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Innovation Labs
- 1. What is an innovation lab or hub?
- 2. It can come in many forms
- 3. It can be virtual
- 4. It can be physical
- 5. It can be both
- 6. It’s a maker culture
- 7. It is a space which fosters innovation, collaboration and the development of new ideas
- 8. What are some examples of innovation labs?
- 28. Local examples
Editor's Notes
- I was asked by the committee to investigate what an innovation lab/hub is and how they could possibly be integrated into a library setting. Innovation labs can come in many forms.
- “ People want space that is flexible and can adapt to changing uses. Flexibility is a key feature as we look to the future. For example, in the past people mainly read and studied alone. We’ve seen a lot of changes in information, how it is provided and used. Today, people read and study alone and together in groups. People work alone and they collaborate together. People read books and create their own content. People use the library’s computers and they bring their own devices to use in the library. Flexible spaces that can accommodate all of these uses helps create welcoming spaces for everyone.” -Anne Bailey, Creating library space that adds to the community and respects it; http://torontopubliclibrary.typepad.com/strategic-plan-2012-15/2012/08/creating-library-space-that-adds-to-the-community-and-respects-it.html
- The Harvard Library Innovation Lab is a small group of librarians and library software developers exploring "in public" how to make libraries "more valuable". The Library Test Kitchen is a seminar course in the Grad School of Design focused on "creating products, services, and experiences, broadly defined, for the Harvard Library community."
- LibraryCloud is an open, multi-library data service that aggregates and delivers library metadata. We hope it will serve as a platform for the development of Web applications that help all library users (including scholars and re-searchers) find and understand materials. The problem When someone looking for a resource normally kept in a library asks the Web for the available resources, she or he is likely to turn first to a search engine such as Google, or, if it is a book, to a vendor such as Amazon. These are incredibly rich resources, but their aims are not aligned with those of the public, or of scholars and researchers. We need services that we can trust to help us find and understand what we need to know, and that help us share what we have learned.
- ShelfLife is about putting to use what libraries know. It uses all sorts of data that libraries gather, to help researchers and scholars find and understand the works they need. We hope many libraries will aggregate their metadata, and make use of it through tools like ShelfLife. We plan on instigating a library consortium of some sort to encourage and facilitate the sharing of metadata.
- Harvard Library Innovation Lab is now podcasting via Soundcloud and lectures are freely available for public consumption.
- NYPL Labs is an experimental design and technology unit that create interactive experiences around research library collections and data. Labs operates as an in-house tech startup, working closely with curators to develop projects that push the envelope of library practice, engaging new audiences through user collaboration and crowdsourcing, and accelerating the flow of cultural heritage content into the digital commons. NYPL Labs is also currently designing new interfaces and tools for NYPL's extensive archival collections.
- Some of NYPL Labs active projects include
- What’s on the Menu? NYPL has collected restaurant menus for over a century, amassing one of the largest culinary archives in the world. Approximately 10,000 items from its collection have been digitized. NYPL Labs has enlisted the public's help in transcribing the actual contents of the menus, including dishes, prices and other information. Due to handwritten lettering, idiosyncratic typography and layouts, has been difficult to extract mechanically. The resulting database has quickly become a powerful tool for researching this wonderful collection because public input has been so strong.
- Stereogranimator is NYPL Labs' latest user collaboration app, which invites the public to transform over 40,000 historical stereographs into web-friendly 3D formats that anyone can access. In the late 19 th century, stereoscopic views were the cutting edge photography. For over a decade NYPL has been shared its vast collection of these photographs on the web as flat, two-dimensional artifacts. With Stereogranimator, these 19th century photographs collide with early internet folk art as users remix vintage stereos into animated GIFs, bringing the past alive.
- Map Warper is a tool suite, used by library staff and open to the public, to align (or "rectify") historical maps to the digital maps of today. Tile by tile, old atlas sheets can be stitched into historical layers, that researchers can explore with pan-and-zoom functionality, comparing yesterday's cityscape with today's. Along with other tools, such as one for tracing building footprints and transcribing address and material information found on the maps, NYPL Labs is laying the groundwork for dynamic geospatial discovery of other library collections, including, manuscripts, historical newspapers, photography, audio/visual material, and ephemera.
- TechCentral at the Cleveland Public Library is an innovative technology and learning center located in the Lower Level of the Main Library. TechCentral offers a variety of computer and technology related services, including computer and Internet access with Windows, Mac, and Linux PCs; Microsoft Office products including Office 2010; adaptive technology stations; computer instructional classes; copying, printing, scanning, and faxing services; wireless Internet access with convenient power outlets; collaborative work spaces The Library and the Office of Information Technology at Georgia Tech Library have partnered with other Georgia Tech departments to provide comprehensive support, cutting-edge technology, and inspiring environments to help students do their best work. The Commons provides students access to a wide range of software, laptop, iPads and Kindles, digital cameras and camcorders, audiovisual equipment and tech support.
- Fayeteville Free Library in New York state Executive Director, Sue Considine has said: “Over the past fifty years, the manner in which we process information has changed. New technological developments have changed the way we interact with information, allowing us to become "creators" rather than just "consumers." There are few places that currently provide community access to new, innovative creation technology like 3D printers. These spaces, known as Fabrication Labs (fab labs), Hackerspaces, and Tech Shops, share common goals: collaboration and 'making.' They exist to give their specific communities the ability to 'make' through sharing knowledge and skills. They provide the technology necessary to make almost anything.” "By providing access and opportunity to experiences, libraries provide a pathway for people and communities to transform their lives themselves," Considine states. There is no place in the state of New York that provides free and open access to 3D printing technology, which has the power to revolutionize society. The public library will provide a safe and accessible space where anyone in the community can interact, understand and develop through use of this technology.”
- 3D printing technology has become more and more affordable in just the past couple years. Until just recently, 3D printers started at around $1200. Just two years ago, this technology costs were $8000 and up. In the past six months, the cost of simple 3D printing technology has dropped to around $500 per unit.
- Adelaide City Library, Adelaide, Australia The Adelaide City Library’s “Innovation Lab aim is to explore and foster a social environment where anyone in the community can see, share, touch and play with cool technologies and talents at the forefront of global creativity. Come together to collaborate on ideas, drive programs and projects and learn from each other.”
- DOK Library in Delft, Netherlands Library as media centre Music and film department Mission of the DOK: to become and remain the most advanced library in the world. Using creativity, technical innovation and advancing scientific understanding, DOK endeavors to be an indispensible source of inspiration for its members, visitors, and partners in the city of Delft.
- DOK Library in Delft, Netherlands Gaming area
- DOK Library in Delft, Netherlands Art loan room
- DOK Library in Delft, Netherlands Tank U Bluetooth station Erik Boekesteijn, Communication and Innovation Department at DOK “ Don’t think budgets; think ideas and think beyond the library walls. Together, with many partners, we are able to come up with new services or better ways to present the library to the people. A good example of this is the Tank U, a download station that uses Bluetooth. Content that our librarians select, such as a library magazine, an agenda of activities, or an audio book, can be installed onto these Tank stations, which can then be placed in different locations outside the library. People with Bluetooth applications on their cell phones can download content to their phones and play it on the train or wherever they want.” DOK also has set up genius bars within the library so that people with any type of technology can ask questions of the experts on staff. The genius bars also includes products other than Apple.
- Opened in April 2010, Ryerson’s Digital Media Zone (DMZ) is a multidisciplinary workspace for research and learning. This hub of digital media innovation, collaboration and commercialization is home to both entrepreneurial companies and industry solution-providers. With access to overhead, business services and a rich network of contacts, entrepreneurs and researchers can accelerate product launches, and contribute to Canada’s growing success in the digital economy.
- The Ronald D. Besse Information and Learning Commons, located on the main floor of the Ryerson University Library, provides access to a wide range of information resources with advanced technology and provides the expertise necessary to allow student, faculty and staff to successfully integrate information with technology in their academic pursuits. The Commons provides learning support through a variety of services such as peer tutoring, classroom instruction, reference services and technology support.
- Includes Special Products workstations where users are allowed to load and run any software they need.
- Strategic Innovation Lab (sLab) is a centre for research and innovation based in the Faculty of Design at the OCAD University. sLab operates on a model integrating academic research, professional engagement, education and skills development for stakeholders in the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors. sLab is a growing community of researchers and practitioners, design and business professionals, teachers and students, who are passionate about envisioning possible futures. sLab's research investigates the intersections of human behaviour, new technologies and organizational capacities. We develop and apply design research, visualization, prototyping and strategic foresight methodologies in order to clarify and feed the front end of the innovation process. From our base within Canada’s largest and oldest university of art and design, we combine deep experience in imaginative and visual thinking with skills in interdisciplinary collaboration, business analysis and strategic planning.
- The Learning Zone is a library work space at OCAD University. It’s an alternative work space where students, faculty and staff can collaborate with others or seek advice from Library staff. OCAD University has one of the lowest square footage per students allotments in Ontario and the Learning Zone is in response to this need. It allows for students to have accessible working, collaborative spaces. The Learning Zone features desktop and laptop computer workspaces, high-tech and low-tech equipment available for loan, table space for non-toxic studio work, an AV outlet for faculty and first-year students and several collections including the OCAD Zine Library, Art & Design Annuals and Career Resources.”
- The Learning Zone features moveable, modular furniture, desktop and laptop computer workspaces, high-tech and low-tech equipment available for loan including digital cameras, data projectors, and camcorders, table space for non-toxic studio work, ceiling mounted power drops, large format scanners for both paper and film, a digital copy camera stand and colour and black and white printers. The Learning Zone also houses several collections including the OCAD Zine Library, Art & Design Annuals and Career Resources.
- The ThingTank Lab is a community based collaborative “ideation” lab at U of T’s iSchool: a physical place where the exploration, experimentation, and exchange of ideas are developed towards the building of internet enabled “things”. The Lab catalyzes development and research around how our data-connected world is increasingly moving off the screen and into the everyday world of objects, buildings and activities. Since 2009, ThingTank has offered workshops, idea jams and roundtable events aimed at fostering and supporting activity in this exciting area. The Lab also works with academics and people from private enterprise interested in idea generation related to building things that address real world problems. Its mission is to provide academic, private and public sector institutions and their players the space and opportunity to forge creative and financial partnerships by match-making goals, expertise and initiatives
- Mobile apps which foster the dissemination of the library’s archival/special collections. What was there mobile app.
- Wolfwalk is a photographic guide to the history of North Carolina State University created to run best on a mobile device. It includes a location-aware campus map and a photo viewer for browsing historical photographs by decade or theme. Wolf Walk is a pilot project (currently 1,000) photographs to explore new user interaction models with digital collections on mobile device.
- About Viewshare Viewshare.org is a free web application for generating and customizing unique, dynamic views through which users can experience cultural heritage digital collections. The intended users of Viewshare are individuals managing and creating access to digital collections of cultural heritage materials. Contact us at [email_address] to request a free account. The site is administrated by the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program at the Library of Congress. Viewshare.org runs an instance of Recollection. Recollection is the open source web application that creates this website. Anyone is free to download, add, and edit the Recollection application to create their own sites for creating and sharing interfaces to digital collections. Recollection can be downloaded from the Library of Congress' Recollection Sourceforge page. The mission of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) is to develop a national strategy to collect, preserve, and make available significant digital content, especially information that is created exclusively in digital form. In 2008, the NDIIPP partners shared content through a simple web page. In order to explore more useful tools and processes for sharing diverse content across partners’ collections, the Library began a pilot project in 2009 with Zepheira to develop an environment that can be used to collect and explore information about digital collections. The result is the Recollection platform.
- Omeka is a free, flexible and open-source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives and scholarly collections and exhibitions. It’s “five minute setup” makes launching an online exhibition as easy as launching a blog. Omeka is funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Samual H. Kress Foundation.
- Free, open-source, digital publishing suite for scholars, librarians, archivists, museum professionals, and cultural enthusiasts o Publish archives, collections, exhibits, teaching materials; and provide ways for the public to interact with your sites. • No contracts or annual fees o Download and use the software for free. • Easy to use o Its “five-minute setup” makes launching an Omeka site as easy as launching a blog. o Omeka is designed with non-IT specialists in mind, allowing users to focus on content and interpretation rather than programming. o Omeka is a web application, making it accessible from any computer or mobile device with an internet connection. o Users say Omeka is “simple,” “logical,” and “unscary.” • Strong community of documentation and support o Learn to use Omeka with step-by-step tutorials and screencasts available in the documentation. o Connect with other Omeka users and the Omeka team through end user forums and developer discussion lists.