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

•print

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