Emily Lloyd wonders Should a portion of the library building be rebranded and promoted as the ideal coworking space?
I follow a listserv for my neighborhood, and folks are often looking for coworking spaces (to rent) and others to cowork with. Plenty of people already run their small businesses from or do their freelance work at the library, but entirely independently, without the quietly social, communal feeling that it seems those who are looking for coworking spaces crave. Could we fashion a “coworking area,” much the way we fashion teen and children’s areas, in the library? And aggressively, cleverly promote it as a “coworking space–but better,” because workers in the library will have access to on-site librarians who can help them with database searches, etc?
Sure it is called Wifi access
Sure it is called Wifi access points. Once you have ten access points you have at least two people who work from home. Most coworking spaces I have seen are about laptops, ipads, and other tech.