Brian Pichman, a member of the Evolve Project, is dedicated to bringing libraries into the future using cost effective measures and strategies, as well as blending environments to be engaging and interactive. Learn why libraries around the world are changing and evolving to meet the needs of the patrons. Together we investigate ways libraries have been creating new interactive spaces, and how they are building makerspaces and fab labs. We also discuss emerging technology and how that plays a role in not only learning spaces but also what it means for content creation and curation. As a group, we will discover ways libraries can improve and further define themselves as community anchors. We will also take a virtual walk through of a redesign Brian has done for a children's public library and ways he branded and marketed the project to help find extra funding.

3. http://www.bilinguallibrarian.com

7. DidYou Know?
Stats from: Lee Rainie, Director, Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project

8. DidYou Know?
Stats from: Lee Rainie, Director, Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project

9. DidYou Know?
Stats from: Lee Rainie, Director, Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project

10. Create a Public VALUE
• Not be a “process” but an experience
• Move from physical to digital
• Create new ways to learn and explore
• Libraries should be creating stories
• Libraries HAVE TO BE ENGANGING!
• Shift Focus To
• Innovation, Interaction, Discovery,
Collaboration and Invention

12. What Does A Community
Ask For?
O Study Rooms / Homework Area
O Open Areas
O Tech (Computers)
O Business Centers
O MakerSpaces
O ?Others?
What do these things have in common?

13. Libraries need to find ways to engage their patrons

14. Libraries and Learning Spaces
Have To Be Engaging
O Encourage Creativity and Invention
O Allow Discovery
O Increase Collaboration
O Generate Interaction
O Foster Innovation

20. Evolve: A Library Playground
O Fab Lab / “Hackerspace” / “MakerSpace
O A location where people with common interests
(usually in computers, technology, science, or
digital or electronic art) meet, socialize and/or
collaborate.
O Can be viewed as open community labs
incorporating elements of workshops and/or
studios where people can come together to share
resources and knowledge to build and make
things and ideas.
O Combining the positive & fun aspects of
schools, museums, and playgrounds into one
“entity”.

21. Take Risks

22. We All Have
Creative Potential

23. Collaborative Areas (Either Network Based or In A Room)
Provide Tools (Hardware and/or Software)
Learning Labs or Training Centers
Types of Learning Spaces

26. Music / Graphic Design / Video Editing

27. 3D Printing

28. Allen County Public Library

29. Multimedia Room / Learning Centers
 Room Set Up Features:
 Clickers
 Allows for jeopardy style gaming
 Smart Board (interactive white board)
 Full DVD/BluRay/Sound System
 Easy to use and start (Touch Panel System)
 You Can Use This Room For
 Jeopardy
 Movie Nights
 Presentations / Interactive Style Board Game Night
 Create a Business Plan, Project Plan, etc

31. The 4th floor is a public laboratory and
educational facility with a focus on
information, design, technology, and the
applied arts.
The 14,000 sq foot space hosts equipment,
expertise, programs, events, and meetings that
work within this scope.
While traditional library spaces support the
consumption of knowledge by offering access to
media, the 4th floor is unique because it supports
the production, connection, and sharing of
knowledge by offering access to tools and
instruction.
Chattanooga ”Fourth Floor”

32. DOK Lab (www.doklab.nl)

33. If you build it they will come

34. Designing Interactive Learning Space

35. Key Design Concepts
 Adding Color
 Art
 Have Open Areas
 Furniture
 Modularity
 Technology

36. Adding Color
 White = Boring
 Think about Parks (typically colorful)
 Painting walls is an inexpensive redesign
 Use Fun Colors
 Be Bold!
 Children Areas should use bright attractive areas.

38. Art
 Have patrons/users create the art
 Donate it to the space
 Mix it up as often as you like. There is no cost.

39. Open Areas
 Open Space!
 Seating
 Tables
 Multi Functional Areas
 Less Closed Rooms
 Activity Rooms, Meeting Rooms, etc

43. Furniture
 Fun Colors

44. Modularity
 Allows the environment to change easily
 Let your users define the space
 Put things on wheels
 Desks
 …No Need For Shelves To Be On Wheels
 Don’t fasten furniture to floor…
 no one will be stealing a desk

45. Fill The Space With Fun Interactive Technology
Allow People to CHECK THINGS out
INTERACTIVE
TECHNOLOGY

46. Play Time

47. Kurio Tablet
 Cheap Tablet
 Locked Down
 Secure

48. Little Bits
 littleBits is an open source library of electronic
modules that snap together with tiny magnets for
prototyping, learning, and fun.

49. Meet Sphero.

50. Creation Station – Sifteo Cubes
Small LCD screens that can
sense when there are nearby
cubes and react accordingly

51. Creation Station – Lego We-Do
Robotic Legos that move;
teaches how to program
through a GUI interface

52. Smart Tables
 Interactive Touch Table
Top
 Easy to load and
install games
 Up to 8 children can
play, 100 finger
touches

54. Laser Tag (Yes inside the library)
 Ubisoft Laser Tag System
 Up to 8 can play
 Multiple different
game scenarios

56. The Menageri-E
 A “Digital Petting Zoo” or “E-Bar”

57. Music Station

58. Children’s Collection
 Rotating Collection
 Provides an “always new” environment
 Child Friendly Shelves
 Bin style shelving, so children can “flip” through books
 Bright, Fun, Attractive Colors.

59. See a virtual tour at http://tinyurl.com/Evolve-VirtualTour

60. Your environment can have all the best tech toys and cool fablabs but it
could still fall short.
It is up to the frontline staff to ENANGE their audiences. A friendly hello
goes a long way. Allow the staff to play with the tech; get them
involved to reflect that excitement to the users.

61. • Use the tools your
users use
• Communicate on
their level
• These are your #1
Marketing Tools

62. Digital Content Curation
Encourage creativity

63. Film A Zombie Movie
(Cameras and some
Face Paint for Your
Library)

64. Link Books to E-Books
Find New Content
Scavenger Hunts

65. Open a new dimension
in your library.
Buy using an app, you
can see a new “world”
within your physical
space.

66. Place books into color
themed bags. Barcode
number written outside
of bag. Allow patrons
to check out and take
them home.

67. During special holiday
periods, find books that
are colored the holiday
colors (not necessarily
about the holiday) and
place them on a stand
near your end caps.

68. Purchase Cheap Plastic
and Foam to setup Paths
and fairways with felt.
Have it throughout the
library, engage the
participants through your
space.

71. • Put a “Reward System” into the library card
• Badges
• Prizes
• Exclusive Programming / Event registration
• Low Tech:
• Print new more colorful library cards, allow patrons to customize their
card with different and increasingly more desired badges – based off
books read, programs attended, etc.
• High Tech:
• Create Library Cards with screens
• Send Messages to card when they are in the library (wirelessly
connected)
• Display “reading level” or “badges they own”

74. • The Game of Books is gamifying the reading experience.
• In the Game, you are the character that you are leveling up;
books are the magical items that give you rewards.
• This is a project from BookLamp.Org
• Each Book in the world has a very specific DNA, a structure that
contains specific themes, writing style, density, etc.
• The themes in the book relate to points – and those points apply to
your character.
• More Details: www.gameofbooks.com

77. Technology As An Evolution
O 1990 – 2000: Internet Burst
O 2000 – 2010: Value Adds to Technology
O 2010 – 2020: Technology Burst

78. Future of Technology
O To discover and curate of information
O Value adds (efficiency, reliability)
O To build or discover new “things”

80. General Themes
O Touch-Based
O Gesture-Based
O Object Orientated
O Mobility/Connectivity
O Open Source Hardware

81. Touch Based
O People want to touch everything
O Discover Through Touch
O Search Through Touch
O Learn Through Touch

88. Gesture Based
O Communicate with Technology Hands Free
O Uses multiple cameras to detect
depth/movement
O Microsoft Kinect
O Sites to Explore:
O Microsoft Kinect
O PrimeSense
O Evoluce

94. Wearable Gesture Based
Computing
http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/

95. Object Orientated
O Use Objects to interact with surfaces

100. Back To Searching
O Technology is becoming more “visual”
orientated
O Whether it be from touch, gesture, or objects
O Search Dynamics are changing

101. What’s this talk about
“Big Data”
O Technology is being used to identify trends
in our lives. This data is being curated and
collected.
O This can help us with:
O Identifying health trends
O Saving Time or Energy
O Increase efficiency in our lives

102. Memoto –
Life Logging Camera

103. Waze –
Crowd-Sourced Traffic Data

104. Nest
Learning Thermostat

105. Goji
Smart Lock

106. FitBit
Tracks What You Do

107. Future Concepts
O People watching TV can point and click to
buy content (clothes, cars, etc)
O Predictive searches (Amazon does it now)
O Ask yourself, what do you want to create?

108. There never seems to be enough
money to do anything

109. So Where Can Money Come From?

110. Crowd-Source Funding
• People across the world group together to fund
new projects and ideas
• People are encouraged to donate by either the
attractive name or “awards” based off the
amount they donate.
• Kickstarter.com
• Indiegogo.com

114. Social Media
• Market your “Brand” heavy through social media
– And Blogging
• Solid companies pro-actively manage their social
media accounts.
– They watch what people are saying because everyone
else can see what people say
– They want only positivity about their company on the
web, they will work to only have positive comments.
– If a company does provide assistance, always show
your support through social media
• (you may need more support later on down the road).
Social Media is a way to develop relationships

116. Tips - Twitter
• Only use positivity when communicating on
twitter
• 140 Characters, make them count!
– Wow! @COMPANYX has some really great stuff. I need
to get my hands on it
– Who would like to see @PRODUCT in our library
space?
• Once you build a good relationship ask the hard
questions
– Can you help me on the cost @COMPANYZ

117. Tips - Facebook
• Go to the Company’s Pages, be sure to “Like”
their page before commenting
• Again, be only positive. Tell your story, pitch
your idea.

119. Handling Objections
• You will hear “no”
– A LOT
• But that just means phrased the question wrong or
asked the incorrect person.
– Who else can I talk to about discounted pricing/donations
– Does anyone make a similar product that would be more
inline with our budget (ask them about their competitors).
– What other things would you recommend?
• Don’t be afraid to ask the hard questions of “why”
• Everyone has a bottom line.

120. Just Ask

121. Places to save money
• Buy Refurbished
– Refurbishment is the distribution of products (usually
electronics) that have been previously returned to a
manufacturer or vendor for various reasons. Refurbished
products are normally tested for functionality and defects
before they are sold, and thus are the approximate
equivalent of certified pre-owned cars. - Wikipedia
– Refurbs are OK!!!
• Discount Sites:
– 1SaleADay.Com
– Woot.Com
– Monoprice.Com
– E-Bay

122. Questions?
@bpichman
815.534.0403
bpichman@evolveproject.org
Brian Pichman