This document discusses the changing role of libraries in a digital age. It argues that libraries must help patrons become "knowledge players" by subscribing to blogs, tagging content, and creating learning materials. Libraries should challenge traditional classroom models and focus on fun, peer-to-peer learning. The document advocates that libraries empower users, embrace communities, and enable equality through engagement and encouragement of participation.

1. Libraries, Learning & Play Helene Blowers Digital Strategy Director Columbus Metropolitan Library LibraryBytes.com ACPL - April 08 http://www.flickr.com/photos/nothing-mind/1029101841/in/photostream/

3. © Dave Pattern http://www.daveyp.com/blog

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7. “ I think we're in -- in a lot of ways-- a period of the most profound reinvention of ...education and how people need to learn since the invention of literacy. ” - Tim O’Reily cc. Aaron Schmidt http://www.flickr.com/photos/aaronschmidt/281619803/

9. “ Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools." - Marshall McLuhan http://www.flickr.com/photos/wiseacre/175479093/

10. Published knowledge is old knowledge : The art of intelligence in the 21st Century will be less concerned with integrating old knowledge and more concerned with using published knowledge as a path to exactly the right source or sources that can create new knowledge tailored to a new situation , in real time . - Robert Steele http://www.flickr.com/photos/fredarmitage/91520238/

13. What can you do to constantly keep up with changes?

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29. How can you help others navigate the learning maze? How can we help them become? http://www.flickr.com/photos/skip/42288914 /

30. Guide [gīd] noun 1) a person who exhibits and explains points of interest. http://www.flickr.com/photos/sadalit/74439495/

32. Engaged + Motivated = Learning http://www.flickr.com/photos/justcharlaine/531111910/

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38. Knowledge playing Discovery Guiding Learning Curve

42. What should do to fuel learning , knowledge & wisdom ? Focus on … Curiosity Creativity Collaboration http://www.flickr.com/photos/fornal/394740182/

44. “The illiterate of the future are not those who can't read or write but those who cannot learn, unlearn , and re-learn .” - Alvin Toffler http://www.flickr.com/photos/ogimogi/2253657555/

45. It’s about all of the above, but most importantly, it’s about …

46. Enlightening Expanding Communities Energetic Empowering Individuals Enabling Equality Engaging users Embedded Embracing Enchanting Encouraging participation … etc.

47. http://www.flickr.com/photos/toddography/12034661/ C or E?

48. Realize that WE are more valuable when we EMPOWER Libraries need to … … then when we try to control.

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50. Helene Blowers Digital Strategy Director Columbus Metropolitan Library [email_address] www.LibraryBytes.com