If you’re near the O Henry House / LABRARY by the Convention Center, stop by to get an ‘I geek Libraries/[fill-in-the-blank]’ profile pic ready for instant social use!
GeekTheLibrary.org has a campaign in support of libraries everywhere, to help raise awareness of the ways they can help people celebrate or share their interests. The Austin Public Library and the Austin Public Library Foundation, assisting at the Library Test Kitchen LABRARY site, will be bringing a way for you to join in.
Come share what you geek! Stop by the O Henry House, 409 East 5th St., fill in the blank: I geek _______ and get a quick profile picture takenThursday March 6 through Tuesday March 11, between 11 AM and 1 PM each day. The photos will be uploaded instantly to APL’s Facebook page, where participants can then grab them to use throughout the festival and beyond.
While you’re there, enjoy the activities already on tap at the LABRARY, a collaboration between the Austin Public Library Friends Foundation and the Library Test Kitchen, a Harvard Library-supported Design Seminar that engages students in designing and building future library machines. http://www.librarytestkitchen.org/labrary/
ULU's Volunteer Library Brigade has rolled out to the sidewalks, parks, and subway stations of New York City. Small teams set up tiny mobile library carts in public spaces around the city and to do on site-volunteer library work as needed for the citizens of New York City. We will look stuff up, hand out books, run storytimes for kids, offer directions, advocate for libraries, and more. The carts are stocked with reference books, maps, giveaways, WiFi, and free eBook downloads.
Christian and Lauren will represent ULU at SXSW Interactive to show off the VLB carts. Their presentation will show participants that through the tactical application of virtual communities and traditional sweat, you can achieve incredible results in your community.
http://urbanlibrariansunite.org/
If you’re near the O Henry House / LABRARY by the Convention Center, stop by to get an ‘I geek Libraries/[fill-in-the-blank]’ profile pic ready for instant social use!
GeekTheLibrary.org has a campaign in support of libraries everywhere, to help raise awareness of the ways they can help people celebrate or share their interests. The Austin Public Library and the Austin Public Library Foundation, assisting at the Library Test Kitchen LABRARY site, will be bringing a way for you to join in.
Come share what you geek! Stop by the O Henry House, 409 East 5th St., fill in the blank: I geek _______ and get a quick profile picture takenThursday March 6 through Tuesday March 11, between 11 AM and 1 PM each day. The photos will be uploaded instantly to APL’s Facebook page, where participants can then grab them to use throughout the festival and beyond.
While you’re there, enjoy the activities already on tap at the LABRARY, a collaboration between the Austin Public Library Friends Foundation and the Library Test Kitchen, a Harvard Library-supported Design Seminar that engages students in designing and building future library machines. http://www.librarytestkitchen.org/labrary/
ULU's Volunteer Library Brigade has rolled out to the sidewalks, parks, and subway stations of New York City. Small teams set up tiny mobile library carts in public spaces around the city and to do on site-volunteer library work as needed for the citizens of New York City. We will look stuff up, hand out books, run storytimes for kids, offer directions, advocate for libraries, and more. The carts are stocked with reference books, maps, giveaways, WiFi, and free eBook downloads.
Christian and Lauren will represent ULU at SXSW Interactive to show off the VLB carts. Their presentation will show participants that through the tactical application of virtual communities and traditional sweat, you can achieve incredible results in your community.
http://urbanlibrariansunite.org/
If you’re near the O Henry House / LABRARY by the Convention Center, stop by to get an ‘I geek Libraries/[fill-in-the-blank]’ profile pic ready for instant social use!
GeekTheLibrary.org has a campaign in support of libraries everywhere, to help raise awareness of the ways they can help people celebrate or share their interests. The Austin Public Library and the Austin Public Library Foundation, assisting at the Library Test Kitchen LABRARY site, will be bringing a way for you to join in.
Come share what you geek! Stop by the O Henry House, 409 East 5th St., fill in the blank: I geek _______ and get a quick profile picture takenThursday March 6 through Tuesday March 11, between 11 AM and 1 PM each day. The photos will be uploaded instantly to APL’s Facebook page, where participants can then grab them to use throughout the festival and beyond.
While you’re there, enjoy the activities already on tap at the LABRARY, a collaboration between the Austin Public Library Friends Foundation and the Library Test Kitchen, a Harvard Library-supported Design Seminar that engages students in designing and building future library machines. http://www.librarytestkitchen.org/labrary/
SXSW Presentation Link Edward Snowden’s dramatic revelations of classified information in 2013 set off a massive public debate concerning the intersection of technological change, national security, and privacy. Alas, that debate is not always sufficiently well informed when it comes to its legal, policy, and technical aspects. This 2.5-hour workshop is meant not to evangelize in favor of any one particular solution, but rather to provide attendees with a sophisticated-but-accessible foundation for sharpening (or perhaps changing) their own views. It brings together dynamic, nationally known experts in technology, privacy policy, civil liberties, law, and U.S. government intelligence policy. The workshop will delve into the technical and policy aspects of national security surveillance, the evolution of the legal architecture governing the NSA, and how policy may develop in the years ahead. We’ll also use various participatory measures to directly engage attendees.
Key Takeaways: 1. What exactly is the current state of the law when it comes to NSA surveillance? 2. What do we know about what the NSA is and is not doing? 3. What do privacy theorists have to say about the impact of technological change on our privacy? 4. How do national security officials think about these issues? 5. What is likely to happen going forward?
Prerequisites:
What to Bring:
ULU's Volunteer Library Brigade has rolled out to the sidewalks, parks, and subway stations of New York City. Small teams set up tiny mobile library carts in public spaces around the city and to do on site-volunteer library work as needed for the citizens of New York City. We will look stuff up, hand out books, run storytimes for kids, offer directions, advocate for libraries, and more. The carts are stocked with reference books, maps, giveaways, WiFi, and free eBook downloads.
Christian and Lauren will represent ULU at SXSW Interactive to show off the VLB carts. Their presentation will show participants that through the tactical application of virtual communities and traditional sweat, you can achieve incredible results in your community.
http://urbanlibrariansunite.org/
In the age of social media, everyone is a curator (or at least they think they are). Media-rich networks have empowered anyone with an interest in art to both disseminate and publish their own creative images and groupings of artworks—essentially, creative Internet users have the ability to assume the roles of curator, artist, and critic, all at the same time. Where do museums fit into this picture, and how can traditional museum curators align their practice with social media users to create meaningful cultural experiences with a public hungry for new ideas and personal resonance?
This panel will discuss the ways in which technology can enhance or strain against museum conventions, with a focus on digital projects that have fostered engaging art experiences. We will also examine how these projects point the way towards new methods of fulfilling the ultimate museum mission of being a place of insight and inspiration.
The future of libraries is here for the making.
Library Machines workshop is the time and space to get folks together to imagine, design and market new Library Machines.
What’s a Library Machine? They follow a little formula, “mad libs”-style:
“It's a special kind of _______ (SITE) _______ (THING) that when you ________ (ACTION) it __________ (REACTION)! It's cool because ____________________ (TELL US WHY IT'S COOL).”
E.g.
It’s a special kind of (READING ROOM) (ENVIRONMENT) that when you (WALK INSIDE) it (DISRUPTS WIFI AND CELLULAR CONNECTIVITY). It’s cool because (CROSSING THE THRESHOLD ALTERS YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH TECHNOLOGY).
Successor to last year's “Libraries: The Ultimate Playground,” we’ll begin with some brief inspiration, jump right into a no-skills-required design sprint and finish up with show and tell.
Facilitators, props and architecture-student designed Library Machines will be on hand to spark ideas and keep the energy high.
If you’re near the O Henry House / LABRARY by the Convention Center, stop by to get an ‘I geek Libraries/[fill-in-the-blank]’ profile pic ready for instant social use!
GeekTheLibrary.org has a campaign in support of libraries everywhere, to help raise awareness of the ways they can help people celebrate or share their interests. The Austin Public Library and the Austin Public Library Foundation, assisting at the Library Test Kitchen LABRARY site, will be bringing a way for you to join in.
Come share what you geek! Stop by the O Henry House, 409 East 5th St., fill in the blank: I geek _______ and get a quick profile picture takenThursday March 6 through Tuesday March 11, between 11 AM and 1 PM each day. The photos will be uploaded instantly to APL’s Facebook page, where participants can then grab them to use throughout the festival and beyond.
While you’re there, enjoy the activities already on tap at the LABRARY, a collaboration between the Austin Public Library Friends Foundation and the Library Test Kitchen, a Harvard Library-supported Design Seminar that engages students in designing and building future library machines. http://www.librarytestkitchen.org/labrary/
The book The World's Strongest Librarian has received rave reviews in The New Yorker, O Magazine, People, Wired, The Boston Globe, and many more. It is currently being translated into Korean, Chinese, and more languages are in the works. It's incredibly surreal, particularly since I still work at the library in Salt Lake City and have no plans on leaving.
I've been invited to play a show with the all-author band The Rock Bottom Remainders, which features Stephen King, Dave Barry, Amy Tan, Maya Angelou, Barbara Kingsolver, Matt Groening, and more.
Oh, the book also led to an opportunity to arm wrestle Stephen King when we were each speaking at the Mark Twain House in Hartford. I let him win, but he knows the score.
Clay Shirky has said that the only institutions that will thrive in the Internet age are those born of the Internet. We have built an ecosystem to advance digital startups: accelerators and incubators, mentors, curriculum and academic courses. In our rush to embrace startup culture, we risk ignoring the importance of institutions, public and private. US colleges and universities alone control over $350 billion. A handful of leaders and internal change agents are trying to apply startups’ culture of experimentation, appetite for risk and acceptance of failure to government, educational and corporate institutions. Disruption is lonely work; when they’re not successful internal change agents can find themselves isolated and out of a job. The panel will include two digital entrepreneurs with recent experience in institutions and someone with experience driving change within government.
Molly Steenson will come to the house to talk about iconoclastic British architect Cedric Price (1934–2003), who designed building-sized computers and learning systems. Information and its transmission was central to how he designed, and he used technology as a provocation and thinking tool that was intended to alter how people thought about learning and architecture. In particular, I'll talk about a set of projects he designed in the 60s and 70s.
Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act is responsible for the shape of the Internet as we know it today, by freeing website operators from needing to conduct a legal review of each and every user communication that crosses their systems.
And yet, the protection granted by Section 230 is both controversial and fragile. Judges are uncomfortable with the idea that websites can publish revenge porn, pay-to-remove mugshot galleries, and prostitution ads with impunity. State attorney generals have demanded that Congress amend Section 230 to give them broad new powers to bring criminal charges against social media sites, to use them as a choke point to cut off illegal content involving child trafficking. But what would limiting Section 230 mean for the future of peer-to-peer communication?
This panel will explore the controversy over Section 230, including the voices demanding its repeal or change and the consequences to online speech of yielding to such demands.
Libraries as the epicenter of innovation, technology and economic recovery? You bet your assets they are!
By finding creative ways to bring together techies, entrepreneurs, makers, and sometimes even angel investors, today’s libraries are able to inspire real life action that jumps off the page and into startup success. Find out how Princeton Public Library (NJ) is leveraging community collaborations with groups such as the Princeton Tech Meetup, Python Users Group in Princeton, the Princeton Chamber of Commerce and many more to create unique opportunities for social good and local growth.
This conversation will challenge you to rethink the role of the library in your community and encourage you to explore how libraries can be a focal point of insights, ideas and innovation. If you have been seeking a "real world” social platform that has the ability to bring together a mix of thinkers, tinkerers, coders and investors the library just might be your answer!
Through disaster response, street librarianship, and front line advocacy they work to bring libraries out into the community and make the direct impact that the library makes a great part of their community’s lives.
ULU is effective because it uses strategy, intent, and creative design to weave advocacy narratives that tell a story and make people want to make a difference. Despite having no money and very little staff they managed to make real and meaningful impact.
They can show you how you can do it too. Through the tactical application of virtual communities and traditional sweat equity you can achieve incredible results in your community and with as well.
Making their first appearance at SXSWi, internationally renowned and long dead authors, H.G. Wells and Mary Shelley, lead us through the incredible journey of being xHumed.
Brought back to life for unique events in London and Birmingham, England, the xHumed are a collective of Speakers-in-a-Box who imparted Dead Good Thinking at NESTA’s FutureFest and the Library of Birmingham.
The process of bringing back the dead was sometimes painful, but made possible through partnership with cultural and media archive organisations including the Library of Birmingham, Oxford University, BBC and others.
If we can archive and store our personal data, media, DNA and brain patterns, the question of whether we can bring back the dead is almost redundant. The right question is should we?
Project producers Samara and Jason Jones-Hall will join Wells, Shelley and other xHumed guests to reveal both the contemporary relevance of these Dead Good Thinkers and the ripple effect of resurrection.
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP22316
Spend half a day thinking and drawing with the founders of ImageThink, the official graphic recorders of SXSW 2014 in this hands on, interactive session.
Can’t draw a stick man? No problem! Simply doodling can improve your recollection, build neural connections and improve holistic thinking. Learn how taking notes visually will help you stay focused and recall all you learn at SXSW.
Have a problem or a project that is stalled? Turn it into a visual story and get a new perspective. We’ll show you basic models for organizing projects, data and information of all kind. Learn how to support and clarify complex ideas, spur creativity, solve problems, and collaborate better by simply picking up a pen.
The first hour will explore the science behind visual problem solving. After a quick break we will focus enhancing listening, organizational, and drawing skills for taking visual notes throughout the conference.
By the end of the day you will learn:
How to tell a better story with visuals.
Drawing skills you didn’t know you had!
Simple icons to help make your notes at SXSW more engaging and memorable.
Prerequisites:
None.
What to Bring:
Mr. Sketch markers, 12 count
If you’re near the O Henry House / LABRARY by the Convention Center, stop by to get an ‘I geek Libraries/[fill-in-the-blank]’ profile pic ready for instant social use!
GeekTheLibrary.org has a campaign in support of libraries everywhere, to help raise awareness of the ways they can help people celebrate or share their interests. The Austin Public Library and the Austin Public Library Foundation, assisting at the Library Test Kitchen LABRARY site, will be bringing a way for you to join in.
Come share what you geek! Stop by the O Henry House, 409 East 5th St., fill in the blank: I geek _______ and get a quick profile picture takenThursday March 6 through Tuesday March 11, between 11 AM and 1 PM each day. The photos will be uploaded instantly to APL’s Facebook page, where participants can then grab them to use throughout the festival and beyond.
While you’re there, enjoy the activities already on tap at the LABRARY, a collaboration between the Austin Public Library Friends Foundation and the Library Test Kitchen, a Harvard Library-supported Design Seminar that engages students in designing and building future library machines. http://www.librarytestkitchen.org/labrary/
Reducing Social Isolation of LGBT Seniors and Youth Through Technology, Centers and Libraries
From homeless LGBT youth to LGBT seniors who have been rejected by their families, this panel will explore the range of issues the youngest and oldest members of the LGBT communities face and how technology, centers and libraries may serve as the best partners to reduce isolation and homelessness.
In some of the most rural portions of the US, libraries have served as neutral information hubs for LGBT seniors and youth where other community resources fall short or are censored such as schools or free wifi hotspots. The rise of the Internet and social media have only accelerated the decrease in the isolation that has long been a part of the LGBT experience but many LGBT communities are still suffering.
Climbing a smokestack or chaining yourself to a tree is so 20th century (though still awesome!). What can civil disobedience and non-violent direct action look like online?
With examples from Aaron Swartz's freeing of information to a whistleblower like Edward Snowden to Anonymous-style hacking, we'll examine the following questions:
-- How does civil disobedience translate online?
-- What are current examples of civil disobedience and non-violent direct action happening online?
-- Molly Sauter (a panelist), has classified online civil disobedience into three categories: disruption, information distribution, and infrastructure. Are there tactics that exist outside of those categories?
-- How can we plan and organize civil disobedience online, given what we know about government and corporate monitoring of our communications?
-- How are our targets different for online direct action than offline direct action?
Renting a stranger’s house on the other side of the world, sharing an office space with fellow self-employed creatives, finding out about breaking news before the journalists themselves: often without knowing it, many 21st century citizens now lead a life that has been deeply impacted by the open web and its values of collaboration. A new awareness of our interdependence transforms the way we consume, work, and travel.
Learning is also profoundly transformed by this novel global proximity. As the CEO of E-180, a Montreal-based social entreprise which creates matchmaking tools connecting like-minded people interested in sharing knowledge over a coffee, Christine aims to turn everyone into a lifelong teacher. In order to do so, she is working on turning spaces into peer-learning hubs, just like this: https://vimeo.com/69124866.
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP21180
Each year, there are nearly 1 billion visits to museums in the US alone, and museum professionals are facing one common challenge: how to provide these visitors with a more engaging, meaningful experience?
On-demand access to information is fundamentally changing the way we seek and internalize knowledge, creating a great opportunity for museums and similar cultural institutions to rethink themselves.
Using Stanford d.School Design Thinking process and E-180’s approach to matchmaking for knowledge-sharing, we invite participants to rethink their institution's onsite engagement strategy, focusing on content and human interactions.
This is a collaborative four hour long workshop, including a field observation at the Blanton Museum of Art, where participants will create a prototype of a new product based on a challenge proposed by the Blanton’s Education Department.
We expect you to leave the workshop having learned how to go about need finding, ideation and the prototyping of a new product, supported by a team of museum, design thinking, and education professionals. You don't want to miss this unique opportunity!
Prerequisites:
The only thing you need to attend this workshop is a passion for our cultural institutions and the willingness to get your hands dirty working on a new product prototype.
What to Bring:
Come as you are!
If you’re near the O Henry House / LABRARY by the Convention Center, stop by to get an ‘I geek Libraries/[fill-in-the-blank]’ profile pic ready for instant social use!
GeekTheLibrary.org has a campaign in support of libraries everywhere, to help raise awareness of the ways they can help people celebrate or share their interests. The Austin Public Library and the Austin Public Library Foundation, assisting at the Library Test Kitchen LABRARY site, will be bringing a way for you to join in.
Come share what you geek! Stop by the O Henry House, 409 East 5th St., fill in the blank: I geek _______ and get a quick profile picture takenThursday March 6 through Tuesday March 11, between 11 AM and 1 PM each day. The photos will be uploaded instantly to APL’s Facebook page, where participants can then grab them to use throughout the festival and beyond.
While you’re there, enjoy the activities already on tap at the LABRARY, a collaboration between the Austin Public Library Friends Foundation and the Library Test Kitchen, a Harvard Library-supported Design Seminar that engages students in designing and building future library machines. http://www.librarytestkitchen.org/labrary/
