This is a read only archive of pad.okfn.org. See the shutdown announcement for details.

• Come from backgrounds that don't have appreciation for libraries
• Institution that did exist were destroyed or not funded
• How can the community be pulled in to benefit development
• Agency, libraries have lost the power, perception perhaps
• Can champions of freedoms, human rights activists
• Creating the culture where libraries are valued in the U.S., basic things like access to information, access to internet
• Legitimize existence, library advocacy
• Library Week, www.geekthelibrary.org, http://www.ilovelibraries.org/ and other initiatives to demonstrate the value/impact of libraries for society
• Contact with authors, politicians
• Libraries conducting workshops on finding jobs, resume writing
• Library as a space for community events, knitting, writing
• Neutral space that is a hub for all different parts of society
• Model where the superstructure of thru state
• We need to go back and read at the individual level
• Role to make sure people are aware
• Do not appreciate what we have
• Make cultural institutions central to our fabric
• Still need permission from the government control
• Need to be willing to go afoul of the political system with our agenda, form own opinions
• How will government control entities that arise like national libraries even if they didn't fund
• Civic education collection
• Showing all opinions and information
• Censorship
• Local government or local communities
• http://librarieswithoutborders.org/