Evolving Libraries: What’s at Our Core? Rudy Leon

Designing spaces for student learning The future of undergraduate education Developing staff skills for maximal flexibility The place of technology in learning, and libraries Connecting the library more deeply into curricular development Role of social media in learning

Dispositions. Participatory learning

Howard Rheingold Henry Jenkins Buffy Hamilton John Paul Gee Char Booth Barbara Fister David Lankes

Defining Terms Participatory Learning Dispositons Making Library ?

What do libraries do? We provide access to information

How do we do that? We have the content to hand We develop tools to make the content findable We develop spaces to use the content We provide skilled professionals to teach, train, lead users to content

Bring an idea, any idea, and follow it through to it’s end Develop knowledge & expertise using information resources Create new knowledge (new to the researcher, or to the world) Seek help & expertise Provide help & expertise Access resources otherwise hard to locate Do it themselves, individually or in a group In academic libraries, we build environments where students are enabled to:

That sounds like a makerspace.. Bring an idea, follow it through Build your expertise Build something new Seek help & expertise Provide help and expertise Access to resources otherwise hard to locate DIY, with the help of the community

ethos of makerspace Bring an idea, follow it through Build your expertise Build something new Seek help & expertise Provide help and expertise Access to resources otherwise hard to locate DIY, with the help of the community Ethos of library Bring an idea, follow it through Develop your knowledge & expertise Create new knowledge (to you or to the world) Seek help & expertise Provide help & expertise Access to resources otherwise hard to locate Do it yourself, or in a group

Knowledge? Film? Posters? Robots? Making is “taking something from the computer and making it in the real world” With Growth Of 'Hacker Scouting,' More Kids Learn To Tinker : NPR, 12/23/2012

What are we, if all the books go away?

Image credits Bean: Puzzle pieces: All others, The Mathewson IGT Knowledge Center

Inspiration & Further Reading Brown, J. S. (2011). Internet Librarian 2011 Opening Keynote. Presented at the Internet Librarian, Monterey, CA. Retrieved from Hamilton, B. (2012a, June 28). Makerspaces, Participatory Learning, and Libraries. The Unquiet Librarian. Retrieved from participatory-learning-and-libraries/ Hamilton, B. (2012b, July 15). The Unquiet Library-A Makerspace Culture of Learning (Buffy Hamilto... Retrieved from learning-buffy-hamilton-july-2012 Jenkins, H. (n.d.). Jenkins on Participatory Culture at newlearningonline. In New Learning: transformational designs for Pedagogy and assessment. Retrieved from Schiller, N. (2012, November 13). Hacker Values ≈ Library Values*. ACRL TechConnect. Retrieved from Thomas, D., & Brown, J. S. (2011). A new culture of learning: cultivating the imagination for a world of constant change. Lexington, Ky.: CreateSpace?]. With Growth Of “Hacker Scouting,” More Kids Learn To Tinker: NPR. (2012, December 23). NPR.org. Retrieved from learn-to-tinker