The potential of web components for libraries

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight the potential of web components for libraries. Design/methodology/approach The paper introduces a working example web component that reimplements an OCLC WorldCat search widget. Findings By exploring the case study, the paper explains the functioning of web components and the potential advantages of web components for library web development. Originality/value Increasingly, web components are being used within library web development, but there is scope for much greater use of this technology to the advantage of those libraries involved.

Beak Disorder: A Sound and Sculpture Installation

This paper discusses Leslie Sharpe’s sound and sculpture installation project “Beak Disorder,” exhibited at Manizales, Columbia for Balance-Unbalance 2016. The work addresses how anthropogenic climate change may be affecting birds in the Pacific Northwest regions of Canada and the United States. “Beak Disorder” is a project that references an unexplained condition documented in birds in the Northwest of Canada and Alaska called “avian keratin disorder” where the bird’s beak becomes distorted and elongated. The work includes a series of 3D printed distorted beaks as well as a sound piece and web component.