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Because Innovation is a Literacy

This program was sponsored by the Entrepreneurship and Maker Spaces Member Interest Group and the Center for the Future of Libraries, and presented at ALA Annual 2015, in San Francisco, CA.

Innovation is to literacy as library is to (a) Social good (b) Community (c) Democracy (d) All of the above

Innovation is a literacy -- and it can be taught at your library. In this interactive program, Pima County Public Library's Idea+Space founder, Lisa Bunker, and innovation coaches from LeadLocal will teach new structures that help people make their ideas real and actionable. Come learn how "Lean Startup" techniques can create transformative programming for all ages at your library. T

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Because Innovation is a Literacy

Lisa Waite Bunker, Robin Breault, and Brooke McDonald
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#innovationala

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Why libraries?

School of Startup, 2013
Innovation is a literacy that can be taught, and that has many applications. At its heart, innovation startup systems teach how to test a new idea for value and usefulness.

Photo: "School for Startup" at CoLab Workspace, August 2013. School for Startup was an intensive weekend where 11 to 15-year-olds were taught a curriculum that combined the lean startup methodology with Junior Achievement. Photo credit: Lisa Bunker.
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You're 15 and you just started a business

That moment when
Faith, 15, Phoebe, 18, and Izzy, 15, attended our "GrowUP and Get RICH" startup workshops in October of 2014, and ended up starting a curriculum that will be used by the YWCA to teach financial literacy to teens. They were awarded $750.00 seed money to test the concepts they developed at the workshop at the library.

Photo credit: Lisa Bunker.
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Mesa Public Library's ThinkSpot

Libraries across the U.S. are re-thinking how they serve the continuum of businesses, as well as their ability to provide high-end equipment for digital arts and fabrication.

Pictured is the THINKspot at Mesa Public Library's Red Mountain Branch. The THINKspot has a sound stage, 3D-modeling software and printers, and smartboard conferencing equipment. It is part of the Phoenix-based system of Alexandria Network Libraries created by ASU.

Photo credit: Lisa Bunker
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Quick to the Bat Cave

Intuit Tucson
Photo credit: Lisa Bunker.
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the library is #3 on the list

In San Antonio
Photo credit: Lisa Bunker.
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Innovation & Entrepreneurship

  • New York Public Library
  • EON: Scottsdale, Phoenix, Goodyear, Buckeye, Camp Verde, Yuma, and Mesa
  • Cuyahoga County Public Library
  • Dallas Public Library
  • Toronto Public Library
  • 2016: Boston Public Library
Photo credit: Lisa Bunker.
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Photo credit, Downtown Tuc sonan.
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Lean Startup Tools

Brooke
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NCD women working

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Design Thinking Tools

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Brooke
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NCD women working

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YDT at workshop

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Thank you!

Lisa Waite Bunker, Robin Breault, and Brooke McDonald
The Idea+Space is a small space for your BIG ideas. Opening October 20, 2014 at the Joel D. Valdez Main Library, in Tucson Arizona. A project of the Pima County Public Library with funding from the Arizona State Library, Archives & Public Records (a division of the Secretary of State) with federal funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Photo by Seldom Scene Photography
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Chattanooga Library's 4th Floor

The Chattanooga Public Library took the fourth floor, which had been used just for storage, and converted it into a 12,000 sq ft. experimental space for "production, connection, and sharing of knowledge."

Read more here:
http://chattlibrary.org/4th-floor
and here:
http://www.natehill.net/4thfloor.html

Photo: Nate Hill
http://www.natehill.net/4thfloor.html
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Flexibility aids collaboration

Pictured: Node Chairs created by Steelcase, and designed for collaboration with the Stanford School of Design.

Photo credit: Steelcase Corp.
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Adaptation

When you see the fire department on the road do you still assume there's a fire? It's more likely a car accident, right? The truth is, there are fewer fires these days. Libraries are adapting in a similar way.

At our core, I believe we stand for as-needed help, literacy, and community sharing. We are asking ourselves: "What if we weren't just a place of consumption, but also a place where people create things? What if we look beyond traditional literacy to other literacies crucial to life in the 21st-Century? What if we shared more than books, music and movies?"
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Westport's Maker Space

Three years ago the Westport Library in Westport, CT removed shelving and built a "house" for projects they call the MakerSpace.

Read more here: http://westportlibrary.org/services/maker-space

Lisa Bunker

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http://www.library.pima.gov