In June 2025 the TU Delft Library launched a redesigned website: a major step toward creating a clearer, more user‑centred digital gateway to our services and collections. Using data from July to December 2025, we can compare how the new website performs against the old one (July to December 2024) Thanks to Inge Greuzebroek for..
Author: Alastair Dunning
(Written by Naomi Wahls, Marcel Broekarts, Armand Guicherit, Alastair Dunning) Earlier this year, we launched our new version of our TU Delft repository. Much of the work was a complete update of the code sitting behind the repository. But it also marked a new strategy for what we want the repository to do. In..
As part of the our Digital Services Programme at TU Delft, the Service Design team investigated how to “make the library more welcoming and appealing to the PhD candidates” The team worked with Industrial Design Masters’ students Dafne Rios Cazares, Maria Peiro Torralba and Qixiu Zhang to do get insights from PhD candidates. They used..
The link to the presentation below shows TU Delft Library’s home pages from 1997 to 2023 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vSnxTmXWnJlDSkPLl56KzQzRFQUcZnNL5UNQzwdmpnCGb4AWUHdiV1FpRqnn3RjFn8z-6ibqJj0SH8l/pub?start=true&loop=false&delayms=2000 All screenshots were taken from the WayBackMachine, September 2023. Each screenshot was taken as close as possible to 1 July each year. The url for the home page changed around 2017 from www.tudelft.library.nl to tudelft.nl/library..
A quick review of the current position of TU Delft Library’s Digital Service Programme, as of summer 2023 A non video version of the slides is also available
An update on the TU Delft Library Digital Service Programme, Summer 2023. A non video version is also available https://youtu.be/HnhlKjOLY0o
As part of our Digital Service Programme, we are building a new institutional repository to replace the current version. This is no small project. There are many different areas to consider: collections policy, user requirements and interface, metadata schemas, hardware needs. A core part of the task is of course the technical development of the..
As part of the Digital Services Programme, we want to rebuild the TU Delft repository. Part of this is a technical challenge. The current system runs on Islandora 7, as well as various other bits and pieces, and needs an overhaul But it’s also a strategic and visual challenge. What new functions can we actually..
The Library held two workshops in October to discuss the ‘future of the research infrastructure’ in the library, with a focus on Pure and the current institutional repository. Slides The slides from Armand Guicheret are available here as a pdf (Feedback from the workshop are available below) Key takeaways from the workshops Can the..
Beneath is the link to the pdf version of the presentation given to managers of TU Delft, 5 October October 5 2022 Presentation, Managers meeting