Libraries are already strongly characterised by collaboration.<\/p>\n
Within and across institutions, we rely on this in order to deliver information and services to users. Through it, we can provide a much wider range of support than alone.<\/p>\n
We also partner with other actors of course, combining the strengths of libraries with those of others in order to do more.<\/p>\n
But libraries can also act as a catalyst \u2013 a place where new collaborations and partnerships can begin, bringing together other players who might not otherwise work together.<\/p>\n
Through this, libraries can help build stronger communities and cohesion.<\/p>\n
So for our 89th<\/sup> 10-Minute International Librarian exercise, make a connection.<\/p>\n Think of the different people, organisations and groups that you work with.<\/p>\n Which ones could cooperate, but aren\u2019t doing so at the moment?<\/p>\n How can you make the link? How can you encourage potential partners to get involved?<\/p>\n Let us know about the most successful connections that you have made in the chat!<\/p>\n Good luck!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This idea relates to the\u00a0IFLA Strategy<\/a>! <\/strong>Key Initiative 3.2: Support virtual networking and connections<\/em>\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 are already strongly characterised by collaboration. Within and across institutions, we rely on this in order to deliver information and services to users. Through it, we can provide a much wider range of support than alone. We also partner with other actors of course, combining the strengths of libraries with those of others in […]<\/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":[26868,9719,26570,20946],"class_list":["post-3359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-10minuteinternationallibrarian","tag-collaboration","tag-community","tag-community-engagement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359","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=3359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3360,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359\/revisions\/3360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}