Session Participants and organizers will become thought partners in this session to re-imagine the library. SeeArt Foundation believes the library can be a public living room where people, especially young people, can grow while exploring and expanding their world, connecting to people, and creating. What would be the core experiences of your next library? What changes […]
Session All across Europe, libraries are taking up new leadership roles within their local contexts. Transforming into community libraries, they are increasingly focusing on social inclusion, lifelong learning, and participatory citizenship. In the Erasmus+ project NEWCOMER, library organizations from seven different countries are exchanging best practices and experiences as they interact with their communities. Through
Session How can peer learning and kombucha build a sustainable future? Dokk1 and P2PU are working together on “Læringsfællesskaber for en bæredygtig fremtid” (Learning circles for a sustainable future), a project designed to connect hands-on, creative learning workshops in the library with the United Nation Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In this session, you’ll make kombucha
Ignite Talk Kalambaka Library opened its doors in 2015 with the mission to provide informational, educational, cultural, and recreational services, traditional and online, to enhance the social, cultural, and economic vitality of a population spread across mountain villages in the third largest municipal area in Greece. Our goal has been to create sustainable communities of
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Ignite Talk Bray Library Comic Club was designed in response to research findings which highlighted the need for self-esteem boosting interventions for children with Dyslexia. Our program is an anti-perfectionism comic making group for Dyslexic children aged 10-12. We build self-esteem through reading for pleasure, critical thinking, raucous debate, and making comics. Attendees will gain
Session To both inform the public and gain feedback for its upcoming nature library project, the Anythink team created an immersive experience where people of all ages used organic materials to design their own dioramas of spaces and experiences inspired by five focus areas for the project: boundless, wellbeing, environmental stewardship, heritage and create beauty.
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Session This workshop looks at library- and culture-based climate action: What’s happening and how your community can participate. Participants build skills and know-how to understand climate action in the context of the global and local needs, information science and activism, and ethics and traditions of librarianship. Participants learn how to overcome the five most frequent
Ignite Talk Designed for children and families, Playing with the Sun is a collection of activities that invite learners to follow their curiosity and build something powered by solar, wind, or muscles. In the process they develop their understanding of sustainable energy sources and their ability to create with them. The Playing with the Sun construction kit was designed with
Ignite Talk Eco-social education encourages us to imagine and build better ecologically and socially sustainable futures. What exactly is Eco-social education? How are libraries’ goals related to Eco-social education, and how can it help us plan better sustainability activities? I will present some inspiring ideas and examples that I found in my thesis work on
Ignite Talk Leave no one behind – bring languages to the front. Leave no one behind is one of the central aims of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). A slogan that is in many ways also at the core of library work all around the world. Libraries reach out to citizens in all corners of
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