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BRIAN PICHMANOF THE EVOLVE PROJECT
Engaging with Maker Spaces
Let Me Introduce Myself
Hi I’m Brian Pichman
Today we will explore libraries, discover new learning spaces, define interaction and engagement. Libraries need to become more engaging.
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Take Risks
“LIBRARIES ARE SCREWED” BY ELI NEIBURGER
Libraries are like Candles
Create a Public VALUE
• Not be a “process” but an experience• Move from physical to digital• Create new ways to learn and explore• Libraries should be creating stories• Libraries HAVE TO BE ENGANGING!• Shift Focus To• Innovation, Interaction, Discovery, Collaboration and
Invention
Libraries Need to Become Engaging
Build out maker spaces/learning spaces to:
Encourage Creativity and InventionAllow DiscoveryIncrease CollaborationGenerate InteractionFoster Innovation
Creation and Inventions
Discovery
Collaboration
Interaction
Innovation
Evolve: A Library Playground
Fab Lab / “Hackerspace” / “MakerSpace A location where people with common interests
(usually in computers, technology, science, or digital or electronic art) meet, socialize and/or collaborate.
Can be viewed as open community labs incorporating elements of workshops and/or studios where people can come together to share resources and knowledge to build and make things and ideas.
Combining the positive & fun aspects of schools, museums, and playgrounds into one “entity”.
We All Have Creative Potential
Types of Maker Spaces
Collaborative Areas (Either Network Based or In A Room)
Provide Tools (Hardware and/or Software)
Learning Labs or Training Centers
http://makerspace.com/makerspace-directory
Recording Studios / Art Studios
• Macs
• Video Equipment
• Green Screens
• Sound Recording
3D Printing
The ability to print “objects”
Allen County Public Library
Multimedia Room / Learning Centers
Room Set Up Features: Clickers
Allows for jeopardy style gaming Smart Board (interactive white board) Full DVD/BluRay/Sound System Easy to use and start (Touch Panel System)
You Can Use This Room For Jeopardy Movie Nights Presentations / Interactive Style Board Game Night Create a Business Plan, Project Plan, etc
The 4th floor is a public laboratory and educational facility with a focus on information, design, technology, and the applied arts.The 14,000 sq foot space hosts equipment, expertise, programs, events, and meetings that work within this scope.While traditional library spaces support the consumption of knowledge by offering access to media, the 4th floor is unique because it supports the production, connection, and sharing of knowledge by offering access to tools and instruction.
Chattanooga ”Fourth Floor”
DOK Lab (www.doklab.nl)
If you build it they will come
INCORPORATE YOUR SPACE WITH TECHNOLOGY THAT PATRONS CAN TAKE
HOME
USE TECHNOLOGY
Kurio Tablet
Cheap TabletLocked DownSecure
Little Bits
littleBits is an open source library of electronic modules that snap together with tiny magnets for prototyping, learning, and fun.
Meet Sphero.
Creation Station – Lego We-Do
Robotic Legos that move; teaches how to program through a GUI interface
Laser Tag (Yes inside the library)
Ubisoft Laser Tag System Up to 8 can play Multiple different
game scenarios
The Menageri-E
A “Digital Petting Zoo” or “E-Bar”
Music Station
Your environment can have all the best tech toys and cool maker-spaces but it could still fall short.
It is up to the frontline staff to ENANGE their audiences. A friendly hello goes a long way. Allow the staff to play with the tech; get them involved to reflect that excitement to the users.
Social Media• Use the tools
your users use• Communicate
on their level• These are your
#1 Marketing Tools
Poetry, Music, Video, ArtDigital Content Curation
Encourage creativity
Zombie MovieFilm A Zombie Movie (Cameras and some Face Paint for Your Library)
QR Code Link Books to E-BooksFind New ContentScavenger Hunts
Augmented Reality
Open a new dimension in your library. Buy using an app, you can see a new “world” within your physical space.
Mystery Grab Bag
Place books into color themed bags. Barcode number written outside of bag. Allow patrons to check out and take them home.
Holiday Displays
During special holiday periods, find books that are colored the holiday colors (not necessarily about the holiday) and place them on a stand near your end caps.
Miniature Golf
Purchase Cheap Plastic and Foam to setup Paths and fairways with felt. Have it throughout the library, engage the participants through your space.
Simply Say“Hello”
Engagement Tips• Stand, Not Sit• Walk Around• Go to patrons, and ask them how the are doing, show
them things
• Create Staff “Experts”• Each member of your staff probably has a hobby, a genre
of book they enjoy. Give them badges to say “I Fish” or “I Love Mystery”.• Create “Patron Experts”
• Staff and Youth• Remove Fines. Don’t punish for returning a book that took
longer to read.• Instead of a fine, ask the younger patron, “well tell me
about this book”
Gamification
Interactive Library Cards• Put a “Reward System” into the library card• Badges• Prizes• Exclusive Programming / Event registration
• Low Tech:• Print new more colorful library cards, allow patrons to
customize their card with different and increasingly more desired badges – based off books read, programs attended, etc.
• High Tech:• Create Library Cards with screens• Send Messages to card when they are in the library
(wirelessly connected)• Display “reading level” or “badges they own”
Just Press Play• Rochester Institute of Technology• https://play.rit.edu/ • http://youtu.be/xjK1dQHmzss
Game of Books• The Game of Books is gamifying the reading
experience.• In the Game, you are the character that you are
leveling up; books are the magical items that give you rewards.• This is a project from BookLamp.Org• Each Book in the world has a very specific DNA, a
structure that contains specific themes, writing style, density, etc.
• The themes in the book relate to points – and those points apply to your character.
• More Details: www.gameofbooks.com
Technology As An Evolution
1990 – 2000: Internet Burst2000 – 2010: Value Adds to Technology2010 – 2020: Technology Burst
Future of Technology
To discover and curate of informationValue adds (efficiency, reliability)To build or discover new “things”
Future of Search Has Changed
Searches based off of visuals instead of keywords
Clicking Images rather than entering in words
General Themes
Touch-BasedGesture-BasedObject OrientatedOpen Source Hardware
Touch Based
People want to touch everything Discover Through Touch Search Through Touch Learn Through Touch
Gesture Based
Communicate with Technology Hands FreeUses multiple cameras to detect
depth/movement Microsoft Kinect
Sites to Explore: Microsoft Kinect PrimeSense Evoluce
Wearable Gesture Based Computing
http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/
Object Orientated
Use Objects to interact with surfaces
Back To Searching
Technology is becoming more “visual” orientated Whether it be from touch, gesture, or objects
Search Dynamics are changing
Future Concepts
People watching TV can point and click to buy content (clothes, cars, etc)
Predictive searches (Amazon does it now)
Ask yourself, what do you want to create?
Open Source
We have the ability to create “things” cheaper now Open Source Hardware (Arduino, RaspberryPi) Open Source Software
There never seems to be enough money to do anything
So Where Can Money Come From?
Crowd-Source Funding
• People across the world group together to fund new projects and ideas
• People are encouraged to donate by either the attractive name or “awards” based off the amount they donate.
• Kickstarter.com• Indiegogo.com
Social Media
• Market your “Brand” heavy through social media– And Blogging
• Solid companies pro-actively manage their social media accounts.– They watch what people are saying because everyone else
can see what people say– They want only positivity about their company on the web,
they will work to only have positive comments. – If a company does provide assistance, always show your
support through social media • (you may need more support later on down the road).
Social Media is a way to develop relationships
Tips - Twitter
• Only use positivity when communicating on twitter
• 140 Characters, make them count!– Wow! @COMPANYX has some really great stuff. I need
to get my hands on it– Who would like to see @PRODUCT in our library
space?• Once you build a good relationship ask the hard
questions– Can you help me on the cost @COMPANYZ
Tips - Facebook
• Go to the Company’s Pages, be sure to “Like” their page before commenting
• Again, be only positive. Tell your story, pitch your idea.
Handling Objections
• You will hear “no”– A LOT
• But that just means phrased the question wrong or asked the incorrect person.– Who else can I talk to about discounted pricing/donations– Does anyone make a similar product that would be more
inline with our budget (ask them about their competitors).– What other things would you recommend?
• Don’t be afraid to ask the hard questions of “why”• Everyone has a bottom line.
Just Ask
Places to save money
• Buy Refurbished– Refurbishment is the distribution of products (usually electronics)
that have been previously returned to a manufacturer or vendor for various reasons. Refurbished products are normally tested for functionality and defects before they are sold, and thus are the approximate equivalent of certified pre-owned cars. - Wikipedia
– Refurbs are OK!!!• Discount Sites:
– 1SaleADay.Com– Woot.Com– Monoprice.Com – E-Bay
