For this project I initially planned on creating a innovation strategy and roadmap proposing a library television station for the Los Angeles Public Library, based on the station run by the Memphis Public Library. This quickly moved into a pure fantasy zone, as I found myself getting lost looking up the various ways legal avenues for creating publicly funded television station. And I began thinking ways the idea could be scaled down to its kernel and fit into the boundaries of the library I currently work for, the Braille Institute Library.
We might not have any ways of broadcasting live material, but we do have the infrastructure for distributing audio recordings. There is an in-house, professional recording booth, where audio books can be produced locally, small sound booths for less formal kinds of recording, and several ways of getting audio material into our patrons’ hands. This gave me the idea for an audio magazine, something that could be published quarterly. Like a television station, it would be a platform for the community to express itself.
The Innovation Strategy & Roadmap can be viewed here: Perceptions