Are your library’s brainstorming sessions more like… brain droughts? M.J. D’Elia and Robin Bergart of Innovative Bootcamp (University of Guelph) will show you activities and strategies you can use to teach your library how to be a more creative organization. As academic libraries face new technologies, shifting priorities, and ever-increasing competition for resources, they must learn to respond creatively to problems. Innovation and organizational creativity know-how are critical to success. Leave this active, hands-on session electrified!
27. visual deck (instructions)
• Jot down 10 observations
–What jumps out?
–How are students using the space?
–How are they interacting?
• Time: 4 minutes
28. visual deck (instructions)
• Find a partner and compare notes
–What did you notice?
• What do your observations tell you
about this library?
• Time: 4 minutes
29. visual deck (debrief)
• Observation vs. Interpretation
• Observe then question
• Noticing leads to new ideas
35. life is like... (materials)
• White envelope
• Something to write with
36. life is like... (instructions)
• Get in groups of 2 or 3
• Grab a worksheet (inside envelope)
37. life is like... (instructions)
• Librarians are like __________
• Discuss the three questions
• Record your thoughts
38. life is like... (options)
• Lifeguards
• Detectives
• Auto mechanics
• Lawyers
• Dentists
• Chefs
• Safari guides
• Ski instructors
• Waiters
• Plumbers
• Farmers
• Pilots
39. life is like... (questions)
• What comes to mind when you
think of __________?
• What would the profession look
like if we acted more like _______?
• What would the patron experience
look like?
40. life is like... (debrief)
• Generative analogies
• Look for new possibilities
• Connect seemingly disparate ideas
46. three tries! (set up)
• Find a partner
–Partner “A” and Partner “B”
• Grab one bag of Lego per pair
47. three tries (instructions)
• Grab a partner
• Three successive builds
–Build #1: Partner A
–Build #2: Partner B
–Build #3: Both partners
48. three tries (scenario: partner A)
ACME Sleds manufactures high quality
sleds and toboggans. You are the lead
designer for their 2013 Super Sled Racer.
49. three tries (challenge #1: partner A)
• Build the 2013 Super Sled Racer
–Use the Lego mini-fig (the Lego dude)
–Use the black platform
• Time: 3 minutes
50. three tries (challenge #1: partner A)
• Explain the features of your sled
• Time: 1 minute
55. three tries (challenge #3: both)
• Build anything you can sell
–Use any part of your inventory
–You CAN use the black platform again
• Time: 3 minutes
67. culture of innovation
• Ask why (and why not?)
• Improve your capacity to notice
• Explore the adjacent possible
• Frame your problems for possibility
• Learn by doing
68. Busting Out of the Cubicle
Your Creative Self at Work
M.J. D’Elia
mdelia@uoguelph.ca
Twitter: @mjdelia
Robin Bergart
rbergart@uoguelph.ca
ALA 2013: Chicago
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/acrlac13programevaluation
69. Busting Out of the Cubicle
Your Creative Self at Work
M.J. D’Elia & Robin Bergart
University of Guelph
ALA 2013
Image: The Noun Project, Jakub Ukrup (cc) http://thenounproject.com/noun/rubiks-cube/#icon-No4929