Ignite Talk The Democracy Conversations series: the rhetoric of democracy in the classroom. Anti-democracy rhetoric is pervasive in the US. The Democracy Conversation series offers community college faculty opportunities to learn how white nationalism, hate speech, and mis/disinformation intersect with campus culture and student learning. The project highlights that democratic values do not simply reside […]
Watch the Ignite Talk as a video presentation here Ignite Talk BiebLab is the hybrid youth platform of Biblionet Groningen, the organization behind 34 libraries in the province of Groningen (the Netherlands). With riddles and sketches on TikTok (22k followers and 8 million views), two monthly live shows on YouTube, and regular challenges and activities
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Ignite Talk Today we will tell you a little bit about our experiences during our STEM reading sessions. The Children’s and Youth Library of the ZLB regularly organizes reading sessions for preschoolers where we show and read picture books. Afterwards, we choose a suitable STEM experiment to do together with the participants. It can be
Ignite Talk As libraries, we want to be a place for everyone. Through our participation with the project “#queeringthelibrary”, which was part of the international project “The Europe Challenge”, we were able to reach out to three queer groups in Berlin, who designed various events for our library. We would like to share our experience
Ignite Talk Traditional library information services are in crisis. Or dead. According to a survey done by the Helsinki City Library in 2022, the majority of respondents didn’t consider the library as a place to ask about anything other than books. During the pandemic not a single person walked into Helsinki public libraries requesting help
Ignite Talk Find the best library staff: turning recruitment and hiring upside down. We return from NextLibrary full of new ideas. But we look around and don’t always find the staff to execute those dreams. This Ignite will question how we recruit and hire and will give you new ideas to try out as soon
Ignite Talk All features of the modern library in your pocket, on the kitchen table, and on your wrist. That’s what Bibliotheek AanZet (NL) is building on. We have captured our ambitions in three horizons, and we have developed a scalable and shareable web platform in collaboration with other Dutch libraries that incorporates a book
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Ignite Talk The restyling of “Stelline Conference” – the National Congress of Italian Libraries. The “Stelline Conference”, which was held on March 30th-31st, 2023 in Milan, involved participants in co-creation and co-design, interactive meetings and prototyping new services for users. We wished to engage librarians and policy makers in meeting the Sustainable Development Agenda goals
Ignite Talk Each library has its own special role to play in the global journey towards the implementation of Agenda 2030 and its 17 sustainable development goals. The United Nations Library in Geneva was among the early adopters of Agenda 2030 and chose to make use of the SDGs as a guiding principle since 2016.
Ignite Talk Last year Library Kennemerwaard began the project JobFlow which is designed to help young people (without a so-called starting degree) to enroll in a new study or to find suitable work/internships. For this project, the library took two approaches in connecting with users: drop-in nights at the library and a local partnership with
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