This morning's keynote was an entertaining presentation done by three people from Delft Public Library in the Netherlands. They crossed the U.S. looking at how libraries are adapting to changes in technology and culture. It was an unconventional keynote where the three guys from Delft interspersed a video they had edited with live interviews with three people from the audience (in some cases pretty much random people).
The first session I went to today was presented by Ryan Deschamps from Halifax Public Library. In this session he discussed the process of implementing a laptop lab and how they have used it. It's interesting that they had originally thought they would take the laptops out into the community (a plan that was quickly identified as not feasible). Instead they wound up using the laptops for teen programs and other miscellaneous programs where they needed flexibility. They give the teens 1 hour of free time on the laptops (gaming etc. allowed) and 1 hour of structured time (a program of some sort where a specific goal is being worked on). He showed a video some teens had done that was kind of cute called "Cow Wars" (available on YouTube). This seems like something that we are well suited to use elements of and which Youth Services has already implemented in part with the teen laptop browsing programs we've had.
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