SUCCESSFUL ACADEMIC

LIBRARY MAKEOVER

Tod Colegrove, Ph.D., MSLIS

Head of DeLaMare Science & Engineering LibraryUniversity of Nevada, Reno

Tara Radniecki, MA, MLISEngineering LibrarianUniversity of Nevada, Reno

Internet Librarian 2015

19th-Century Model Education System:

Relic of the Industrial Age?

We can do better.

DLM, the last 24 hours:

LockSport!

DLM, the last 24 hours:

Laser Cutting Pumpkins workshop

Where can that sort of collaboration and active

learning happen?

A place where learning, innovation,

entrepreneurship and discovery are natural

outcomes?

Photo by Nick Crowl: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dstl_unr/

THINGS WE GOT WRONG

teeny tiny whiteboards

Creating Barriers

■Checking out whiteboard markers■Bolting things down■Putting things behind glass

Concerned about items not “academic” enough

Stealing their fun

Providing services instead of resources

and opportunities

Not making the investment

Going for lower end 3D printers/equipment

Not making the time investment to learn/train

Image from: https://thecontextofthings.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/time-is-money.gif

Building Limitations

Waiting too long for “inreach”

THINGS WE GOT RIGHT

Safe place to take risks and make mistakes. Fail faster.

geeking out with our

communities

Design for spontaneous collaborations

Getting a sewing machine

people

Creating our makerspace in collaboration■Students

■Faculty ■Community Makerspaces■EDAWN■Startups■Local Businesses

Support for new literacies

■Photoshop & design■3d modeling & scanning

Patents & IP

Questions?