Breaking Down Barriers: Transforming Libraries into Learning Labs

Dresang, Eliza T.; Eshleman, Amy; Mills, J. Elizabeth; Bayo Urban, Ivette

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Title

Breaking Down Barriers: Transforming Libraries into Learning Labs

Author(s)

• Dresang, Eliza T.
• Eshleman, Amy
• Mills, J. Elizabeth
• Bayo Urban, Ivette

Issue Date

2014-03-01

Keyword(s)

• collaboration
• libraries
• technology
• youth
• learning

Abstract

This poster will introduce a key educational collaborative project in libraries and museums between the U.S. MacArthur Foundation, the Institute for Museum and Library Services, the Urban Libraries Council, the Association of Science-Technology Centers, the Chicago Public Library, and the Digital Youth Network. Using this project, the authors will share how research on how the use of technology by digital youth has influenced practice in this collaborative venture; demonstrate how the basic research has led to a broad-based understanding of connected learning that breaks down barriers for youth in a networked world; validate the presence of information-provision persons in library learning labs; and explore what this means from a university perspective for the education of 21[st] century librarians working with youth.

Publisher

iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2014 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

english

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.9776/14393

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