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| * **Open Innovation:** Patrons don't just receive prints; they learn CAD design, troubleshooting, and engineering. | * **Open Innovation:** Patrons don't just receive prints; they learn CAD design, troubleshooting, and engineering. |
| * **Community Hubs:** We rebuild partnerships with the **Yakima MakerSpace** and local schools to create a county-wide "Innovation Corridor." | * **Community Hubs:** We rebuild partnerships with the **Yakima MakerSpace** and local schools to create a county-wide "Innovation Corridor." |
| * **Staff Experts:** Instead of one gatekeeper, every branch has a "Tech Champion" trained and empowered to help patrons create art and prototypes. | * **Staff Experts:** Instead of one gatekeeper, every branch has a "community Champion" trained and empowered to help patrons create art and and fun for the whole family. It does not always fit into neat little pieces but events happen and people show up, we count the attendance, real simple, right? |
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| ===== 2. Radical Transparency & Collaboration ===== | ===== 2. Radical Transparency & Collaboration ===== |
| * **The "Live" Library:** Staff can update the website in real-time to reflect local branch events, rather than waiting for IT approval. | * **The "Live" Library:** Staff can update the website in real-time to reflect local branch events, rather than waiting for IT approval. |
| * **Horizontal Knowledge:** A librarian in Sunnyside can instantly share a successful program idea with a colleague in Selah, without a manager "siloing" the conversation. | * **Horizontal Knowledge:** A librarian in Sunnyside can instantly share a successful program idea with a colleague in Selah, without a manager "siloing" the conversation. |
| | * We are so afraid at staff "going rouge" and doing something unapproved, and why is that exactly? this is not the path to new ideas. |
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| ===== 3. Beyond the Walls: The "Active Outreach" Model ===== | ===== 3. Beyond the Walls: The "Active Outreach" Model ===== |
| We shouldn't wait for patrons to come to us; we meet them where they are: | We shouldn't wait for patrons to come to us; we meet them where they are: |
| * **The Fair & The Festivals:** YVL booths should be the highlight of the County Fair—not just passing out bookmarks, but hosting "Mobile Maker Labs." | * **The Fair & The Festivals:** YVL booths should be the highlight of the County Fair—not just passing out bookmarks, but hosting "Mobile Maker Labs." |
| * **Business Incubation:** Providing small business owners and farmers with the tech tools (3D printing for parts, advanced data research) they need to thrive. | * **Business Incubation:** Providing small business owners and farmers with the tech tools (3D printing for parts, advanced data research) they need to thrive. Computer training? YES people still need it but now they have these pocket ones too! we have a more complicated world than ever to navigate and our patrons do too! how many of the people are trying to fulfill an obligation to their government or family during their library visit? Are we not ambassadors for the information age? |
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| ===== 4. A Culture of Professional Dignity ===== | ===== 4. A Culture of Professional Dignity ===== |
