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Requests for Ideas

"Our Library" - a virtual community book sharing resource

An idea I've been toying with to set up a new breed of library to complement a reduced building-based resource. Note: this is entirely in my personal capacity, and not representative of the council!!!

Alexander - 04/05/2011


Libraries and Youth Unemployment

Looking for ideas on how to use library resources to support young people who are unemployed or with limited job prospects.

Rachel - 03/28/2011



People

Ruth

Organization : The Reading Agency
Role : Programme manager
Interests : reading, literacy, libraries, publishing, arts


Rachel

Organization :
Role :
Interests : Public Libraries


Peter

Organization : Rimmington Lawrence Consulting/ELGH
Role : Consultant
Interests : Making better use of libraries rather than simply closing them, libraries


Patrick

Organization : dc public library
Role : librarian
Interests : adaptive technology, web accessibility, libraries, plain language, ipad, intercultural communication, innovators, innovation problem solving, digital inclusion


Pat

Organization : Future Plan Consulting
Role : Facilitator
Interests : innovation, creativity, realising potential, bringing old and young together, crafts, libraries,


Liam

Organization : Centrifuge Consulting ltd
Role : Director
Interests : action, ageing well, agencies, agile, adaptive technology, anthropological studies, apps, arts, arts education, arts funding, asset transfer, assistive technology, befriending, big society, bureaucracy, business startups, business support, business value, catalytic change, change, children, children services, cities, citizen engagement, citizen engagement/voice, citizen journalism, civic engagement, co-creation, co-design, co-production, co-working, collaboration, collaborative, collaborative consumption, collaborative decision making, collaborative governance, collaborative technologies, commissioning, communications, communities, communities of practice, community, community assets / transfer, community buildings, community development, community development trusts, community management / ownership, community mapping, community media, community solutions, community profit, connecting social innovators with great resources, consumer research, council, creative industries, creativity, crowdsourcing, cultural industries, culture, culture change, current affairs, customer services, democracy, design, design-thinking, design for all, design thinking, design thinking and project management, diagnostics, digital inclusion, disabled people, economic development, eco projects, editing, education, empowerment, enterprise, entrepreneurship, general innovation around making the environment more accessible for everyone, getting fit, gettogethers, get togethers, government, health, health and wellbeing, healthcare, helping people into work, heritage/history, homelessness, human services, hyper local content, hyper local resources, ideas, incentive structures, inclusion, inclusion accessibility, independent living, innovation, innovation platforms, innovation problem solving, innovators, intercultural communication, international development, kids, knowledge management, lean, lifelong learning, local, local economies, local government, local government communities, mapping, marketing, networks, network society, network, new forms and styles of work, new technology, nudge, older adults, older people, older people services, online consultations, online learning, open data, open government, open innovation, open source, open source sharing, organically grown public services, organisation, our scoiety, our society, participation, ownership, participative design., participatory budgeting, people., planning, politics, poverty, private sector, private spaces, project management, pubic policy, public, public administration improvement, public engagement, public libraries, public participation, public policy, public sector, public sector innovation, public service, public spaces, public spending data, public value, real world and online engagement, refugees, regional economies, rural, schools, scotland, scrutiny, service, service design, shared understanding, social, social app store, social business, socialbysocial, social care, social change, social change., social design and thinking, social enterprise, social enterprise and giving communities voice, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurship, social innovation, socialinnovation, social innovation and innovative policy making, social interaction, social media, social network analysis, social networking, social networks, social practices, social reporting, socialreporting co-design engagement networks, social venture, social venturing, society, software development, startups, strategy, sustainability, teachers, technology, third sector, to build the skills and capacity needed for fast, to build the skills and capacity needed for fastand social changebig societybusiness supportbusiness valuechangecitizen engagementco-creationco-productioncollaborationcollaborative governancecommissioningcommunities of practicecommunity solutionsconnecting social innovators with great resourcescreativityculture changeenterpriseinclusion accessibilityinnovation problem solvinginnovatorsopen innovationparticipationpubic policypublic sector innovationsocial businesssocial enterprisesocial enterprise and giving communities voicesocial innovation and innovative policy makingstartup consultingusing ideas and evidence to drive social innovationyoung peopleaction, transformation, unemployment, universities, urban planning, urban spaces, usability, user experience and usability, user experience design, user involvement, using ideas and evidence to drive social innovation, volunteering, volunteerism, visual thinking, walking, web design, work, young people, youth


Diane

Email : info@littlefishmediacompany.com
Organization : Little Fish Media Company Ltd
Role : Founder
Interests : social change, community engagement, collaboration, community engagement; design; youth leadership; personal development; sustainability, community managed libraries, community organisation, digital inclusion: esp. middle-aged upwards, digital inclusion, e-learning, ebooks, elearning, empowerment, big society, engagement, enterprise, entrepreneurship, event facilitation, google docs, google, gettogethers, getting fit, grassroots projects to empower communities, harnessing public sector skills for community improvement, health and wellbeing, helping people into work, hyper local content, hyper local resources, iphone, ipad, local economic development, local economies, live streaming, local government, local government communities, london 2012, marketing solutions, mobile, participation, philanthropy, philosophy, public and voluntary and community sectors, self education, socal care, social business, social audio and online media, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurship, social inclusion, social innovation, social enterprise and giving communities voice, social enterprise/ start-ups/international development, social ventures, startup consulting, sustainability, third sector, training, young people, yoga and the arts of creating peace through personal well being., web development, web accessibility, web 2.0, walking, local business


Becki

Organization : Events Northern Ltd
Role :
Interests : ageing well, apps, app store, arts, arts funding, branding, business support, business value, challenge competition, citizen engagement, citizen engagement/voice, classrooms, co-creation, co-working, co-production, collaboration, commissioning, communications, community development, community media, connecting social innovators with great resources, council, creative industries, creativity, cultural industries, culture, cycling, doing more with less, event facilitation, health, health and wellbeing, healthcare, innovation, innovators, mental health, networks, new technology, olympic legacy, participation, private sector, pubic policy, public libraries, reading, social enterprise, social entrepreneur, social media


Anton

Organization : Locality
Role : Development Manager
Interests : asset transfer, new technology, philanthropy, public libraries, community managed libraries


Adele

Organization : Leicestershire County Council
Role : Website Development Officer
Interests : arts, collaborative technologies, communities, cultural industries, culture, e-participation, drupal, digital inclusion, doing more with less, libraries, learning, online learning, open source, open data, public libraries, public sector, public sector innovation, socialbysocial, social media, social network analysis, social networking, social networks, startup, technology, user experience and usability, web 2.0, web accessibility, web design, web development, wedidthis, Museums