Libraries have a mission to put global information into the hands of people, wherever they are.<\/p>\n
Through their own collections policies, inter-library loan and document supply, and advocacy for internet provision and open access, they help overcome barriers to information.<\/p>\n
This is a vital mission, allowing ideas to spread, mutual understanding to build, and innovation to happen.<\/p>\n
Yet libraries are, alongside their focus on global access to information, also about fitting into their communities, responding to their needs.<\/p>\n
They are both international and local at the same time, with a duty both to respond to local needs, and to act as a key part of the local cultural, educational and research infrastructure.<\/p>\n
Demonstrating this attachment to the community, to the area, can also be a great way of building engagement.<\/p>\n
So for our 84th<\/sup> 10-Minute International Librarian exercise, celebrate the local!<\/p>\n Think about the particularities of your area and your community. Are there possibilities \u2013 in your collections, your services, your staff even \u2013 to draw on this as a source of strength?<\/p>\n What about the particular needs of your community that might mark them out from other places? Can you identify these and think how to respond?<\/p>\n What more can you do to attach yourself to the community you are in, in order to realise the potential of your library at the heart of \u2018place-building\u2019 and community cohesion?<\/p>\n Share your ideas in the comments below.<\/p>\n Good luck!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This idea relates to the\u00a0IFLA Strategy<\/a>! <\/strong>Key Initiative 3.3\u00a0Empower the field at the national and regional levels<\/em><\/p>\n As we publish more ideas, you will be able to view these 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 below!<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Libraries have a mission to put global information into the hands of people, wherever they are. Through their own collections policies, inter-library loan and document supply, and advocacy for internet provision and open access, they help overcome barriers to information.<\/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":[26868,26622,26752,33376],"class_list":["post-3328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-10minuteinternationallibrarian","tag-local","tag-local-development","tag-needs-assessment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328","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=3328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3329,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328\/revisions\/3329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}