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Participatory Librarianship:
Shaping Conversations to Advocate the Impact of Our Academic Libraries
ALAO Annual 2012 Preconference Roberts Centre, Wilmington, Ohio
October 25, 2012
Buffy Hamilton, Facilitator
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“These are the times
that try men’s
souls…”
Thomas Paine, The Crisis
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shifting landscape of higher education
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budget cuts and funding crisis
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the “fear factor”
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tension in competing ideas between departments on how to best support institutional goals and mission
competing pedagogies and what “counts” as authentic learning
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meeting the needs of many different kinds of learners
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how do we
transform
ourselves and our libraries to have
meaningful impact
in our communities? Original photograph by Buffy Hamilton
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trustworthiness
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likability
fantastic product or service
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enchantment
enchantment: sustained, voluntary delight that is mutually beneficial
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“enchantment transforms situations and relationships” Guy Kawasaki, Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions
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relationships are the cornerstone of libraries and participation
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library is the shared story of the
human
experience
libraries as communal experiences and “commonplace” texts constructed by participants
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libraries as sites of the experience of self-excavation and discovery through learning
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participatory learning is a lens to
help us see the possibilities and
create a context for crafting a shared
vision of library in learning
communities
relatively low barriers to artistic expression and civic engagement
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strong support for creating and sharing one’s creations with others
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co-expertise and fluidity in roles of experts and novices
members feel some degree of social connection with one another
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members believe that their contributions matter
meaningful
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play
and experimentation
integrated learning space that values connections between home, school, community, and the world
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learning experiences that feel relevant
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People and relationships
Partnerships for Learning
Sustained participation
communities formed around content and information literacy standards
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communities formed around passions, interests, wonderings, and curiosity
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participatory learning and literacy
are scalable to
the needs of a
learning community
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librarians can be the catalyst to spark larger change in a learning ecosystem
how do we grow a culture of participatory culture, relationships, and learning communities as librarians?
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how do we as libraries and librarians make a “dent in the universe” of our community?
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vanishing boundaries
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Questions to Explore in Our Conversation Rounds
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Who is your library community and what do they need?
How do you know and assess their needs?
How do you assess the points of meaningful impact of the library in the community?
How does the community impact the mission of the library?
Assessing the Current Situation
Existing Connections
What services and programs does your library offer that
foster trust or likability between the library and
community?
What services and programs invite your community to
participate? Think of successes---what created
excitement?
Think of services or programs that did not work the way you expected. What were some unexpected factors?
Did they work for you or against you?
Articulating Our Value
If you wanted to write a TV commercial for your library and have 60 expensive seconds to articulate it s value, what are your key points and what can
you do to make the ad hit home?
What would that commercial say if its primary audience is your
provost/president/academic deans, faculty/alumni?
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Plenary Conversations
What insights did you have as you talked to one another?
What was new to you or challenged your thinking?
What would you like to explore further?
Participatory Relationships
What assumptions and “sacred cows”
might we as librarians challenge to better build community participation and
increased excitement?
Planning for the Future: “If You Build It, They Will Come…”
What are you building?
Who do you want to come?
What will be different about your library in
the future?
What do you need to build these elements of enchantment and touchpoints for participation to create strategic and amplified impact in your community?
What can your community aspire to be?
Envisioning the Future
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embrace the
wobbles
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leave your learning
silo
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embrace pivot points for positive change to build a new vision for librarianship
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change and
understanding=
innovation
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Participatory Librarianship and Change Agents: http://blip.tv/file/1566813
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participation creates enchantment
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