The document discusses how libraries can make their spaces work harder for users through flexibility, collaboration, and focusing on knowledge creation rather than just knowledge management. It provides examples of libraries that have recording studios, collaboration rooms, movable walls and furniture, and share spaces with other campus services. The keys to success are said to be involving users, and having flexibility through features like casters, grommets, movable walls and furniture, and ensuring adequate wireless connectivity no matter where items are moved. The future of libraries is seen as moving away from being just collections of books and more towards being spaces that facilitate knowledge sharing and creation.

1. Internet Librarian 2012

2. Erik Boekesteijn
Paul Pival
Jaap van de Geer
Jeff Wisniewski

3. Do we let our spaces work hard enough for
us?
What are successful spaces doing?
But I don't have any space!
Keys to success: involving users, flexibility,
and more flexibility

4. Flexibility
Creation
Collaboration
Tradition?

5. We cannot save libraries by
doing more of what we have
done before because the
outcome will be the same.

6. We all say a library has to be
more than a collection of
books, so why doesn't that
show often in our spaces yet?

8. “The core of librarianship is to
facilitate knowledge creation,
not management.“
-Helen Clegg,
Director of Knowledge Management,
A.T. Kearney

9. transition from spaces
designed around knowledge
management to those
designed around knowledge
creation and sharing

10. You have the best job in the world.
We need a new business model
because the world is changing.

12. That you haven't already heard
before?

14. Rich dad
Poor dad

28. TFDL Digital Media Commons
• 12 Mac Pros with full A/V editing suites
• 4 soundproof editing suites with full A/V
capabilities
• DJ Mixing Board
26 collaborative workrooms with
TeamSpot group collaboration software

29. 7,000 sf digital media creation studio:
• 6 sound recording studios
• 2 video recording studios
• 3 group collaboration rooms with
integrated technology, dual monitor
workstations, and videoconferencing
equipment

36. Assen Public Library

51. Why?
 Budgets
 User centeredness
 Collaboration
 Technology

52. Flexible libraries/spaces
Flexible teams

53.  Casters
 Grommets
 Lightweight
 Collapsable
 Movable

57. Add more wifi than you
possibly imagine you'd need.

58. Power and network everywhere,
regardless of where the furniture
ends up.

59. http://inhouse.unt.edu/remodeled-library-
features-movable-walls-multi-media-tools

60. iPads Replace Desktop
Computers at North Shore
Public Library

62. http://www.getmediasurfer.com/what-is-mediasurfer.html

65. as a product and a service

69. 2/3 of library budgets are tied up in staff &
rent.
We have to start thinking about how we can
make the library work harder for us.
The library space as a competitive
advantage.

73. Shared off site storage allows for " repurposing
on-campus library real estate to provide
advanced academic technology services that
support scholarship"

74. Nova Southeastern University - Private
University shares space with Public
Library
TFDL - shares space with Student Success
Centre and Alumni Services (and the
Nickle Galleries)

79. Nickle Galleries at TFDL

80. We don't work for books
We let the stories and visitors work for
us!

83. “The future is already here,
it’s just not evenly
distributed.”
-William Gibson

84. Do we let our spaces work hard
enough for us?
What are successful spaces doing?
But I don't have any space!
Keys to success: involving users,
flexibility, and more flexibility

85. What's next?

86. Thank you!