Because Innovation is a Literacy
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. This program is sponsored by the Entrepreneurship and Maker Spaces Member Interest Group and the Center for the Future of Libraries.
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Because Innovation is a Literacy
Lisa Waite Bunker, Robin Breault, and Brooke McDonald
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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?"
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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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?"
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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LITERACY: an adaptive set of purposeful social practices inferred from events mediated by texts that are historically and culturally situated
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INNOVATION: the process that generates in an individual a novel learned behavior that is not simply a consequence of social learning or environmental induction
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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.
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.
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
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
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
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innovation.
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LEAN START-UP:
agile and user-centered methods for venture development
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COLLABORATION: collective inquiry & experimentation
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Technical progress is "any kind of shift in the production function…slowdowns, speedups, improvements in the education of the labor force, and all sorts of other things."
-- Robert Solow (1982)
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Catalyst Cafe recipe
- Find who's doing new stuff
- Call them and ask them to speak informally at the library
- Research well enough to moderate
- Allow no hierarchy in the room
- Target biz and nonprofits
- Serve good coffee
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Dive in
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