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Libraries increasingly confront their roles within the wider histories of colonialism and how these legacies continue to shape their collections today. As part of this process, the digitization of historical source material raises timely questions about forms and processes of presenting collections in the digital realm. Libraries and other cultural heritage organizations have begun to experiment with different forms of making available potentially sensitive collections in ways that seek to navigate the space between ethics and access as set out by community standards and funding agencies. This paper discusses existing and new approaches to presenting historical collections from colonial contexts in the digital realm. In a first step, the paper surveys existing approaches ranging from platform-wide disclaimer statements to collection-specific labels that seek to guide users in understanding potentially contested provenances, sensitive material and other problematic material that reflects the racial and ideological thinking of historical agents. In a second step, the paper discusses new approaches explored as part of the project IN_CONTEXT: Colonial Histories and Digital Collections with respect to presenting collections from colonial contexts by leveraging techniques from the field of web development. How manipulating the physicality of the presentation layer can help sensitize users and provide contextualization for problematic designators and colonial catalogues will be illustrated by way of a web-based prototype. Finally, the paper reflects on the importance of recognizing the authority and standards as articulated e.g. by Indigenous groups and other knowledge holders for presenting material from colonial contexts in the digital realm. The paper concludes by suggesting that if work towards creating responsible digital collections and ensuring wide access for diverse audiences is to succeed, support for sustained and iterative collaboration is indispensable.
Open your library to urban programming! Why? Because young people are creative with language! They are more interested in the power of written language than you might think.
Invite young people and influencers from your local community to the library. Together you can create an environment where they feel welcome, inspired and involved. Engage them by focussing on that what they like: music, video and lyrics from their favourite artists. Explore their enthusiasm and ideas. Involve them in your collections and programs!
Work with the right people in your team and welcome new opportunities and successes.
After this presentation you will wonder why you didn't already involve young people and their passion for language in your programming.
Libraries as intensively used learning places face special challenges these days. To support students holistically in their learning and work, concepts are needed that combine the library's traditional core competencies with innovative services. Because learning is an individual process, very different and sometimes contradictory expectations and needs of users must be recognized and taken into account when developing a learning space. Libraries are evolving into places of residence. They are learning places and information centers and offer space for work individually and in groups. Customers' needs are different: they want to be "alone but not alone" and want an "atmosphere that promotes concentration, encouragement, contagion", in which it is possible to "stimulate space and concentrated separation" at the same time. In Macedonia, too, libraries are increasingly oriented towards the international development of libraries as "teaching libraries", which transfer information and media skills far beyond conventional user training. The role of the library will increasingly be that of the so-called "third place", which, in addition to our home ("first place") and workplace ("second place"), will be of greater importance for the functioning of a society. "Third places" offer everyone the opportunity to spend time with others in an unrelated way, for no apparent or obvious reason. Libraries are destined for this. The project Young St. Clement's University in NUL"St.Clement Ohridski" - Skopje, is an example of developing certain skills among users, using traditional sources, go beyond the everyday, stimulate their creativity and expand opportunities in many areas of living. Keywords: place to study, teaching library, free space, Young St. Clement's University
"If libraries can loan out books, why can’t they loan out citizen science projects?” Josep Perello The world is facing major challenges. Besides Covid-19 and vaccine scepticism we struggle with fake news, post-factual society, climate change, unsustainable food systems, and a multitude of other global problems. Citizen Science – the inclusion of citizens and communities in scientific research – can help mitigate some of these challenges. But it does not happen overnight. If we want to solve these problems, new roles, infrastructures, and partnerships will have to be emerge. And critically, science needs to move closer to society and into the daily life of citizens. The opening quote by Josep Perello (researcher and founder of the Social Citizen Science movement) highlight that public libraries can play a central role. Libraries can be a first point of contact for citizens. They can recruit and retain citizens, provide infrastructure, disseminate scientific information, host events and potentially manage communities and projects. Also, The UN SDG’s provide a strategic platform moving forward. Building on experiences from Denmark and the European research library community, this talk provides the Big Why for libraries as well as show examples for inspiration. Anne Kathrine Overgaard and Thomas Kaarsted run the SDU Citizen Science Knowledge Center which is placed in the university library. They have extended experience running Citizen Science projects and works internationally to do advocacy within the field.