Friday Video: Re-imagining Libraries for the 21st Century by John Seely Brown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4UHahdcXV0
Innovation provides a competitive edge in a knowledge-based economy. Libraries have the potential to be platforms for innovation and entrepreneurial activity in the community. However, like the community itself, libraries must foster a culture of innovation and look to ways to bring new thinking, new practice and new leadership that often are developed at the edges of institutions into the center. John Seely Brown addresses how the rapid pace of change and our new insights into how people learn provide an opportunity to re-imaging public libraries in the 21st century.
John Seely Brown
Chief of Confusion, Office of the Provost
University of Southern California
Recorded August 10, 2015 at the Aspen Institute Dialogue on Public Libraries, “Leadership Roundtable on Library Innovation”
Published on Aug 10, 2015
Michael Sauers is the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
Unless otherwise stated, all opinions are my own and are not to be considered those of the City of Logan, UT.
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