Today libraries around the globe are talking about fab labs, maker spaces, and hacker spaces. This workshop uncovers what these spaces are, what they are for, and how to correctly implement them in your library setting. We will discuss specific types of spaces along with examples. Most importantly, some tips and tricks and obtaining funding to create these amazing areas libraries desperately need. This workshop will help position your library as a community anchor to further engage your patrons allow them to collaborate, interact, and discover.
2. Let Me Introduce Myself
Hi I’m Brian Pichman
Today we will explore libraries, discover new learning spaces,
define interaction and engagement. Libraries need to become
more engaging.
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5. Create a Public VALUE
• Not be a “process” but an experience
• Move from physical to digital
• Create new ways to learn and explore
• Libraries should be creating stories
• Libraries HAVE TO BE ENGANGING!
• Shift Focus To
• Innovation, Interaction, Discovery, Collaboration and
Invention
6. Libraries Need to Become Engaging
Build out maker spaces/learning spaces to:
Encourage Creativity and Invention
Allow Discovery
Increase Collaboration
Generate Interaction
Foster Innovation
12. Evolve: A Library Playground
Fab Lab / “Hackerspace” / “MakerSpace
A location where people with common interests (usually in
computers, technology, science, or digital or electronic art)
meet, socialize and/or collaborate.
Can be viewed as open community labs incorporating elements
of workshops and/or studios where people can come together
to share resources and knowledge to build and make things
and ideas.
Combining the positive & fun aspects of schools, museums,
and playgrounds into one “entity”.
14. Types of Maker Spaces
Collaborative Areas
(Either Network Based
or In A Room)
Provide Tools
(Hardware and/or
Software)
Learning Labs or
Training Centers
21. Multimedia Room / Learning Centers
Room Set Up Features:
Clickers
Allows for jeopardy style gaming
Smart Board (interactive white board)
Full DVD/BluRay/Sound System
Easy to use and start (Touch Panel System)
You Can Use This Room For
Jeopardy
Movie Nights
Presentations / Interactive Style Board Game Night
Create a Business Plan, Project Plan, etc
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23. The 4th floor is a public laboratory
and educational facility with a focus
on information, design, technology,
and the applied arts.
The 14,000 sq foot space hosts equipment,
expertise, programs, events, and meetings
that work within this scope.
While traditional library spaces support the
consumption of knowledge by offering
access to media, the 4th floor is unique
because it supports the production,
connection, and sharing of knowledge by
offering access to tools and instruction.
Chattanooga ”Fourth Floor”
37. Your environment can have all the best tech toys and cool
maker-spaces but it could still fall short.
It is up to the frontline staff to ENANGE their audiences. A
friendly hello goes a long way. Allow the staff to play with the
tech; get them involved to reflect that excitement to the users.
38. • Use the tools your
users use
• Communicate on
their level
• These are your #1
Marketing Tools
40. Film A Zombie Movie
(Cameras and some
Face Paint for Your
Library)
41. Link Books to E-
Books
Find New Content
Scavenger Hunts
42. Open a new
dimension in your
library.
Buy using an app,
you can see a new
“world” within your
physical space.
43. Place books into
color themed bags.
Barcode number
written outside of
bag. Allow patrons to
check out and take
them home.
44. During special
holiday periods, find
books that are
colored the holiday
colors (not
necessarily about the
holiday) and place
them on a stand near
your end caps.
45. Purchase Cheap
Plastic and Foam to
setup Paths and
fairways with felt.
Have it throughout the
library, engage the
participants through
your space.
47. • Stand, Not Sit
• Walk Around
• Go to patrons, and ask them how the are doing, show them things
• Create Staff “Experts”
• Each member of your staff probably has a hobby, a genre of book
they enjoy. Give them badges to say “I Fish” or “I Love Mystery”.
• Create “Patron Experts”
• Staff and Youth
• Remove Fines. Don’t punish for returning a book that took longer
to read.
• Instead of a fine, ask the younger patron, “well tell me about this
book”
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49. • Put a “Reward System” into the library card
• Badges
• Prizes
• Exclusive Programming / Event registration
• Low Tech:
• Print new more colorful library cards, allow patrons to customize
their card with different and increasingly more desired badges –
based off books read, programs attended, etc.
• High Tech:
• Create Library Cards with screens
• Send Messages to card when they are in the library (wirelessly
connected)
• Display “reading level” or “badges they own”
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51. • Rochester Institute of Technology
• https://play.rit.edu/
• http://youtu.be/xjK1dQHmzss
52. • The Game of Books is gamifying the reading experience.
• In the Game, you are the character that you are leveling
up; books are the magical items that give you rewards.
• This is a project from BookLamp.Org
• Each Book in the world has a very specific DNA, a structure
that contains specific themes, writing style, density, etc.
• The themes in the book relate to points – and those points
apply to your character.
• More Details: www.gameofbooks.com
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55. Technology As An Evolution
1990 – 2000: Internet Burst
2000 – 2010: Value Adds to Technology
2010 – 2020: Technology Burst
56. Future of Technology
To discover and curate of information
Value adds (efficiency, reliability)
To build or discover new “things”
57. Future of Search Has Changed
Searches based off of
visuals instead of
keywords
Clicking Images
rather than entering
in words
59. Touch Based
People want to touch everything
Discover Through Touch
Search Through Touch
Learn Through Touch
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66. Gesture Based
Communicate with Technology Hands Free
Uses multiple cameras to detect depth/movement
Microsoft Kinect
Sites to Explore:
Microsoft Kinect
PrimeSense
Evoluce
78. Back To Searching
Technology is becoming more “visual” orientated
Whether it be from touch, gesture, or objects
Search Dynamics are changing
79. Future Concepts
People watching TV can point and click to buy
content (clothes, cars, etc)
Predictive searches (Amazon does it now)
Ask yourself, what do you want to create?
80. Open Source
We have the ability to create “things” cheaper now
Open Source Hardware (Arduino, RaspberryPi)
Open Source Software
83. Crowd-Source Funding
• People across the world group together to fund
new projects and ideas
• People are encouraged to donate by either the
attractive name or “awards” based off the
amount they donate.
• Kickstarter.com
• Indiegogo.com
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87. Social Media
• Market your “Brand” heavy through social media
– And Blogging
• Solid companies pro-actively manage their social
media accounts.
– They watch what people are saying because everyone
else can see what people say
– They want only positivity about their company on the
web, they will work to only have positive comments.
– If a company does provide assistance, always show
your support through social media
• (you may need more support later on down the road).
Social Media is a way to develop relationships
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89. Tips - Twitter
• Only use positivity when communicating on
twitter
• 140 Characters, make them count!
– Wow! @COMPANYX has some really great stuff. I need
to get my hands on it
– Who would like to see @PRODUCT in our library
space?
• Once you build a good relationship ask the hard
questions
– Can you help me on the cost @COMPANYZ
90. Tips - Facebook
• Go to the Company’s Pages, be sure to “Like”
their page before commenting
• Again, be only positive. Tell your story, pitch
your idea.
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92. Handling Objections
• You will hear “no”
– A LOT
• But that just means phrased the question wrong or
asked the incorrect person.
– Who else can I talk to about discounted pricing/donations
– Does anyone make a similar product that would be more
inline with our budget (ask them about their competitors).
– What other things would you recommend?
• Don’t be afraid to ask the hard questions of “why”
• Everyone has a bottom line.
94. Places to save money
• Buy Refurbished
– Refurbishment is the distribution of products (usually
electronics) that have been previously returned to a
manufacturer or vendor for various reasons. Refurbished
products are normally tested for functionality and defects
before they are sold, and thus are the approximate
equivalent of certified pre-owned cars. - Wikipedia
– Refurbs are OK!!!
• Discount Sites:
– 1SaleADay.Com
– Woot.Com
– Monoprice.Com
– E-Bay
Allow your patrons the ability to build things. Fab Labs/Maker Spaces
With the idea of an open play environment; people will discover new and exciting things on their own.Fact: You remember things that you discover on your own better than things told directly.
Collaboration allows people to get together to discuss common interests to gain new knowledge. People will collaborate naturally if centered around something FUN!
Interaction will allow your patrons to learn and grow.Interaction is necessary to maintain interest in your library’s programs, collection, etc.
Innovation must be an original disruptive act.Innovation is the embodiment, combination, and/or synthesis of knowledge in novel, relevant, valued new products, processes, or services
Ways to Engage Your Space (MiniGolf, QR Codes, Color Bags)
Purchase different colored paper bags o Each bag is for a different genre of book o Place Barcode number outside of bag May have to write it o Place book inside bag, and staple it close Gets your circ numbers up!
Christmas – take red and green books and them facing outside the shelves. The colors of the covers/spines will brighten up your collection