It’s Not Your Mother’s Library!
Kate MacMillan
Michelle Holguin
“….it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of
foolishness…”
closing libraries & cutting staff
in a revolution of information retrieval
how to provide innovative solutions
to free range learners?
time to transform
digital citizenship
cultural literacy
global knowledge
the future requires
•letting go of stereotypes and misconceptions
• commitment to change
•vision of the library as relevant
• participatory librarianship
library of the future
•collaborative
•continually changing
•conduit for innovation, creativity &
knowledge
interact, create & communicate
relationships are the cornerstone of
libraries and participation
now is the time
model transliteracy to encourage digital fluency
explosion of information & gradual
disintegration of traditional publishing
provide content in various formats
•eBooks
•digital textbooks
•audio
•visual
no shelf required
free range learners are device agnostic
smartphones, iPads, tablets, notebooks,
Kindles, eReaders, iPods, computers and print
connect, communicate, collaborate &
construct
provide content through partnerships
Napa County Library Collaboration
SNAP eCards
SNAP Databases
TumbleBooks
BookFlix
Homework Help
Study Center
Homework Hold Forms
Visual Catalog for Kids & Adults
American Canyon High School
•Follett Shelf
•AXIS 360
•One Search
•Kindles
•ECHO
•Digital Resources
NVUSD Digital Blueprint
High Schools, Middle Schools = BYOD
•Digital Textbooks
•Increase eBook collections 25%
•audio
•Device Agnostic /Platform Specific
I believe the best days of librarianship are
ahead of us….” (Lankes)
Thanks to Bobbi Newman & Buffy Hamilton
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