Advancing a Culture of Creativity in Libraries

Advancing a Culture of Creativity in Libraries
Author: Megan Lotts
Publisher: ALA Editions
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-05-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780838949474

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.

The Playful Library

The Playful Library
Author: Megan Lotts
Publisher: ALA Editions
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-09-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

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.

Creativity for Library Career Advancement

Creativity for Library Career Advancement
Author: Vera Gubnitskaia
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2019-06-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1476674019

"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.

Cultural Programming for Libraries

Cultural Programming for Libraries
Author: Deborah A. Robertson
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2005-06-20
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780838935514

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.

Launching Large-Scale Library Initiatives

Launching Large-Scale Library Initiatives
Author: Valerie Horton
Publisher: ALA Editions
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2021-04-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780838949870

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.

Managing Creativity

Managing Creativity
Author: Ronald C. Jantz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2016
Genre: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
ISBN: 9780838988374

Integrating Pop Culture into the Academic Library

Integrating Pop Culture into the Academic Library
Author: Melissa Edmiston Johnson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2022-07-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1538159422

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.

Re|shaping cultural policies: advancing creativity for development

Re|shaping cultural policies: advancing creativity for development
Author: UNESCO
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2017-12-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9231002562

"This Report demonstrates that innovative cultural policies implemented at regional and local levels have a positive impact on the whole of cultural governance. It highlights the strategic frameworks best adapted to the digital environment, the emergence of exchange platforms and the dynamism of artistic incubators in the global South. It also points to the persistent inequalities and underrepresentation of women in the culture sector, trade barriers on cultural goods and services from the global South and the vulnerability of artists at risk. By providing yet unpublished statistics and data in these areas, this Report is essential for developing and implementing public policies that are adapted to the evolving needs of the culture sector"--Foreword.

Workplace Culture in Academic Libraries

Workplace Culture in Academic Libraries
Author: Kelly Blessinger
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2013-02-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1780633688

Workplace culture refers to conditions that collectively influence the work atmosphere. These can include policies, norms, and unwritten standards for behavior. This book focuses on various aspects of workplace culture in academic libraries from the practitioners' viewpoint, as opposed to that of the theoretician. The book asks the following questions: What conditions contribute to an excellent academic library work environment? What helps to make a particular academic library a great place to work? Articles focus on actual programs while placing the discussion in a scholarly context. The book is structured into 14 chapters, covering various aspects of workplace culture in academic libraries, including: overview of workplace culture, assessment, recruitment, acclimation for new librarians, workforce diversity, physical environment, staff morale, interaction between departments, tenure track/academic culture, mentoring/coaching, generational differences, motivation/incentives, complaints/conflict management, and organizational transparency. - Includes the most current best practices and models in academic libraries - Represents the viewpoints of both the employee and manager - Focuses on the academic library as workplace rather than as a service provider

Creativity

Creativity
Author: Nancy Falciani-White
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2021-03-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0838937780

This book can help you create, encourage, and participate in an environment that is conducive to creativity, helping make change a more natural and organic part of the library's culture.