Libraries Build Community: from distribution to engagement

Originally presented November 16, 2010.

Some view the public library as a central purchasing and distribution center of books, movies, and music. Today, that content is increasingly digitized and consumed on gadgets carried in our homes, backpacks, purses and pockets. Distribution remains germane and yet, libraries are well positioned to extend beyond the limits of this role, to facilitate what John Seeley Brown and Paul Duguid called the social life of information. Social media technology presents libraries with new opportunities to enhance and extend the distribution model, to empower and engage patrons to build relevant and vibrant communities via the library. Moderator Chrystie Hill and presenters Helene Blowers and Nancy Dowd will engage you in a discussion of how public libraries build community with technologies and programs, new and old. Join us for this special webinar presented in collaboration with ALA TechSource.

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• TechSource
• From ALA Editions
  
  • Inside, Outside, and Online: Building Your Library Community
  • Bite-Sized Marketing: Realistic Solutions for the Overworked Librarian 

• Videos: http://www.vimeo.com/12476983 and http://www.ustream.tv/channel/rock-the-stacks
• She Said, He Said Blog: http://lions-online-shesaidhesaid.blogspot.com/

Princeton Public Library

• Pi Day Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/princetonpubliclibrary/sets/72157623619731608/

Halifax Central Library

• We’ve Listened to What You’ve Said Library Conference Videos: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/halifax-central-library-consultation-1-5 and http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/10638987
• New Library Web Site: http://www.halifaxcentrallibrary.ca/the-vision/

• Reading Buddies http://theoceancountylibrary.org/teens/readingbuddies.htm

• Exit Project http://www.queenslibrary.org/index.aspx?page_nm=Exit_Project

Darien Library http://www.darienlibrary.org/

• Independently orgainized, TEDxNJLibraries http://tedxnjlibraries.com/

Blind Race Car Drivers:

• CNN iReport: http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-343390#postComment
• And Video: http://www.youtube.com/user/nancydowd#p/u/16/0FSYuvN6Yk0

Snapshot Day:

• One Day in the Life of New Jersey Libraries
• Snapshot Days by State on ALA

• On Twitter
• On Facebook
• Columbus Bicentennial Blueprint
• With WOSU, Columbus Neighborhoods www.columbusneighborhoods.org/
• Keep Our Library Strong website and on facebook
• Teens Blog and Teen Gallery
• Share Your Library Love

Shared in Chat:

• We had farmer's market @ our library http://www.flickr.com/photos/wakefield_library/4987050225/
• Try an "instrument zoo" as well! My kids here in NC loved that! http://picasaweb.google.com/suggadelic/NCSymphonyWestRegionalLibrary#
• We did a fashion T-shirt show. Big success! http://www.flickr.com/photos/wakefield_library/4040541227/
• The Public School (http://all.thepublicschool.org/) is a model for how to build a local learning network.