Libraries are experimenting with all manner of retail practices, but what works, how does it work and how well does it work? What kind of retail environments are appropriate models? How much does the library change to fit the practice, instead of the other way around? McMillan Memorial Library examines its implementation of BISAC/genre displays, coffee and food service, Commons area and self-service options and offers lessons learned. Presented at Wisconsin Library Association 2010 conference. Download to see full speaker's notes.
Helping the Reader: Lessons Learned in the Evolution of a Display Oriented P...McMillan Memorial Library
Self-check, wayfinding, displaying material, BISAC categories all fit together to make a public library easy to use. A narrated PowerPoint presentation prepared for the 2008 PLA Virtual Conference. The narration is only available in the Downloaded version.
Part one of two session devoted to developing a more display oriented library. This session focuses on knowing the mission of the library and evaluating which business practices to adapt to a library setting.
Part two of two sessions devoted to developing a more display oriented library. This session is focused on how McMillan Memorial Library implemented a display / wayfinding / self-service approach. Downloaded version has complete speaker's notes.
A public library uses a mixture of BISAC and genre based collections to maximize display options and promote browsing by patrons. Prepared by McMillan Memorial Library for the April 2010 Central Wisconsin Library Conference. Download to see speaker's notes.
As libraries face a turbulent future, we get to choose how we will react. This presentation looks at adapting business practices, developing a display oriented library and how to know which way to go forward.
Libraries are experimenting with all manner of retail practices, but what works, how does it work and how well does it work? What kind of retail environments are appropriate models? How much does the library change to fit the practice, instead of the other way around? McMillan Memorial Library examines its implementation of BISAC/genre displays, coffee and food service, Commons area and self-service options and offers lessons learned. Presented at Wisconsin Library Association 2010 conference. Download to see full speaker's notes.
Helping the Reader: Lessons Learned in the Evolution of a Display Oriented P...McMillan Memorial Library
Self-check, wayfinding, displaying material, BISAC categories all fit together to make a public library easy to use. A narrated PowerPoint presentation prepared for the 2008 PLA Virtual Conference. The narration is only available in the Downloaded version.
Part one of two session devoted to developing a more display oriented library. This session focuses on knowing the mission of the library and evaluating which business practices to adapt to a library setting.
Part two of two sessions devoted to developing a more display oriented library. This session is focused on how McMillan Memorial Library implemented a display / wayfinding / self-service approach. Downloaded version has complete speaker's notes.
A public library uses a mixture of BISAC and genre based collections to maximize display options and promote browsing by patrons. Prepared by McMillan Memorial Library for the April 2010 Central Wisconsin Library Conference. Download to see speaker's notes.
As libraries face a turbulent future, we get to choose how we will react. This presentation looks at adapting business practices, developing a display oriented library and how to know which way to go forward.
A program called "Top Library Building Trends" that was conducted at ALA Annual 2010 (June 28, 2010) by LLAMA BES.
A panel of architects, librarians and consultants will provide an overview of new and exciting ideas in planning public and academic library facilities. Topics will include the rethinking of spaces for services, new building design, and other “must have” items to keep your library up-to-date. Each panelist will provide a brief presentation with slides. The entire panel will then field questions from the audience.
Speakers: Kimberly Bolan Cullin, Providence Associates LLC, Indianapolis, IN; Joan Frye Williams, Sacramento, CA, Library Consultant and Futurist; Barbara Norland, District of Columbia Public Library, Senior Librarian, Building Projects; Jeffrey Scherer, Meyer, Scherer & Rockcastle, Ltd. Architects, Architect; Richard Sweeney, New Jersey Institute of Technology, University Librarian.
Presented by Betha Gutsche at ARSL, 9 September 2017, St. George, Utah (USA).
Learn from the dynamic experiences of fifteen small libraries, who reimagined and reconfigured “smart spaces,” where community members co-create, participate in hands-on learning, and strengthen social connections. You’ll learn how to uncover community needs, interpret the input, generate ideas and prototype those ideas with simple, low-cost materials. It’s transformation!
How have libraries responded to the enormous change of the last 15 years? Join the confersation as Kathleen Johnson embarks on an exploration of this question, examing innovative and interesting ideas including the Library of Things, the Learning Commons, the evolving library role in learning, the socially networked library and more.
Digital and OER Textbooks: The Library’s Next Frontier?Stephen Acker
Presentation at the 2013 ACRL annual conference. Offers value propositions of OER for libraries, faculty, students, and administrations. Concludes with audience poll on how/whether libraries should assume leadership in textbook licensing.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
A program called "Top Library Building Trends" that was conducted at ALA Annual 2010 (June 28, 2010) by LLAMA BES.
A panel of architects, librarians and consultants will provide an overview of new and exciting ideas in planning public and academic library facilities. Topics will include the rethinking of spaces for services, new building design, and other “must have” items to keep your library up-to-date. Each panelist will provide a brief presentation with slides. The entire panel will then field questions from the audience.
Speakers: Kimberly Bolan Cullin, Providence Associates LLC, Indianapolis, IN; Joan Frye Williams, Sacramento, CA, Library Consultant and Futurist; Barbara Norland, District of Columbia Public Library, Senior Librarian, Building Projects; Jeffrey Scherer, Meyer, Scherer & Rockcastle, Ltd. Architects, Architect; Richard Sweeney, New Jersey Institute of Technology, University Librarian.
Presented by Betha Gutsche at ARSL, 9 September 2017, St. George, Utah (USA).
Learn from the dynamic experiences of fifteen small libraries, who reimagined and reconfigured “smart spaces,” where community members co-create, participate in hands-on learning, and strengthen social connections. You’ll learn how to uncover community needs, interpret the input, generate ideas and prototype those ideas with simple, low-cost materials. It’s transformation!
How have libraries responded to the enormous change of the last 15 years? Join the confersation as Kathleen Johnson embarks on an exploration of this question, examing innovative and interesting ideas including the Library of Things, the Learning Commons, the evolving library role in learning, the socially networked library and more.
Digital and OER Textbooks: The Library’s Next Frontier?Stephen Acker
Presentation at the 2013 ACRL annual conference. Offers value propositions of OER for libraries, faculty, students, and administrations. Concludes with audience poll on how/whether libraries should assume leadership in textbook licensing.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
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A review of the growth of the Israel Genealogy Research Association Database Collection for the last 12 months. Our collection is now passed the 3 million mark and still growing. See which archives have contributed the most. See the different types of records we have, and which years have had records added. You can also see what we have for the future.
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Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
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A workshop hosted by the South African Journal of Science aimed at postgraduate students and early career researchers with little or no experience in writing and publishing journal articles.
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty, In...Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
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How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
2. Declining AV circulation (format extinction)
Declining print usage
More online services = fewer reasons for in-
person use of library
Self-service = less time in library
High tech AND high touch
Questions about the future and necessity of
public libraries
Time to create our future
3. Document value of online services
Display oriented library
Reshaping collections to new reality
Programming, esp. creatorspaces
More explicitly educational
More interactive
Outward facing (Harwood Institute)
Commons
4. Grows out of Information Commons
Based on Third Place concept
Public library mashup
◦ Remix of these with new elements
◦ Government, library tradition, educational, lifelong
and voluntary
5. A commons
Separate from home and the workplace
In The Great Good Place, Ray Oldenburg
argues that third places are important for civil
society, democracy, civic engagement and
establishing a sense of place
Robert Putnam discuss third places in Bowling
Alone: America's Declining Social Capital
6. Free or inexpensive (no monetary barrier)
Food and drink, while not essential, are
important
Highly accessible: proximate for many
Involve regulars
Hospitable
Both new friends and old should be found
there
Rapidly disappearing
7. Neutral ground
Leveler
Conversation is a main activity
Accessibility and accommodation
The regulars
The mood can be playful
A home away from home
Somehow, they didn’t think of libraries
8. Part of larger trend
Important piece of development
Sense of place / destination / brand
User friendly / stickiness
Community focus
Zoning of space
Builds user base at all ages
9. Guided by our mission - Strengthening our
community through lifelong learning
Outgrowth of Ron McCabe’s book Civic
Librarianship
An internal expansion project, converting
former storage space
Opened in 2005
12. High use (AV) or high browse (magazines /
newspapers) collections
13. Mixed use at all times, but with differing
mixes depending upon time of day.
Beverages allowed in most of facility, food
allowed in Commons and main meeting room
Ties to hospitality, programming, community
focus, stickiness
15. Iterations
Supervising the space – esp. after school
Finding balance in rulesets
Coffeehouse failed as a commercial venture,
but succeeded as a staffed service
High level food with low level prep
Need to expand coffeehouse for dual use
Shift to more wireless users
Change of main entrance required rethinking
16. Presentation online at slideshare.net
McMillan Memorial Library
Andy Barnett, Director
abarnett@mcmillanlibrary.org
Editor's Notes
A program presented at WAPL May 7, 2015 in Wisconsin Rapids by Andy Barnett, Director of McMillan Memorial Library.
Declining AV – streaming services will cannibalize much of our current use. Successor to DVDs is NetFlix, not Blu-Ray
Declining print use – partially offset by ebooks used at libraries. BUT – school use is going, as are magazines
Our on-line services are powerful, but can be anonymous. Are we getting full credit for them? Even if we do, we are busy creating reasons to NOT visit the building.
We promote self-service – quite rightly. Convenience matters. Open hold shelves, self-check, good wayfinding. But are we moving to a convenience store model.
Do we spend as much time improving in-house as we do updating Facebook? Do we spend as much time making our brick and mortar as attractive?
Pervasive impression that libraries are the past. As asked by local newspaper.
We must create our future, not let it happen to us.
Libraries have certainly not been passive in response.
Claim credit for our online services – car repair, genealogy, students, local history. Recently completed a book and I used online services and libraries a lot.
Better wayfinding, displays, signage, BISAC – something McMillan has presented on in the past.
Collections need to be reshaped – less homework based, more informal and lifelong education, suddenly last decade, better resource sharing. Catalogs are big and will get bigger as systems merge.
A new breed of programming – creator spaces, authors, musicians, video
While we have ALWAYS BEEN AN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION, we are now getting more explicitly educational.
Interactive – partly a children’s museum. A place kids and their parents will want to come to and remember after they leave.
Brian’s presentation on Friday, Columbus PL.
And today’s subject.
Information commons in academic libraries is also concerned with the library as a ‘place’, neither classroom or dorm room. Sometime collaborative.
In public setting, incorporates concepts from ‘third space’ – more on that later
Implementing in public libraries involves a mashup or remix of these, with new considerations
Third place is a commons, shared by community members, or some of the community. Parks. Churches.
Not home (private) or work (overtly commercial)
Being a librarian – here are two books.
Opera is not a third place. But a county fair might be. As might a café, where people meet and discuss matters.
Meeting over food or coffee slows down the pace and changes meeting qualitatively.
Accessible is hard to come by these days, when towns no longer have a center. Malls, strip malls and Wal-mart don’t work well as third places.
Everybody doesn’t have to know your name, but it helps if someone does.
Employees need to be welcoming, but so should other people there. Like an anti-DMV. This involves people, policies and architecture.
Events where you can meet your friends, re-connect with people you know and find new people that share your interests.
Such third places are becoming less common.
Neutral ground is becoming rare in polarized society. Social capital only flourishes in neutral ground.
Money should not be a major factor. Everyone gets a seat and the same basic service.
A church might be a third place, but not during a service. Conversation, mingling.
No barriers to access.
People you know, people you might know or want to know. Familiar and comfy. (St. Stan’s)
Playful might seem strong, but self-directed for sure.
An extension of the home into a social space.
But the authors didn’t really include libraries as third spaces, possibly because they are governmental, maybe because of their academic background.
Sociology and architecture both are interested in social commons.
Part of the New Urbanism, livable communities, community placemaking – The Municipality March 2015
A piece of urban development – story about the need for a commons in Rapids
Friendly because they are people, not numbers
There was a point where librarians said that communities don’t have needs, only individuals do. Starting to swing back to a community focus. Communities do exist and they do have needs and they have created libraries to meet those needs.
Though Ron’s book pre-dates the Commons at McMillan.
McMillan very fortunate to have internal space to convert. Even in 2005, the building was 35 years old.
Zoning a key concept. All libraries have zones, but they aren’t always as intentional as they should be.
YS is always a different zone. Meeting rooms have different rules.
Zones are more than a matter of rulesets – décor and design set them apart.
If you don’t have a social zone, then every space becomes a social zone, unless you forbid social activity altogether.
Most unlibrary-like. Furniture says sit and stay. Groupings say talk and collaborate. Get to know each other. Feel at home.
Flooring allows for food, since it is easy to clean spills.
Browsing is a priority in all spaces, but especially so in the Commons.
Extra wide aisles to encourage and invite browsing. See Paco Underhill on retail.
Large % of circ = large floor space
Display shelving for popular collection. But that is another program.
Formal and informal meetings, agencies meeting with clients, people hanging out together. Teens predominate in afternoon, but the space is large enough and divided enough for multiple uses at all times.
We allow and sell food and drink, though drink only on the upper level. Have not lost a PC to spills, though keyboards need to be cleaned a little more frequently.
Food and drink service helps us make people feel welcome.
Gift certificates for programming.
Community groups can get coffee pots for meetings.
Encourages people to come earlier and stay longer.
Hospitality and stickiness, not profit
Breaks even plus, but not enough to operate as a commercial venture.
Dual use of staff makes it work – check in and supervision.
Expanding menu, but no food prep. Still, sandwiches, pizza, pastries. Iced coffee very popular.
Iterations can make revolutionary changes, since they involve new directions, even if the speed may vary.
Need to supervise 5,000 sq ft of space, especially if there are 30-40 teens in it.
Very different ruleset than our tradition, which had no social area.
Hard to make a library coffeehouse a commercial venture, due to low traffic. After several private sector failures, we took it over and run it with staff. They are busy (one way or another), unlike coffeehouse employees.
Wanted a high level of coffee and food, but wanted a low level of prep work. This also ties into the level of food inspection faced.
We will need to expand the floorspace of the coffeehouse to accommodate dual use.
As we see more wireless, we may cut down on the number of wired stations in the area, making more space.
In 2010, the main entrance to the library was moved to the Commons. Lost sq ft, gained traffic. Changed the nature of the place that everyone came through it, so behavior had to be more closely monitored.