R-Squared Conference

R-Squared Conference R-Squared – The Risk & Reward Conference

If you believe creative thinking is the key to transforming libraries, R-Squared–The Risk & Reward Conference, in Telluride, Colorado, is the place you need to be. Attendees will get real-world advice from leading library change agents, exchange brave ideas with library staffers, academics, creative experts, and business leaders...and learn what it takes to evaluate risk effectively and accept it as part of the path to reward.

Help make Outside the Lines 2016 even better - fill out our brief survey.
10/14/2015

Help make Outside the Lines 2016 even better - fill out our brief survey.

Thank you for participating in Outside the Lines! Please take a few minutes to complete our survey to help us capture some of the great stories from this year's initiative and make improvements for next year.

TODAY: Rally elected officials to and support . Find your local reps and sample text here.
08/11/2015

TODAY: Rally elected officials to and support . Find your local reps and sample text here.

Registration for Outside the Lines 2015 is now open!
03/11/2015

Registration for Outside the Lines 2015 is now open!

Outside the Lines is a weeklong celebration demonstrating the creativity and innovation happening in libraries. Whether your organization is large or small, a school library or a public library, you can participate by hosting at least one event or campaign that:

Help us make next year's Outside the Lines even better by filling out this brief survey
10/01/2014

Help us make next year's Outside the Lines even better by filling out this brief survey

Thank you for participating in Outside the Lines! Please take a few minutes to complete our survey to help us capture some of the great stories from the inaugural event and make improvements for next year.

100 organizations have signed up so far to participate in Outside the Lines this fall. Has yours?
08/06/2014

100 organizations have signed up so far to participate in Outside the Lines this fall. Has yours?

And our 100th library to sign up is... Pueblo City-County Library District (CO)!

Tamara Ghandour Kleinberg talks creativity in this month's issue of ColoradoBiz Magazine
06/09/2014

Tamara Ghandour Kleinberg talks creativity in this month's issue of ColoradoBiz Magazine

Colorado Business Magazine is Denver, Colorado's source for finance, hospitality, businesses, sales, marketing, leadership, management, career and economic news

Relive the experience - R-Squared Conference video now live
09/20/2013

Relive the experience - R-Squared Conference video now live

On Sept. 9-11, 2012, 350 library professionals from 38 states and three countries embarked on a journey to Telluride, Colo., to rethink libraries and learn a...

08/28/2013

Check out all this creativity from the community.

To shift the perceptions of libraries from a warehouse of books to dynamic places that celebrate ideas, we need to share library innovations far and wide with diverse audiences in unique formats. SXSW Interactive is a major annual gathering of thought-leaders and funders – “fostering creative and pr...

Curious about taking smart risks to move libraries forward? So are we. Let's hang at http://rsquared.eventbrite.com/
06/25/2013

Curious about taking smart risks to move libraries forward? So are we. Let's hang at http://rsquared.eventbrite.com/

Join us at ALA Annual in Chicago for a meet-up of risktakers. Connect with other creative library pros, talk about new ideas and challenges faced since R-Squared, and see some new faces. No need to have attended R-Squared to join in the fun. This invite is open to anyone curious about taking smart r...

Don't feed the monster.
05/06/2013

Don't feed the monster.

Never back down. Never waiver. Never empower your critics. Never cede your values and beliefs. Never cave to your detractors. Never embolden the naysayers.

Where are you most inspired?
04/23/2013

Where are you most inspired?

From tiny writing desks to giant painting studios, the only thing all of these creative studios have in common is that they inspired their successful inhabitants to create greatness.

"We are each in control of our own outcomes... Why not choose fabulous?"
04/22/2013

"We are each in control of our own outcomes... Why not choose fabulous?"

You make hundreds of choices each day, both big and small. Why not choose fabulous?

presentations by John McKnight and Cynthia Nikitin are now available!
04/18/2013

presentations by John McKnight and Cynthia Nikitin are now available!

Faced with diminishing budgets, new technologies and changing customer needs, the traditional library faces extinction. We must adapt and innovate to transfo...

03/20/2013

Here's the second - an interview with two of R2's organizers just weeks before the big event.

The Risk and Reward Conference (R Squared) occurred September 9-11, 2012 in Telluride, Colorado. This interview occurred two weeks prior to the conference.

Two great articles out in the recent edition of Colorado Libraries. Here's the first.
03/20/2013

Two great articles out in the recent edition of Colorado Libraries. Here's the first.

To my surprise and amazement, I was notified by the R2 gods that I indeed had earned one of the scholarships that would get me to the library event of the year...the R-Squared Conference. I guess after the shock wore off a bit, my first thoughts were...nervousness. I felt there was a lot of pressure...

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