Today, I am going to dig into the concept of communities of practices and what that means for libraries within the context of the new framework for information literacy. First, consider the foll...
https://designerlibrarian.wordpress.com/2015/01/28/information-literacy-and-communities-of-practice/
Last week, I took my daughter to the Kimbell Art Museum on her birthday (per her request). It’s a nice museum with a great restaurant, albeit small (compared to the Art Institute in Chicago). M...
https://designerlibrarian.wordpress.com/2014/07/30/designing-libraries-for-inter-activities/
What does KitKat and Harvard’s Library Test Kitchen have in common? The idea that we need wifi-free zones, or wifi coldspots: You can tell by KitKat’s ad above that they already think of the ...
https://designerlibrarian.wordpress.com/2014/03/17/why-every-library-needs-a-wifi-free-zone/
The Library Test Kitchen is an advanced seminar in the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Part class, and part funded-research, its goal is to “make things that contribute to the library discou...
https://designerlibrarian.wordpress.com/2014/02/07/harvards-library-test-kitchen-is-pretty-cool/