Concluding Thoughts

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Concluding Thoughts
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• Roads no longer merely lead to places they are
  places
• John Brinckerhoff Jackson

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Undiscovered Public Knowledge

• Undiscovered public knowledge systems of
  information that are similar but distinct or not
  normally connected
• Don Swanson
• Better connections

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General impressions

• Passion
• Interest/awarenessasking the right questions
• Diversity
• The infrastructure is in place
• Vision and focused direction are required
• Librarians are cool people

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Suggestions

• Make the network aware of itself Enable people
  to find each other
• Enable people to collaboratively create,
  co-create, re-create
• Create collaborative, cross-institutional spaces
  of value
• Honor failure, value experimentation, tolerate
  uncertainty

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Suggestions

• Celebrate local excellence and innovation (NMHS)
• Model desired change (LTAs)
• Let people teach each other
• Model democracy speak into processes which
  impact us

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Continuing the conversation

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