May you remember the importance of the library as ecotone. In the library ecotone life bursts forth life that could only have begun in our space. We are the space between bullying at school and abuse at home. We are the space between unemployed and employed. We are the space between illiteracy and literacy. We are the space between childhood and adulthood. May I suggest that the library is an ecotone? We are the space between work and home. Evolution (and I would argue revolution) does not occur in stable ecosystems, but only in these messy ecotones. There is stuff that will only grow in the space between two living things. There is life grown, created, and developed in ecotones that is found nowhere in either of the two meeting ecosystems. Mysterious, powerful, awe-inspiring life occurs in ecotones. From the transitions of the Rocky Mountains to the transitions of marshland, growth–amazing, radical, life-giving growth– occurs in this space between two things.Įcotones are where things happen. Not only is this where growth happens, but also the scientific literature suggests that this is where radical growth happens. Ecotones, or from the Greek “habitat tensions,” is the fertile edge effect between these two separate systems.Įcotone is where some amazing growth happens. For example, climate change is more readily seen in ecotones because they are more attune to change.
It is where two communities meet and integrate.” Ecotones are responsive, dynamic, electric, yet sensitive spaces. An ecotone is defined as “a transition area between two biomes. The concept of ecotone emerges from the field of ecology. I want to suggest that, maybe, the library is an ecotone. Others have argued that the library is platform. Some have argued that the library is place. They believe the space is a continual program. They talked, at length, about the space as a program or the space knowing the answers. Our class visited the Best Buy Teen Tech Center at the Hennepin County Library recently, and the visit inspired me to write about the library as ecotone.ĭuring our visit to this space, we listened to Jason Quaynor, Youth Program Specialist at the Hennepin County Library Best Buy Teen Tech Center and Aaron Lundholm, Teen Tech Center Coordinator talk about the importance of the space. But this summer, I’m teaching my making and maker spaces class at St. After all, I’ve been delivering presentations on the importance of customer experience to librarians for over a year. I had every intention of writing this month about customer experience.
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