http://hdl.handle.net/2374.MIA/6402 Mark Dahlquist Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:25:59 GMT 2026-04-05T13:25:59Z http://hdl.handle.net/2374.MIA/7029 Checking Out Video Creativity: A Pilot Program for Circulating Digital Licenses to a Cloud-Based Video Editor Dahlquist, Mark A two-year pilot program at an academic library tested a system developed in-library for digitally provisioning library users with semester-long licenses to access a student-oriented commercial cloud-based collaborative video editing tool and explored the development of related learning resources and instructional sessions. This program aimed to mitigate instructional and equity challenges associated with video editing programs that cannot be used across operating systems or that require high-performance computers. A literature review considers the role of libraries in facilitating multimodal composition and as spaces of creative democracy. Collected usage and survey data (n=111) reveal a strongly positive user response to this tool and library service. Significant obstacles, including accessibility problems, were encountered during the pilot study. However, subsequent platform improvements may have mitigated or resolved many of these challenges. http://hdl.handle.net/2374.MIA/7029 http://hdl.handle.net/2374.MIA/6902 “The Forms of Things Unknown:” Insights from a Librarian-designed Shakespeare Course Dahlquist, Mark; Makarowski, Rachel; Nagle, Sarah; Revelle, Andrew A Shakespeare and Film course taught by a librarian at Miami University was designed as a test bed for new models for supporting multimodal inforamtion creativity in academic libraries. This interactive panel conversation by makerspace, special collections, and subject liaison librarians shares practical insights about how librarians worked across administrative units to support a course that challenged students to critically examine the foundations of racial, social, and gender injustice in the English Renaissance, and where students were given exceptional flexibility regarding the forms of creative and scholarly work they were able to complete for credit. One discussion concerns a pair of co-designed teaching sessions provided by the Miami Libraries’ Makerspace and Special Collections, in which objects featured in our special collections session were selected to inspire creative maker projects while also informing students about Elizabethan print culture. The challenges of video creation and distribution are also discussed, along with ways to encourage instructors to “think like librarians,” by curating collections of student work for sharing with future students or even the broader public, in accordance with preferences and permissions of student creators. http://hdl.handle.net/2374.MIA/6902 http://hdl.handle.net/2374.MIA/6826 Toward a Framework for Information Creativity Dahlquist, Mark Recognizing the importance of information literacy in defining the primary focus of library instruction, this paper suggests the potential utility of a complementary principle of information creativity. Employers and educators now increasingly stress creativity’s value and teachability; this paper turns to the work of John Dewey to suggest that the traditional distinction between creativity and literacy education is not only unavoidable but also potentially productive. This paper offers some initial suggestions as to what a framework for information creativity might entail, and proposes that an emphasis on information creativity could both highlight the familiar association between libraries and creativity and inspire a theory and practice of creativity that strengthens traditions of democratic social progress. http://hdl.handle.net/2374.MIA/6826 http://hdl.handle.net/2374.MIA/6665 Information Inspiration: Creativity Across the Disciplines in Academic Libraries Dahlquist, Mark; Hilles, Stefanie; Nagle, Sarah 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 paper, three librarians with backgrounds in makerspaces, visual arts, and literature and composition discuss specific examples of innovative practices that foster creativity. These three perspectives converge to consider 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. Keywords: creativity, information literacy, makerspaces, creative writing, zines, information creativity, primary sources http://hdl.handle.net/2374.MIA/6665