The Library Island immersive training tool was released last year as a free PDF download and has since been taken up by organisations around the world. Earlier this year, Paula Pfoeffer of the Community Connections team at Campbelltown City Council in Australia ran a modified version of Library Island with her colleagues. Council workers visited … Read more Campbelltown Library Island: Preparing for challenge and crisis
This October, I’ll be joining Finnish librarians, courtesy of the Finnish National Library Association and the city of Helsinki, for a one-day workshop on strategy, imagination, and resilience. The participatory session will bring together library workers from across Finland to develop our capacity for strategic foresight and decision making. What factors do we have to take into … Read more Library Island – työpajasta potkua palvelujen kehittämiseen
Library Island, the participatory activity which reaches the parts other professional development cannot reach, is here! You can read more and download your copy of the free, CC-licensed PDF file here. Finally: Library Island is here! 🏝 Free, CC-licensed PDF Print and Play toolkit: https://t.co/cBoGoScnLL Learn more about the game: https://t.co/JcqVNS79uI pic.twitter.com/Jbfb1x6yT0 — Matt Finch … Read more My Visit to Library Island: Eli Neiburger, Ann Arbor District Library
Library Island, the participatory activity which reaches the parts other professional development cannot reach, is here! You can read more and download your copy of the free, CC-licensed PDF file here. Finally: Library Island is here! 🏝 Free, CC-licensed PDF Print and Play toolkit: https://t.co/cBoGoScnLL Learn more about the game: https://t.co/JcqVNS79uI pic.twitter.com/Jbfb1x6yT0 — Matt Finch (@DrMattFinch) … Read more My Visit to Library Island: Sherlonya Turner, Ann Arbor District Library
This week, South Carolina’s Clemson University Libraries became the latest organisation to visit Library Island, with their own lively adaptation of the free, CC-licensed core toolkit. View this post on Instagram This #TuesdayTrip we walked over to the Hendrix Student Center for our Professional Development Day, a chance for our employees to learn the ins … Read more Clemson University Visits Library Island
Investigating potential futures as they emerge elsewhere in the world, avoiding “copy and paste” innovation, playing games to figure out the choices our organisations should make next: I talk Library Island & scenario planning with Ian Anstice over at the UK’s Public Libraries News website. @LibrariesUnLtd went to Library Island last week for some loud and … Read more Public Libraries News: Mission to Library Island
Library Island, the participatory activity which reaches the parts other professional development cannot reach, is here! You can read more and download your copy of the free, CC-licensed PDF file here. I’m featuring some accounts of the island from people who have attended Island sessions, or run Islands of their own, to give you a … Read more My Visit to Library Island: Justin Hoenke
Welcome to Library Island! This interactive training activity helps participants to explore strategy, innovation, and the messy business of working with communities. We’ve spent the last two years perfecting Library Island with university staff, health workers, museum professionals, students, and, yes, librarians. The free CC-licensed print-and-play kit is now available for download in PDF format. … Read more Library Island Is Here!
We can’t predict the future, yet we do it all the time. We have to: there are objectives to be set and met, projects to be devised and delivered, holidays to be booked, birthdays to celebrate, mouths to be fed, children to raise, dreams to be fulfilled. Sometimes people and organisations anticipate the future based on … Read more Toronto iSchool, 6-7 June: Learning to Plan on Library Island
The first 2019 issue of German library and information magazine b.i.t. online has a special feature on Library Island, the playful professional development activity which helps institutions to think strategically about serving their community in turbulent times. German speakers, and people with a mastery of machine translation, can read “Auf Trauminseln das strategische Bewusstsein schärfen” (PDF download) … Read more “Auf Trauminseln das strategische Bewusstsein schärfen” – Library Island auf Deutsch
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