Keynote at ChALS 2018: http://www.lib.chalmers.se/paa-biblioteket/chals-2018/

1. Be like Brando:
The Library as arena for co-creation
and belonging
Christian Lauersen
Director of Libraries and Citizen services
Roskilde Municipality
Twitter: @clauersen
Mail: cula@roskilde.dk
ChALS 2018
Gothenburg University Library, September 26

2. Why is learning important?

3. Is the library a
place for learning?

4. One way to look at it…

5. ”A great library should be a
workshop as well as a repository.
It should teach the methods of
thorough research, and cultivate
in readers the habit of
seeking the original sources
of learning”
- Justin Winsor, late 1800
Another way to look at it…

6. The importance of defining your thing

7. Be Like Brando: 5 ways of defining your learning
(using Digital Social Science Lab as case)

8. Context: Digital Social Science Lab – why and what?

9. An open platform for education and events on digital methods
Hardware and software for harvesting, cleaning,
analyzing and visualizing data
A dynamic and aesthetically inspiring learning environment

11. What we do
• Events and teaching
• Facilitation and curating
• Community building

12. The learning aim of DSSL
• A
foster awareness and skills
on digital methods and data litearcy
in the academic community

13. 5 principles we have used to shape
and define the learning in DSSL
1. Why
2. Trust
3. Place
4. Humans
5. Belonging

14. Be like Brando #1:
Always start with The Why

15. There are only two ways to influence human behavior:
you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.
People don’t buy WHAT you do, they buy WHY you do it
- Simon Sinek

16. WHY DO I NEED TO
LEARN THIS?

17. Storytelling:
Data literacy will give you new ways
to gain knowledge about the world

18. Be like Brando #2: Trust matters

19. 1. Midwives
2. Nurses
3. Doctors
4. Police
5. LIBRARIANS!
…
22. Bank advisors
23. Real estate agents
24. Journalists
25. Car dealers
26. Politicians
Who do we trust in Denmark?
Source: https://radiuscph.dk/

20. Trust is crusial for learning
and as libraries we are sitting on gold

21. Be like Brando #3: Places matters

22. What makes a
great place?

24. Digital Social Science Lab:
Flexible, mobile, green, open, purpose,
ownership, different, people

25. An alternative to the classic learning setup

26. Hardware and furniture is not enough

27. The librarian
The most valuable asset of the library place?
It is not the chairs, it is not the tables
It is the library staff and the users
Be like Brando #4: Humans matter

28. The Library as place

29. Traditional learning vs. peer-to-peer learning
The users as co-creator

30. Facilitation of peer-to-peer learning:
Digital Methods Sessions, Data
Sprints, network

31. Be like Brando #5: Belongingness

32. Maslow’s hierachy of needs (1943)

33. Why do they come?
”The need for connection and community is primal, as fundamental
as the need for air, water, and food”
- Dean Ornish

34. Digital Social Science Lab:
Building a community, making students belong

35. Conclusion?
Libraries have an obligation to support learning
We are trusted, great institutions and that comes with
a responsibility
So be like Brando: Take ownership, shape
and define your learning

36. Finally, Brando and a cat
Just because it’s nice

37. Thanks for listening, ChALS!
Christian Lauersen
Mail: cula@roskilde.dk
Twitter: @clauersen
Blog: christianlauersen.net
Instagram: @librarylovestories