Hi @kianapouya
Your Virtual Symposium entry is lovely! Using Prezi made your presentation so much nicer to follow. Also, I really appreciate your “Aha” moments section and the mention of the DOKK1 library/center because learning about that amazing institution blew me away… I need to visit it one day! Thank you for sharing your insights and I hope you finals are going well 🙂

Hi Kiana!

Your presentation looks beautiful! I love the natural feel to your presentation as it reminds me of the cozy feel of libraries. Your presentation made me feel inspired to continue pursuing creativity and more sustainable practices for the library!

I enjoyed your presentation especially your 2 / 1. You should check out my inspiration report! It’s all about sustainability. I think that we have so much influence in the future. I have been at my current place of work for 3 years and it seriously feels like I am just beginning. I also like how you mention creativity. It is so much fun to let children tap into their creativity. When you start your first library job if you do end up working in Youth Services, programming is a great way to intertwine creativity and sustainability.

Highly recommend visiting big city libraries for your 1!

Hi Kiana, the human library concept really stuck with me too! I like your idea about exploring sustainable libraries also. Thanks for sharing, have a good break!

Great job on your Virtual Reality for Museums Inspiration Report. I loved that you included the history as I had no idea that its origins went that far back! I also enjoyed that you highlighted success stories with the use of VR. Sounds like VR has made viewing the Mona Lisa that much more amazing as I have always heard that it was tiny and hard to see. Great lists of pros and cons as well. So fun to read your report!

This year I moved from San Diego back to my hometown, and I miss it every day– especially Balboa Park and SDMA! Your inspiration report was so fun, and I’d love to see VR implemented at SDMA in the ways you outlined. I learned many new things from your report, but a few that stood out to me were that the foundations of VR technology date all the way back to the 1830s (which shocked me), and how the Louvre is already using this technology to enhance the experience of its visitors. Super cool topic and great report!

Hi Kiana,
Thanks for your post. I thought your mention about sensory rooms being beneficial for folks with brain injuries or dementia in addition to neurodivergent folks was interesting. It always strikes me how accessibility for one group can turn out to benefit many others outside that group too. Thanks for your insight!

Kiana,

These sensory spaces look so cool, and they look different from other ones I’ve seen! I particularly like the use of light in a couple that you shared. They look stimulating and relaxing at the same time.

Kiana – I so appreciate all these amazing examples!

Kiana,
These were wonderful examples. I find myself wanting to use the gel pads!

The system for which I work partners with a local kitten adoption nonprofit. The nonprofit brings a bunch of kittens into our large meeting room and people can come in and find a kitty to adopt. One family mention come to our event specifically as the shelters are too overwhelming for their neurodivergent child with all the animals and the hard surfaces making it a very loud space. They met with success and adopted a kitty that day! <3

Sara

HI Kiana,
Thank you for sharing this! I enjoyed viewing the pictures of different sensory spaces and you make great points for including these spaces in academic libraries.

-Lilia

Hi Kiana,

Great post, thanks for sharing! I really like your point regarding how face-to-face settings are instrumental to strengthening connections between people. Sometimes I wonder when I see hate comments online…would these people say the same in real life? Personal accountability is key, as you said.

Kiana – I am so glad the human library concept resonated with you. Also, I have followed Peter the YouTuber for a long time and some of his videos were so moving and challenging to watch an interesting. I kind of fell out of watching him recently and I need to get back to. It might be really helpful for my frame of mind.

Great Innovation Strategy & Roadmap! Really enjoyed reading about your plan, and I thought you named solid users that may benefit from being a citizen scientist. Really great examples of other libraries that have successfully implemented citizen science. As a patron of the Newport Beach Public Library myself, it would be neat to see it become a reality.

Hi Kiana,
What a cool idea! I love that citizen scientists can be ordinary people who just have a strong interests in something, and that they can use that interest in a tangible way to help their community. I struggled in science classes when I was younger, but this sounds like something even I could do since many of the materials are provided. Thanks for sharing!

@kianapouya You highlight the potential and pitfalls of the Open library model. Michael Casey will be joining us in early November and will talk about his library’s use of the model. It has been a very positive experience overall. The video you shared above seems to be working very hard to make the case against. That library system seemed to be struggling with issues eight years ago. I hope things are better now!