Creative Connections - Helping Member Libraries Share Their Awesomeness
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Presentation given at UHLS in Albany, NY on June 24, 2015
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Creative Connections - Helping Member Libraries Share Their Awesomeness
- 1. What is a skill you have that you would be willing to teach someone else?
- 2. Creative Connections: Helping Member Libraries ShareTheir Awesomeness
- 3. What is a library? • Traditional view: Repository for books • Broadened to include other items • Reference assistance • Quiet place to read
- 4. How are libraries changing? • Wider range of items owned and loaned • New uses for library spaces • New services being provided • New opportunities for partnership • New opportunities for resource sharing
- 5. Wider range of items • E-content, including magazines and video • E-readers and other devices • Museum passes • Variety of tools for work and play • Surprising other stuff
- 6. New uses for library spaces • Community meeting and study rooms • Areas for leisure and informal meetups • Performance and event space • Technology labs • Maker spaces • Workshops, kitchens, and more
- 7. New services • Job help, including entrepreneur support • Specialized librarians • Technology (fax, scan, computers, more) • Arts and crafts classes • Wider range of entertainment • Offsite services
- 8. New partnerships • Authors and artists • Challenged populations • Sustainability organizations • Adult education centers • Makerspaces & tech shops • Local startups
- 9. Resource sharing • Shared digital resources • Shared physical resources • Shared bibliographic records • Listservs, intranet, online sharing sites • Staff crossover within and across libraries
- 10. How UHLS can help • Continue and expand current services • Shared inventory of holdings • Shared inventory of facility spaces • Shared calendar of adult programs • Listing of community partners • Listing of library and area resources
- 11. Expand current services • Interlibrary loan and delivery • Digital collections • Outreach • Adult education and training • Social networking
- 12. Shared inventory of holdings • Physical materials for loan • Digital materials • Materials and tools not for loan
- 13. Shared inventory of spaces • Descriptions of bookable spaces • Other spaces for use by public or staff
- 14. Shared calendar of programs • Searchable and browsable calendar • Archive of past programs
- 15. Listing of community partners • Specific local organizations • State and national supports
- 16. Listing of resources • Programming resources • Grant resources • Program information • Shared library publications • Library staff contact information
- 17. Foster greater connectivity • Among libraries as organizations • Among individual library staff members • Between patrons and libraries • With community outside the library
- 18. Questions? • Contact me: torloney@gmail.com • This presentation can be viewed at: http://is.gd/creativeconnections
Editor's Notes
- If you could indulge me for a moment
- "What are some of the most exciting opportunities facing public libraries today and what steps might a library system take to help a member library explore and implement one of these opportunities?" Creative Connections: Expanding Opportunities for Library Expression Changes in role in community, especially regarding lendables and use of space; a library system can help connect libraries to each other and their communities in this changing landscape
- David Lankes: “The mission of librarians is to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities”
- Streaming video and audio, digital archives and more Try before you buy, can be preloaded. Laptops and even hotspots (like the NYPL) Fishing poles, cake pans, knitting needles, tools, musical instruments, video production equipment, curated kits for learning a particular skill Seeds and even plots of land for learning growing practices (Onondaga PL), people - Human Library events events and Brooklyn Public Library’s Bykln Skillshare where community members lend their skills and knowledge to patrons
- Number of homeschoolers has doubled in past 15 years Comfortable chairs, cafes, games Ann Arbor District Library has wide range of instruments and effects pedals and a local musician recently had a record release party for an album recorded using only these. Many libraries now rent out their spaces for weddings and other events Computer centers with range of instruction, video and audio production studios, digital conversion equipment 3D scanners and printers, multimedia production suites, power tools Blending of leisure and technology: HOMAGO (Mimi Ito: Hanging Out, Messing Around, Geeking Out)
- Etsy partnership, Shark Tank events Notaries, genealogy experts, copyright specialists, digital archivists, programmers, artists-librarians Increasingly standard and broadened to include tablets and specialized computers Wider range of training: Excel, Photoshop, Wordpress, to CAD software and advanced coding Rock concerts and battle of the bands, poetry slams, plays, movies, live streaming events (World Cup) High Plains Library District in Colorado used a BTOP grant to establish a computer center housed in a community shelter.
- Library as publisher: support authors and artists in every step of process (from NANOWRIMO to printing), artists in residence San Franscisco Public Library has a full time social worker, and every month in the library’s auditorium, agencies set up booths offering resources and services geared to the homeless, such as eyeglasses, vaccines, shoes, and haircuts. Upper Hudson installed solar panels in 2012 that provide over 1/3 of the building’s power BOCES and more, OSHA training Home-based business to realtor certification to business incorporation (Chicago Public Library recently partnered with 6 area startups for a demo day)
- OverDrive and more Upper Hudson collections OCLC, current challenges related to lack of consistent records in Horizon Expand idea of resource sharing to include ideas, programs, best practices, and library staff
- Explore possibility of digital document delivery & expansion of physical delivery to include non-book items Provide resources for specialized collection development (e.g. graphic novels). Extend E-resources to local collections: Archives, and Denver Public Library partnered with local musicians to stream their music to cardholders Widely research grant possibilities for libraries and create resource pool. Expand outreach to challenged populations. Increase training to member libraries based on desired subjects. Provide education and resources on growing issues such as copyright and patron privacy Expand online social networking and provide new in-person networking opportunities
- Searchable inventory of items for loan at each library, including areas of specialization Same for non-shared digital materials such as digital archives Also for materials and equipment available at each library that are not loaned out: scan, fax, etc.
- Study rooms, conference rooms, archives and local history, creative spaces such as maker labs Casual spaces, coffee shops, vending machines, outdoor spaces such as gardens
- Encore supports integration into catalog
- List of past and current partnerships, with contact information List of potential supports at every level Include organizations with similar missions to libraries, libraries and educational organizations outside our system, social service organizations
- Browsable and searchable index of physical and virtual resources for grant and programming ideas and support (area organizations, books, websites, blogs, listservs) Archive of programs descriptions and materials from member libraries (MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching, PRIMO: Peer-Reviewed Instructional Materials Online, Make It @ Your Library) Collection of materials created at member libraries available for reuse by others Contact information and subject specialties for member library of staff willing to share (guide, run, mentor). Example: Gordon Noble E-reader training
- Library passport, Link Economy: one library recommends another (Macy’s to Gimbels in Miracle on 34th St.) Social meetups online and in person to share ideas, deepen our sense of community Patrons have more tools and more exposure to are libraries Harwood Institute’s Turn Outward model: “Turning Outward makes the community and the people the reference point for getting things done.” Finding more ways to engage our patrons and listen to their needs