Community Collaboration: Helping Shape Our Communities A Conversation Facilitated by Paul Signorelli Writer/Trainer/Consultant Paul Signorelli & Associates [email protected] Northeast Kansas Library System Directors Institute November 7, 2013 Valley Falls, Kansas.
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Community Collaboration: Helping Shape Our Communities A Conversation Facilitated by Paul Signorelli Writer/Trainer/Consultant Paul Signorelli & Associates [email protected] Northeast Kansas Library System Directors Institute November 7, 2013 Valley Falls, Kansas It’s Personal It’s What We Make of It Atchison Library: 6x6 Early Literacy Basehor Community Library: Annual Go Dog Go Fundraiser Baldwin City Library: Art, Alpacas, and Wildlife Silver Lake Public Library: Farmers Market Vendors Eudora Public Library: Adventure Days Rossville Community Library: Reading in Local Nursing Home Mary Cotton Public Library: Kiwanis and Lions Clubs Morrill Public Library: Quilt Shop Exploring Our Communities: An Exercise in Partnerships Thinkers Worth Knowing: Ray Oldenburg & the Third Place Thinkers Worth Knowing: Ray Oldenburg & the Third Place “…those happy gathering places that a community may contain, those ‘homes away from home’…” Thinkers Worth Knowing: Peter Block & Community Thinkers Worth Knowing: Peter Block & Community Citizens participate; consumers “surrender to others the power to provide what is essential for a full and satisfied life.” Thinkers Worth Knowing: R. David Lankes & New Librarianship Thinkers Worth Knowing: R. David Lankes & New Librarianship “The Mission of Librarians is to Improve Society through Facilitating Knowledge Creation in their Communities” Discussion #1: Identifying Matches Between Library and Community Needs Libraries, Community, and Learning: Libraries as a Newly-Defined Fourth Place? Libraries, Community, and Learning: Libraries Already as Fourth Place Putting the “Social” into Social Media Learning, Innovation, and Collaboration: Connectivist MOOCS Learning, Innovation, and Collaboration: Personal Learning Networks Thinkers Worth Knowing: Richard Harwood Thinkers Worth Knowing: Richard Harwood “This new trajectory, people say, will take shape only through actions that start small, and local, between and among them, beginning close to home, on a human scale.” Thinkers Worth Knowing: Maureen Sullivan http://www.ala.org/transforminglibraries/libraries-transforming-communities Defining Our Message, Then Crafting It Discussion #2: The Elevator Speech And This Just In: Elevator Speeches & Libraries Discussion #2: The Elevator Speech Blending Ideas from Our Inspirations Blending Ideas from Our Inspirations Blending Ideas from Our Inspirations Blending Ideas from Our Inspirations Blending Ideas from Our Inspirations Thinkers Worth Knowing: Jim Diers “…start where people are…this means organizing people around what interests them rather than around what you think they should be interested in.” Our Challenge: Identifying Community Needs and Solutions Discussion #3: Finding our Collaborators Discussion #4: Identifying and Overcoming Hurdles Discussion #5: Identifying What to Do In Summary In Summary In Summary In Summary In Summary In Summary In Summary Resources Resources Website for “Transforming Libraries”: http://www.ala.org/transforminglibraries/libraries-transforming-communities An annotated visual bibliography of resources: “Community & Collaboration in an Onsite-Online World,” available at http://paulsignorelli.com/PDFs/Bibliography--Community_and_Collaboration.pdf Questions, Comments, and Next Steps For More Information Paul Signorelli & Associates 1032 Irving St., #514 San Francisco, CA 94122 415.681.5224 [email protected] http://paulsignorelli.com Twitter: @paulsignorelli http://buildingcreativebridges.wordpress.com Credits & Acknowledgments (1 of 2) Slide Design by Paul Signorelli (Images taken from lickr.com unless otherwise noted): Circle of Hands: From Sheryl’s Boys’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/mmgjrwq Girl Reaching Out: From BenSpark’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/lhnp257 Kansas: From ChrisM70’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/ks3y2dy Atchison Library 6x6: From AtchisonLibrary.org Basehor Library Go Dog Go: Online photo album at http://tracielansingphotography.smugmug.com/Events/Go-Dog-Go-2013 Baldwin Library Summer Reading: Newspaper article at http://signal.baldwincity.com/news/2013/jun/10/animals-attraction-libraryssummer-reading-program/ Silver Lake Library Farmers Market: Announcement at http://www.silverlakelibrary.org/farmers-market-the-library/ Eudora Library Adventure Days: Announcement at http://www.eudorapubliclibrary.org/summer-reading-grant/ Rossville Community Library: From http://www.rossvillelibrary.org/services/home-delivery-service/ Mary Cotton Public Library: From http://www.sabethalibrary.org/ Morrill Library Quilts: From Library’s Facebook page at http://tinyurl.com/n6l9vdt Listen/Understand/Act: From HigherSight’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/mxjnotf Circle of Interconnected Hands: From MaryScheirer’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/lwtlcop Information Commons, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (Lied Library): From Mal Booth’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/knd6vjk Homework Help: From Topeka & Shawnee County Library’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/k4no7d9 Richard Harwood: From ALA – The American Library Association’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/kkqj7nh Maureen Sullivan: From ALA – The American Library Association’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/lbj673y Elevator: From Trepelu’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/kfwbkmc Elevator Buttons: From CB Photography’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/lc8gvqz Credits & Acknowledgments (2 of 2) Slide Design by Paul Signorelli (Images taken from lickr.com unless otherwise noted): Jim Diers: From AlexAbboud’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/mbo7uu8 Leaping Over Hurdles: From SoggyDan’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/n5xbgve Living Your Plan: From Symphony of Love’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/lpq2yoy Question Marks: From Valerie Everett’s photostream at http://www.flickr.com/photos/valeriebb/3006348550/sizes/m/in/photostream/ Thinkers Worth Knowing (Images taken from lickr.com unless otherwise noted): Peter Block: From Coyenator’s photostream at http://www.flickr.com/photos/coyenator/3283315715/sizes/m/in/photostream/ R. David Lankes: From Tracie7779s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/kuay34w Circle of Interconnected Hands: From MaryScheirer’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/lwtlcop Elevator: From Trepelu’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/kfwbkmc Leaping Over Hurdles: From SoggyDan’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/n5xbgve Living Your Plan: From Symphony of Love’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/lpq2yoy