What are the 3 changes that can be made right now?
1. Free Willy: make reference useful in the age of Wikipedia
- Reduce reference collection by 90%
- Create new "Reading" reference area much like the way periodicals are displayed
- Peel back the layers of inaccessibility that exist in the Reference section
2. Kramer vs Kramer: down with one broken cataloging system
- Keep our systems of organization separate from how users/patrons/customers browse for books
- Entire library should be infinitely, serendipitously browse-able while giving exact locations for items that don't confuse users
- This means a back end for the cataloging/categorizing freaks & a front for the findability & learnability freaks like me
3. Face-Off: turn the library into the sum of its parts
- Create spaces for freelancing workers, small business owners to hold bi-weekly meetings
- Offer early opening hours to Rotary groups & other social orgs even Girl Scout cookie sales
- Encourage local government & businesses to hold networking functions at library
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