Digital and Accessible Library: Inclusive Innovation for the Digitization of Educational Materials and Libraries

Rodés, Virgínia; Díaz, Patricia Verónica López; Patrón, Carina; Diaz-Costoff, Alicia; Podetti, Manuel; Souza, Ana de; Motz, Regina; García, Camila Gianotti

doi:10.1109/laclo49268.2019.00060

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“…Public libraries are currently gaining significant new roles, such as acting as community centers, non-formal and lifelong learning sites, and places for meetings, communication, dialogue, and inclusion [1]. With this change in position, libraries can strengthen their role in solving societal or local problems, broaden their fields of competence and better respond to the identified needs of their users and local communities.…”

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Designing an incubator for social innovations in libraries: Learnings from the Research through Design approach

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Promoting social innovations in libraries requires a new approach to designing innovation programs. In order to provide the effective learning program on social innovations for libraries, the Research through Design methodology was selected as a tool for setting the program for the needs of participants as well as for providing scalable approach to designing innovation programs aimed at increasing the innovation competencies of librarians. Design thinking and the design process are a suitable basis for incubating new socially innovative services. However, the design process needs to include the subsequent phases of the social innovation life cycle, such as demonstrating the impact, its successful presentation or scaling. For a higher social impact, it is necessary to strengthen the importance of participatory community network mapping as a key input in solving community problems and the role and future direction of the library. When designing, it is necessary to integrate all these components into one whole, and when facilitating, it is necessary to pay attention to all these parts. Four runs of the incubation program are described as well as their results, outputs, and learnings from the whole designing process. Gasparini’sconcepts of openness, dialogical spaces and temporality have proven to be applicable also for designing the incubation programs for public libraries. Within the incubation programs attention should be paid both to user-oriented and inner organizational social innovations.

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confidence: 99%