The Fayetteville Free Library is excited to offer a new public service—the FFL Fab Lab. What exactly is a fab lab? According to Neil Gershenfeld, the Director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms and author of Fab: the Coming Revolution on Your Desktop-From Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication, a fab lab is “a collection of commercially available machines and parts linked by software and processes developed for making things (Gershenfeld, 12).” At the foundation of the FFL’s Fab Lab will be a MakerBot Thing-o-Matic 3D printer, made available to the library through a generous donation from Express Computer Services.
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However there may be other roles for libraries to adopt and one possible avenue is described in an article on the excellent news site Mind/Shift, The public library, completely reimagined. 
22 January Top Technology Trends (TTT) panel at the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting in Dallas, TX, attracted its usual large audience as speakers singled out topics like user expectations, analytics, systems integration, and data interoperability as areas for the library community to watch 
The New York Public Library has a really fantastic project "Stereogranimator." A website where 19th century... 
Many of us understand that we have moved beyond Web 2.0 and into Web 3.0 – sometimes called the Semantic Web. What does this mean for the future librarians? Here are 8 easy steps to becoming Semantic Web savvy. Via Fe Angela M. Verzosa 
Creating the Library of Tomorrow from the Ground UpMindShift.To this end, each student takes on an innovation project that can be explored at the LibrarySchool and developed in his or her own library. 
About financial literacy Did I ever mention the really useful site Matt Phillips and Jeff Goldenson at the Library Innovation Lab put up a couple of weeks ago? If you are interested in libraries and tech, Library News is a community-supported news site ... What libraries can learn from Apple about reinvention. Check out the new Knowledge Commons in Pattee Library opening Sunday http://t.co/44xVjdq8... The Conway Public Library is now the first Family Place Library in New Hampshire. What does it mean? 
By sharing library and learning resource center facilities, the college and the community will underscore the importance of lifelong learning. |
In response to Kodak filing for bankruptcy protection, I saw a tweet that opined that the company's long-term decline had come as a result of misunderstanding their core business: "They were in the memories business not the film business". And libraries? 
Onderzoek naar de boekenbus door Jaqueline Krans, studente Saxion, innovatielab. 
On Saturday and Sunday, January 21 and 22, David Lankes, who recently authored The Atlas of New Librarianship, led small groups in innovative and interactive conversations about harnessing the evolving role of libraries, and strengthening the librarian’s voice to help shape community perception 
Stereographs, side-by-side photographs that when viewed together produce a 3D effect, normally can only be viewed with a stereoscope. Stereogranimator is a site that lets viewers browse 40,000 stereographs from the New York Public Library’s archive and convert them into animated GIFs and anaglyphs that can be enjoyed on the web. The site was built by the New York Public Library Labs, and is inspired by the work of artist Joshua Heineman... 
Allen County Library director, Jeff Krull says that hosting such spaces is within a library’s mission: “We see the library as … being in the learning business and the exploration business and the expand-your-mind business Winners were selected by the The American Library Association (ALA) Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) and the Library Information Technology Association (LITA) 
Though play was once thought of as an indulgence, it’s now essential in developing skills to manage the challenges of modern living. Critical thinking, problem solving, risk taking and innovation are all products of playing games. Childhood is no longer the only time that play is essential; as adults productive play is essential to spark new ideas, creatively solve problems and personally grow. 
Many branch libraries and library systems run like small businesses and many offer services to support local business. This post link might be useful from both perspectives 1.) Gamification Grows Up The gamification industry went through its adolescent phase in 2011, as businesses, analysts and press started to take notice of its growth. Like any adolescence, this phase was filled with some awkward misunderstandings, but now business leaders understand the true value of gamification for their key objectives. In 2012 gamification will be an expected part of our digital experiences.
2.) Focus on Business Results
read more: http://blog.badgeville.com/2011/12/30/10-gamification-predictions-for-2012/ Via Matmi 
While crucial to acknowledge growing patron demand for mobile access, it is also important to consider historic and more contemporary manifestations of mobile services, and the actionable attributes they share with the device trend (e.g., bookmobiles, Street Reference and other roving models, all of which call upon portability, flexibility, and a degree of informality). 
For months now, I have been mulling over the role of libraries as places where "ideas intersect". It nicely aligns with Johansson's idea of intersectional innovations that are born from interdisiplinary exploration. Designing Better Libraries - Just another WordPress weblog... |
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