By providing access to information, libraries play a key role in supporting citizenship.<\/p>\n
They help expose people to ideas and information, encourage curiosity about the world, and provide space for civic activities, such as meetings and debates.<\/p>\n
Through this, they give people the tools for getting more effectively involved in the life of the community, and contributing to responses to the challenges that communities face.<\/p>\n
There aren\u2019t many bigger challenges in the long-term than climate change.<\/p>\n
Tackling it will require changes in mindsets and behaviours at the individual level, alongside major investments at the government level.<\/p>\n
This is somewhere where libraries can make a difference!<\/p>\n
So for our 95th<\/sup> 10-Minute International Librarian #95 exercise, think how you can engage your community around climate change.<\/p>\n How can you, in your library, help share information that will build understanding of the situation facing the planet, and what people can do?<\/p>\n How can you act as a catalyst for climate action, and empower your community to do so also?<\/p>\n Share your ideas in the comments box below!<\/p>\n Good luck!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This idea relates to the\u00a0IFLA Strategy<\/a>! <\/strong>Key Initiative 1.4: Shape public opinion and debate around open access and library values, including intellectual freedom and human rights<\/em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n You can view our other posts in this series 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":" By providing access to information, libraries play a key role in supporting citizenship. They help expose people to ideas and information, encourage curiosity about the world, and provide space for civic activities, such as meetings and debates.<\/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":[26868,26736,26710,26877],"class_list":["post-3423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-10minuteinternationallibrarian","tag-citizenship","tag-climate-change","tag-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423","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=3423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3424,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423\/revisions\/3424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}