Libraries have an incredible breadth of expertise and action.<\/p>\n
As has been said before in this series, when someone walks through the door of a library (or visits a library website!), it can be for a huge variety of reasons.<\/p>\n
In each of these areas, libraries bring important expertise to bear, both in terms of the role of information, and in how to respond to the needs of users.<\/p>\n
For example, they can be well placed to explain how users find and interact with information, community programming, and the specific needs of people in a local area.<\/p>\n
This can make a major contribution to the goals of different groups and processes. But too often, libraries are forgotten or ignored!<\/p>\n
So for our 88th<\/sup> 10-Minute International Librarian exercise, think of a process where libraries should be included.<\/p>\n For example, groups or committees on public health could gain from libraries\u2019 knowledge of, and role in, providing information about eating better and doing more exercise.<\/p>\n Lifelong learning initiatives miss a opportunity when they don\u2019t involve libraries, as venues for training, access points for online learning, and portals to further courses.<\/p>\n And it is hard to imagine open science strategies fulfilling their potential without library understanding of promoting preservation and discoverability.<\/p>\n A particular example is around the Sustainable Development Goals, where there are often civil society or official groups or networks.<\/p>\n What examples do you have of processes which would gain from engaging libraries better? Share them in the comments below!<\/p>\n Good luck!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This idea relates to the\u00a0IFLA Strategy<\/a>! <\/strong>Key Initiative 1.3:\u00a0<\/em>Work with library associations and libraries to identify key legal and funding challenges to their work, and advocate for action\u00a0<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Libraries have an incredible breadth of expertise and action. This can make an invaluable contribution to wider processes around different policy goals, but they are too often neglected.<\/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":[26868,219,26625],"class_list":["post-3349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-10minuteinternationallibrarian","tag-libraries","tag-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349","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=3349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3350,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions\/3350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}