Monday, July 21, 2008

Finding Innovation Anywhere

Continuing on the FOLD It theme, here is an excerpt from the latest URBAN Library Council's Digest:


MORE ABOUT THE ELEMENTS

OF OUR ONLINE COMMUNITY


INNOVATION CONVERSATIONS

“The future is already here. It's just not very evenly distributed”

-William Gibson

This quote was recently brought up at ULC’s Fast Forward event and reminds us that our future could be someone else’s present.

In the SCENARIO PLANNING process, it is important to be aware of the rich and diverse innovation going on all around us. People all over the world (and not just in libraries) are constantly coming up with new methods of service and pushing the creative envelope into the future. But not all innovation is successful. This element strives to open up the conversation to not only what has truly worked, but what has been a miserable failure and why.

Fold it may be an example of this type of innovation. Hopefully it will be successful. Please keep looking around at other sites, libraries or wherever for innovations that may be useful to us.


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