The United Nations\u2019 High-Level Political Forum is meeting this week in New York. One of the words on everyone\u2019s lips is \u2018transformation\u2019.<\/p>\n
Given the huge progress still needed in order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, this isn\u2019t a surprise. We need to do things very differently in order to avoid falling short.<\/p>\n
The alternatives \u2013 business as usual or only incremental improvements \u2013 aren\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n
And so ministers, officials and experts are focused on identifying opportunities and sharing ideas on new approaches that will have a radical positive impact.<\/p>\n
Of course, information \u2013 and so libraries \u2013 can be transformative, given its potential to improve decision-making, enable innovation, and support democratic participation.<\/p>\n
So for our 96th 10-Minute International Librarian exercise, explain how you drive transformation.<\/p>\n
What activities are you doing \u2013 or could you do \u2013 that really allow people and communities to change for the better?<\/p>\n
Think ambitious \u2013 transformation is a big word \u2013 and set out the series of steps between what you are doing and the difference you can make.<\/p>\n
You can take a look at some of the great campaigns that already exists \u2013 Libraries Transform<\/a> in the US, and Libraries Change Lives<\/a> in Australia for a start \u2013 for ideas, but make your example relevant to your context.<\/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 1.1: Show the power of libraries in delivering the Sustainable Development Goals<\/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":" The United Nations\u2019 High-Level Political Forum is meeting this week in New York. One of the words on everyone\u2019s lips is \u2018transformation\u2019. Given the huge progress still needed in order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, this isn\u2019t a surprise. We need to do things very differently in order to avoid falling short.<\/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":[26316,222],"class_list":["post-3425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-hlpf","tag-sustainable-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425","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=3425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3426,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425\/revisions\/3426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}