An exploration of strategies that use both passive and proactive measures to encourage playfulness, and ways different onsite and online systems can combine. More awareness of thinking skills and critical literacy in libraries, and of course the kinds of activities and offerings in libraries, especially around games, collaborative play, and linking with other communities.

1. The playful library cocktail:
Librarians shaken but not stirred
CAVAL
http://www.flickr.com/photos/99472898@N00/3497587443

4. Knowledge & information
Finding and knowing
Inspiration
Imagination
Exploration
Innovation
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12142259@N00/5182116596
P–4

5. Search
The search goes on
Answer rich, but question poor
Finding through sharing
Feeding me, feeding others
Information literacy
Digital literacy: ‘Google goggles’
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39952091@N00/5191764863
P–5

6. Search skills
Search
amateurs vs. experts
AND
Search knowing it exists
AUTHENTICATION
Search knowing if it exists
VERIFICATION
100 Time Saving Search Engines
for Serious Scholars: Online
Universities
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4112/4945177655_154b274760.jpg

7. Search matters

8. Systems
Libraries
Information. Inspiration. Ideas
Inspiration service provider
Innovation = risk
P–8

9. Library assumptions
Always focus on
Silence
Authority
Quality
Answers
…Wifi
P–9

10. Library expectations
Also encourage
Be surprised
Be curious
Discover
Make connections
Learn
http://www.flickr.com/photos/60648084@N00/2610059970
P–10

12. “The digital revolution should
spark library evolution.”
Dan Terzian
P–12

13. The playful library
PLAY
Participate
Learn
Activity
Youth
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12426416@N00/6042984689

14. Participate
People
Participants not users
Producers not consumers
Faces not facades
Partnerships
Collaboration
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25414324@N02/2932863300

15. Participate
Community
Go to where the people are
Join & contribute
Observe & interact
P–15

16. “Use the force, Luke.”
Obi-wan Kenobi
P–16

17. Youth
P–17

18. The playful library
Learn
Patterns not pieces
Games experiences
Channels and threads
http://www.flickr.com/photos/45940879@N04/6101914287

19. Learn
A New Culture of Learning
Web = a participatory medium
Shaped by participation
Motivation & boundaries
Imagination
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23760200@N04/3182820590
P–19

20. The playful library
Games
Modern narratives
Cultural value
Immersive

21. Learn
Networks
Open-mind
Knowledge - MOOCs
Play = explore
Internet Archive
Internet Map
http://internet-map.net/
P–21

22. The playful library
Activity
Energy & variety
Community
Invite the outside-in
http://www.flickr.com/photos/48973657@N00/4041872282

23. Activity
P–23

24. Orbiting the Giant Hairball
“…sweet dividends of prudent
ingenuity.”
Gordon Mackenzie
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12426416@N00/134671943
P–24

25. The playful library
Youth
Augment
Extend
Enhance
http://www.flickr.com/photos/56041749@N02/6400358699

26. Youth
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonassmith/4439131582/
P–26

27. Youth
Gamer’s goals
Improve
Diversity
Solve
Fun
Risk
P–27

28. Youth
Play in process
Hanging out
Messing around
Geeking out
P–28

29. Youth
‘Books aren’t
dead. They’ve
just gone
digital.’
P–29

30. Youth
Apophenia
‘Making connections where
none previously existed’ -
Danah Boyd
New audiences
New Services
New Information
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49503165485@N01/5387961900
P–30

31. The playful library
Relationshift
Technology is a weapon of mass
(differentiated) instruction
Acknowledge creativity
Allow new to evolve from old
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29439891@N08/6226852671

32. “A library platform should be
measured less on the
circulation of its works than in
the circulation of the ideas and
passions these works spark.”
David Weinberger
P–32