Building a Library Lab - ALA 2012

What is a Library Lab, anyway?

Building a Library Lab for Emerging Technology-- No Research Programmers RequiredMackenzie Brooks@mackymoomackenziekbrooks@gmail.com

Margaret Heller@margaret_hellermheller@dom.edu

A Library Lab is whatever you make it

Why do you need a library lab?

Culture of Innovation

Image credit Marc Dezemery (Flickr)

Doing More With LessOr, on building the plane as you fly it

Image credit United States Army's Family and MWR Programs (Flickr)

What does a Library Lab look like?

It could be a place

Fayetteville Free Library FFL Fab Lab

DC Public Library Library Lab

YouMedia Chicago

Scholars’ Lab, University of Virginia Library

Ray Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University

...but it doesn’t have to be!

The original: Test Pilot, Vanderbilt University

Ohio State University Library Labs

New York Public Library Labs

Harvard Law School Library Innovation Laboratory

Harvard University Library Lab

North Carolina State University Libraries Digital Initiatives & Projects

University of Catalonia Lib Labs

KC Labs University of Nevada Reno

DC Public Library Library Lab

Dominican University Library Labs

How to build a Library LabYes, without a team of research programmers!

Image credit Chicagoland Library Unconference (Flickr)

Labs we looked at by type of library

What do you need to create a library lab?

Rapid Prototyping is not FailureBut do it in public

What does your community need to bring?Bring in the assistants

Image credit Chicagoland Library Unconference (Flickr)

On not breaking the Library LabKeep it fresh and keep it smart

Activity and DiscussionPlease refer to handout

Thanks! Questions?•Slideshow licensed CC BY-NC 3.0, except where noted below:

•Opening sketch written by Mike Birnbaum.

•Slide 5: Image from Marc Dezemery (mdezemery) (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). Original: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mdezemery/2362615872/

•Slide 6: Image from United States Army's Family and MWR Programs (armymrw) (CC BY 2.0). Original: http://www.flickr.com/photos/familymwr/4929686927

•Slide 24: Image from Chicagoland Library Unconference (cluncon) (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0). Original: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cluncon/7363199438/

•Slide 29: Image from Chicagoland Library Unconference (cluncon) (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0). Original:http://www.flickr.com/photos/cluncon/7178014441/

•All screenshots used pursuant to the fair use doctrine and not subject to the CC license.