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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 solutionsto free range learners?

time to transform

digital citizenshipcultural 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 timemodel 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 eCardsSNAP Databases

TumbleBooksBookFlix

Homework HelpStudy Center

Homework Hold FormsVisual Catalog for Kids & Adults

NCOE Curriculum LibraryEd1StopTrueFlixFollett Shelf

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