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1. Participatory
Librarianship:
Shaping Conversations to
Advocate the Impact of
Our Academic Libraries
ALAO Annual 2012 Preconference
Roberts Centre, Wilmington, Ohio
October 25, 2012
Buffy Hamilton, Facilitator
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2. “These are
the times
that
try men’s
souls…”
Thomas Paine, The Crisis
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3. shifting landscape of higher
education
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4. budget cuts and
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funding crisis

5. the “fear factor”
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6. tension in competing ideas between departments on
how to best support institutional goals and mission
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7. competing pedagogies and what “counts”
as authentic learning
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8. meeting the needs of many different kinds of
learners
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10. how do we
transform
ourselves
and our
libraries to have
meaningful impact
in our communities?
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12. trustworthiness
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13. likability
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14. fantastic product or
service
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15. enchantment
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16. enchantment:
sustained,
voluntary
delight that is
mutually
beneficial
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17. “enchantment
transforms
situations and
relationships”
Guy Kawasaki,
Enchantment: The Art of Changing
Hearts, Minds, and Actions
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18. relationships are the cornerstone of
libraries and participation
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19. library is the
shared story of the
human
experience
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20. libraries as communal experiences and
“commonplace” texts constructed by
participants
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21. libraries as sites of the experience of self-excavation
and discovery through learning
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22. participatory
learning is a lens to
help us see the
possibilities and
create a context for
crafting a shared
vision of library in
learning
communities
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25. relatively low barriers to artistic
expression and civic engagement
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26. strong support for creating and sharing one’s
creations with others
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27. co-expertise and fluidity in roles of experts and
novices

28. members feel some degree of social
connection with one another
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29. members believe that their contributions
matter
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30. meaningful
play
and experimentation
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31. integrated learning space that values
connections between home, school,
community, and the world
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32. learning experiences that feel relevant
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33. People and
relationships
Sustained Partnerships
participation for Learning

34. communities formed around content and
information literacy standards
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35. communities formed around passions,
interests, wonderings, and curiosity
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36. participatory
learning and literacy
are scalable to
the needs of a
learning
community
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37. librarians can be the
catalyst to spark larger
change in a learning
ecosystem
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38. how do we grow a culture of participatory
culture, relationships, and learning
communities as librarians?

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40. how do we as libraries and librarians make a
“dent in the universe” of our community?
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41. vanishing
boundaries

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48. Conversation Rounds
Questions to Explore in Our
Conversation Rounds
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50. Assessing the Current Situation
Who is your library community and
what do they need?
How do you know and assess their
needs?
How do you assess the points of
meaningful impact of the library in the
community?
How does the community impact the
mission of the library?

51. Existing Connections
What services and programs What services and programs
does your library offer that invite your community to
foster trust or likability participate? Think of
between the library and successes---what created
community? excitement?
Think of services or programs
that did not work the way
you expected. What were
some unexpected factors?
Did they work for you or
against you?

52. Articulating Our Value
If you wanted to write a TV
commercial for your library and
have 60 expensive seconds to
articulate it s value, what are
your key points and what can What would that commercial say if
you do to make the ad hit its primary audience is your
home? provost/president/academic deans,
faculty/alumni?

53. Plenary
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Conversations

54. What insights did you have as
you talked to one another?
What was new to you or
challenged your thinking?
What would you like to explore
further?

55. Participatory Relationships
What assumptions
and “sacred cows”
might we as librarians
challenge to better
build community
participation and
increased
excitement?

56. Planning for the Future: “If You Build
It, They Will Come…”
What are you building?
Who do you want to
come?
What will be different
about your library in
the future?

57. Envisioning the Future
What do you need to build these
elements of enchantment and
touchpoints for participation to
create strategic and amplified
impact in your community?
What can your community aspire
to be?

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59. embrace the
wobbles
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60. leave your
learning
silo
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61. embrace pivot points
for positive change to
build a new vision
for librarianship
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62. change and
understanding=
innovation
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64. participation creates enchantment
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65. enchantment is the nectar
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68. contact information
buffy.hamilton@gmail.com
http://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com
http://buffyjhamilton.wordpress.com
Twitter: @buffyjhamilton