Defining Tomorrow's Library

defining tomorrow’s li·brary(noun \ˈlī-ˌbrer-ē, -ˌbre-rē)

Sidsel Bech-Petersen, Library Transformer, Aarhus Public Libraries

Stephanie Chase, Director of Library Programs & Services, The Seattle Public Library; @acornsandnuts

Wendy Knapp, Associate Director of Statewide Services, Indiana State Library, @wpitts

Ramune Petuchovaite, EIFL-PLIP manager, @ramupetu

Pam Smith, Director, Anythink Libraries, @panythink

Where are we going?“A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.”

-Andrew Carnegie

"A library's function is to give the public in the quickest and cheapest way information, inspiration, and recreation. If a better way than the book can be found, we should use it."

-Melvil Dewey

Are we alone in facing change?

Possibilities

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/design/2013/03/would-more-people-use-public-library-if-it-had-water-slide/5019/

The "Leg Up"

Zen Garden?

Aarhus Public LibrariesNew Main Library in Aarhus – Dokk1Opens 2014

A new way of working

Prototype

Evaluate

Design

A new way of working

Prototype

Evaluate

DesignAnd it will not stop!

The users are the key factor

Compass rather than roadmap!

Meeting Space

Performative space

Performative space

Inspiration Space

Learning space

Tomorrow's library could be...

The Maker Library – the Local Community’s Innovation Space -> innovation is our new service!

A Mashup Library -> a mashup of needs, resources and people in the local community. Maybe organized by the users?

A low-intensive meeting space -> where you are exposed to new values and ideas that they don't meet at work, in school, at the sports club etc.

A Relational Library: A library based on facilitation of relations – we are in the relational business!

Test it out! The library as an ongoing prototype

Utena municipality public library, Lithuania

Public library and community hall in Mubende, Uganda

Mobile Library Internet Service for Development in Volta region, Ghana

Ghana: Volta regional library to be

exposing the elements of the library

living room, not reading room

the mixing chamber

books spiral

new living rooms

image via http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2012/apr/14/library-takes-book-club-on-the-water/

new access points for the collection

point of need service

image via http://literarytourist.com/2012/02/page/2/

what makes all of these things -- from the burro to the e-reader

to the sandbox to the makerspace

a library?