A Conversation Facilitated by Paul Signorelli Writer/Trainer/Consultant Paul Signorelli & Associates Northeast Kansas Library System Directors Institute November 7, 2013 Valley Falls, Kansas Community Collaboration: Helping Shape Our Communities

It’s Personal

It’s What We Make of It

Atchison Library: 6x6 Early Literacy

Basehor Community Library: Annual Go Dog Go Fundraiser

Baldwin City Library: Art, Alpacas, and Wildlife

Silver Lake Public Library: Farmers Market Vendors

Eudora Public Library: Adventure Days

Rossville Community Library: Reading in Local Nursing Home

Mary Cotton Public Library: Kiwanis and Lions Clubs

Morrill Public Library: Quilt Shop

Exploring Our Communities: An Exercise in Partnerships

Thinkers Worth Knowing: Ray Oldenburg & the Third Place

“…those happy gathering places that a community may contain, those ‘homes away from home’…”

Thinkers Worth Knowing: Peter Block & Community

Citizens participate; consumers “surrender to others the power to provide what is essential for a full and satisfied life.”

Thinkers Worth Knowing: R. David Lankes & New Librarianship

“The Mission of Librarians is to Improve Society through Facilitating Knowledge Creation in their Communities”

Discussion #1: Identifying Matches Between Library and Community Needs

Libraries, Community, and Learning: Libraries as a Newly-Defined Fourth Place?

Libraries, Community, and Learning: Libraries Already as Fourth Place

Putting the “Social” into Social Media

Learning, Innovation, and Collaboration: Connectivist MOOCS

Learning, Innovation, and Collaboration: Personal Learning Networks

Thinkers Worth Knowing: Richard Harwood

“This new trajectory, people say, will take shape only through actions that start small, and local, between and among them, beginning close to home, on a human scale.”

Thinkers Worth Knowing: Maureen Sullivan

Defining Our Message, Then Crafting It

Discussion #2: The Elevator Speech

And This Just In: Elevator Speeches & Libraries

Discussion #2: The Elevator Speech

Blending Ideas from Our Inspirations

Thinkers Worth Knowing: Jim Diers “…start where people are…this means organizing people around what interests them rather than around what you think they should be interested in.”

Our Challenge: Identifying Community Needs and Solutions

Discussion #3: Finding our Collaborators

Discussion #4: Identifying and Overcoming Hurdles

Discussion #5: Identifying What to Do

In Summary

Resources

An annotated visual bibliography of resources: “Community & Collaboration in an Onsite-Online World,” available at Website for “Transforming Libraries”:

Questions, Comments, and Next Steps

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Credits & Acknowledgments (1 of 2) Slide Design by Paul Signorelli (Images taken from lickr.com unless otherwise noted): Circle of Hands: From Sheryl’s Boys’s photostream at Girl Reaching Out: From BenSpark’s photostream at Kansas: From ChrisM70’s photostream at Atchison Library 6x6: From AtchisonLibrary.org Basehor Library Go Dog Go: Online photo album at Baldwin Library Summer Reading: Newspaper article at attraction-librarys-summer-reading-program/ Silver Lake Library Farmers Market: Announcement at Eudora Library Adventure Days: Announcement at Rossville Community Library: From Mary Cotton Public Library: From Morrill Library Quilts: From Library’s Facebook page at Listen/Understand/Act: From HigherSight’s photostream at Circle of Interconnected Hands: From MaryScheirer’s photostream at Information Commons, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (Lied Library): From Mal Booth’s photostream at Homework Help: From Topeka & Shawnee County Library’s photostream at Richard Harwood: From ALA – The American Library Association’s photostream at Maureen Sullivan: From ALA – The American Library Association’s photostream at Elevator: From Trepelu’s photostream at Elevator Buttons: From CB Photography’s photostream at http://signal.baldwincity.com/news/2013/jun/10/animals- attraction-librarys-summer-reading-program/

Credits & Acknowledgments (2 of 2) Slide Design by Paul Signorelli (Images taken from lickr.com unless otherwise noted): Jim Diers: From AlexAbboud’s photostream at Leaping Over Hurdles: From SoggyDan’s photostream at Living Your Plan: From Symphony of Love’s photostream at Question Marks: From Valerie Everett’s photostream at

Thinkers Worth Knowing (Images taken from lickr.com unless otherwise noted): Peter Block: From Coyenator’s photostream at R. David Lankes: From Tracie7779s photostream at Circle of Interconnected Hands: From MaryScheirer’s photostream at Elevator: From Trepelu’s photostream at Leaping Over Hurdles: From SoggyDan’s photostream at Living Your Plan: From Symphony of Love’s photostream at