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What is a Library Lab, anyway?
What is a Library Lab, anyway?
Building a Library Lab for Emerging Technology-- No Research Programmers Required
Mackenzie Brooks@[email protected]
Margaret Heller@[email protected]
A Library Lab is whatever you make it
Why do you need a library lab?
Culture of Innovation
Image credit Marc Dezemery (Flickr)
Doing More With Less
Or, on building the plane as you fly it
Image credit United States Army's Family and MWR Programs (Flickr)
What does a Library Lab look like?
It could be a place
Fayetteville Free Library FFL Fab Lab
DC Public Library Library Lab
YouMedia Chicago
Scholars’ Lab, University of Virginia Library
Ray Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University
...but it doesn’t have to be!
The original: Test Pilot, Vanderbilt University
Ohio State University Library Labs
New York Public Library Labs
Harvard Law School Library Innovation Laboratory
Harvard University Library Lab
North Carolina State University Libraries Digital Initiatives & Projects
University of Catalonia Lib Labs
KC Labs University of Nevada Reno
DC Public Library Library Lab
Dominican University Library Labs
How to build a Library Lab
Yes, without a team of research programmers!
Image credit Chicagoland Library Unconference (Flickr)
Labs we looked at by type of library
What do you need to create a library lab?
Rapid Prototyping is not Failure
But do it in public
What does your community need to bring?
Bring in the assistants
Image credit Chicagoland Library Unconference (Flickr)
On not breaking the Library Lab
Keep it fresh and keep it smart
Activity and Discussion
Please refer to handout
Thanks! Questions?
•Slideshow licensed CC BY-NC 3.0, except where noted below:
•Opening sketch written by Mike Birnbaum.
•Slide 5: Image from Marc Dezemery (mdezemery) (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). Original: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mdezemery/2362615872/
•Slide 6: Image from United States Army's Family and MWR Programs (armymrw) (CC BY 2.0). Original: http://www.flickr.com/photos/familymwr/4929686927
•Slide 24: Image from Chicagoland Library Unconference (cluncon) (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0). Original: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cluncon/7363199438/
•Slide 29: Image from Chicagoland Library Unconference (cluncon) (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0). Original:http://www.flickr.com/photos/cluncon/7178014441/
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