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Dear Don, I remain fascinated with an idea from Make magazine; Turn ageing Libraries into FabLabs. My PhD has me making in the Wearable Senses Lab at TU/Eindhoven. The faculty who created and maintain this design lab have a great idea: Make a place not only to make things, but also maintain a repository of explorations, artefacts, prototypes and material swatches. It is incredibly valuable. I hear from colleagues in California that there is a reason their designs are small. It is because the design had to fit on their desk. Seems like there is opportunity to change that. Best, Troy ~/ Troy Nachtigall Marie Skłodowska–Curie Research<http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/> Fellow ArcInTexETN<http://www.arcintexetn.eu/> Eindhoven University of Technology<https://www.tue.nl/en/> - Industrial Design<https://www.tue.nl/en/university/departments/industrial-design/> ArcInTexETN <https://arcintexetn.com/> Blog<https://arcintexetn.com/>, Solemaker.io<http://solemaker.io/>, c: +3161139<http://www.tue.nl/>1482 @stitchandsolder<https://twitter.com/stitchandsolder> PS. I write in the mornings. For urgent matters, please call twice. On 3 Dec 2017, at 19:23, Don Norman <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: I'm looking for help. I have agreed to give a Keynote talk to the University of California Librarians on February 28 on February 28 (the conference is called "Building the UC Digital Library"). This is for the librarians of all 10 campuses of the UC system. https://ucdlfx2018.sched.com/ <https://ucdlfx2018.sched.com/> I want to use Design Thinking to figure out what the 21st-century University library is about. What is the core issues it should work on? How might it be approached? I do NOT want to repeat the same issues and arguments that have long been discussed. e.g., Not about the value of electronic versus print, the value of different media, the copyright issues.) Note that the conference I will be talking about states this as its goal: The inaugural 2018 University of California Digital Library Forum (UC DLFx) "Building the UC Digital Library: Theory and Practice" will explore a range of topics such as engaging, enhancing our communities and creating data from materials at our respective University of California libraries; demystifying data curation; project collaboration; using emerging technologies such as 3D scanning to enhance access, and creating a UC system wide standard for born digital archival material. Because my talk is for University of California librarians, the problems of a University Library are very different from that of a public or community library. Thus, many cities are transforming their libraries into wonderful community engagement spaces. In my recent travels, the Amsterdam (Netherlands) holiday is one example. The new San Diego Library is yet another -- it even houses a high-school within it. This, however, is not a sufficient model for a University library. (I have already spent time talking with the UCSD Head Librarian: I did not get inspired.) I have gathered together students from the design lab to observe and talk with library users: students, staff, faculty, researchers, bums, derelicts, the homeless, .... We will do the normal data=-gathering, ideation, etc. == Most people on this list are at universities where the same issues might exist. What is the future of the library in this age of electronic media that can readily be accessed from home or office or anywhere there is internet? So PhD-Design list: Any ideas? or do we simply turn the vast space that a library requires into study halls? I want to make this exciting and thought-provoking. It might be completely impossible, as long as it causes people to think. --- Don -- Don Norman Prof. and Director, DesignLab, UC San Diego [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> designlab.ucsd.edu/<http://designlab.ucsd.edu/> www.jnd.org<http://www.jnd.org> <http://www.jnd.org/> ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------