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What Would Santa Save?
Designing Toyland
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Avatars
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THE BEST OF THE OLD.THE BEST OF THE NEW.THE BEST THAT IS YET TO BE.
~The Toyland Motto
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My life as an avatar.
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What is the single word that best describes a generation of kids who might choose Barbies, or Legos, or video games, or smartphones, or books, or all of these?
• The number one buzzword in the library literature.
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Makers
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A book is a tool we use to make things
with our imagination.
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Readers are makers, and the children’s collection has
always been a “maker-space”
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AppliedImagination
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The games we play are structured by applied
imagination.
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A library collection is an avatar of applied imagination: Play / Toyland.
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A library collection is a makerspace.
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5. A library [collection] is a growing organism.
S. R. Ranganathan, The Five Laws of Library Science.
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So Many Collections
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Relevance“Relevance is not something an
institution can assign by fiat.
Your work matters when it
matters to people—when THEY
deem it relevant, not you. The
Art of Relevance will help you
identify the people you seek to
engage, empathize with their
concerns and interests, and
develop authentic ways to
invite them into your work on their own terms.”
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Relevance•A tool must be related to a maker’s needs and interests.
•A tool must be easily discovered /accessible.
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Indicators of Relevance•Demand
•Currency
•Appearance
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Demand
•Needs & interests
•Discovery
•Access
Length of time since last circulation.
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Currency•Needs & interests
•Discovery
•Access
Length of time in the collection.
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Appearance•Needs & interests
•Discovery
•Access
Total number of circulations.
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• THE BEST OF THE OLD.
• THE BEST OF THE NEW.
• THE BEST THAT IS YET TO BE.
~The Toyland Motto
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THE BEST OF THE OLD.
Weeding with replacement
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Weeding with replacement
• Withdraw – No replacement
• Withdraw – Replacement
• Maintenance
• Core Lists
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THE BEST OF THE NEW.•Authors
•Series
•Themes
Core Lists
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THE BEST THAT IS YET TO BE.
Imagining the future
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U. S. Census, 2014
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Cooperative Children’s Book CenterU. of Wisconsin, Madison
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The Best of the Old 20 – 25 %
The Best of the New 50 – 60 %
The Best that is Yet to Be 20 – 25 %
Budgeting for Relevance
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As a librarian, you are the avatar of your collection.
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