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

2. It’s Personal

3. It’s What We Make of It

4. Atchison Library: 6x6 Early Literacy

5. Basehor Community Library: Annual Go Dog Go Fundraiser

6. Baldwin City Library: Art, Alpacas, and Wildlife

7. Silver Lake Public Library: Farmers Market Vendors

8. Eudora Public Library: Adventure Days

9. Rossville Community Library: Reading in Local Nursing Home

10. Mary Cotton Public Library: Kiwanis and Lions Clubs

11. Morrill Public Library: Quilt Shop

12. Exploring Our Communities: An Exercise in Partnerships

13. Thinkers Worth Knowing: Ray Oldenburg & the Third Place

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

15. Thinkers Worth Knowing: Peter Block & Community

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

17. Thinkers Worth Knowing: R. David Lankes & New Librarianship

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

19. Discussion #1: Identifying Matches Between Library and Community Needs

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

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

22. Putting the “Social” into Social Media

23. Learning, Innovation, and Collaboration: Connectivist MOOCS

24. Learning, Innovation, and Collaboration: Personal Learning Networks

25. Thinkers Worth Knowing: Richard Harwood

26. “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.”

27. Thinkers Worth Knowing: Maureen Sullivan http://www.ala.org/transforminglibraries/libraries-transforming-communities

28. Defining Our Message, Then Crafting It

29. Discussion #2: The Elevator Speech

30. And This Just In: Elevator Speeches & Libraries

31. Discussion #2: The Elevator Speech

32. Blending Ideas from Our Inspirations

37. 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.”

38. Our Challenge: Identifying Community Needs and Solutions

39. Discussion #3: Finding our Collaborators

40. Discussion #4: Identifying and Overcoming Hurdles

41. Discussion #5: Identifying What to Do

42. In Summary

49. Resources

50. An annotated visual bibliography of resources: “Community & Collaboration in an Onsite-Online World,” available at http://paulsignorelli.com/PDFs/Bibliography--Community_and_Collaboration.pdfhttp://paulsignorelli.com/PDFs/Bibliography--Community_and_Collaboration.pdf Website for “Transforming Libraries”: http://www.ala.org/transforminglibraries/libraries-transforming-communities

51. Questions, Comments, and Next Steps

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53. 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 http://tinyurl.com/mmgjrwq Girl Reaching Out: From BenSpark’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/lhnp257 Kansas: From ChrisM70’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/ks3y2dy Atchison Library 6x6: From AtchisonLibrary.org Basehor Library Go Dog Go: Online photo album at http://tracielansingphotography.smugmug.com/Events/Go-Dog-Go- 2013 Baldwin Library Summer Reading: Newspaper article at http://signal.baldwincity.com/news/2013/jun/10/animals- attraction-librarys-summer-reading-program/ Silver Lake Library Farmers Market: Announcement at http://www.silverlakelibrary.org/farmers-market-the-library/ Eudora Library Adventure Days: Announcement at http://www.eudorapubliclibrary.org/summer-reading-grant/ Rossville Community Library: From http://www.rossvillelibrary.org/services/home-delivery-service/ Mary Cotton Public Library: From http://www.sabethalibrary.org/ Morrill Library Quilts: From Library’s Facebook page at http://tinyurl.com/n6l9vdt Listen/Understand/Act: From HigherSight’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/mxjnotf Circle of Interconnected Hands: From MaryScheirer’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/lwtlcop Information Commons, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (Lied Library): From Mal Booth’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/knd6vjk Homework Help: From Topeka & Shawnee County Library’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/k4no7d9 Richard Harwood: From ALA – The American Library Association’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/kkqj7nh Maureen Sullivan: From ALA – The American Library Association’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/lbj673y Elevator: From Trepelu’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/kfwbkmc Elevator Buttons: From CB Photography’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/lc8gvqzhttp://tinyurl.com/mmgjrwqhttp://tinyurl.com/lhnp257http://tinyurl.com/ks3y2dyhttp://tracielansingphotography.smugmug.com/Events/Go-Dog-Go- 2013http://signal.baldwincity.com/news/2013/jun/10/animals- attraction-librarys-summer-reading-program/http://www.silverlakelibrary.org/farmers-market-the-library/http://www.eudorapubliclibrary.org/summer-reading-grant/http://www.rossvillelibrary.org/services/home-delivery-service/http://www.sabethalibrary.org/http://tinyurl.com/n6l9vdthttp://tinyurl.com/mxjnotfhttp://tinyurl.com/lwtlcop http://tinyurl.com/knd6vjkhttp://tinyurl.com/k4no7d9http://tinyurl.com/kkqj7nhhttp://tinyurl.com/lbj673yhttp://tinyurl.com/kfwbkmchttp://tinyurl.com/lc8gvqz

54. 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 http://tinyurl.com/mbo7uu8 Leaping Over Hurdles: From SoggyDan’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/n5xbgve Living Your Plan: From Symphony of Love’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/lpq2yoy Question Marks: From Valerie Everett’s photostream at http://www.flickr.com/photos/valeriebb/3006348550/sizes/m/in/photostream/http://tinyurl.com/mbo7uu8http://tinyurl.com/n5xbgvehttp://tinyurl.com/lpq2yoy http://www.flickr.com/photos/valeriebb/3006348550/sizes/m/in/photostream/

55. Thinkers Worth Knowing (Images taken from lickr.com unless otherwise noted): Peter Block: From Coyenator’s photostream at http://www.flickr.com/photos/coyenator/3283315715/sizes/m/in/photostream/ R. David Lankes: From Tracie7779s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/kuay34w Circle of Interconnected Hands: From MaryScheirer’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/lwtlcop Elevator: From Trepelu’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/kfwbkmc Leaping Over Hurdles: From SoggyDan’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/n5xbgve Living Your Plan: From Symphony of Love’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/lpq2yoy http://www.flickr.com/photos/coyenator/3283315715/sizes/m/in/photostream/http://tinyurl.com/kuay34whttp://tinyurl.com/lwtlcophttp://tinyurl.com/kfwbkmchttp://tinyurl.com/n5xbgvehttp://tinyurl.com/lpq2yoy