Placing new emphasis on makerspaces, digital scholarship and publishing, and inventive
ideation-centered instruction, academic libraries have in recent years turned their attention to
inspiring and supporting creativity. In this panel, three librarians with backgrounds in
makerspaces, visual arts, and literature and composition will discuss specific examples of
innovative practices that foster creativity. These three perspectives-on zines, makerspaces, and querying digital primary sources-converge to question how libraries might define and assess creativity, whether as an element of information literacy or fluency, or in connection with maker or visual literacies, or through an alternative information creativity approach.
Participants will:
- Be able to implement three creative workshop ideas,
- Characterize information literacy, maker fluency, and information creativity approaches to creativity in libraries.
- Consider the role of creativity within the mission of academic libraries.
