WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:04.160 I want to welcome you to The Institute for Museum and Library Services webinar 2 00:00:04.160 --> 00:00:10.800 on libraries and 21st century skills I'm Helen Wexler here at imls and before I 3 00:00:10.800 --> 00:00:15.240 turn the webinar over to Mary Cho who's going to get us started I have a few 4 00:00:15.240 --> 00:00:20.320 housekeeping announcements the webinar is currently in lecture mode which means 5 00:00:20.320 --> 00:00:25.439 that the presenters can speak but all of the guests are muted when it comes to 6 00:00:25.439 --> 00:00:30.759 the question and answer portion we'll unmute you and um we'll do that through 7 00:00:30.759 --> 00:00:35.280 audio so you will ask your questions on your phone line please hold your 8 00:00:35.280 --> 00:00:40.559 comments um your questions and comments for the question and answer portion um 9 00:00:40.559 --> 00:00:46.360 and if you'll notice um a chat box that is at the 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19 00:01:30.840 --> 00:01:37.680 the top um on the right side of your screen or the fit to screen check box at 20 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:42.720 the bottom left um either of those might be able to help you out finally if 21 00:01:42.720 --> 00:01:46.079 you're interested in getting a copy of this PowerPoint we'll have an email at 22 00:01:46.079 --> 00:01:50.560 the end of the presentation and you can simply request it so now I want to turn 23 00:01:50.560 --> 00:01:55.840 it over to my colleague uh Mary Chu here at the Institute of Museum and Library 24 00:01:55.840 --> 00:02:01.719 services and I think we need the next slide for a list of our participants 25 00:02:01.719 --> 00:02:07.840 Mary thank you Helen that's great hello everybody um on behalf of imls and the 26 00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:13.040 whole 21st century skills team and especially our brand new director Susan 27 00:02:13.040 --> 00:02:17.920 hildr I'd like to welcome you all to this session on museums libraries and 28 00:02:17.920 --> 00:02:22.480 21st century skills Susan wishes she could have been with us today to be able 29 00:02:22.480 --> 00:02:28.280 to do her first webinar welcome but um amazingly after 10 whole days in the 30 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:33.040 office uh her calendar is already starting to fill up and she was unable 31 00:02:33.040 --> 00:02:36.640 to join us but I told her I would send her special 32 00:02:36.640 --> 00:02:41.360 regards as we get started um we'd like to find out a little bit about who's 33 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:46.040 with us today and we have several quick polls that we'd like to have you respond 34 00:02:46.040 --> 00:02:50.280 to you can do this online um and our first one is going to 35 00:02:50.280 --> 00:02:53.760 have to do with what region of the country you're coming 36 00:02:53.760 --> 00:02:59.000 from so if you just take a second and click that we should be seeing some live 37 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:05.480 responses um right while we're here and you'll have an idea Who's online with 38 00:03:05.480 --> 00:03:08.480 you 39 00:03:09.959 --> 00:03:17.840 okay great I love watching this in real time well it looks like we've got we've 40 00:03:17.840 --> 00:03:24.720 got some expanse here um the Midwest so far is winning um those will continue to 41 00:03:24.720 --> 00:03:29.920 come in and now we'll move on to the next poll which has to do with what type 42 00:03:29.920 --> 00:03:34.799 of library or institution you're in and this is Library focused for the most 43 00:03:34.799 --> 00:03:39.879 part um although we recognize that everybody who's there may not be coming 44 00:03:39.879 --> 00:03:47.040 in from um a library uh but we just want to see what's happening 45 00:03:47.239 --> 00:03:51.920 here oh nice oh we've got good State Library representation as well as public 46 00:03:51.920 --> 00:03:55.920 libraries so look at those academics bless their 47 00:03:55.920 --> 00:04:00.200 hearts very good and again we'll get those numbers they'll continue to come 48 00:04:00.200 --> 00:04:05.519 in for us um and now as this one gets down a little bit to the nitty-gritty 49 00:04:05.519 --> 00:04:10.680 we'd like to know how familiar you are with a 21st century skills report it's 50 00:04:10.680 --> 00:04:16.840 been out there for a while and we've been doing various activities um related 51 00:04:16.840 --> 00:04:21.079 to this initi initiative we assume that you've heard something about it or you 52 00:04:21.079 --> 00:04:26.280 wouldn't even be online with us but um for some folks it's not going to be 53 00:04:26.280 --> 00:04:30.080 something that is everyday terminology or even something that they've been 54 00:04:30.080 --> 00:04:36.039 exposed to so yeah okay looks like that's our largest group 55 00:04:36.039 --> 00:04:41.520 the ones that are not familiar with us so that gives us a chance to give you um 56 00:04:41.520 --> 00:04:46.000 some background here and I'm going to start at the beginning although it will 57 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:52.280 be um a brief background here for us and what we're doing is we're looking at 58 00:04:52.280 --> 00:04:57.039 Learning in the future um what is learning going to look like in the 59 00:04:57.039 --> 00:05:01.240 future what is learning looking like in the 20 21st century 60 00:05:01.240 --> 00:05:08.560 already and for imls this is a realm in which we have been dipping in for 61 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:13.600 probably a decade we started off looking at the 21st century learner I didn't 62 00:05:13.600 --> 00:05:18.720 even work here and I attended an imls conference in November of 63 00:05:18.720 --> 00:05:23.960 2001 on the 21st century learner and how our museums and libraries were going to 64 00:05:23.960 --> 00:05:29.039 be part of a network that supported learning in the 21st century and about 65 00:05:29.039 --> 00:05:33.080 the time I started here we were fortunate enough to be launching the 66 00:05:33.080 --> 00:05:38.400 21st century librarian um initiative which again of course was looking at how 67 00:05:38.400 --> 00:05:42.800 our libraries can best support that that learner and those 68 00:05:42.800 --> 00:05:47.560 communities and several years ago we actually got pulled into this land of 69 00:05:47.560 --> 00:05:53.240 21st century skills um kind of in coordination with a partnership for 21st 70 00:05:53.240 --> 00:05:58.199 century skills which um was working with schools and business and was a major 71 00:05:58.199 --> 00:06:03.880 initiative we felt that museums and libraries had had a major role to play 72 00:06:03.880 --> 00:06:08.240 so as we move ahead to look at what this learning looks like we have a little 73 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:13.759 four question exercise for you and um we're going to ask you to type your 74 00:06:13.759 --> 00:06:18.800 responses into the chat window uh you're going to send those messages to 75 00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:24.039 all and I just want you to do a little bit of envisioning we're not going to 76 00:06:24.039 --> 00:06:28.160 spend a lot of time on this this is just to get our minds in the right 77 00:06:28.160 --> 00:06:34.720 place what is the world going to be look looking like 20 years or so from now 78 00:06:34.720 --> 00:06:39.360 when today's kindergarteners those children who visit your institution 79 00:06:39.360 --> 00:06:44.280 whether it's for story time or if you happen to be in a museum uh Children's 80 00:06:44.280 --> 00:06:49.400 Museum when those kids have left school and they're out in the world what do we 81 00:06:49.400 --> 00:06:55.280 think the world is going to be like um and specifically as you're thinking that 82 00:06:55.280 --> 00:06:59.639 what what about the workplace um not just the world in general but but the 83 00:06:59.639 --> 00:07:05.240 workplace itself so we want everybody to put a little bit of thought into that if 84 00:07:05.240 --> 00:07:11.039 you can give us some of your quick ideas in the chat that's great um but after 85 00:07:11.039 --> 00:07:16.440 we've pictured what that world looks like that will lead us right into our 86 00:07:16.440 --> 00:07:21.919 question two and question two continues to focus 87 00:07:21.919 --> 00:07:28.319 on these children of today and what skills will these children need to be 88 00:07:28.319 --> 00:07:33.400 successful in the world that we are imagining 20 years from 89 00:07:33.400 --> 00:07:38.479 now um when we look ahead what is it that 90 00:07:38.479 --> 00:07:45.520 they're going to need to know how to do in order to be successful be engaged in 91 00:07:45.520 --> 00:07:50.960 their community be productive citizens what are the skill sets that we're going 92 00:07:50.960 --> 00:07:56.240 to need um and when I say we I mean those of us 93 00:07:56.240 --> 00:08:00.120 who are currently in the workforce and I don't expect to be working in 20 years 94 00:08:00.120 --> 00:08:06.599 but I'm sure that a number of the folks who are online will um so what skills 95 00:08:06.599 --> 00:08:11.680 are we going to need now question number three is my personal favorite anytime 96 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:18.360 we've done this I love this one because it actually starts to encourage those of 97 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:24.120 us who are having this little dream here this little experience is to think kind 98 00:08:24.120 --> 00:08:28.879 of a little retrospectively here what were the conditions that made your own 99 00:08:28.879 --> 00:08:35.399 high performance learning experiences so very powerful think back to a time in 100 00:08:35.399 --> 00:08:41.959 your own life when you indeed feel that you were extremely productive maybe part 101 00:08:41.959 --> 00:08:47.200 of a high efficiency team but what were those conditions that made your high 102 00:08:47.200 --> 00:08:54.360 performance learning so very very powerful I love this one because my mind 103 00:08:54.360 --> 00:08:58.920 immediately goes to a particular circumstance and it puts me in the realm 104 00:08:58.920 --> 00:09:03.160 that I I think I want to be in when I'm thinking about learning in the 21st 105 00:09:03.160 --> 00:09:09.959 century so now we come to question four and question four is taking that 106 00:09:09.959 --> 00:09:15.279 learning that we have experienced thinking about what made it so powerful 107 00:09:15.279 --> 00:09:20.160 and looking at your own institution in which you work today and what would your 108 00:09:20.160 --> 00:09:25.760 institution be like if it were designed around your answers to those first three 109 00:09:25.760 --> 00:09:31.360 questions would there need to be changes Maybe it would be just the way it is 110 00:09:31.360 --> 00:09:37.839 maybe you already create that kind of space that leads to Creative Energy and 111 00:09:37.839 --> 00:09:42.560 learning in the 21st century and as you think of it I guess 112 00:09:42.560 --> 00:09:45.880 I'd just ask you to have a little side thought and you don't have to add this 113 00:09:45.880 --> 00:09:52.240 to the chat box but you certainly can um think about what you might do over the 114 00:09:52.240 --> 00:09:58.160 next month or even two at home that would start to put your answers into 115 00:09:58.160 --> 00:10:02.640 action um are there some incremental changes that you could start to make in 116 00:10:02.640 --> 00:10:06.880 your institution so as we as we think about 117 00:10:06.880 --> 00:10:11.399 these 21st century skills and the changes that we may need to make in our 118 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:17.680 libraries and and museums um we're looking at a world that 119 00:10:17.680 --> 00:10:22.200 has changed we're looking at the whole phenomena of 120 00:10:22.200 --> 00:10:27.720 globalization we're looking at technology we're looking at needing new 121 00:10:27.720 --> 00:10:31.920 skills to compete um and I think we have another slide we 122 00:10:31.920 --> 00:10:37.839 can bring up here that shows some shifts in the types of skills that are in 123 00:10:37.839 --> 00:10:43.839 demand um as we look at what's happened here we're seeing and I know this this 124 00:10:43.839 --> 00:10:48.560 the screen here is very tiny at least the font on it and you will have a 125 00:10:48.560 --> 00:10:52.560 chance to go back and look at this later it also appears in the 126 00:10:52.560 --> 00:10:58.440 publication but it's basically those routine manual skills that we're seeing 127 00:10:58.440 --> 00:11:04.320 in that bottom botom red line that are declining and leveling off whereas it is 128 00:11:04.320 --> 00:11:11.440 the the creative the non routine the interactive the um things where we're 129 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:15.440 working collaboratively um cognitive things that 130 00:11:15.440 --> 00:11:20.440 are going up this is the rise that we're seeing these are the shifts that are 131 00:11:20.440 --> 00:11:25.079 happening as we look at the skills that will help um position today's young 132 00:11:25.079 --> 00:11:31.680 people and today's middle-aged people for success in a world that is changing 133 00:11:31.680 --> 00:11:36.920 dramatically I think if we move on to the next slide here we'll be looking at 134 00:11:36.920 --> 00:11:42.519 what um we've been terming as the four C's of course we're envisioning that 135 00:11:42.519 --> 00:11:47.320 these four C's blend together with the three Rs and help to make a really 136 00:11:47.320 --> 00:11:51.360 complete education but we're looking at Trends in 137 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:58.040 global awareness Financial economic business entrepreneurial literacy 138 00:11:58.040 --> 00:12:03.519 there's a health literacy that we know is bubbling to the top Civic literacy 139 00:12:03.519 --> 00:12:09.760 environmental literacy and of course all of these are depending upon a real deep 140 00:12:09.760 --> 00:12:13.920 understanding and basic core literacy every time we have this 141 00:12:13.920 --> 00:12:18.680 conversation somebody will be in the audience who will remind us and say wait 142 00:12:18.680 --> 00:12:24.440 a minute if indeed we don't have that core basic literacy we're not positioned 143 00:12:24.440 --> 00:12:30.440 for any sort of success but as we look at the four seas building on these 144 00:12:30.440 --> 00:12:37.600 Trends and responding to these Trends creativity imagination problem solving 145 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:44.519 the ability to collaborate be part of a team skills at communicating written 146 00:12:44.519 --> 00:12:49.680 oral and critical thinking these are the things that are going to be needed now 147 00:12:49.680 --> 00:12:54.880 we're calling them 21st century skills but in reality every time I stop and 148 00:12:54.880 --> 00:12:59.279 look at it I recognize that these are also skills that certain certainly 149 00:12:59.279 --> 00:13:05.000 positioned leaders in the 20th century the 19th century the 18th century we can 150 00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:10.199 wind our clock backwards and these are Universal skills but they are going to 151 00:13:10.199 --> 00:13:15.560 become increasingly important um as we move ahead in the 21st 152 00:13:15.560 --> 00:13:22.240 century as we move on to the next slide we're looking at some shifts in our 153 00:13:22.240 --> 00:13:27.959 museums and libraries um that are occurring as we do this transition from 154 00:13:27.959 --> 00:13:33.920 the 20th Cent Century to the 21st century what is the driving force behind 155 00:13:33.920 --> 00:13:39.000 what's going on in our institutions we're finding a much more participatory 156 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:45.079 role for our audience it's not just content-driven anymore we are finding 157 00:13:45.079 --> 00:13:50.360 services that need to be individualized need to be unique need to 158 00:13:50.360 --> 00:13:56.880 be personalized in some cases need to be delivered on handheld devices we are 159 00:13:56.880 --> 00:14:01.440 looking at things that go in multiple directions at once we are looking at 160 00:14:01.440 --> 00:14:08.240 things that are taking place in Virtual space and we are looking at a mandate 161 00:14:08.240 --> 00:14:14.399 for our institutions to be part of a community and part of collaborative 162 00:14:14.399 --> 00:14:19.440 Endeavors so now I'm going to ask you to take a quick look and we're gonna we're 163 00:14:19.440 --> 00:14:26.199 going to have another little um poll here as to whether or not you would tend 164 00:14:26.199 --> 00:14:31.639 to agree with what we have described here here as being the shifts that 165 00:14:31.639 --> 00:14:36.160 you're seeing going on do you agree that these are the shifts that are taking 166 00:14:36.160 --> 00:14:42.480 place I think we should have a poll coming up here for you yeah okay um do 167 00:14:42.480 --> 00:14:46.440 you agree that these are the things that are going on when you look at those 168 00:14:46.440 --> 00:14:51.079 items listed in that second that right hand 169 00:14:54.639 --> 00:14:59.480 column okay this is not Universal that's all right 170 00:14:59.480 --> 00:15:03.120 and I do think that you know we have to recognize where we are in the 21st 171 00:15:03.120 --> 00:15:07.279 century and we also have to recognize that what we're doing is we're doing a 172 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:12.639 little bit of prediction here so we're using our imaginations and saying this 173 00:15:12.639 --> 00:15:16.800 is what we're seeing happening but they're not necessarily happening in all 174 00:15:16.800 --> 00:15:22.839 places at the exact same rate of speed and as a followup to this we will 175 00:15:22.839 --> 00:15:26.480 have in just a minute or so here or maybe even a second if they're moving 176 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:31.759 really quickly a second poll that will be asking whether or not that 177 00:15:31.759 --> 00:15:37.000 second column is describing what's starting to happen in your institution 178 00:15:37.000 --> 00:15:42.199 and again you're going to be able to say yes partly no and I would actually 179 00:15:42.199 --> 00:15:46.920 expect that perhaps we're going to find in this instance that less of it's going 180 00:15:46.920 --> 00:15:52.040 to be done um but then again that's one reason that you're here involved in this 181 00:15:52.040 --> 00:15:57.440 conversation to think about how you play a leadership role in moving 182 00:15:57.440 --> 00:16:04.560 ahead um um when I look at what we have done in this 21st century um skills 183 00:16:04.560 --> 00:16:09.440 initiative at imls there are multiple project components and we have a slide 184 00:16:09.440 --> 00:16:13.720 that just kind of touches on a piece of them there is first and foremost a 185 00:16:13.720 --> 00:16:19.399 report and that's what a lot of the content in this webinar this first part 186 00:16:19.399 --> 00:16:26.600 of the webinar is based on it's what we found we convened a meeting of um expert 187 00:16:26.600 --> 00:16:31.680 members people that we felt were out there in institutions on the front line 188 00:16:31.680 --> 00:16:36.680 looking at policy decisions um institutions that had already undergone 189 00:16:36.680 --> 00:16:41.600 change institutions that were looking at obstacles and had some things to 190 00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:47.680 overcome we designed um a self assessment tool that is um not only 191 00:16:47.680 --> 00:16:53.240 embedded in the publication itself as a hard copy and that on the slide that's 192 00:16:53.240 --> 00:16:58.079 the bottom thing you're seeing there but there is also an online version we 193 00:16:58.079 --> 00:17:02.160 didn't want going to be using a strictly 20th century tool in order to encourage 194 00:17:02.160 --> 00:17:08.160 you to be doing this self assessment for your 21st century skills we had a number 195 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:13.000 of conversations we had some focus groups held with Museum Community held 196 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:17.720 with the Library community we met at ala we met with State 197 00:17:17.720 --> 00:17:23.679 Librarians um and we pulled together what we felt would be a useful document 198 00:17:23.679 --> 00:17:28.039 our goal was not to have something that would be sitting on your shelf getting 199 00:17:28.039 --> 00:17:33.480 dust and if we move on to the next slide here 200 00:17:33.480 --> 00:17:38.720 it talks a little bit about what our goals were as we entered into this 201 00:17:38.720 --> 00:17:44.760 initiative we articulated our goals as being to encourage libraries and museums 202 00:17:44.760 --> 00:17:50.080 to be very intentional in their 21st century practice to enhance 203 00:17:50.080 --> 00:17:54.600 understanding among policy makers and other stakeholders about the integral 204 00:17:54.600 --> 00:17:59.000 roles that libraries and museums play in creating 205 00:17:59.000 --> 00:18:04.240 uh communities where we could have an Engaged citizenry and a very competitive 206 00:18:04.240 --> 00:18:08.120 and successful Workforce we were trying to assist in 207 00:18:08.120 --> 00:18:13.440 the inventory of 21st century skills and what practices were out there that were 208 00:18:13.440 --> 00:18:19.200 currently in use or should be invol evolving we also were trying to identify 209 00:18:19.200 --> 00:18:25.600 goals for future operation and program improvements now I would Hazard a guess 210 00:18:25.600 --> 00:18:29.039 that these goals that were our goals in this initiative 211 00:18:29.039 --> 00:18:33.440 are also going to be very similar to the goals that you will have should you move 212 00:18:33.440 --> 00:18:38.080 ahead with this initiative in your own Community you're going to be encouraging 213 00:18:38.080 --> 00:18:41.760 you're going to be enhancing you're going to be helping to inventory and 214 00:18:41.760 --> 00:18:47.120 you're going to be identifying goals for future operation as you work with other 215 00:18:47.120 --> 00:18:52.480 community organizations um and help to create that 216 00:18:52.480 --> 00:18:58.360 kind of a network where you are in your place now I can't be a librarian without 217 00:18:58.360 --> 00:19:02.559 giving you a little suggested reading that goes along with what we're 218 00:19:02.559 --> 00:19:06.240 discussing here and we have two different slides that touch on a couple 219 00:19:06.240 --> 00:19:12.400 of um books that will be and books and Publications that will be supportive the 220 00:19:12.400 --> 00:19:19.360 first one and it deserves its own slide is 21st century skills and um Bernie 221 00:19:19.360 --> 00:19:27.039 trillings book here absolutely is it's it's based in looking at schools and 20 222 00:19:27.039 --> 00:19:31.880 development in schools more than in museums and libraries but so much of the 223 00:19:31.880 --> 00:19:38.000 content is very transferable and it is from this book that we took our Fork 224 00:19:38.000 --> 00:19:42.960 question exercise we adapted it slightly but it was with their permission that we 225 00:19:42.960 --> 00:19:48.760 said we wanted to use this to spread the message two other books that I am sure 226 00:19:48.760 --> 00:19:52.960 many of you are already familiar with but you may not have looked at them with 227 00:19:52.960 --> 00:19:59.960 exactly this eye Are The World is Flat and a whole new mind for both of these 228 00:19:59.960 --> 00:20:05.679 they are looking at the skills the trends and the shifts that we're all 229 00:20:05.679 --> 00:20:10.200 experiencing and the changes in the world that if we want to keep our 230 00:20:10.200 --> 00:20:16.919 institutions vital we need to be responding to now imls itself is 231 00:20:16.919 --> 00:20:20.840 encouraging proposals that come in funding 232 00:20:20.840 --> 00:20:26.400 opportunities um that will be promoting 21st century skills and I have a slide 233 00:20:26.400 --> 00:20:31.000 that should be coming up here that talks about the different programs in which 234 00:20:31.000 --> 00:20:37.400 you will find um a good ground for submitting proposals that can be very 235 00:20:37.400 --> 00:20:42.720 responsive to this entire initiative there's a place within the grants to 236 00:20:42.720 --> 00:20:46.960 States program for 21st century skills and I'm speaking to all those State 237 00:20:46.960 --> 00:20:51.600 Library folks out there within our national leadership grants 21st century 238 00:20:51.600 --> 00:20:57.600 librarian program of course are native ha Hawaiian and Native American programs 239 00:20:57.600 --> 00:21:02.840 in both of these cases 21st century skills absolutely come through and we 240 00:21:02.840 --> 00:21:08.480 have a new program called the Sparks ignition grants um that are places that 241 00:21:08.480 --> 00:21:15.600 where we're looking for creative ideas um a real Venture um an opportunity to 242 00:21:15.600 --> 00:21:19.520 get something just started something that you just don't have that Venture 243 00:21:19.520 --> 00:21:25.440 Capital to begin with now in terms of IM ls's next steps 244 00:21:25.440 --> 00:21:30.840 um we're really in the midst of all of this this our webinars you're living 245 00:21:30.840 --> 00:21:35.919 through one right now um we're doing some Community workshops uh we've done I 246 00:21:35.919 --> 00:21:40.440 believe four or five already and you're going to be hearing from the host of one 247 00:21:40.440 --> 00:21:47.120 of them shortly um we also have expanded web content we have a couple of other um 248 00:21:47.120 --> 00:21:53.000 initiatives that are going on that very closely relate one is the imls MacArthur 249 00:21:53.000 --> 00:21:58.760 partnership for learning labs this is um an upcoming National Grant competition 250 00:21:58.760 --> 00:22:02.960 that will fund the creation of up to 30 learning labs in libraries and museums 251 00:22:02.960 --> 00:22:10.200 across the country and then I amess was mentioned in the fcc's Broadband plan 252 00:22:10.200 --> 00:22:16.320 and we are in the process of helping to create again with an expert committee a 253 00:22:16.320 --> 00:22:20.799 framework for digital inclusion um this is a framework of what 254 00:22:20.799 --> 00:22:26.520 principles elements and characteristics need to be in communities in order to 255 00:22:26.520 --> 00:22:33.799 Foster digitally inclusive communities that respond to and make good use of the 256 00:22:33.799 --> 00:22:39.039 roll out of broadband across the country that pretty much brings my 257 00:22:39.039 --> 00:22:44.559 comments to a close until we get to the Q&A session we do have three speakers 258 00:22:44.559 --> 00:22:49.679 who are going to come along right behind me um I'm going to list them in reverse 259 00:22:49.679 --> 00:22:55.159 order and then hand things over to Mary whose name is up here already our three 260 00:22:55.159 --> 00:22:59.840 um speakers will be Luis Herrera from the San Francisco Public Library and 261 00:22:59.840 --> 00:23:05.559 Louise is the person who has indeed been a host for one of these workshops that 262 00:23:05.559 --> 00:23:10.919 IMS has put on in a library with a community bringing together library and 263 00:23:10.919 --> 00:23:16.480 Museum folks from the area along with other key Community Players we also will 264 00:23:16.480 --> 00:23:21.120 be hearing from Jeff patchin Jeff is the president and CEO of the Children's 265 00:23:21.120 --> 00:23:24.799 Museum of Indianapolis and he's particularly 266 00:23:24.799 --> 00:23:31.200 appropriate person to have here because in Museum there is a very busy Public 267 00:23:31.200 --> 00:23:35.960 Library branch which made him the ideal out of 268 00:23:35.960 --> 00:23:41.679 the box person for us to bring on board um and then I that brings me to Mary who 269 00:23:41.679 --> 00:23:47.640 will be the person who takes um over from me here Mary is my friend and 270 00:23:47.640 --> 00:23:53.080 colleague the state librarian in North Carolina and the key partner on one of 271 00:23:53.080 --> 00:23:57.159 our most exciting projects in the current year and Mary will be telling 272 00:23:57.159 --> 00:24:01.080 you all about about that project and some other good things that are going on 273 00:24:01.080 --> 00:24:06.240 Mary thank you Mary um this is Mary Boon as you have 274 00:24:06.240 --> 00:24:09.760 you have just heard and I'm here to talk about one of the grant opportunities 275 00:24:09.760 --> 00:24:13.240 that Mary Cho has just been talking about through 276 00:24:13.240 --> 00:24:17.640 imls uh we at the State library of North Carolina are partnering with web 277 00:24:17.640 --> 00:24:22.159 Junction on a grant program called project Compass we're actually in the 278 00:24:22.159 --> 00:24:27.200 second year now but if we can go to yes here we have the first slide and this is 279 00:24:27.200 --> 00:24:33.840 um the first year of the program was last year 2009 through1 web Junction 280 00:24:33.840 --> 00:24:38.120 which I think many of you in the Public Library community know but for those of 281 00:24:38.120 --> 00:24:43.960 you web Junction is an online community which promotes a learning community 282 00:24:43.960 --> 00:24:48.880 actually working together to ensure that Library staff have resources and 283 00:24:48.880 --> 00:24:54.960 training um and a wide variety of of areas and project Compass Grant was 284 00:24:54.960 --> 00:24:58.960 actually awarded to them to work with us here at the the State library of North 285 00:24:58.960 --> 00:25:05.039 Carolina because in the previous year in 2009 we had become very active in our 286 00:25:05.039 --> 00:25:10.640 state in dealing with the job search requirements that public libraries 287 00:25:10.640 --> 00:25:15.760 around our country are experiencing uh during the march of 2009 288 00:25:15.760 --> 00:25:19.720 we actually carried out something like nine workshops across our state working 289 00:25:19.720 --> 00:25:25.120 with Public Library staff so that they could become more familiar with the 290 00:25:25.120 --> 00:25:28.279 techniques of helping online job searchers 291 00:25:28.279 --> 00:25:33.200 with the resources that are available for that and working with Partners which 292 00:25:33.200 --> 00:25:39.600 I'll talk about more later um we found that this huge demand was taking 293 00:25:39.600 --> 00:25:45.600 Librarians further down the road than we usually go and interacting with patrons 294 00:25:45.600 --> 00:25:50.080 normally we have a reference or an information inquiry helping someone find 295 00:25:50.080 --> 00:25:56.360 a job online is something much more interactive also we were finding people 296 00:25:56.360 --> 00:26:01.880 were coming into our libraries who were not traditionally heavy Library users in 297 00:26:01.880 --> 00:26:07.279 fact many of these people who were unemployed did not have 21st century 298 00:26:07.279 --> 00:26:14.000 skills at all which are necessary now in this our first online recession we found 299 00:26:14.000 --> 00:26:18.399 that we were doing a lot of very basic training both in basic computer skills 300 00:26:18.399 --> 00:26:24.440 and in computer searching in information literacy essentially so this first year 301 00:26:24.440 --> 00:26:27.919 what we wanted to do with project Compass was to work with other State 302 00:26:27.919 --> 00:26:32.760 Library agencies so that we could help them maximize the effectiveness of what 303 00:26:32.760 --> 00:26:38.760 was happening in local libraries in their states as well and in the next 304 00:26:38.760 --> 00:26:44.640 slide we will look at uh some of the content of this first 305 00:26:44.640 --> 00:26:48.440 of all uh one of our major ways of carrying out this program was through 306 00:26:48.440 --> 00:26:53.679 four National Summits and as you can see these were in Atlanta in Portland Oregon 307 00:26:53.679 --> 00:26:59.559 and Providence Rhode Island and Denver Colorado through these uh Network um 308 00:26:59.559 --> 00:27:03.520 Summits we were able to reach all 50 states and representatives from the 309 00:27:03.520 --> 00:27:07.039 District of Columbia we were very pleased with that there was a great deal 310 00:27:07.039 --> 00:27:12.240 of interest in this program uh one of the things that we were able to do is 311 00:27:12.240 --> 00:27:16.159 talk about not just what we were doing in North Carolina we would start the 312 00:27:16.159 --> 00:27:20.799 conversation that way but then people from all the other states would bring in 313 00:27:20.799 --> 00:27:24.559 well we're doing this and we're doing that so it became an opportunity for us 314 00:27:24.559 --> 00:27:28.320 to all learn from each other because there was a lot of very interesting work 315 00:27:28.320 --> 00:27:34.159 going on all across the country as libraries were trying to reach uh to 316 00:27:34.159 --> 00:27:38.559 meet this new demand one of the other things that been particularly 317 00:27:38.559 --> 00:27:43.640 interesting is this second dot where it says promoting strategic Partnerships 318 00:27:43.640 --> 00:27:48.240 with Workforce agencies we found that one of the most effective things we were 319 00:27:48.240 --> 00:27:54.760 able to do was to develop relationships with Workforce people in our communities 320 00:27:54.760 --> 00:27:58.039 the interesting thing is that this is really happened 321 00:27:58.039 --> 00:28:02.720 at the national level at the state level as well as the local level imls for 322 00:28:02.720 --> 00:28:07.320 example has created a partnership with the US Department of Labor's employment 323 00:28:07.320 --> 00:28:10.919 and training Administration here at the state level 324 00:28:10.919 --> 00:28:15.320 we're working at our Workforce Development Division and at the local 325 00:28:15.320 --> 00:28:19.880 level we have libraries in partnership with the Employment Security Commission 326 00:28:19.880 --> 00:28:25.159 and One-Stop Job centers I would like to make a note here that in one of the 327 00:28:25.159 --> 00:28:27.960 comments that was written in the chat room earlier 328 00:28:27.960 --> 00:28:33.039 Connie thank you Connie wrote more connected to agencies that serve same 329 00:28:33.039 --> 00:28:37.679 populations that has been one of the outcomes of this program we find that 330 00:28:37.679 --> 00:28:41.600 they're very happy to work with us because public libraries are open longer 331 00:28:41.600 --> 00:28:46.159 hours public libraries teach computer skills public libraries are serving 332 00:28:46.159 --> 00:28:51.840 their clients in a way that takes their services further than they're able to do 333 00:28:51.840 --> 00:28:56.799 so this has really been one of the most important outcomes I think of this grant 334 00:28:56.799 --> 00:29:01.000 program also now web Junction following these um 335 00:29:01.000 --> 00:29:07.039 inperson Summits did online webinars and has resources on their website that 336 00:29:07.039 --> 00:29:12.480 enabled another I think almost 200 people to participate in this program 337 00:29:12.480 --> 00:29:17.480 and one of the final outcomes that was so particularly useful was that we 338 00:29:17.480 --> 00:29:22.720 really got a lot of good press and we became well known in state libraries and 339 00:29:22.720 --> 00:29:28.039 public libraries for the work that we're doing helping people really find jobs 340 00:29:28.039 --> 00:29:32.559 during this recession in our state this knowledge went all the way up to the 341 00:29:32.559 --> 00:29:37.080 governor who is very proud of this program and I know that in many other 342 00:29:37.080 --> 00:29:40.799 states there's been even if it's just your local people who see people 343 00:29:40.799 --> 00:29:45.159 standing uh in line waiting to get in the library in the morning when it opens 344 00:29:45.159 --> 00:29:48.640 it's it's a new world for us in many ways and this has been very very 345 00:29:48.640 --> 00:29:54.600 successful so successful that we now have a followon grant uh project Compass 346 00:29:54.600 --> 00:30:00.960 2 oh before I do that the the next slide will show you uh a screenshot from the 347 00:30:00.960 --> 00:30:07.600 web Junction web page where you will find a wonderful report about the first 348 00:30:07.600 --> 00:30:12.919 year of project Compass entitled a year with project Compass libraries provide 349 00:30:12.919 --> 00:30:19.000 Direction in tough times web junction. org and once you get onto the website 350 00:30:19.000 --> 00:30:23.880 you can find Project compass and there you find not only this report uh you 351 00:30:23.880 --> 00:30:28.559 will find a lot of these Workforce resources that been gathered there as 352 00:30:28.559 --> 00:30:34.799 well so then the next slide will take us to project Compass 2 which is a followon 353 00:30:34.799 --> 00:30:39.360 grant that we've just begun in this 354 00:30:39.559 --> 00:30:43.840 year this year we're going to take the program to a different level last year 355 00:30:43.840 --> 00:30:48.279 we were working with State libraries this year we want to work more directly 356 00:30:48.279 --> 00:30:54.679 with libraries in communities so in this followon grant we're again um part web 357 00:30:54.679 --> 00:30:57.760 Junction and and the State Library here in North Carolina 358 00:30:57.760 --> 00:31:03.399 are again partnering uh we're developing a curriculum that will help libraries um 359 00:31:03.399 --> 00:31:07.760 be able to deal with the unemployed in a better way than they may have been able 360 00:31:07.760 --> 00:31:12.760 to in the past we certainly hope so this is going to begin just next week with a 361 00:31:12.760 --> 00:31:17.679 train the trainer program we're going to hold that here in North Carolina we have 362 00:31:17.679 --> 00:31:22.120 representatives from 10 states coming who will learn this curriculum and be 363 00:31:22.120 --> 00:31:27.240 able then to go back to their own States and do programs at local libraries for 364 00:31:27.240 --> 00:31:32.960 Library staff to help them work better in this area project Compass 2 shifts 365 00:31:32.960 --> 00:31:39.039 the emphasis as you see from the State Library level to the actual um 366 00:31:39.039 --> 00:31:45.080 individual Public Library level we'll um in addition because we're only doing 367 00:31:45.080 --> 00:31:51.559 this in 10 states have um programs at conferences and uh around the the 368 00:31:51.559 --> 00:31:56.480 country either at the state level or at the regional level and again web 369 00:31:56.480 --> 00:32:01.880 Junction will will provide online programming uh on their website as well 370 00:32:01.880 --> 00:32:07.200 as uh additional resources and resource sharing at web Junction now the next 371 00:32:07.200 --> 00:32:12.120 slide really gets into the content a little bit and what we did here I know 372 00:32:12.120 --> 00:32:15.399 that this is going to be very small type and I don't expect you to read 373 00:32:15.399 --> 00:32:19.960 everything but you will be able to get a copy of this um after the webinar but 374 00:32:19.960 --> 00:32:24.760 what I wanted to do was just show you what it looks like because what we did 375 00:32:24.760 --> 00:32:30.080 is we started with the self assessment tool in the publication that Mary Chu 376 00:32:30.080 --> 00:32:33.799 was telling you about a little while ago of museums and libraries and 21st 377 00:32:33.799 --> 00:32:38.480 century skills in that um self assessment tool there actually three 378 00:32:38.480 --> 00:32:43.360 areas the early stage the transitional stage and the 21st century stage and we 379 00:32:43.360 --> 00:32:48.519 started in that format but we continued to evolve it over time until we've 380 00:32:48.519 --> 00:32:54.399 reached a point where we have using the same framework still a variety of 381 00:32:54.399 --> 00:32:59.519 different areas that we want to address you see the main topic areas on this 382 00:32:59.519 --> 00:33:05.440 slide are Discovery and assessment Collections and training and learning um 383 00:33:05.440 --> 00:33:10.600 we want people to dive down into this a little more with the end result being 384 00:33:10.600 --> 00:33:15.760 that 21st century skills are among the things that come out of this if you if 385 00:33:15.760 --> 00:33:19.840 we see the next slide we'll see this is a very wide piece of paper so I had to 386 00:33:19.840 --> 00:33:24.919 do it on two slides you'll see um the last two areas collaboration and 387 00:33:24.919 --> 00:33:28.880 communication again taking a lot of things that we learned at the State 388 00:33:28.880 --> 00:33:34.320 Library level and moving them down to the local library level I also very much 389 00:33:34.320 --> 00:33:39.080 like this um quote from Bernie trilling from the 21st century skills book that 390 00:33:39.080 --> 00:33:43.320 Mary talked about a few minutes ago lifelong learning is not just an option 391 00:33:43.320 --> 00:33:48.960 anymore it's a necessity smart is the new Rich that makes all of us very rich 392 00:33:48.960 --> 00:33:53.799 I think those of us who are working in this uh in this area and those are the 393 00:33:53.799 --> 00:33:58.880 things that I wanted to tell you about project compass and my final slide just 394 00:33:58.880 --> 00:34:04.120 helps to say that uh it takes a lot more than luck to find a job in this world 395 00:34:04.120 --> 00:34:09.599 today and we hope that um we and libraries of all types not just public 396 00:34:09.599 --> 00:34:15.040 libraries can help um people who come in who've never touched a computer before 397 00:34:15.040 --> 00:34:19.280 in their lives and there are plenty of people out there in that category we are 398 00:34:19.280 --> 00:34:24.919 learning uh learn basic skills in using computers learn how to apply for jobs 399 00:34:24.919 --> 00:34:30.639 learn how to start a small business learn uh some basic financial literacy 400 00:34:30.639 --> 00:34:35.879 as well as information literacy while they're in our libraries so we've very 401 00:34:35.879 --> 00:34:40.839 excited about this program uh very happy to be partnering with web Junction and 402 00:34:40.839 --> 00:34:47.079 imls on this and we'll be glad to answer any questions that you may have later 403 00:34:47.079 --> 00:34:52.280 and now it's my pleasure to introduce you to Jeff patchin the president and 404 00:34:52.280 --> 00:34:58.280 CEO of the children of Indianapolis Jeff take it away 405 00:34:58.280 --> 00:35:01.960 thanks so much that was great um my name is Jeff patchin president CEO of the 406 00:35:01.960 --> 00:35:06.560 Children's Museum of Indianapolis I'm here in uh right now very snowy and soon 407 00:35:06.560 --> 00:35:11.079 to be icy Indianapolis but I noticed that the folks from the Midwest have the 408 00:35:11.079 --> 00:35:15.160 greatest representation today so that's really great to see all of you uh snowy 409 00:35:15.160 --> 00:35:19.800 midwesterners hanging hanging in there the Children's Museum of Indianapolis is 410 00:35:19.800 --> 00:35:25.320 one of the largest in the world uh it's one of the few museums to have a full 411 00:35:25.320 --> 00:35:31.160 service Public Library inside the museum setting we're about 500,000 Square fet 412 00:35:31.160 --> 00:35:38.000 on 19 Acres about 200 full-time 200 part-time staff uh 110,000 objects in of 413 00:35:38.000 --> 00:35:42.359 our of our in our in our collection one of just a handful of Children's Museums 414 00:35:42.359 --> 00:35:48.240 that are collecting museums our approach to learning is what we call Family 415 00:35:48.240 --> 00:35:54.200 learning and it it focuses on the uh primary principle that it is children 416 00:35:54.200 --> 00:35:59.920 accompanied by caring adults whether it's a parent uh an aunt an uncle a 417 00:35:59.920 --> 00:36:05.520 caregiver and of course grandparents that are typically those folks who who 418 00:36:05.520 --> 00:36:10.280 uh who accompany uh children to the to the children's museum we're a 419 00:36:10.280 --> 00:36:15.040 fullservice design and build um entity in other words we design and build our 420 00:36:15.040 --> 00:36:19.640 own permanent and and temporary exhibits and we also have a branch of our work 421 00:36:19.640 --> 00:36:25.000 that focuses on International traveling uh exhibits as well lots of Partnerships 422 00:36:25.000 --> 00:36:30.480 and alliances with science uh organizations scientists artists 423 00:36:30.480 --> 00:36:36.560 humanitarians um such as National Geographic um Mattel 424 00:36:36.560 --> 00:36:39.960 Nickelodeon uh the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt which of course 425 00:36:39.960 --> 00:36:45.040 we're all watching very very carefully and we have worked very hard to try and 426 00:36:45.040 --> 00:36:51.359 make this this shift from content to uh to audience in engagement and if we 427 00:36:51.359 --> 00:36:55.000 could turn to the next slide that'd be 428 00:36:55.040 --> 00:36:58.040 great I'm going to talk a little a little bit about how we've tried to 429 00:36:58.040 --> 00:37:03.640 apply some of these 21st century skills to our to our programs you there are two 430 00:37:03.640 --> 00:37:08.800 uh images here one uh in our infozone library and the other uh some 431 00:37:08.800 --> 00:37:12.800 prototyping that we did for a permanent exhibit that will open in June called 432 00:37:12.800 --> 00:37:17.800 National Geographic Treasures of the of the Earth but it reflects I think our 433 00:37:17.800 --> 00:37:23.839 focus on audience engagement and whether it be adults children adults and 434 00:37:23.839 --> 00:37:29.240 children together and of course school so we're very con we're very uh aware of 435 00:37:29.240 --> 00:37:33.640 the 21st century skills and as well as all of the national and state standards 436 00:37:33.640 --> 00:37:40.240 that are necessary to continue to uh engage in in in public schools and we 437 00:37:40.240 --> 00:37:44.880 see this not only in the programs that we create in this two-dimensional 438 00:37:44.880 --> 00:37:48.640 three-dimensional spaces but also in our infozone library because the units of 439 00:37:48.640 --> 00:37:54.240 study that we create and the uh activity guides for for parents when they come to 440 00:37:54.240 --> 00:37:59.839 visit are also resonated are also can be resonated and seen in the inazone 441 00:37:59.839 --> 00:38:06.800 library in the next slide um we really by Design uh spend a lot of time talking 442 00:38:06.800 --> 00:38:11.480 talking about cross disciplinary IM immersion and there are some photos here 443 00:38:11.480 --> 00:38:17.480 of our uh immersive space called dinosphere which opened in 2004 and it's 444 00:38:17.480 --> 00:38:23.119 an immersive space inside of with real dinosaur fossils from the Cretaceous 445 00:38:23.119 --> 00:38:29.200 Period and a in a dinosaur lab um paleo lab that has real paleontologists 446 00:38:29.200 --> 00:38:34.319 working with fossils and engaging with our with our visitors it it is a 447 00:38:34.319 --> 00:38:38.560 wonderful metaphor for how we try and bring together the Arts and Sciences in 448 00:38:38.560 --> 00:38:43.920 Humanities The Sciences are obvious the connections to paleontology real fossils 449 00:38:43.920 --> 00:38:48.760 but also we have a the second floor of that exhibit is a Paleo art gallery and 450 00:38:48.760 --> 00:38:54.040 we were able to receive a very large collection of drawings and paintings and 451 00:38:54.040 --> 00:38:58.720 sculptures of dinosaurs from a pro private collector a number of years ago 452 00:38:58.720 --> 00:39:02.200 and so we include those in a in an immersive space that allows children and 453 00:39:02.200 --> 00:39:06.560 families to draw paint and sculpt their own uh their own images based on real 454 00:39:06.560 --> 00:39:11.119 fossils and this dinosaur art in this gallery and of course telling the 455 00:39:11.119 --> 00:39:15.440 stories of paleontologist and what it means to be in paleontologist is part of 456 00:39:15.440 --> 00:39:18.960 the humanities approach so we really have this melding of science and art in 457 00:39:18.960 --> 00:39:24.319 Humanities real objects real art and real stories there's lots of Hands-On of 458 00:39:24.319 --> 00:39:28.760 course in the space there is a there is uh dinosaur dig there is an opportunity 459 00:39:28.760 --> 00:39:33.440 to touch real fossils and of course again to talk to real paleontologists we 460 00:39:33.440 --> 00:39:38.040 extend that experience in inazone in our library with a a considerable collection 461 00:39:38.040 --> 00:39:42.920 of of books and CDs about about dinosaurs and paleontology and then we 462 00:39:42.920 --> 00:39:48.200 extend that with family dig trips to South Dakota where we lease land on the 463 00:39:48.200 --> 00:39:55.119 hell Creek formation which has is very very rich in in dinosaurs next slide 464 00:39:55.119 --> 00:39:59.440 please glob Global awareness is also an important part of the 21st century 465 00:39:59.440 --> 00:40:03.160 learning skills as well as social and cross-cultural skills and our 466 00:40:03.160 --> 00:40:07.760 International Gallery called take me there which opened in 2009 uh it's a 467 00:40:07.760 --> 00:40:12.560 collaboration with the tropen museum in Amsterdam which we believe does just an 468 00:40:12.560 --> 00:40:17.160 outstanding job of immersing Children and Families in in other cultures and we 469 00:40:17.160 --> 00:40:21.240 wanted to focus on five Global perspectives in this Gallery language 470 00:40:21.240 --> 00:40:25.160 and communication Living Spaces the 471 00:40:25.160 --> 00:40:29.160 environment which of course links to environmental learning the marketplace 472 00:40:29.160 --> 00:40:33.000 which links to financial learning and the visual and the Visual and Performing 473 00:40:33.000 --> 00:40:38.240 Arts which also ties to uh a dedicated space in this Gallery where you 474 00:40:38.240 --> 00:40:43.040 participate in a traditional celebration in a modern Egyptian culture called the 475 00:40:43.040 --> 00:40:47.960 sabua and it welcomes the newborn baby on the seventh day after its birth into 476 00:40:47.960 --> 00:40:53.119 uh into Egyptian life the exhibit is filled with real objects and there's an 477 00:40:53.119 --> 00:40:57.160 opportunity to meet fully themed and costumed interpreters who to speak 478 00:40:57.160 --> 00:41:02.240 Arabic and help teach you Arabic from the time you uh enter that Egypt air jet 479 00:41:02.240 --> 00:41:09.680 there um for your short 30 second flight to uh to to Cairo as you might imagine 480 00:41:09.680 --> 00:41:14.680 we also happen to touch on the topic of religion in this exhibit and part of the 481 00:41:14.680 --> 00:41:19.359 part of the facade one of the facades in the in the exhibit touches on uh 482 00:41:19.359 --> 00:41:24.200 comparison of Islam Christianity and Judaism and we had a absolutely 483 00:41:24.200 --> 00:41:27.680 wonderful outpouring from not only the Islam Community but also the Jewish 484 00:41:27.680 --> 00:41:32.319 community and the Coptic Christian Community as as well so the exhibit 485 00:41:32.319 --> 00:41:37.359 really became an opportunity for greater cultural understanding and 486 00:41:37.359 --> 00:41:41.200 awareness critical problems critical thinking and problem solving the next 487 00:41:41.200 --> 00:41:45.240 slide want to show you some examples of some some work that we're we're getting 488 00:41:45.240 --> 00:41:49.560 ready to unveil this is this will be a new permanent Gallery that'll open in 489 00:41:49.560 --> 00:41:52.000 June and it's a partnership with National 490 00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:56.640 Geographic and it will focus on archaeology and it's it's this 491 00:41:56.640 --> 00:42:01.000 incredible collaboration with some some of the National Geographic explorers in 492 00:42:01.000 --> 00:42:04.960 particular zahi Haas who is again with the Supreme Council of Antiquities in 493 00:42:04.960 --> 00:42:09.000 Egypt who has found a new entrance to the tomb of SEI the first so a third of 494 00:42:09.000 --> 00:42:16.280 that a third of that Gallery will be a new entrance into uh the the get the uh 495 00:42:16.280 --> 00:42:22.440 the tomb of SEI I first and help children uh uncover uh whose tomb may be 496 00:42:22.440 --> 00:42:27.280 there and a uh the pieces of a sarcophagus that kids will have to help 497 00:42:27.280 --> 00:42:33.240 put back to uh put back together the other third is a uh is a replica of the 498 00:42:33.240 --> 00:42:36.839 Terracotta Warrior dig in Shion China and that's been a partnership with the 499 00:42:36.839 --> 00:42:42.319 Terracotta Warrior Institute and Shion Municipal Museum in Shion China there's 500 00:42:42.319 --> 00:42:46.280 some new science and new information coming out of that dig about how these 501 00:42:46.280 --> 00:42:50.319 uh incredible terracotta warriors were painted and so children will have an 502 00:42:50.319 --> 00:42:53.119 opportunity to not only dig for their own Terracotta Warriors and assemble 503 00:42:53.119 --> 00:42:58.319 them and understand how they're conserved but also uh experiment with uh 504 00:42:58.319 --> 00:43:03.440 how what color they may they may have been each portion uh presents a child 505 00:43:03.440 --> 00:43:07.240 and family with some problems to solve um that 506 00:43:07.240 --> 00:43:12.240 require require initiative and and some self some self-direction the last third 507 00:43:12.240 --> 00:43:17.760 of the gallery is an underwater uh underwater uh excavation and Discovery 508 00:43:17.760 --> 00:43:23.000 by uh National Geographic uh emerging Explorer Professor Charlie Charles 509 00:43:23.000 --> 00:43:27.079 Beaker from Indiana University who has found the Shipwreck of Captain kid the 510 00:43:27.079 --> 00:43:31.599 pirate in 10 ft of water in the Dominican Republic and so as we have a 511 00:43:31.599 --> 00:43:37.440 lab in our paleo lab we'll have our dinosaur exhibit we'll have a wet lab in 512 00:43:37.440 --> 00:43:42.960 this space as well that allow children and families to learn more about 513 00:43:42.960 --> 00:43:47.000 underwater archaeology and of course we're linking this back to our info Zone 514 00:43:47.000 --> 00:43:52.800 with books about seti the first books about Captain kid and underwater 515 00:43:52.800 --> 00:43:57.319 archaeology as well as the Terracotta Warriors of of of 516 00:43:57.319 --> 00:44:01.880 Shian the last slide is just an overview of how we're dealing with the humanities 517 00:44:01.880 --> 00:44:05.040 and particularly the notion of leadership and responsibility which are 518 00:44:05.040 --> 00:44:11.040 key 21st century skills this Gallery is uh it's been open for four years and it 519 00:44:11.040 --> 00:44:16.960 it reflects um it tells the story of three three uh extraordinary children 520 00:44:16.960 --> 00:44:20.839 who in life and death have transformed the world an Frank child of the 1940s 521 00:44:20.839 --> 00:44:27.079 and the Holocaust Ruby Bridges child of the 1960s and uh uh segregation uh 522 00:44:27.079 --> 00:44:32.559 victim of segregation and Ryan White um child of the 80s who overcame Prejudice 523 00:44:32.559 --> 00:44:38.200 related to Pediatric HIV there are three history paths here uh the visitor goes 524 00:44:38.200 --> 00:44:43.839 to three uh immersive sound stages where the the presentation can be uh presented 525 00:44:43.839 --> 00:44:48.800 with a live actor or in a sound and light show or in what we call exhibit 526 00:44:48.800 --> 00:44:55.079 mode next to this area is is an area called take a taking action where 527 00:44:55.079 --> 00:44:59.119 children and families get get to exhibit leadership and take responsibility for 528 00:44:59.119 --> 00:45:03.359 uh deciding how they're going to make the world a better place they can plan 529 00:45:03.359 --> 00:45:08.760 uh what it what it takes to to uh to implement their Implement an idea they 530 00:45:08.760 --> 00:45:12.000 can make a promise which actually ascends up into that tree that you see 531 00:45:12.000 --> 00:45:17.559 in the middle of the top row of of images uh we have extended that program 532 00:45:17.559 --> 00:45:21.920 to create the power of children awards where we identify three to six uh kids 533 00:45:21.920 --> 00:45:26.760 from Indiana ages 11 to 17 each year who have done extraordinary on behalf of 534 00:45:26.760 --> 00:45:31.880 others they received a $2,000 award to further their philanthropic work and a 535 00:45:31.880 --> 00:45:36.680 four-year scholarship to Indiana University we again linked the power of 536 00:45:36.680 --> 00:45:41.520 children back to infaz Zone with Rich stories about Ruby Bridges and and 537 00:45:41.520 --> 00:45:46.720 materials about Ruby Bridges and about Ryan White and about uh Anne Frank and 538 00:45:46.720 --> 00:45:51.559 and the Holocaust so that's an overview of of of how we've taken the 21st 539 00:45:51.559 --> 00:45:57.960 century skills to create uh for us that it's almost a set of criteria for how we 540 00:45:57.960 --> 00:46:01.960 create an extraordinary family learning experience that takes the form of not 541 00:46:01.960 --> 00:46:08.920 only 2D and 3D exhibits but also programs in our infozone uh infozone 542 00:46:09.920 --> 00:46:15.800 Library thank you it's my pleasure now to introduce 543 00:46:15.800 --> 00:46:19.640 Lewis Herrera City librarian San Francisco Public Library where it must 544 00:46:19.640 --> 00:46:25.240 be just sunny and warm thank you very much Jeff uh and yes indeed it is uh 545 00:46:25.240 --> 00:46:30.040 it's sunny in the 60s so hope I don't make all of you folks uh too jealous but 546 00:46:30.040 --> 00:46:35.520 U it's a pleasure to be here uh today uh to talk about the San Francisco Public 547 00:46:35.520 --> 00:46:42.640 Library experience uh particularly as as it applies to the 21st century um skill 548 00:46:42.640 --> 00:46:46.800 set and and Jeff I have to tell you that I was really impressed with all that's 549 00:46:46.800 --> 00:46:51.079 going on in the children's museum in Indianapolis because a lot of that does 550 00:46:51.079 --> 00:46:55.559 speak to the issue of Engagement and really having experiential experiences 551 00:46:55.559 --> 00:47:02.640 here with uh these skills so uh last November the San Francisco Public 552 00:47:02.640 --> 00:47:07.480 Library had the pleasure of hosting a conversation with Museum and Library 553 00:47:07.480 --> 00:47:13.440 leaders in our city uh where over 60 leaders came together to share lessons 554 00:47:13.440 --> 00:47:19.160 and promising practices about our role in fostering these skills what I found 555 00:47:19.160 --> 00:47:23.880 very exciting was that there was a very strong consensus that the public library 556 00:47:23.880 --> 00:47:29.359 was uh the catalyst the key leader and focal point in bringing together all 557 00:47:29.359 --> 00:47:33.319 these institutions so together we developed 558 00:47:33.319 --> 00:47:36.960 key strategies which I want to highlight during my 559 00:47:36.960 --> 00:47:42.000 presentation the next slide highlights these key 560 00:47:42.000 --> 00:47:45.839 strategies we talked about leveraging Community 561 00:47:45.839 --> 00:47:51.720 collaborations this is what libraries do best so it's all about fostering and 562 00:47:51.720 --> 00:47:57.400 facilitating more and more Community Partnerships um and working together 563 00:47:57.400 --> 00:48:03.119 it's also about engaging learning networks uh to work with agencies that 564 00:48:03.119 --> 00:48:07.400 share our mission whether it's schools whether it's parent networks or 565 00:48:07.400 --> 00:48:12.400 nonprofits it's really about making sure that we tie into a broad array of 566 00:48:12.400 --> 00:48:16.480 Community Learning networks more and more we're also seeing 567 00:48:16.480 --> 00:48:23.040 libraries as gathering places and Librarians can play a crucial role as 568 00:48:23.040 --> 00:48:28.760 facilitators in uh community convers ations so it is about facilitating civil 569 00:48:28.760 --> 00:48:34.240 discourse then we talked about a broader expansion of the definition of 570 00:48:34.240 --> 00:48:39.000 traditional literacy we usually think of it as as basic reading skills but more 571 00:48:39.000 --> 00:48:43.599 we're seeing trans literacy mean that uh the impact of technology means that 572 00:48:43.599 --> 00:48:49.720 folks have to be computer media and information literate as well as social 573 00:48:49.720 --> 00:48:54.839 literacy issues such as the environment health and financial literacy which uh 574 00:48:54.839 --> 00:48:57.160 some of my colleagues have already touched 575 00:48:57.160 --> 00:49:04.079 upon last we wanted to focus on the wide range of Education to take into account 576 00:49:04.079 --> 00:49:07.680 that we have very diverse learning styles whether it's because of 577 00:49:07.680 --> 00:49:13.280 generational or age differences or social economic uh 578 00:49:13.280 --> 00:49:21.720 diversity so taking these strategies we developed priorities for 21st century 579 00:49:21.720 --> 00:49:26.680 skills and it fell into the next slide please 580 00:49:26.680 --> 00:49:33.760 four different areas we talked about uh in our library uh developing a service 581 00:49:33.760 --> 00:49:38.640 program that included service Innovation and Technology Community 582 00:49:38.640 --> 00:49:43.839 Partnerships Community engagement and Workforce Development so in the time 583 00:49:43.839 --> 00:49:48.799 that I have AED I'm going to give you highlights of the services and programs 584 00:49:48.799 --> 00:49:53.799 that tie into these priorities but more importantly how they connect with 21st 585 00:49:53.799 --> 00:49:58.280 century skills so when we talk about the the next slide 586 00:49:58.280 --> 00:50:04.720 which is about service Innovation and Technology what you see under the slide 587 00:50:04.720 --> 00:50:11.119 the next slide are screenshots of programs that we have 588 00:50:11.119 --> 00:50:16.480 implemented here in the San Francisco Public Library we recognized the 589 00:50:16.480 --> 00:50:21.799 importance of innovative service and the use of technology to meet the new trends 590 00:50:21.799 --> 00:50:27.880 in Mobile learning we also know that in the report it talks about uh mobile 591 00:50:27.880 --> 00:50:33.799 learning becoming more and more of a trend and also having access to online 592 00:50:33.799 --> 00:50:40.559 training almost 247 was very important so um during the course of the prior 593 00:50:40.559 --> 00:50:45.720 year a service Innovation staff team uh here in the library focused on user 594 00:50:45.720 --> 00:50:50.640 needs in this Ming environment and we learned that mobile Computing is indeed 595 00:50:50.640 --> 00:50:54.880 the fastest growing mode of accessing the internet especially for people that 596 00:50:54.880 --> 00:50:59.920 fall Within div a digital divide so what we felt was important was 597 00:50:59.920 --> 00:51:05.920 to create a multilingual mobile mobile web device that allows users to search 598 00:51:05.920 --> 00:51:13.079 the catalog Library events programs and even email reference from your mobile um 599 00:51:13.079 --> 00:51:18.720 phone and you see that on the farand right another Innovation was a creation 600 00:51:18.720 --> 00:51:24.480 of an online tutorial on popular employment websites on the internet this 601 00:51:24.480 --> 00:51:29.480 also includ ined a step-by-step process for searching employment 602 00:51:29.480 --> 00:51:35.079 opportunities uh this online tool was developed also as part of an imls Grant 603 00:51:35.079 --> 00:51:41.079 with oclc's web Junction as a key partner and what we feel is so important 604 00:51:41.079 --> 00:51:46.119 and this has really really been a useful tool particularly during the economic 605 00:51:46.119 --> 00:51:51.240 recession in high unemployment so it meets a critical uh Demand with more and 606 00:51:51.240 --> 00:51:56.920 more folks having to apply online and and learn learn the basic computer 607 00:51:56.920 --> 00:52:02.640 literacy skills uh this tool um is is a viable uh 608 00:52:02.640 --> 00:52:07.440 contribution the library also partnered with the King County Library to develop 609 00:52:07.440 --> 00:52:13.880 a US citizenship resource guide on the web which provides multilingual guides 610 00:52:13.880 --> 00:52:19.920 exam practice questions and Community Resources for the US citizenship 611 00:52:19.920 --> 00:52:23.160 examination uh the resource as you see on the 612 00:52:23.160 --> 00:52:28.839 screen uh middle of the screen uh is in English Spanish Cantonese Mandarin and 613 00:52:28.839 --> 00:52:34.000 Russian and has had a phenomenal response because we realize how 614 00:52:34.000 --> 00:52:40.040 important this is to respond to the community need out there and the 615 00:52:40.559 --> 00:52:47.720 demand the library also um created a laptop lending program uh for in-house 616 00:52:47.720 --> 00:52:54.520 use and it also has a variety of mobile applications and to our uh enjoyment 617 00:52:54.520 --> 00:53:01.040 we've seen this become the highest circulating item in our collections over 618 00:53:01.040 --> 00:53:07.280 14,000 laptops were checked out just in the last six months what this tells us 619 00:53:07.280 --> 00:53:11.359 is that it's it's not only expanding the access to technology but it's helping us 620 00:53:11.359 --> 00:53:16.960 Bridge the digital divide and specifically helps to uh address the 621 00:53:16.960 --> 00:53:22.520 information media and Technology skills as along with global 622 00:53:22.520 --> 00:53:29.599 awareness next slide please in terms of Community 623 00:53:29.599 --> 00:53:35.680 Partnerships we also realize that it's really important for libraries to 624 00:53:35.680 --> 00:53:42.280 address uh collaborations if we are to succeed in 21st century skills 625 00:53:42.280 --> 00:53:49.480 development earlier I mentioned that uh trans literacy was becoming an important 626 00:53:49.480 --> 00:53:54.799 aspect in developing these skills and here in San Francisco we have indeed 627 00:53:54.799 --> 00:54:01.040 fostered of cultural Partnerships uh one of the ideas that we've had was to uh 628 00:54:01.040 --> 00:54:06.799 work with the Arts commission to develop a very successful writers core program 629 00:54:06.799 --> 00:54:12.960 where we match uh authors and professional writers with atrisk youth 630 00:54:12.960 --> 00:54:17.680 in our neighborhood libraries in our schools uh to develop not only their 631 00:54:17.680 --> 00:54:25.160 creative Talent uh but also to express and develop basic writing skills uh this 632 00:54:25.160 --> 00:54:31.000 program was recognized this year by the imls and First Lady Michelle Obama as 633 00:54:31.000 --> 00:54:37.400 one of the Key Programs of successful programs uh in uh literacy 634 00:54:37.400 --> 00:54:42.040 development as I mentioned trans literacy goes beyond reading and the 635 00:54:42.040 --> 00:54:47.119 library's also taken a leadership role in advancing environmental literacy we 636 00:54:47.119 --> 00:54:51.880 have what we call a green Stacks program so San Francisco there's a tremendous 637 00:54:51.880 --> 00:54:55.799 amount of interest in sustainable living the environment 638 00:54:55.799 --> 00:55:01.599 so the library wanted to play a key and and and focal point uh by becoming the 639 00:55:01.599 --> 00:55:07.119 One-Stop web portal that features resources on Sustainable Building 640 00:55:07.119 --> 00:55:12.960 practices uh and our Collections and programs that support that uh we're in a 641 00:55:12.960 --> 00:55:18.280 very active Capital Improvement program and our libraries are uh either lead 642 00:55:18.280 --> 00:55:24.680 silver or gold and all of this U plays into informing and educating the public 643 00:55:24.680 --> 00:55:28.880 about the environment the next 644 00:55:28.880 --> 00:55:35.520 slide speaks to the issue of community engagement uh you see here a variety of 645 00:55:35.520 --> 00:55:43.039 of programs also that uh address basic scientific and visual literacy uh all 646 00:55:43.039 --> 00:55:48.039 the way to communication and cross-disciplinary thinking uh all these 647 00:55:48.039 --> 00:55:51.720 which are a range of learning and Innovation skills that are part of the 648 00:55:51.720 --> 00:55:56.880 20 21st century portfolio this can happen by engaging 649 00:55:56.880 --> 00:56:02.160 the Community Partnerships with nonprofits uh Child Development Centers 650 00:56:02.160 --> 00:56:06.599 and parents for example have been Key to Our Success in our early literacy 651 00:56:06.599 --> 00:56:10.440 initiative it's called the every child ready to read which many of us are 652 00:56:10.440 --> 00:56:15.799 familiar in the public library um sector uh but here in San Francisco the library 653 00:56:15.799 --> 00:56:20.680 increased the number of story times for children birthed through 5 years uh by 654 00:56:20.680 --> 00:56:25.680 almost 200% uh by engaging uh 655 00:56:25.680 --> 00:56:32.640 daycare centers um child care providers in the initiative as well as parents and 656 00:56:32.640 --> 00:56:38.240 in our annual survey 95% of the adults who bring children to story time now say 657 00:56:38.240 --> 00:56:42.440 that they read more often with their child check out more Library materials 658 00:56:42.440 --> 00:56:47.960 and identify the library as an important School Readiness resource uh due to the 659 00:56:47.960 --> 00:56:53.160 every child ready to read program you also see a huge uh humaniz 660 00:56:53.160 --> 00:56:58.839 hand uh puppet here uh that's our libraryies tricycle Music Fest which was 661 00:56:58.839 --> 00:57:04.280 tout touted as the biggest little music fest in San Francisco uh we had toddlers 662 00:57:04.280 --> 00:57:09.400 shaking rattling and rolling around the city all related to music and 663 00:57:09.400 --> 00:57:13.559 literacy and one of our newest programs that's been in place for about six 664 00:57:13.559 --> 00:57:19.920 months is check out San Francisco uh family pass it's a partnership with the 665 00:57:19.920 --> 00:57:24.400 library and the department of children youth and families that provides free 666 00:57:24.400 --> 00:57:29.559 passes to 17 cultural attractions ranging from the zoo The Academy of 667 00:57:29.559 --> 00:57:35.599 Science the Asian Art Museum a whole Litany of of cultural 668 00:57:35.599 --> 00:57:41.839 organizations uh that's provided an average of, 1500 free passes each month 669 00:57:41.839 --> 00:57:46.680 uh and again many of these children and families have NE had never visited the 670 00:57:46.680 --> 00:57:51.280 attractions perhaps could not afford them uh but this partnership has really 671 00:57:51.280 --> 00:57:55.880 made the library the focal point of creating that wonderful experience 672 00:57:55.880 --> 00:58:00.160 throughout the city next slide 673 00:58:00.160 --> 00:58:05.839 please in Workforce Development I believe that this is in 674 00:58:05.839 --> 00:58:09.839 fact the most critical priority for addressing 21st century 675 00:58:09.839 --> 00:58:14.880 skills public libraries are learning organizations and they need to invest in 676 00:58:14.880 --> 00:58:20.640 enhancing the skills portfolio of their staff as well as in helping develop the 677 00:58:20.640 --> 00:58:25.240 workforce in our communities the library has develop its 678 00:58:25.240 --> 00:58:31.160 own leadership academy uh to expand the skills portfolio of our staff uh what 679 00:58:31.160 --> 00:58:37.599 you see here is a variety of uh workshops through JPL which stands for 680 00:58:37.599 --> 00:58:42.319 the next generation of Public Library leaders it's a multi-year strategy to 681 00:58:42.319 --> 00:58:47.599 grow Future Leaders that understand the complex role of libraries in our 682 00:58:47.599 --> 00:58:51.599 communities and how they can demonstrate leadership at the neighborhood 683 00:58:51.599 --> 00:58:57.240 level this touches on a Litany of skills related to to Civic literacy local and 684 00:58:57.240 --> 00:59:02.680 Global awareness and life and career skills such as adapting to change 685 00:59:02.680 --> 00:59:07.680 self-direction crosscultural skills and all aspect of leadership development and 686 00:59:07.680 --> 00:59:11.400 it really has created this kind of culture of Engagement and culture of 687 00:59:11.400 --> 00:59:18.799 change within staff in a large Urban Library the other success um within this 688 00:59:18.799 --> 00:59:23.599 Workforce Development is related to what Mary Boon earlier talked about in terms 689 00:59:23.599 --> 00:59:29.599 of project comp us which was the um Workforce and employment opportunities 690 00:59:29.599 --> 00:59:36.039 and libraries indeed the nature of work is changing and many are using computers 691 00:59:36.039 --> 00:59:42.400 uh to look at career uh job opportunities last year we saw 500,000 692 00:59:42.400 --> 00:59:48.039 hours of computer use in a library and 25% of the people using 693 00:59:48.039 --> 00:59:53.440 computers uh here in San Francisco were using them for employment purposes so we 694 00:59:53.440 --> 00:59:57.599 obviously saw the need for more access to computers to work on resumés fill out 695 00:59:57.599 --> 01:00:04.520 online applications even learn basic computer skills the job Seekers lab that 696 01:00:04.520 --> 01:00:09.880 we've utilized here uh provides one-on-one support to learn these 697 01:00:09.880 --> 01:00:15.720 job-seeking skills uh and also to apply technology effectively in other words IT 698 01:00:15.720 --> 01:00:22.559 addresses the key 21st century skill of information communication and Technology 699 01:00:22.559 --> 01:00:28.640 literacy and last we have a Small Business Center that um is working very 700 01:00:28.640 --> 01:00:34.599 very closely with uh entrepreneurs in the city uh to provide materials on how 701 01:00:34.599 --> 01:00:40.240 to plan Finance organize and operate uh in the small business environment and 702 01:00:40.240 --> 01:00:45.799 particularly when the U economic recession has had an impact uh this has 703 01:00:45.799 --> 01:00:50.440 been a very important role that the library has played in business 704 01:00:50.440 --> 01:00:55.240 development so these were a series of examples of how we're taking our program 705 01:00:55.240 --> 01:01:01.240 strategy uh to address the 21st century skills uh but we've learned a lot and so 706 01:01:01.240 --> 01:01:07.599 the LA the last slide uh speaks to the issue of what's worked for 707 01:01:08.400 --> 01:01:14.359 us in terms of uh the library we feel that we are positioning the library from 708 01:01:14.359 --> 01:01:20.119 a a vision an idea of working closely in the community to a strategy for success 709 01:01:20.119 --> 01:01:24.720 and several aspects have kept us in check first of all we focus on on 710 01:01:24.720 --> 01:01:31.000 outcomes and impact in other words what is it that we're doing what value do we 711 01:01:31.000 --> 01:01:37.640 bring to um our community in the various programs and what kind of difference are 712 01:01:37.640 --> 01:01:44.160 we making resources are are limited so Le leveraging resources and partner 713 01:01:44.160 --> 01:01:49.799 Partnerships are extremely important I'm very proud to say that the city looks at 714 01:01:49.799 --> 01:01:54.520 the library as a model of engaging Partners uh this includes other City 715 01:01:54.520 --> 01:01:58.799 agencies nonprofits as well as the private 716 01:01:58.799 --> 01:02:03.720 sector it's also important that libraries are quick to respond that they 717 01:02:03.720 --> 01:02:08.039 create organizations that seize opportunities particularly with 718 01:02:08.039 --> 01:02:12.359 diminishing resources and last I'll leave you with 719 01:02:12.359 --> 01:02:17.119 the fact that it's important to share our stories to brag about what we do to 720 01:02:17.119 --> 01:02:19.920 talk about how we make a difference and to be 721 01:02:19.920 --> 01:02:25.359 assertive and strategic in telling the community stakeholders the key role that 722 01:02:25.359 --> 01:02:30.520 we play and the value that we bring to the quality of life of our residents and 723 01:02:30.520 --> 01:02:33.720 users thank 724 01:02:45.279 --> 01:02:50.720 you this is Mary um I just I want to thank Mary Boone Jeff patch and Luise 725 01:02:50.720 --> 01:02:54.920 Herrera for and all of you for joining us um 726 01:02:54.920 --> 01:03:00.720 for this webinar and I guess um at this point I think I'm not sure exactly what 727 01:03:00.720 --> 01:03:05.680 Logistics are working in the other room but I believe the um lines will be 728 01:03:05.680 --> 01:03:10.920 unmuted and people will have an opportunity to call in with some 729 01:03:10.920 --> 01:03:16.039 questions and whoever is the best person to answer will be doing that answering 730 01:03:16.039 --> 01:03:21.119 so please um accept my gratitude for everybody's wonderful participation and 731 01:03:21.119 --> 01:03:24.799 I hope we've sparked some curiosity and spurred some 732 01:03:24.799 --> 01:03:27.799 questions