Library: Empowering your community to learn Heather Braum NExpress Coordinator & Resource Sharing Librarian Northeast Kansas Library System [email protected]
Maker Movement • Rapidly changing job market • If everything is online, does the library even matter? • Learning is changing/formal education isn’t keeping up
Classes of all types offered at libraries • Regrouping of the nonfiction collection • Online database offerings • Hosting MOOCs • Active Librarian intervention • Meeting community needs
OER Livebinder eTexts/Curriculum (Joyce Valenza) Creative Commons Education Edutopia Open Education Roundup Kansas Dept. of Education (KSDE) FREE: Federal Registry for Ed. Excellence
Public Library of America (DPLA) Open Library National Science Digital Library Dole Institute & Archives Worldcat Information Skills instruction resources
on the future of learning and/or future of libraries • Expect More, by R. David Lankes • Organizations like Digital Media Learning, Mind/Shift (KQED), TED, DIY Education • Always asking, how to learn more about ____?
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