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The Phoenix, the mythical bird that rises from the ashes, can help us to envision and plan for the future. Libraries are seeing tough times these days. What can they be reborn as? Let the idea of the Phoenix spur your thinking about what libraries can become.From a session at CIL 12 in DC, co-presented with Rebecca Jones.
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Imagine and Dream BigAbout Your Library
(with a little help from the Phoenix)
Computers in Libraries, March 2012
~Kathy DempseyOwner of Libraries Are Essential
Editor of Marketing Library [email protected]
Behold, the Phoenix
Wikipedia
What will libraries be
in the future?
Don’t wait! Start dreaming now …
Cherry Hill, NJ PL
Mt. Laurel, NJ PL
Train station vending machine in Rotterdam, Netherlands
Espresso Book Machine, Brooklyn PLhttp://www.ondemandbooks.com/brooklyn-public-library/
Phone Booth libraries, NY Cityhttp://gracefulspoon.com/blog/2011/07/06/dub-002/
Civil discourse… or borrow an expert?
www.HumanLibrary.org
Tank-turned-mobile-library in Buenos Aires, Argentina
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFi27PQ2bxo
“Kodak's long fade to black”
By Michael HiltzikDec. 4, 2011
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/dec/04/business/la-fi-hiltzik-20111204
“Like the passing of distinguished individuals, the passing of great corporations should prompt us to ponder the transience of earthly glory.”
Thinking Big Thoughts
http://infospace.ischool.syr.edu/2011/12/01/a-makerspace-takes-over-a-local-library/
Thinking Big Thoughts
David Lankes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CL1eCWObsg
NW: You’ve talked about Kindle being this example
of working backward from the customer. Can you
explain that?
JB: There are two ways that companies can extend
what they’re doing. One is they can take an
inventory of their skills and competencies, and then
they can say, “OK, with this set of skills and
competencies, what else can we do?”
And that’s a very useful technique that all
companies should use. But there’s a second
method, which takes longer-term orientation. It is to
say, rather than ask what are we good at and what
else can we do with that skill, you ask, who are our
customers? What do they need? And then you say
we’re going to give that to them regardless of
whether we currently have the skills to do so, and
we will learn those skills no matter how long it takes.
Thinking Big Thoughts
from Newsweek, Dec 28, 2009 - Jan 4, 2010Jeff Bezos, founded Amazon in 1994
“There’s a tendency, I think, for executives to
think that the right course of action is to stick
to the knitting—stick with what you’re good at.
That may be a generally good rule, but the
problem is the world changes out from
under you if you’re not constantly adding to
your skill set.”Jeff Bezos, Dec. 2009
Thinking Big Thoughts
It is not the strongest of the
species that survives, nor the
most intelligent that survives.
It is the one that is
most adaptable to change.
Charles Darwin
Thinking Big Thoughts
ShanachieTour video, filmed at CIL 2009 in advance of the Spring 2009 UGame ULearn conference in the Netherlands. Here, the idea of the Library Phoenix was born.
http://vimeo.com/3933829
Thinking Big Thoughts
Reports from organizations like ICMA Blogs, listservs, LinkedIn, Facebook Industry magazines, newsletters Conferences TED Talks Harvard Business Review Outside businesses and leaders Library TV shows
Where Can You Find Big Thoughts?
www.thisweekinlibraries.com
The Future of Libraries
This Week In Libraries, episode 39, Aug. 12, 11
www.ted.com/talks/lisa_harouni_a_primer_on_3d_printing.html
The Future of Libraries?
http://www.fayettevillefreelibrary.org/about-us/services/fablabhttp://www.makerbot.com/
The Future of Libraries?
Be Proactive!
Bye Bye, Britannica!
GetYour Phoenix On!
