expanding the concept of library

Thank You

Thank You

A little bit about your presenter:

Kathleen JohnsonLibrarian at Seattle Academykjohnson@seattleacademy.org

• BA: Ethnomusicology (University of Washington)

• 3 years in West Africa recording music and making documentary films

• Graduated from Library School in 1977 (Minor in Multimedia)

• First job: Director Kelso Public Library in SW Washington

Seattle Academy

- Laptop school since 1997

- School has an emphasis on the arts

- Culture of performance

- Moodle

Random dramatic facts

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Hubble WFC3/UVIS Image of the Pillar in Carina Nebula

Watch for Imax movie in March

Kathleen JohnsonSeattle Academy

Green Librarian

Expanding the Concept of Library

How Have Libraries Responded to the Change of the Last 15 Years

Every aspect of our work and environment is changing.

Librarians Standards Physical Space Our Materials / Services / Acquisitions Our Students How Libraries work together

Realms of Change

Huge Shifts in

◦ the nature of information

◦ the nature of learning

Check out my wiki: http://21stcenturylearning.wetpaint.com

A Story from the past…

NSFNet T-1 Backbone Map, 1988

The early days of the internet…

1990 Archie search engine 1991 WAIS and Gopher1992 Internet has 1 million hosts, ArpaNet is

discontinued

1993 Mosaic Web Browser, Lycos1994 Netscape Navigator, WebCrawler full text search

1995 . . .

Yahoo is founded in Santa Clara, CA

Mississippi ratifies 13th Amendment - last state to approve the abolition of slavery

Forrest Gump wins Best Picture

Oklahoma City Bombing

1995 . . .

OJ Simpson trial

Microsoft releases Windows 95

DVD media format is announced

eBay is founded

Calvin and Hobbes comic strip is published

1995

Where were you?

Every aspect of our work has expanded.

Librarians Standards Physical Space Our Materials Our Students How Libraries work together

Realms of Change

Librarians

Excellence in Professional Development• Listservs• 23 Things – expanded capacity to learn

• Second Life events

Developed by Helen BlowersFor The Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County 

Open Source Model

Timeline: 9 weeks

Prizes

“This is a self-discovery program which encourages staff to take control of their own learning and to utilize their lifelong learning skills through exploration and PLAY.”

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23 Things Continued

Matt Gullett, Emerging Technology Coordinator for the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County (PLCMC) manages the blog:

Learning 2.1: Explore ... Discover ... Play at: http://explorediscoverplay.blogspot.com/

The blog is up to Thing #70…

Standards

“Because Student Achievement IS the Bottom Line”

American Association of School Librarians (AASL) released Standards for the 21st-Century Learner

•Inquiry is a fundamental framework for learning•Learning has a social context

From To

Read Read, view, listen

Student Learner Successful Lifelong LearnersPersonal Learning

Information Literacy Multiple Literacies

Individual Group LearnerSuccessful Lifelong LearnersPersonal Learning

Skills Skills & Dispositions

Self-Assessment

Professional Development in Virtual Worlds

Second LifeSan Jose State University Library School

Has a space in Second Life for their library school with accommodations for distance learning students.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-9zt3Sd7oc

Realms of Change andExpansion

LibrariansStandardsPhysical Spaces

“We are just beginning to

understand how important physical

space is to learning and how

radically different true learning-

centered campuses will look in the

future.”

A FREE online book located here:http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/PUB7102.pdf

Chapter 30 Northwestern University’s InfoCommons

Old assumptions about space

1. Learning only happens in classrooms

2. Learning only happens at fixed times

3. Learning is an individual activity

4. A classroom has a “front”

5. What happens in a classroom everyday is the same

6. Learning demands privacy and removal of distractions

7. Flexibility can be enhanced by filling a room with as many chairs as will fit

8. Students will destroy comfy furniture

Information Commons

Refers to a physical space, usually in an academic library, where any and all can participate in the processes of information research, gathering and production.

• presentation practice space• Gaming / web-conference space• collaboration spaces• wireless internet access• quiet spaces • advanced computing stations • soundproof room for multi-media productions, • café • reconfigurable & comfortable furniture

Brown Library at Abilene Christian College

Group Workstations

More workstations with comfortable chairs

Learning Commons…expands on the Information Commons concept by bringing in other services and stakeholders into a shared space.

As this web page clip shows the W.E.B. duBois Learning Commons includes:

1. Academic Advising

2. Learning & Writing Support

3. Library Services

4. Technology Services

St. Davids, PA

The Virtual Learning Commons

Mi Young’s Spaces

Max Fliescher Film Festival

There are very sophisticated library spaces in Second Life…

Information / MaterialsInformation ecologies and formats are shifting…

TIRED WIRED

Text-based Multi-modal, new media

Analog Digital

No technology needed Technology needed

Immobile Mobile

Artifacts (books, magazines) Conversations – Web 2.0

Read-Only Web Read-Write Web

Our Journey Analog to Digital

http://shepardartstudio.com/contentdmV8.html

Liv

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http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0605/p01s02-wogn.html

Our biggest issue:There is tremendous fragmentation of information and the learning curve involved with the technology needed to mediate all this information.

We work hard to manage fragmentation:

•OCLC’s First Search•Portals•Directories such as the Internet Library•Pathfinders•Aggregators such as Serial Solutions

And most recently…. LibGuides by SpringShare

Librarians as Tour Guides through CyberSpaceCreating order out of chaos

Sharing

Guides for

1. Courses2. Departments3. Teachers

Every aspect of our work and is changing.

Librarians as Exemplars of Prof Dev. Library and Technology Standards Revolution in Physical Space design Transformation of our Materials &

Methods & Services Our Students

Realms of Change

Our Students

Our Students

Group activity: How have our students changed in the last 15 years…

Your Library…

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Every aspect of our work and is changing.

Librarians Standards Physical Space Our Materials Our Students How Libraries work together

Realms of Change

 2008- 2009 ALA President Jim Rettig

“I believe that the biggest challenge that all libraries today face is getting people’s attention.  We operate in a very competitive environment for what the 2005 OCLC Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources report  calls “mindshare.”  Think of all the stimuli that have sought your attention since you got out of bed this morning—radio, television, Web sites, Web pop-ups, telephone calls, text messages—to say nothing of face-to-face interactions with family, co-workers, friends, and others.  Your library and mine are competing for the attention of people who are making choices where to put their attention in response to all of those competing stimuli.”

2008- 2009 ALA President Jim RettigSome of you may have heard me discuss the Library Ecosystem: the idea that all types of libraries are interrelated. For example, the closing of a school library in a community will have impact on the public library in that community, which now has to deal with overflow from the school; as well as the college library, which now has to teach remedial information literacy skills to incoming freshmen. In order not just to survive but to thrive in today’s economy, libraries of all types must come together and advocate with a unified voice.

Visit the new Coalition Building web resource!

"Web scale" discovery and delivery of library resources

“OCLC, has consistently investigated how people's relationships to information have evolved with the advent of the Web. Not surprisingly, the results have shown a preference for self-service on this global medium.  “Most people, when asked to draw an association with libraries, still think mainly of "books" rather than electronic content and services that are increasingly available nor do they particularly equate libraries with the Web.  A 2007 report found further that people did not perceive a role for libraries in the Web's newly "social" universe, where users promote themselves and share content within massive user communities. (Librarians largely agreed with that assessment.)”

Deliver library resources and services . . . at the point of need . . . in a manner

. . . that users want

. . . and understand.

--OCLC

Sound like a good goal?

Go forth and create…

Experiment

Play

Have fun!

THE END

Digital Wishhttp://www.digitalwish.com

A public charity on a mission to modernize schools.

Things I didn’t have time to cover:

•PLN = Personal Learning Networks•Libraries as a Conversation R.D. Lankes•Scan/Print on Demand (Espresso book stands)•Librarian-powered search engine in development•Taiga Forum Provocative Statements (06 & 09)