1. Kate MacMillan
It’s Not Your Mother’s Library!
Michelle Holguin

2. “….it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of
foolishness…”

3. closing libraries & cutting staff

4. in a revolution of information retrieval

5. how to provide innovative solutions
to free range learners?

6. time to transform

7. digital citizenship
cultural literacy
global knowledge

8. the future requires
•letting go of stereotypes and misconceptions
• commitment to change
•vision of the library as relevant
• participatory librarianship

9. library of the future
•collaborative
•continually changing
•conduit for innovation, creativity &
knowledge

10. interact, create & communicate

11. relationships are the cornerstone of
libraries and participation

12. now is the time
model transliteracy to encourage digital fluency

13. explosion of information & gradual
disintegration of traditional publishing

14. provide content in various formats
•eBooks
•digital textbooks
•audio
•visual
•print

15. no shelf required

16. free range learners are device agnostic

17. smartphones, iPads, tablets, notebooks,
Kindles, eReaders, iPods, computers and print

18. connect, communicate, collaborate &
construct

19. provide content through partnerships

20. Napa County Library Collaboration
SNAP eCards
SNAP Databases
TumbleBooks
BookFlix
Homework Help
Study Center
Homework Hold Forms
Visual Catalog for Kids & Adults

22. American Canyon High School
•Follett Shelf
•AXIS 360
•One Search
•Kindles
•ECHO
•Digital Resources

23. NVUSD Digital Blueprint
High Schools, Middle Schools = BYOD
•Digital Textbooks
•Increase eBook collections 25%
•audio
•Device Agnostic /Platform Specific

24. I believe the best days of librarianship are
ahead of us….” (Lankes)

25. Thanks to Bobbi Newman & Buffy Hamilton