it takes a library to raise a community marjatta asu & leanne clendening ontario library...
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It Takes a Library to Raise a Community
Marjatta Asu & Leanne Clendening
Ontario Library Service-North
OLA SuperConference 2007
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Welcome
OLS-North & community
development
The library board &
community development
It Takes a Library to Raise a
Community
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Challenges
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Municipal Cultural Planning Forums
• “…asset-based community development… mapping broadly defined local cultural resources … leverages these resources for economic development and community building.”
Provincial policy makers
Municipal staff/ associations
Cultural sector
Creative City Network of
Canada
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Terminology
CapacityCommunity
development
Community or social
sustainability
Human capital Social capital Social inclusion
Community asset
mapping
Community engagement
Community of interest
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“Only when all of the capacities of local individuals, associations and institutions have been inventoried thoroughly; only when these local assets have begun to look first to their relationships with each other for solving problems;... only then should the community begin to consider leveraging resources from the outside.” Kretzmann and McKnight (1993), 353
Asset-based Internally focused
Relationship driven
Community asset mapping
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Neighbourhood needs map
Crime
Child abuse
Sub-standard housing
Illiteracy
Drug abuse
Mental illness
Broken families
Teenage pregnancy
Pollution
Unemployment
Welfare dependency
Domestic violence
Dropouts
Gangs
AIDS
Alcoholism
Homelessness
AbandonmentCapacity building
McKnight & Kretzman, Module 3:Community&Economic Development, Chapter 2: Mapping Community Capacity
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Community asset mapping
“Communities have never been built upon their deficiencies. Building community has always depended upon mobilizing the capacities and assets of a people and place. That is why a map of neighbourhood assets is necessary if local people are to find the way toward empowerment and renewal.”
McKnight and Kretzman
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Individual capacities
Individualbusinesses
Personalincome
Religious organizations
Cultural organizations
Hospitals
Neighbourhood asset map
Firedepts.
Associations
Energy/ Waste resources
Social service
agencies
Business associations
Home-based enterprise
Police
Parks
Highereducationinstitutions
Welfare expenditures
Vacant land,
buildings,etc.
Publicschools
Libraries
Public information
Capital improvementexpendituresGifts of
labeledpeople
McKnight & Kretzman, Module 3:Community&Economic Development, Chapter 2: Mapping Community Capacity
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Mapping community capacity
Your community asset map (Worksheet 4)
• Capacity inventory of individuals (Adapted from Kretzmann & McKnight; Beaulieu)
IndividualsCitizen
associationsLocal
institutions
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A Place at the Table: Participating in Community Building
“… “Connecting libraries to community organizations is the way to multiply the effectiveness of libraries in community building…. the work librarians do on a daily basis clearly fits into community
building activities.” McCook (2000) 40
http://www.cas.usf.edu/lis/a-librarian-at-
every-table/index.html
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Shared values of community builders
Community involvement
Awareness of community
issues
Connection as a responsibility
Integration of service
Community building as
a value
The library can make a
difference
McCook, 2000
“…there should be a librarian at every table”
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A voice at the table …
Communities of interest
Community issues/ goals
Community assets
Library/ community connections
Library capacity
Library goals
Worksheets & Checklists
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The Community
Table
Environment
Resource Sector
UnemployedChildren & Youth
Labour
Health
Public Library
Other Stakeholders
Businesses
Leisure
Sports & Recreation
SeniorCitizens
Literacy
Education Municipal
Government
The community table (Worksheet 1) Matrix of library-community connections (Worksheet 2)
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At the community table
“As the library’s presence in the community decreases, so does its value and visibility to the community.”
Penny S. Markey, 1977
• The library in the community (Worksheet 3)
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Libraries and community capacity
• Key support to economic development
– Job creation
– Education, training, skills development
– Cultural development
– Social capital
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Library capacity
Capacity Inventory of Individuals
“Capacity Building for Libraries”
Skills, culture, attitude Commitment to
training
Identify opportunities &
strengths
Leadership, planning
Belief
“… mix of skills, people, plans, and commitment to do what needs to be done.” Frank and Smith, 10
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Define library assets (capacities)
Centre of neighbourhood’s
flow of information
Computers & the Internet
Critical information
Community meeting space
Cultural projects
Public libraries are public institutions with community-building potential
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How will you recognize capacity?
Frank & Smith (1999)
• People are active, interested, participating
• Questioning, challenging,
debating NOT complaining
• More people are involved
• Results are becoming obvious
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Partners in capacity building
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Partners in capacity building
Checklist #1: The library’s role as a community partner Checklist #2: Community
access to government
Skill builder
Community connector
Information provider
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Libraries & the local economy
Checklist #3: The library’s role in local economic development
Checklist #4: Employment and financial resources
Capacity building
BR+EAccess to services & resources
Cultural & community
centre
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Libraries & lifelong learning
Checklist #5: Lifelong learning and information literacy
Lifelong learning Capacity building
Information literacy skills
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Libraries & community culture
Culture “…is the glue that holds communities together and makes them last over generations…. Culture is the soul and life force of a community…”
Nozick (1992),181
Checklist #6: The library’s role in the community’s cultural and social development
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Libraries & social development
• “…there has to be continuing, meaningful human interaction in order to create the social bonding which is a prerequisite to building community culture.”
Nozick (1992),196-197
Checklist #6: The library’s role in the community’s cultural and social development
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Libraries & social inclusion
• “Those who are socially excluded have nowhere else to go. The library could become an important resource in their life.”
Brian Campbell, National Director of the Working Together: Library –
Community Connections Project, 2005
Checklist #6: The library’s role in the community’s cultural and social development
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Libraries & the digital divide
Checklist #7: The library’s role in bridging the digital divide
Digital divide
Capacity building
Community prosperity
E-government initiatives
New technologies
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Next steps
Worksheet 1: The community
table
Worksheet 2: Matrix of library –
community connections
Worksheet 4: Your community asset
map
Worksheet 3: The library in the community
Library goals for community building
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The Engaged Library
• Get outside the doors• Find the leaders • Be creative about what the library can contribute• Discover and contribute to the unique capacities
and conditions of the community• Support local businesses and institutions• Make the library building a community centre• Create a community-minded culture among
library staff and volunteers• Support library investments that jump start
community redevelopment effortsThe Engaged Library:
Chicago Stories of Community Building (2005)