Interkulturelle Bibliotheksarbeit, Diversity
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»Which Direction?« That is the title of the animation workshop which was initiated by the City Library of Frankfurt am Main for young adults whose family background and experience includes flight or migration. The project’s content, as developed by its coordinator, Tanja Schmidt, was focussed from the beginning around teenagers who fled their home countries on their own, without adult family members.
To start off the five-day animation workshop, the library pedagogue chose the graphic novel by Marc-Antoine Mathieu, called »The Direction«.(Orig. French, »Le sens«, 2014). After discussing the book together, the youth were asked to tell their own stories and transform them into short animated audio-visual sequences. Their work was planned to be process-oriented and at beginner’s level.
In the workshop’s first morning session at the central library there were 15 young people from Afghanistan, Eritrea, and Pakistan, between 15 and 17 years of age. Although not mandatory, all of them told the story of their flight in their animation clips.
Over the next four days the teens worked on their clips in the morning at the library, while in the afternoon the audio and visual elements were developed on green screen backgrounds at the Youth Center on Heideplatz. Tablets and tripods were employed at the library to create an animation studio in miniature.
To avoid revealing the identity of the young filmmakers– for security and data protection reasons – it was necessary to be especially creative. Their figures needed to be disguised on the green screen.
Libraries for All
(2010)
In 2008 the 2-year-project “ESME/Libraries for All” started – funded with support from the European Commission and focussing on integration of migrants. ESME’s (European Strategy for Multicultural Education) aim is to initiate an EU-wide upgrade of local public libraries into “Libraries for All” with a European perspective. By upgrading local public libraries into "Libraries for All", the cultural capital of the local migrant population will become an integral part of local public libraries. By serving the community as a whole, the libraries will be enhanced into local contact points for implementing European integration strategies. The pilot projects will include libraries in four different European regions (Austria, Sweden, Germany and Czech Republic). A central focus will be the introduction of Advisory Boards for Multiculturalism (ABM) for each library. The ABM will consist of librarians and specifically qualified members of the local immigrant communities. Further aims and results are: • a project website (www.librariesforall.eu) • a cycle of seminars for librarians, immigrant organisations and expert organisations in integration in the four involved European countries • a manual on how to create a “Library for all” • Sustainability/dissemination: with the cooperation of local partners other public libraries should initiate multicultural services in their library.