Registration Cost: $150SlidesSee the
webinar we hosted in March for more details, too!
The library is a special space on any campus. And libraries are in a unique position to serve as ideal grounds for testing out new ideas - whether improvements to internal library systems or to library services and the communities they serve. It isn’t always easy to get the time and space to make the best use of the library for exploration or ‘hacking’. Whether it’s time, or politics or just having the tools and knowledge to create your own lab or hacking center in the library, these challenges can hold you back.
This pre-conference session aims to unblock you, to enable and support your hacking. Three hours will fly by as you have hands-on fun learning from master hackers and innovators, the skills and techniques for clarifying outcomes, designing changes, testing them, getting early feedback, and most importantly, learning how to engage others to invest in your solutions.
Learning outcomes include;
- getting buy-in for your 'against-the-grain' ideas
- exploring the power of partnerships
- finding uncommon solutions to common problems
- leveraging design thinking and systems thinking
- creating a discovery project plan (step-by-step)
- expanding return-on-investment (ROI) metrics into impact metrics
All attendees will come in with an 'ambition' (some area they want to explore for change) and they will leave ready to start tackling their ambition like a true creative hacker. Plus, you get some takeaway handouts and tools that will help you back at the office.
