The Collective 2025

Do you feel like something is missing when you try and cover source evaluation in one-shot library instruction sessions? This topic can feel high-stakes, and the nuance involved isn't easy to capture in 50 minutes. In this make/hack/play session, you will engage in a collaborative and fun process to outline a choose-your-own-adventure source evaluation game.

This interactive session will be organized as a board game (in the style of the Game of Life), shaking players out of the barrier mindset to explore how a radical rethinking of the scholarly communications landscape would advance the educational and stewardship missions of academic libraries while better serving university communities.

In this hands-on session, participants will work together to design a collaborative, team-building library bingo game that can be modified to suit the needs of an individual library or department within the library. Session participants will walk away with customizable templates, instructions, and experience creating a low-cost, reusable game.

In a makerspace, librarians engage with a wide array of users, including readers, authors, explorers, scientists, and designers. What requirements arise from makerspaces that foster diverse creativity, utilize various tools, and adapt to ever-evolving technology? Is the creation of a lively, colorful makerspace an artistic endeavor, a skill, or something one is born with? Do we have librarians who represent this vibrant makerspace spectrum?