21st
Century Public Squares: Community-Centered Museum and Libraries
This session had three presenters and they presented on the
growing trend in museums becoming public squares
Place making and gathering – history of town squares –
centers of communities
Overall, the highlight of this session was nice to hear what
Santa Ana Public Library did to win the 2016 IMLS medal and the great work they
are doing for teens over there.
The Town Square – Community Centers, Lee Skolnick FAIA
History of town squares
About a place where people coming together
Town Squares
- · Civic -government
- · Social – Discuss issues, meeting of people
- · Cultural – performance, art, theater
- · Educational
Malls – new town squares, didn’t succeed, more of retail
magnets
Todays town squares
- · Children’s museum
- · Science centers
- · Libraries
- · Schools
Town Squares require:
- · Democratization of the process with the public
- · Participation and engagement with the public
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Conceptualization
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Planning and Design
Today’s squares:
- · Inclusive
- · Multigenerational
- · Multifunctional
Approach
- · Planning with audience in mind
- · No preconceived notions
Jane Werner – Pittsberg children’s Museum
The benefits of partnerships
- · New Hazlett Theater (new theater facility)
Partnered
with another museum
- · Buhl Community Park
Took over park from city and
built it up
- · Museum Lab
Center of learning with partners
Makerspace
– MakeSHOP+
Gaming,
digital humanities
To
translate informal learning to the formal classroom
Work with other organizations to build community
Community-Driven Libraries - Cheryl Eberly, Principal
Librarian, Santa Ana Public Library
Community driven library
Apply for a lot of innovative
grants that meet the needs of the community
·
Seeds to trees - $625,000 recruiting local teens
to become bilingual librarians
80 kids got their jobs from this
grant
6
were put through library school
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Youth Work Force Development
Seeds to trees – to teach digital
technology/media for teens, running channel 3
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Teens run the channel 3, teen interested in
documentary making and is now graduating from UCSB.
Teenspace – Teen programming
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Invited congresswoman to do teen workshop
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Circle of mentoring – teen mentoring program –
resulted in library employees
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Peer to peer teaching
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Culinary Skills
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STEP: Skills for teens and young parents
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Field trips – take them outside the neighborhood
to connect them to the larger world
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Adulteen 101 – teen workshop on how to be an
adult run by staff, things you think everybody should know but they don’t
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Sleepovers
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Haunted House – Teen built haunted house and
costumes
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Yoga
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Youth health ambassadors
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Teen Community Historians – connect youth with
elders in the community – Memories of Migration, teens create model of
migration
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Volunteer for community events
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Probation and Community Service program
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Media Arts Training
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Youth Services Provider – training them to be
resilient
Winner of 2016 IMLS medal
2014 Youth Services Award
Has many partnerships
Kitty Literacy project –
partnership with animal center to practice reading with cats
How to be a community driven library
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Being the stable place for those who are in
transitional situations
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It’s about the relationships built in the
community
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Bring technology to community
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Take kids beyond their neighborhood
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Help teens find their strength by mentoring others
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Help people rediscover their history and gain
skills
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Connect community members to resources
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