We hear about libraries that are leaders in innovation, implementing ideas that keep the library growing and vital. Perhaps you have watched from the sidelines and wished you could kickstart some innovation at your library, but you're not sure where to start. Come to this webinar for an active and lively discussion on how to find innovative ideas, how to connect with the people to help make them happen, and how to get buy-in and support for your ideas. There is a lot to be learned from other libraries' examples and experiences.

Presented by: Heather Braum, Digital & Technical Services Librarian at the Northeast Kansas Library System, blogger at www.heatherbraum.info, and 2010 Kansas Library Association's New Professional of the Year.

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Optional Webinar Prework:

If you have the time before the webinar, please watch the following video clips and think about why these ideas or projects are innovative. What are some of the qualities that come through the participants or the product? Be prepared to share your observations during the webinar.

• Video 1: BYU Library commercial: http://goo.gl/DQku
  
• Video 2: Jack Andraka TED Talent Search (The video is almost 7 minutes long, and the speaker and his content is a bit hard to follow at times, but please stick with it; I think you'll see why I'm asking you to watch it): http://goo.gl/ncUQd
• Video 3: Replace the word entrepreneur with librarian, as you watch: http://goo.gl/XEemj
• Bonus 4: Find, watch, and be prepared to share a link during the webinar in the chat to other videos that represent or present innovation, especially from outside the library world.

• www.heatherbraum.info
• NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Cheezburger Network
• Mozilla Foundation
• MIT OpenCourseware
• Anythink Libraries
• McAllen Public Library
• Ann Arbor District Library
• NYPL Labs and What's on the Menu? project
• Kansas Library on the Web project
• The Way We Worked in Kansas
• Library as Incubator Project
• TED.com
• FoldIt
• Brian Mathews, Think Like A Startup: a white paper to inspire library entrepreneurialism
  
• The Heart of Innovation
• Additional Further Reading
  • Adapt: why success always starts with failure (Harford)
    
  • Steal like an artist: 10 things nobody told you about being creative (Kleon)
    
  • Where good ideas come from: The natural history of innovation (Johnson)
    
  • The little black book of innovation: how it works; how to do it (Anthony)
    
  • The myth of innovation (Berkun)
  • The art of innovation (Kelley)
    
  • Change the culture, change the game (Connors)
    
  • The other side of innovation: solving the execution challenge (Govindarajan)
    
  • Taking people with you: the only way to make BIG things happen (Novak)
    
  • In pursuit of elegance (May)
  • Enchantment: The art of changing hearts, minds and actions (Kawasaki)
    
  • Marketing Myopia (Levitt), Harvard Business Review, 1960
  • Fresh copy: How Ursula Burns Reinvented Xerox
• Additional Innovations shared in Chat
  
  • Innocentive.com
  • Unglue.it
  • DOK library in the Netherlands  
  • A Doll's Magic, Free to Renew American Girl Doll on loan
  • More on Libraries and Makerspaces
  • To stimulate innovation, do the opposite of this: 10 ways to stifle creativity 
  • R Squared 
  • City providing free gun locks for securing guns at library
  • Think Sideways: A Game-Changing Playbook for Disruptive Thinking by Tamara Kleinberg
  • Jimmy Valvano's 1993 ESPY Speech