One of the purposes of our 10-Minute International Librarian series is to help you find ways to think beyond the world around you.<\/p>\n
You are part of a global field, and can gain a lot by working with others, without needing to devote too much time!<\/p>\n
But as well as thinking further geographically, it\u2019s also good to think further in terms of time.<\/p>\n
Libraries have been with us for millennia, and will certainly survive into the future. But in what form?<\/p>\n
To help in your planning, a good start is to imagine your ideal end-goal \u2013 the sort of world you want to live in, in ten year\u2019s time.<\/p>\n
So for our 27th<\/sup> 10-Minute International Librarian, think of a long-term vision.<\/p>\n Write down a few ideas about what characterises this situation.<\/p>\n For example, IFLA\u2019s vision highlights the importance of the library field being strong and united, and fulfilling its mission to power literate, informed and participatory societies.<\/p>\n You can draw on these ideas in your own vision, and add your own, reflecting your circumstances.<\/p>\n Once you have this, try to use it as a guide for decision-making in the shorter term. What will help you realise this vision? Where do you need to do more or invest effort, what is already safe?<\/p>\n Share your ideas for visions in the comments below!<\/p>\n Good luck!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This idea relates to the\u00a0IFLA Strategy<\/a>!<\/strong>\u00a03.3 Empower the field at the national and regional levels.<\/em><\/p>\n You can view all of our ideas using the\u00a0#10MinuteInternationalLibrarian<\/a>\u00a0tag on this blog, and of course on IFLA\u2019s\u00a0Ideas Store<\/a>! Do also share your ideas in the comments box.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the purposes of our 10-Minute International Librarian series is to help you find ways to think beyond the world around you. You are part of a global field, and can gain a lot by working with others, without needing to devote too much time! But as well as thinking further geographically, it\u2019s also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":810,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26868,22868,9751,33329],"class_list":["post-2769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-10minuteinternationallibrarian","tag-planning","tag-strategy","tag-vision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/810"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2770,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions\/2770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}