Co-Creating Library Services for Transformative Impact
Learn about the fundamentals of co-design and explore how to apply them in your library for wildly creative and deeply impactful programs and services.
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The most relevant and dynamic ideas can grow from collaborating with impacted communities. Co-creation is one of the most effective ways for libraries to turn diversity, equity, and inclusion ideals into real-world services. In this session, you’ll learn about the fundamentals of co-design and explore how to apply them in your library for wildly creative and deeply impactful programs and services. As a result of viewing this webinar, you’ll be able to:
- Define co-design and its role in creating library services
- Identify multiple ways of sharing power with community
- Apply basic principles and techniques from human-centered design to facilitate co-creation
- Draw on real-world examples for inspiration
Presented by:
- Dr. Audrey Barbakoff, CEO of Co/Lab Capacity, and co-author, The Twelve Steps to a Community-Led Library
- Angel Jewel Tucker, Program Manager, Johnson County Library (KS)
- Beck Tench, Senior Designer and Researcher, Center for Digital Thriving, Harvard Graduate School of Education (MA)
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Webinar Attachments
- View slides (pdf)
- View chat (xls)
- View captions (txt)
- Learner Guide (doc) Use alone or with others to extend your learning.
Related Resources and Links
- Recent articles by Audrey Barbakoff
- OCLC Next blog, Co-create authentically with your community
- WebJunction article, Easy as ABCD: Using Asset-Based Community Development as a Lens for Authentic Relationship-Building
- WebJunction article, Align Library Services with Community Aspirations
- Co/Lab Capacity
- The Twelve Steps to a Community-Led Library, by Audrey Barbakoff and Noah Lenstra, coming Fall 2023
- Other WebJunction webinars with Dr Barbakoff
- Growing Digital Equity Through Community Partnerships
- Taking Community Partnerships to the Next Level
- Beyond Book Groups: Fun Library Programs for Adult Readers
- Building Authentic Relationships with Underserved Communities
- IDEO, Design thinking for libraries
- The Library Workers’ Field Guide to Designing and Discovering Restorative Environments (created by Beck) including Activites with video demos
- Youth Co-Design Process Toolkit (created by Beck)
- Design thinking = Method, not magic, Stanford webinar
- Stanford d.school Starter kit
- Creative Reaction Lab, Equity-centered community design field guide (Note – this takes you to a page where you can buy a print copy. But there’s a link to a form where you can download a PDF for free.)
- Article series highlighting community discovery process through WebJunction's Small Libraries Create Smart Spaces project, including the Toolkit for Creating Smart Spaces:
- Small Libraries Discover Their Communities
- Turning Community Input into Workable Ideas
- Taking the Plunge into Prototyping
- Smart Space Transformations Transcend Library Closures
- Additional links shared in chat
- Aspen Institute report, Rising to the Challenge: Re-Envisioning Public Libraries
- Tools for collaborating in virtual spaces, Whimsical and Miro, and from Beck, Google Slides as a Pedagogical Tool
- About Race Project KC
- Facilitator's guide to participatory decision-making, book
Date
27 February 2024
Time
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
Webinar presenter Audrey Barbakoff
Webinar presenter Angel Jewel Tucker
Webinar presenter Beck Tench
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