From a 3-hour Digital Media Labs 101 presentation at ALA 2013. This segment focuses on creating a vision for a lab and then making it happen. Jeffrey P Fisher, Fountaindale Public Library Studio 300

1. Building a Digital Media Lab
Jeffrey P Fisher
Fountaindale Public Library – Studio 300 - Bolingbrook, IL
jfisher@fountaindale.org

2. How about a
Digital Media
Lab?
Yeah!
Cool.Sure.
OK.

3. Now
what?

4. What do we
need?
People
MoneyMoney
Space

5. Vision

6. How would
patrons use
the lab?
Think about needs
and an ideal first.

7. Yes. And what
outcomes do
they want?

8. Imagine one year from today. What
do you see? Hear? Smell? Taste?
Feel?

9. What is the
POSITIVE vision?

10. Now you’re on
the right track.
Collaborate
ShareCreate
Curate

11. Now let’s
backcast.

12. What is our
future vision?
Their own
StoriesPatrons
Tell

13. Strategy
• How can libraries help promote digital
literacy?
Goal
• Community gets access to media creation
and curation tools and other resources
Vision
• DML helps patrons tell their own story.

14. This is a
scalable
concept

15. Do we want
production
spaces?
MusicVideos
Pictures
And/or post-
production
tools?
VHS to DVD
Scanning
Vinyl to CD
Animation
Photoshop

16. We don’t need
everything all at
once.

17. Adaptable
Pop-up
Workstations

18. “Spider web …
definite structure
but flexible
moorings.” -
William Powers

19. Adaptable model

21. What do we look
for in a space?

22. Consider the
“culture”
Project the
“ambience”

35. How’s that for
a vision?

36. How should
we address
noise?

39. We don’t
promise a quiet
environment!

40. We need help from
other departments
IT
Marketing

41. Who isn’t here who should be?

42. What about
the budget?
Structure
H/W & S/W
Gear
People

43. We need experts
we can trust!

44. Any ideas for
selling it to
admin?

45. Keep them informed:
share trends, articles,
and examples. Attend
conferences. And more!

46. Building a Digital
Media Lab
Jeffrey P Fisher
Fountaindale Public Library
Studio 300 - Bolingbrook, IL
jfisher@fountaindale.org