Unconference Session: How digital is your library?
What's going on in our libraries?
Libguides--how it's become a useful tool in own library, pervasive in many ways. What that means? How it's being received?
Databases, online presence, eBooks. We know what to do for print collection & facilities. Landscape for digital spaces is always changing. How are we putting services out there? Promoting them? Spending money on them? How are we managing them? Online organization of all that.
Libguide
Updates. Old gides aren't functioning as well.
Migrating took some planning. Spent time with Springshare to make sure you don't lose things in the upgrade. Had to reconstruct. Phone call was helpful in addition to the tutorials, FAQs. Their customer service is excellent.
Suzanne uses Libguides for almost every lesson that she does.
A teacher expressed concern that it was spoon feeding. Thoughts?
How you use it & how you present it.
Working on spectrum. When thinking about making projet. Breaking elements of research.
Easy to hard.
In lower school too hard to hand them nothing but the question. No graphic organizer, no nothing.
Notetaking
Sources
How loose are you going to turn them?
Where were they with their next project? What skill are you building and isolating within a project?
Colalborating before they assign the project. We end up with whatever they create. We need to talk before it's formed.
Uses NYState fluency continuum. Validates that teacher's concern.
By the time they get to 11th/12th grade research projects, no longer use Libguides.
Universities are creating them. Are they being used? How?
Curated collection.
Upper grades:
Widget for searching certain news publications.
Embed Google search with reminders about advanced search.
If we're doing due diligence, the answer is that we curate all resources for students. Why shouldn't we curate our largest collection (digital)?
One librarian uses blog for parents
Layer on Destiny Quest page as Libguide
Assignment idea: create your own Libguide
We're using it as a teaching tool. Upper school librarian learned PHP this summer, coded a sidebar to connect learning to sources. (Check out Spence's Libguides :))
EBSCO's Discovery service
Single search brings up catalog + everything. Most universities are using them. Works with single signon. Can access from home. Has seen tremendous increase in database usage.
Another school agrees that it's good. She suggests that when she does bibliographic instruction, take them through traditional EBSCO interface, then Discovery. Otherwise come up with a bazillion outcomes. Research page that comes up gives them good instruction to reinforce.
Their tech people were very helpful. Not cheap. Whole thing History, Science, eBooks and Discovery=$7,000
-Refinement instruction is an absolute necessity.
"Google for your databases". Really great.
Overdrive records imported in Destiny. Need to look into this.
Flipster
Online magazine aggregator. Multiple copies.
Zinio used for teachers at the School at Columbia
Also print for the students. Not used at all.
New Yorker, Atlantic, Mtnal Floss, Make, Wired, Game Informer, MAD magazine (boys?), Seventeen.
"Periodical guilt". Upper school flex schedule.
Who's responsible for managing digital spaces? Promoting?
One school has Library tech coordinator, head librarian, head of circ, etc. She manages databases, promotes, etc.
Should IT take on some of the management? Giving it up means giving up control. Weigh it.
Libguide as landing page. This could streamline access to guides.
Shelfari widget of new books.
All guides also linked there.
Static page on school homepage.
http://libresources.lrei.org/newhome
Library page created within Finalsite (like teacher pages). Every student is enrolled. Has worked well. What she would say to them, but they can access it 24/7.
Library portal page (quicklinks)
Link to catalog
Databases
1st grade: keyword searching
End of 2nd grade, how to login to get deeper level of access.
Has created an internal digital citizenship space using Destiny Quest (behind the password)
This is a fixed schedule, library curriculum.
Connecting with friends (online community). Commenting, liking,she moderates everything. Aligns literature with digital citizenship. "Feathers", once your words are out there, hard to get back.
Bookopolis
Book social media.
Rate books (star, one piee that we like, one piece would change). Can recommend books to each other. Book sharing platform for class. Stop relying so much on librarian for new book recommendations.
Con: commercial piece, ads. Can't carry over year to year, move students from year to year to other classes and take account with them.
Reinforces digital citizenship skills. Get badges for number of books that they read. Track reading, see how much they read at end of year.
Blblionazium sounds sort of like this.
Goodreads used in part of 9th grade. Recommendations within class, school, community, world. Lots continue to use it. Do it as partnership with English class. Getting English teachers to agree to 5 books outside of curriculum was big win.
"Read, Write, Recommend" program
New library built. Beautiful!
Was embedded at classroom, lessens year by year.
Kids love lessons she is able to give. Teachers need time.
School well endowed, crazy projects that they want to do. Everything is about tech, about new. Frown on traditional research methods.
Spent half her time convincing teachers to use her. Hard to do that job and run library.
Which thing feels the most urgent?
Can't do it on our own. Join committees. Digital citizenship committee, for example. Good to see where traditional library can fit in. We have to insert ourselves into conversation.
Department chair meetings. Insist that you're included. There when conversations start and decisions are made before it's too far down the road.
NY fluency continuum Scope & Sequence very detailed. Gives you ideas for curriculum & tools. Don't recreate the wheel.
Went to each teacher and asked how you teach research. They are going to teach it, how do you do it? Make charts. Share grade level trends and gaps. Then bring in standards and show where match up. Has been successful. It's not about me!
Relationship building is huge.
Visiting classes, just observe. Good PR.
Grade level meetings.
Don't know how to use indexes. How information is organized.
Teachers want a concerted 6 week program. 2 ways of puling information.
We have to re-calibrate the way we teach.
Information is organized, important concept to teach.
Libguides--how it's become a useful tool in own library, pervasive in many ways. What that means? How it's being received?
Databases, online presence, eBooks. We know what to do for print collection & facilities. Landscape for digital spaces is always changing. How are we putting services out there? Promoting them? Spending money on them? How are we managing them? Online organization of all that.
Libguide
Updates. Old gides aren't functioning as well.
Migrating took some planning. Spent time with Springshare to make sure you don't lose things in the upgrade. Had to reconstruct. Phone call was helpful in addition to the tutorials, FAQs. Their customer service is excellent.
Suzanne uses Libguides for almost every lesson that she does.
A teacher expressed concern that it was spoon feeding. Thoughts?
How you use it & how you present it.
Working on spectrum. When thinking about making projet. Breaking elements of research.
Easy to hard.
In lower school too hard to hand them nothing but the question. No graphic organizer, no nothing.
Notetaking
Sources
How loose are you going to turn them?
Where were they with their next project? What skill are you building and isolating within a project?
Colalborating before they assign the project. We end up with whatever they create. We need to talk before it's formed.
Uses NYState fluency continuum. Validates that teacher's concern.
By the time they get to 11th/12th grade research projects, no longer use Libguides.
Universities are creating them. Are they being used? How?
Curated collection.
Upper grades:
Widget for searching certain news publications.
Embed Google search with reminders about advanced search.
If we're doing due diligence, the answer is that we curate all resources for students. Why shouldn't we curate our largest collection (digital)?
One librarian uses blog for parents
Layer on Destiny Quest page as Libguide
Assignment idea: create your own Libguide
We're using it as a teaching tool. Upper school librarian learned PHP this summer, coded a sidebar to connect learning to sources. (Check out Spence's Libguides :))
EBSCO's Discovery service
Single search brings up catalog + everything. Most universities are using them. Works with single signon. Can access from home. Has seen tremendous increase in database usage.
Another school agrees that it's good. She suggests that when she does bibliographic instruction, take them through traditional EBSCO interface, then Discovery. Otherwise come up with a bazillion outcomes. Research page that comes up gives them good instruction to reinforce.
Their tech people were very helpful. Not cheap. Whole thing History, Science, eBooks and Discovery=$7,000
-Refinement instruction is an absolute necessity.
"Google for your databases". Really great.
Overdrive records imported in Destiny. Need to look into this.
Flipster
Online magazine aggregator. Multiple copies.
Zinio used for teachers at the School at Columbia
Also print for the students. Not used at all.
New Yorker, Atlantic, Mtnal Floss, Make, Wired, Game Informer, MAD magazine (boys?), Seventeen.
"Periodical guilt". Upper school flex schedule.
Who's responsible for managing digital spaces? Promoting?
One school has Library tech coordinator, head librarian, head of circ, etc. She manages databases, promotes, etc.
Should IT take on some of the management? Giving it up means giving up control. Weigh it.
Libguide as landing page. This could streamline access to guides.
Shelfari widget of new books.
All guides also linked there.
Static page on school homepage.
http://libresources.lrei.org/newhome
Library page created within Finalsite (like teacher pages). Every student is enrolled. Has worked well. What she would say to them, but they can access it 24/7.
Library portal page (quicklinks)
Link to catalog
Databases
1st grade: keyword searching
End of 2nd grade, how to login to get deeper level of access.
Has created an internal digital citizenship space using Destiny Quest (behind the password)
This is a fixed schedule, library curriculum.
Connecting with friends (online community). Commenting, liking,she moderates everything. Aligns literature with digital citizenship. "Feathers", once your words are out there, hard to get back.
Bookopolis
Book social media.
Rate books (star, one piee that we like, one piece would change). Can recommend books to each other. Book sharing platform for class. Stop relying so much on librarian for new book recommendations.
Con: commercial piece, ads. Can't carry over year to year, move students from year to year to other classes and take account with them.
Reinforces digital citizenship skills. Get badges for number of books that they read. Track reading, see how much they read at end of year.
Blblionazium sounds sort of like this.
Goodreads used in part of 9th grade. Recommendations within class, school, community, world. Lots continue to use it. Do it as partnership with English class. Getting English teachers to agree to 5 books outside of curriculum was big win.
"Read, Write, Recommend" program
New library built. Beautiful!
Was embedded at classroom, lessens year by year.
Kids love lessons she is able to give. Teachers need time.
School well endowed, crazy projects that they want to do. Everything is about tech, about new. Frown on traditional research methods.
Spent half her time convincing teachers to use her. Hard to do that job and run library.
Which thing feels the most urgent?
Can't do it on our own. Join committees. Digital citizenship committee, for example. Good to see where traditional library can fit in. We have to insert ourselves into conversation.
Department chair meetings. Insist that you're included. There when conversations start and decisions are made before it's too far down the road.
NY fluency continuum Scope & Sequence very detailed. Gives you ideas for curriculum & tools. Don't recreate the wheel.
Went to each teacher and asked how you teach research. They are going to teach it, how do you do it? Make charts. Share grade level trends and gaps. Then bring in standards and show where match up. Has been successful. It's not about me!
Relationship building is huge.
Visiting classes, just observe. Good PR.
Grade level meetings.
Don't know how to use indexes. How information is organized.
Teachers want a concerted 6 week program. 2 ways of puling information.
We have to re-calibrate the way we teach.
Information is organized, important concept to teach.
Session: Frank Patience and Fortitude:Transforming Digital Experience @ NYPL
Frank Migliorelli, Director of Digital Experience at NYPL
NYPL is putting people in leadership roles who don't have MLS's.
Library is so many things to so many people. NYPL in particular, so many different kinds of branches!
Cultural, books, research, educational programs, tourist destination, storytime. It's bursting at the seams!
It's all FREE.
Last democratic institution. Sitting beside a world scholar and a person trying to learn how to read. However, when you do something wrong they come at you like they're paying big bucks!
Who are the people using it?
Explorer
Sightseer
Experience Seeker
Self Improver
Recent Immigrant
Avid Reader
8th grade student
Contributor
Nanny
Literacy student
Space saver
Worked with design firm to redo buildings. What do they do?
navigating
immersing
celebrating
connecting
personalizing
discovering
making
consuming
growing
Library roles are changing. Programs are booming, but circulation is in decline. In three years book circ is down 18%. Getting information elsewhere. Not all can afford this so important that still offer it.
Interesting: DVD circ isn't down. Can't afford cable--checking out DVDs of tv series.
25% of New Yorkers don't have internet connection at home.
Classes, Techconnect (partnered with Code Academy 10 wk curriculum. Waiting list 5,000 people before shut down for 300 slots.) Mostly women, 25 and above. 85% retention rate on class.
Loaned out Library Hotspots if you're in a certain program. 10,000 loaned. 6 months-1 year. Demonstrated to federal govt. for how Obama phones allocated to community. Donations from Google & Sprint made this possible.
Computers booked every day. Upgrading all the time.
Library as a whole. How does digital impact how and what we do?
Re-embracing the library's strengths.
Story stations for collaborative storytelling (Imaginon)
Connecting with people.
Access
Learning
Creating
Reading = 4 pillars of what they do at library.
Flexible, accessible. What are best ways to approach that?
The Atlantic: The Museum of the Future READ THIS!
APIs to give people access without physically being there was a wakeup call for NYPL. Could this work for our archives???!!!
Don't want to build a new web site. Wants a new platform.
Video
Interactive experiences
Repackage things in interesting ways.
Using React, Droople as CMS. Massive reworking of back and frontend for modular fleet website to work with.
Digital projects that are happening:
NYPL Labs
Thinktank, innovation lab. Charged with handling all digitizing of various collections. Need data structure to handle access.
Digital collections project (check it out)
3 D gifts stereoanimator, building inspector crowd sourcing accuracy of diagrams (show Paul), space/time directory layered maps telling history of NY. COOL!
Exhibits: Treasures
Public domain drop opened to work (amazing) Check it out.
Everything you see is open and free!
Ellis Island images juxtaposed with Syrian refugees
Using #adobecapture to pull colors and shapes from @nypl
Look at Greenbooks
Map a trip
So interesting for history curriculum!
Street View then and now
SO COOL! Show Kathleen & NY Texts!
Edtwist.com.
Put assets up there, can deownload memo, video clips, focus on things like space travel, etc. Teachers create own curricul
Sort of like pinterest
Research tool for young people
Using NYPL Api, Youtube, Wikipedia, etc.
Oldnyc.org
Another map project
Click on any corner, street, and see what neighborhood looked like using images from NYPL image collection.
JFK library
JFK50 site for teens
First presidential library to digitize collection
Cool memos scanned, how to make graphic novel using images, space exploration units, etc.
How is physical space changing?
Maker stuff--new level of literacy. Who's responsible for cleaning up?
Creating dynamic collaborative space for students to use.
Exhibits (could we put some upstairs? Digitized exhibits?)
Edutopia OER resources (read this!)
How can we turn people on to resources that exist?
Shana Kimbell runs lab projects--outreach to schools with tools. Might be of interest to Nancy??
Madison Wisconsin public library. The bubbler. Great model for getting librarians to think differently as a host organization. Check it out!
NYPL is putting people in leadership roles who don't have MLS's.
Library is so many things to so many people. NYPL in particular, so many different kinds of branches!
Cultural, books, research, educational programs, tourist destination, storytime. It's bursting at the seams!
It's all FREE.
Last democratic institution. Sitting beside a world scholar and a person trying to learn how to read. However, when you do something wrong they come at you like they're paying big bucks!
Who are the people using it?
Explorer
Sightseer
Experience Seeker
Self Improver
Recent Immigrant
Avid Reader
8th grade student
Contributor
Nanny
Literacy student
Space saver
Worked with design firm to redo buildings. What do they do?
navigating
immersing
celebrating
connecting
personalizing
discovering
making
consuming
growing
Library roles are changing. Programs are booming, but circulation is in decline. In three years book circ is down 18%. Getting information elsewhere. Not all can afford this so important that still offer it.
Interesting: DVD circ isn't down. Can't afford cable--checking out DVDs of tv series.
25% of New Yorkers don't have internet connection at home.
Classes, Techconnect (partnered with Code Academy 10 wk curriculum. Waiting list 5,000 people before shut down for 300 slots.) Mostly women, 25 and above. 85% retention rate on class.
Loaned out Library Hotspots if you're in a certain program. 10,000 loaned. 6 months-1 year. Demonstrated to federal govt. for how Obama phones allocated to community. Donations from Google & Sprint made this possible.
Computers booked every day. Upgrading all the time.
Library as a whole. How does digital impact how and what we do?
Re-embracing the library's strengths.
Story stations for collaborative storytelling (Imaginon)
Connecting with people.
Access
Learning
Creating
Reading = 4 pillars of what they do at library.
Flexible, accessible. What are best ways to approach that?
The Atlantic: The Museum of the Future READ THIS!
APIs to give people access without physically being there was a wakeup call for NYPL. Could this work for our archives???!!!
Don't want to build a new web site. Wants a new platform.
Video
Interactive experiences
Repackage things in interesting ways.
Using React, Droople as CMS. Massive reworking of back and frontend for modular fleet website to work with.
Digital projects that are happening:
NYPL Labs
Thinktank, innovation lab. Charged with handling all digitizing of various collections. Need data structure to handle access.
Digital collections project (check it out)
3 D gifts stereoanimator, building inspector crowd sourcing accuracy of diagrams (show Paul), space/time directory layered maps telling history of NY. COOL!
Exhibits: Treasures
Public domain drop opened to work (amazing) Check it out.
Everything you see is open and free!
Ellis Island images juxtaposed with Syrian refugees
Using #adobecapture to pull colors and shapes from @nypl
Look at Greenbooks
Map a trip
So interesting for history curriculum!
Street View then and now
SO COOL! Show Kathleen & NY Texts!
Edtwist.com.
Put assets up there, can deownload memo, video clips, focus on things like space travel, etc. Teachers create own curricul
Sort of like pinterest
Research tool for young people
Using NYPL Api, Youtube, Wikipedia, etc.
Oldnyc.org
Another map project
Click on any corner, street, and see what neighborhood looked like using images from NYPL image collection.
JFK library
JFK50 site for teens
First presidential library to digitize collection
Cool memos scanned, how to make graphic novel using images, space exploration units, etc.
How is physical space changing?
Maker stuff--new level of literacy. Who's responsible for cleaning up?
Creating dynamic collaborative space for students to use.
Exhibits (could we put some upstairs? Digitized exhibits?)
Edutopia OER resources (read this!)
How can we turn people on to resources that exist?
Shana Kimbell runs lab projects--outreach to schools with tools. Might be of interest to Nancy??
Madison Wisconsin public library. The bubbler. Great model for getting librarians to think differently as a host organization. Check it out!
Unconference Session: Makerspace
Budgeting--different types of expenses (startup, then ongoing). Visually, what should the room look like to be appealing for different age groups.
Collegiate makerspace. From ground up, new building makerspace will be in it. Renovating old schoolhouse. Skyped with a teacher in NJ who had slats on wall with hooks for tools to hang in. Designed more hooks in class to hang more equipment.
Samples of fun things out. Examples of projects that you might do.
Storage is an issue. Where to put incomplete projects until they come back?
Collaboratory--United Nations School
Peg walls--easily redesigned anytime you want.
Discovery Center-Arduino (single board computers). Feels more like a lab.
Rugs don't work.
Tools/equipment:
WHIMSICAL is what I want.
Laura built one over the summer at Saddle River Day School--Makerspace and Videostudio
Marymount--check out theirs
Saddle River Day School in NJ
Moved Servers into it. Wanted blinking lights & noise in space.
Steelcase furniture--gorgeous.
Doing Graphic design work for real clients.
Want students coming in and feeling like they are in an office, not school.
Concepting, sketching, no computers. Move over to computer area.
Loft storage now, turning it into digital photography studio. Wanted them to walk in and see color. Artwork all over walls. Stairs are metal so hanging things with magnets.
Sharp blades in drawers.
Wii doos
Ozobots
Sams Club thign on wheels
Conductive--fabric, conductive thread.
Pipecleaners, popcicle sticks, prototyping materials
Yarn
Ribbon
Wrote to teachers to see if they have things in closet
Asked parents paper towel rolls, etc.
AS kids need things
Diaper wipes for spills, glue guns, etc.
Dry erase paint on walls
Pegboard black looks cool.
Number system with 3dprinting materials.
Labeled bins
Robotics laptop cart
IDEAS @ SRDS
Innovation
Design
Engineering
Art
Science
words with 3d printer.
Wired letters together (light up metal letters0 light up @
Ideas Lab
"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."-Edison
Quotes on wall with cricket machine
Also making door decals for teachers (name & symbol that means something to them--ie. Superman)
Makey Makeys
Littlebit pro library
Connect cameras
X Box
HP Sprout
Artwork that lights up that students made
Use dry erase wall all the time.
They will advertise things they need help on.
Quote wall of things kids say :Do you think that we should use directions?
Remarkable paint $500 (use them right away) didn't smell, dried quickly, only need 1 coat. Grooves in walls make it hard to get off.
Committed to painting it every year.
3d printing
Lab tables go up and down
Colorful chairs from Amazon-wouldn't recommend. Fall apart. Screws come out, not lasting more than a year.
Makerbot
Halloween program lit up foam pumpkins
Every class has time there.
Lots of times cleaning up & organizing.
Protocols (not rules)
Have fun, don't hurt yourself, don't waste, clean up after yourself.
Design Thinking is essential. Bringing someone in to teach faculty.
Rube Goldberg kits (rubegoldberg.com) order.
Invite parents in to do it with kids.
Explatorium. Jenny Howland? K-4 tech educator in CA.
Kids bring in broken things and put things together in new ways.
Glowforge-desktop laser cutter.
Recycled materials closet.
Camille @ Berkley Caroll