Advancing A Culture Of Creativity In Libraries
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Author |
: Megan Lotts |
Publisher |
: ALA Editions |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2021-05-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0838949479 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780838949474 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Advancing a Culture of Creativity in Libraries by : Megan Lotts
This book shows academic and public libraries the many benefits of nurturing a culture of creativity, offering hands-on guidance on encouraging cross-disciplinary collaboration, launching active-learning events that highlight collections and services, fostering goodwill and trust-building, and forming partnerships that promote library visibility.
Author |
: Megan Lotts |
Publisher |
: ALA Editions |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2024-09-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9798892555715 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Playful Library by : Megan Lotts
This book demonstrates the ways in which cultivating a sense of play in library work fosters flexibility, creativity, innovation, teamwork, and increased patron and community engagement.
Author |
: Vera Gubnitskaia |
Publisher |
: McFarland |
Total Pages |
: 265 |
Release |
: 2019-06-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781476674018 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1476674019 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Creativity for Library Career Advancement by : Vera Gubnitskaia
"Creativity is just connecting things," observed Steve Jobs. In today's diverse, ever-changing job market, creativity is more necessary than ever. In a profession offering a broad range of job opportunities, librarians are surrounded by myriad connections to be made. They are trained to recognize them. This collection of new essays covers a wide spectrum of methods for cultivating creativity. Topics include learning through role-playing games, libraries as publishers, setting up and using makerspaces, developing in-house support for early-career staff, creating travelling exhibits, creative problem solving, and organizing no-cost conferences.
Author |
: Deborah A. Robertson |
Publisher |
: American Library Association |
Total Pages |
: 126 |
Release |
: 2005-06-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0838935516 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780838935514 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cultural Programming for Libraries by : Deborah A. Robertson
For a library to fulfill its mission to provide community engagement and cultural dialogue, then diverse, excellent cultural programming is the key. This authoritative resource outlines all the steps. For a library to fulfill its mission to provide community engagement and cultural dialogue, then diverse, excellent cultural programming is the key. In Cultural Programming for Libraries, the director of ALA's Public Programs Office shares time-tested strategies and practical, inspiring samples from first-rate programs across the country. Librarians, staff, and volunteers will find the practical how-to for creating a comprehensive cultural program - from planning to funding to promoting. community needs Set goals and establish measurable outcomes Develop winning partnerships that result in high quality, well-attended programs Highlight and drive the use of collections Gain community support and visibility through programming Enhance your library's role as cultural center based on successful models Eleven five-star programs highlight outstanding events for varying audience sizes and price points to help customize your own library's effort. Marketing and promotional samples also inspire creativity in every chapter to help advance your library as a community cultural hub. Programming advocates in libraries of any size can use this authoritative resource to enhance skills, increase effectiveness, and expand their creative vision for promoting winning cultural programs.
Author |
: Valerie Horton |
Publisher |
: ALA Editions |
Total Pages |
: 178 |
Release |
: 2021-04-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0838949878 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780838949870 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Launching Large-Scale Library Initiatives by : Valerie Horton
By proudly owning the audaciousness of the Big Idea, libraries demonstrate both their resiliency and value to their communities. This resource shares the insights and practical knowledge to make it happen.
Author |
: Andreas Reckwitz |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 300 |
Release |
: 2017-05-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780745697079 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0745697070 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Invention of Creativity by : Andreas Reckwitz
Contemporary society has seen an unprecedented rise in both the demand and the desire to be creative, to bring something new into the world. Once the reserve of artistic subcultures, creativity has now become a universal model for culture and an imperative in many parts of society. In this new book, cultural sociologist Andreas Reckwitz investigates how the ideal of creativity has grown into a major social force, from the art of the avant-garde and postmodernism to the ‘creative industries’ and the innovation economy, the psychology of creativity and self-growth, the media representation of creative stars, and the urban design of ‘creative cities’. Where creativity is often assumed to be a force for good, Reckwitz looks critically at how this imperative has developed from the 1970s to the present day. Though we may well perceive creativity as the realization of some natural and innate potential within us, it has rather to be understood within the structures of a very specific culture of the new in late modern society. The Invention of Creativity is a bold and refreshing counter to conventional wisdom that shows how our age is defined by radical and restrictive processes of social aestheticization. It will be of great interest to those working in a variety of disciplines, from cultural and social theory to art history and aesthetics.
Author |
: Ronald C. Jantz |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 185 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0838988377 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780838988374 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Managing Creativity by : Ronald C. Jantz
Author |
: Julia Nevárez |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 111 |
Release |
: 2020-12-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030579654 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030579654 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Urban Library by : Julia Nevárez
This book examines the role, history and function of public libraries in contemporary societies as motors that drive development. It analyses through case studies, how contemporary libraries have been redesigned to offer a new kind of public space while also reshaping neglected areas in cities. Broadly understood the book seeks to comprehend contemporary library design, urban development and the revitalization of specific urban areas. Important and world famous architects – star-architects – have designed signature architecture in the contemporary libraries selected for this volume. The examples to be showcased in the book include the main Seattle Public Library, Salt Lake City Public Library, New York Public Library, Spain Library Medellin, Colombia, Halifax Central Library Nova Scotia, Canada and Library of Alexandria in Egypt to offer examples of what constitute the approach to libraries and urban development in many cities around the world nowadays. Data in the form of interviews to library directors, librarians and users, tours of libraries, visual documentation and archival research have been collected for most public libraries included as case studies for the book. The impulse to archive has been framed and understood in the literature as a modern desire to control fleeting reality. Libraries as such respond to this desire by collecting, storing and circulating resources (books and other kinds of media). But more recently there has been an emphasis on the public character of library spaces in which people gather not only to obtain information and read by themselves but also to experience the very urban quality of proximity to others in more informal and less structured environments as public space. Community events characterize the programming of all the libraries included in the book. The design of these new libraries fit into urban development initiatives where libraries – like other iconic cultural spaces of cities – become central components to market cities for the consumption of culture. Libraries become sites to be visited and explored by tourists while providing services for residents. They are also machines to accelerate urban development especially in areas previously neglected by development.
Author |
: Silvia Cerisola |
Publisher |
: Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 199 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781788975292 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1788975294 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cultural Heritage, Creativity and Economic Development by : Silvia Cerisola
The book explores the relationship between cultural heritage and local economic development by introducing the original idea that one possible mediator between the two can be identified as creativity. The book econometrically verifies this idea and demonstrates that cultural heritage, through its inspirational role on different creative talents, generates an indirect positive effect on local economic development. These results justify important new policy recommendations in the field of cultural heritage.
Author |
: Melissa Edmiston Johnson |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 323 |
Release |
: 2022-07-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781538159422 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1538159422 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis Integrating Pop Culture into the Academic Library by : Melissa Edmiston Johnson
From Library Journal: "A comprehensive book, providing information on the rationale for connecting pop culture to library services and offering a range of projects to get students into the library." Integrating Pop Culture into the Academic Library explores how popular culture is used in academic libraries for collections, instruction, and programming. This book describes the foundational basis for using popular culture and discusses how it ignites conversations between librarians and students, making not only the information relatable, but the library staff, as well. The use of popular culture in the library setting acknowledges the importance of students’ interests and how these interests can be used to understand their information needs in unique and interesting ways. By integrating popular culture into library collections, instruction, and programming, librarians present research and discovery in ways that connect with students and the broader community. This book demonstrates that academic libraries using popular culture find it to be an effective tool, both for instruction and programming. The editors are librarians who utilize popular culture in various ways to provide instruction and reinforce information literacy concepts in their own practice. Readers will find chapters written by a variety of authors from different types of academic libraries, including community colleges, comprehensive universities, research universities, and law schools. These unique perspectives offer readers different ways of thinking about how librarians can incorporate students’ interests in popular culture to promote the mission of the library. In addition to well-known examples such as Hamilton: The Musical, Pokémon, Harry Potter, Black Panther, and Barbie, readers will also encounter lesser-known library applications of popular culture, including cartoneras, zines, fantasy maps, gaming collectives, and paranormal walking tours. All of these examples highlight the multiple way libraries leverage popular culture to expand their reach and identity with students and the community at-large.