stores all TU Delft research output, such as publications, news items, patents, prizes and activities of TU Delft researchers.

2015

Oct

iBeacons

De TU Delft Library was the first library in Europe to experiment with iBeacon technology.

Jul

Worldshare Management Services

A fully integrated library management platform designed to meet the changing needs of modern libraries. TU Delft Library was an early adopter of the platform.

2010

Jan

Data Repository

The TU Data Repository was launched on Fedora software and ran for 10 years before switching over to Figshare.

2009

Dec

TUlib

TUlib was developed by the Education Support team at TU Delft Library. It can be used on its own, but is closely linked to our information literacy instructions for Bachelor students: Information Literacy I and Information Literacy II.

Nov

DataCite Netherlands

TU Delft Library is a founding member of DataCite and consortium leader of the TU Delft DOI Consortium. TU Delft Library has established DataCite Netherlands to serve as a central research dataset registration service that helps Dutch research organizations to register DOIs for scientific resources.

Aug

Information Skills BSc

In higher education and research efficently finding and judging relevant scientific information is critical. Information skills are essential for all students (Bachelor & Master) and for researchers. The TU Delft Library offers students courses to develop these information skills.

2007

Jan

3TU

It was founded in 2007 as 3TU and was renamed to 4TU in 2016, in response to the entry of WUR. The federation aims at maximizing innovation by concentrating the strengths in research, education and knowledge transfer of all technical universities in the Netherlands.

2004

Jan

Library Repository

The TU Delft Publication environment encompasses three repositories, each targeting a different group: Research Repository, Education Repository and Cultural Heritage Repository.