About Libraryskills.io and new and innovative approaches to supporting digital skills for library staff. A talk given at Internet Librarian International 2019, 15th October 2019 in London. Written version available at: https://www.artefacto.org.uk/blog

1. Kate Lomax @katelomax
INVENT & CREATE
Digital skills for
library staff

2. About us
DIGITAL AGENCY BASED IN LONDON
Building websites and platforms
Training & workshops
Digital installations
Library walls
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3. Newslet for
Libraries
Fortnightly newsletter for library and
information professionals
https://libraries.newslet.org
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4. ADVISING LIBRARIES ON CREATING COLLABORATIVE
LEARNING SPACES & EXPERIENCES
Makerspace & digital making
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5. Libraryskills.io
HOW IT CAME ABOUT
What digital skills are relevant to
libraries? All of them?!
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6. YMMV
All library roles are technical
IT'S CONTEXTUAL
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7. MORE PRESSURE
More demands, more services
And less funding for CPD
LOTS OF NEW THINGS
Incl. ..AI, machine learning,
privacy, open data, IoT, AR, VR
with more on the horizon
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8. This is no
time for
boring
training

9. PARTICIPATORY
You can't learn
digital skills just
by listening to
someone talk
CONSTRUCTIONIST
Learning is
more effective
when we build
things that are
meaningful to
us

10. Libraryskills.io
CURATED COLLECTION
OF FREE, ONLINE
LEARNING RESOURCES
Browse learning paths
Search for tutorials
and learning resources
Submit your own
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11. Libraryskills.io

12. TO HELP PEOPLE FIND EXISTING LEARNING RESOURCES
Why We Created LibrarySkills.io
There are lots of great resources that people have created and shared
TO PROVIDE LEARNING PATHWAYS
Providing ways to learn all the interlinked skills for getting things done
TO CROWDSOURCE IDEAS AND EXPERTISE
So people can share the resources/pathways that worked for them
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13. SOME FAVOURITES
Library Carpentry, The Cataloguing Game, Me and my shadow (Tactical Tech), the
Health Libraries Sharing Game, How DNS Works comic & plenty more

14. Guest curators
OPEN DATA
Curated by Dave Rowe, aka
@LibrariesHacked.
PRIVACY ADVOCATE
Curated by Aude Charillon -
@audesome.
AND MORE TO COME
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15. WHAT'S NEXT FOR
LIBRARYSKILLS.io?
Out of beta
MORE LEARNING PATHS, DIGCOMP
ALIGNMENT, NEW CATEGORIES AND
SUBCATEGORIES
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16. ABOUT HOW WE TEACH & LEARN
DIGITAL SKILLS
PART OF A
LARGER
DISCUSSION

17. ILI2019
Time to
get
inventive
PROTECTED TIME FOR LEARNING
NEW THINGS
JUST-IN TIME LEARNING SUPPORT
CREATING A LEARNING CULTURE

18. IT’S OK TO START SMALL
Space to play,
learn & create
Finding ways to enable staff to explore new
technologies
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19. COMING SOON
Sign up at
www.datadetectiveagency.net to
be notified when we launch
Free self-paced
short course for
library staff

20. KNOW OF GREAT
LEARNING RESOURCES
FOR LIBRARY STAFF?
submissions welcome
www.libraryskills.io
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21. Thank you
GET IN TOUCH
#ILI2019
We’re always happy to chat,
collaborate & share ideas
Kate@artefacto.org.uk
@katelomaxTWITTER
@artefactors
EMAIL
hello@artefacto.org.uk