Nate Hill
Nate Hill is an Assistant Director at the Chattanooga Public Library and Co-Chair of the Digital Public Library of America's Audience & Participation workstream. He was named one of Library Journal ‘s 2012 "Movers and Shakers'. Most recently, he’s been coordinating a redesign of the 4th floor of Chattanooga’s downtown library as a community space for knowledge sharing and media production.
Nate said he sees a lot of potential for libraries right now at the intersection of the production of content and the consumption of knowledge. "To me, the big, exciting possibility for public libraries in the future is that we have always been institutions about consumption of knowledge. We're in this place where The Public Library can really service the creative side of the community in a totally different way than we've ever been able to before."
Nate points to examples found on the Library Lab's website for what could be possible, including open space modular facilities to accommodate audio and video production, large format printing, book binding and a system to loan out gear like cameras and other digital tools.
Nate said he sees a lot of potential for libraries right now at the intersection of the production of content and the consumption of knowledge. "To me, the big, exciting possibility for public libraries in the future is that we have always been institutions about consumption of knowledge. We're in this place where The Public Library can really service the creative side of the community in a totally different way than we've ever been able to before."
Nate points to examples found on the Library Lab's website for what could be possible, including open space modular facilities to accommodate audio and video production, large format printing, book binding and a system to loan out gear like cameras and other digital tools.