Libraries Lead: QNL Annual Forum for Library Professionals - Pre-Forum Workshop

Learn about Community-Library Inter-Action (CLIA), a mindful practice for libraries to facilitate community dialogue and action of, by and for the community that leads to social transformation. As community anchors and catalysts, libraries are poised to work WITH communities to address challenges they are facing, through shared understanding, empowerment, reflection and collective action. The theme of the first Forum for Library Professionals “Libraries Lead” is Libraries as Catalysts for Achieving UN Sustainable Development Goals, and the CLIA workshop will introduce a process that empowers libraries to lead, not by doing it FOR their communities, but through engaging WITH them as facilitators, while community members become actors in their own actions to advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Communities which have agency know their needs, drive their solutions based on their resources, and ensure the sustainability of their goals and actions.

Through interactive methods, participants will:
1. Explore implementation of CLIA at the local level, enabling any type of library to strengthen their library's role as a community anchor by working WITH, not just FOR communities.
2. Realign their thinking from being service providers and problem solvers to community connectors with the capacity to support shared goals and actions through the strengthening of community identity.
3. Identify challenges and opportunities of CLIA in practice.
4. Plan to implement CLIA and measure the impact.

Date: 22 May 2022 

Time: 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Language: English 

Target Audience: Librarians and related professionals

Seats are limited, please click the button below to register.

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