[Pal-dc] Policy options for Connecting the Next Billion - PAL DC contributions

[sandra dias]

Hello all,


I'm a librarian in a public library in Sacavém - a city near Lisbon (Portugal) and I'm tottaly amaized with this fantastic work that IFLA is doing by promotting what libraries do everyday within their local communities through SDGs.

We know every country has its own reality and therefore libraries struggle with diferente kind of problems, but in the end the one question that is common for us all is:


How can my library be usefull and have an impact on someone's life?

And that, most certain, is by the use of information!

But the right information: meaningfull one! Changing lifes, changing societies!

The right information for children who are discovering the importance of reading and writing...
The right information for the student that is going to university...
The right information to the unemployed that is seeking a job...
The right information to the elderly that don't know how to send an email...
The right information to the one that doesn't come to the library, and for him the library goes outside its doors and takes information out..

Digital access isn't always a productive information resource, specially if we dont' know how to use it well!
Libraries teach us the way!


All the best from Lisbon,
Sandra Moura Dias

Biblioteca Municipal Ary dos Santos
Município de Loures
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De: pal-dc <pal-dc-bounces at lists.apc.org> em nome de Stuart Hamilton <Stuart.Hamilton at ifla.org>
Enviado: sexta-feira, 29 de julho de 2016 09:35
Para: PubAccessLibraries-DC
Assunto: [Pal-dc] Policy options for Connecting the Next Billion - PAL DC contributions


Dear Colleagues



First of all, an apology for a very late email to you all. We have been asked to provide input from PAL-DC to the next stage of the IGF’s ‘Policy Options for the Next Billion’ 2017 Intersessional Programme. I attach the call for input – you can see it has quite detailed instructions on what the organisers are looking for.



The deadline for submissions is July 31 – which is why I began this email with an apology. However, we have drafted the attached which we would like comments on, if you have time, before we submit it on Sunday. Please send comments to the list and we’ll take them into account in the final submission. If you feel like submitting individual comments please also do so, as I am sure these will be received with gratitude.



For us at IFLA right now we are hugely busy with preparations for our annual conference, which takes place in Columbus in the US next month: http://2016.ifla.org/ Once we are the other side of this event we will be stepping up preparations for the main IGF in December, including picking up work on our Principles document. Right now we have library representatives at the Asia-Pacific IGF, where we are co-organising a workshop on the Right to be Forgotten, and we will also have colleagues at the forthcoming LAC IGF.

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IFLA World Library and Information Congress 82nd IFLA General Conference and Assembly 13–19 August 2016, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America





Finally, recently I participated in the IGF Retreat in New York (http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/igf-retreat) where improvements to the IGF were discussed. I brought the library and public access viewpoint to the discussions as best I could! You can find the outcome document from these discussions here, and can comment paragraph by paragraph: https://www.intgovforum.org/review/igf-retreat-proceedings-ideas-and-suggestions/



I hope you are all well!



Stuart



Dr. Stuart Hamilton

Deputy Secretary General

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)

P.O. Box 95312
2509 CH The Hague
Netherlands



00 31 70 314 0884



Twitter: @ifladpa


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