ISKB52 Social Inovations in Libraries

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/0/1. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Synchronous online teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Tomáš Štefek (lecturer)
Mgr. Eva Víchová (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Petr Škyřík, Ph.D.
Department of Information and Library Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Alice Lukavská
Supplier department: Department of Information and Library Studies – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Zájem o sociální inovace, design služeb a jeho metody, UX, komunitní roli knihoven.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
Introduce insights into theoretical and practical frame of developing social innovations and into design thinking. Look for possibilities of community and social roles of libraries, particular innovations and services of these areas. Create opportunities to design new service/innovation/project with a chance of real impact on users of particular library/organiazation.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course a student will be well informed about social innovations of library and information services, will be able to make use of principles and methods of community mapping, service design, user research, creating service or product prototypes and user tensting.
Syllabus
  • theory: community roles of libraries, sociál innovations in Czech libraries, design process;
  • mapping context, problems, possibilities, stakeholders, barriers
  • user research
  • analysis of research data, definign a challenge, user journey mapping
  • ideation process
  • creating a service prototype
  • user testing
  • presentation nad delivery of a prototype.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • MURRAY, Robin, CAULIER-GRICE, Julie, MULGAN, Geoff. The open book of social innovation [electronic resource]. London: National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Art: Young Foundation, - Social innovator series : ways to design, develop and grow s
  • PROTIVÍNSKÝ, Tomáš, Milan HRUBEŠ a Petr ČÁP. Komunitní činnost veřejných knihoven v procesech integrace sociálně znevýhodněných osob: výzkumná zpráva [online]. [Praha: Centrum občanského vzdělávání, 2015]. Dostupné z: http://www.obcanskevzdelavani.cz/dow
  • KNAPP, Jake. Sprint: jak vyřešit velké problémy a otestovat nové myšlenky v pouhých pěti dnech. Brno: Jan Melvil Publishing, 2017. Žádná velká věda. ISBN 978-80-7555-023-1.
  • STICKDORN, Marc a Jakob SCHNEIDER. This is service design thinking: basics, tools, cases. Hoboken: Wiley, 2011. ISBN 978-1-118-15630-8.
  • PENIN, Lara. An introduction to service design : designing the invisible. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2018, 342 stran. ISBN 9781472572585. info
Teaching methods
Theoretical training, workshops, field practical training. Close cooperation with various types of stakeholders as libraries, other organizations, librarians, future users of the service.
Assessment methods
Presence in all workhsops and meetings is obligatory. The course evaluation is based on the attendance and participation, followed by presentig a developed and validated service prototype. The course includes field user research, performed in between meetings.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught: in blocks.
Teacher's information
The course will take place in 5 all-day blocks once in 3 weeks: 1. 3., 22. 3., 12. 4., 3. 5. and 24. 5., always from 9.00 to 16.30 (with enough pauses), probably in a remote way (MS Teams + Miro). Between 1. 2. and 10. 2. there will be a coordination meeting of students with interest in thi course, so we can try to implement individual demands, regarding terms of the course. The lecturer will send an invitation e-mail to all students enrolled.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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