LibInspo was a student innovation competition organised by the Library and Archives in Spring 2019, in partnership with the two Student Unions (YUSU and GSA). It was set up as an opportunity to engage directly with our students and to include their voice in our forward planning.
We received 95 submissions from students at all levels and across a range of departments with 5 entrants were shortlisted for the final judging event on 28 February, where students pitched their idea to a judging panel.
The Library Innovators 2019 are Yuveer Ramchandani (TFTV) and Daniel Famiyeh (Electronic Engineering) who pitched their app “Deskmate”, to monitor study space availability within the library. Yuveer and Daniel created the app from scratch, utilising our publicly available live library data.
Eleanor Ingham (SPSW) was awarded ‘Highly Commended’ for her idea “Electronic library card and UoY app”. Eleanor impressed the judges with her market research.
Congratulations to the rest of our finalist who also gave great pitches:
Emily Mellows (Department of English): Wellbeing Section
Katie Parton (Psychology): Escape room
Thomas Kent (History): Study room availability screens
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