Future Libraries: Outputs and outcomes

<h4>Project outputs</h4><p dir="ltr">– Creative consultation tools<br>– A future library ‘game’ (workshop method and tools)</p><p dir="ltr">– Digital publication of the project and findings<br>– Future Libraries project findings film</p><p dir="ltr"><br></p><p dir="ltr"><b>The Future Library Bureau</b> tool was designed so it could ‘pop-up’ in places that non-library users might be found. The interaction around the tool involved citizens in a story about rebuilding a library that had been ‘burnt to the ground’ to hide the evidence of a terrible crime.</p><p dir="ltr"><b>The Library Sticker Chart</b> asked citizens to place stickers on a board to visualise their priorities for libraries now and in the future.</p><p dir="ltr"><b>The Library Expedition tool</b> likened the library to a fantasy island and asked citizens to locate the sites on the island that were most valued by them and explain why.</p><p dir="ltr"><b>The Stitch Map tool</b> asked citizens to draw a thread around the services and facilities they were visiting the library to use – to show their library journey. At the end of the thread was a label inviting the citizen to record their wish for the future library.</p><p dir="ltr"><b>The Library Alchemy tool</b> asked citizens to ‘operate on the library’ by selecting and prioritising the values that were most important to them.</p><p dir="ltr">Project outcome:<br>The Future Libraries project’s creative consultation findings fed into Camden Council’s statutory consultation proposals.</p>