Think Outside the Box by Going Inside the Box
Friday, April 8, 2016, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Colorado Convention Center, Room 405-407
Get inside two participatory learning spaces, Oak Park Public Library’s (OPPL) Idea Box and Skokie Public Library’s (SPL) BOOMbox. OPPL’s Idea Box is a dedicated civics and art space that provides a new and dynamic participatory community experience each month. SPL’s BOOMbox is a connected learning space designed to spark the imagination through rotating STEAM experiences. Learn how to choose foci, involve partners, get buy-in, create physical spaces, develop training techniques, tackle management challenges, and measure success.
At the end of this session, participants will:
1: Learn to create museum-like, open-ended, interactive learning spaces on any budget. 2: Have a basic understanding of administering the nuts-and-bolts of an ever-changing space. 3: Be able to identify and strategically engage community members in partnerships to use, plan, implement, and promote the space.
The session organizer(s) identified this session as appropriate for:
Level 1: People with no previous knowledge of the topic.
This session will have: Medium interaction: single speaker/panel with questions or audience participation throughout
Handouts: Download 1 Download 2 Download 3
Track: Play
Tags: Spaces and Places, Hot Topics, Innovation, Programming/Services, Project Management, Transforming Libraries
Presenters
Raleigh Ocampo,
Oak Park Public Library, Oak Park, IL
Amy Holcomb, Experiential Learning Librarian
Skokie Public Library, Skokie, IL
Amy Holcomb is the Experiential Learning Librarian at the Skokie Public Library. A 2014 Library Journal Mover and Shaker, Amy values and facilitates the DIY approach towards learning. In her evolving position, she gets to apply her science education and youth services background to STEAM focused experiences for library users of all ages.
Mikael Jacobsen, Learning Experiences Manager
Skokie Public Library, Skokie, IL
Mikael "Mick" Jacobsen is the Learning Experiences Manager at the Skokie Public Library. This, for Mick, entails working in a multitude of patron contact point, leading the busy Adult and Youth Services Computer areas, Digital Media Labs, STEAM projects, coordinating hundreds of technology classes a year, and many other fun projects. He became a Library Journal Mover and Shaker in 2013.