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Including libraries in development strategies

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Abstract
Governments, as well as development agencies and civil society organizations (CSOs), increasingly
understand the potential of libraries to address their development goals. Libraries, on their part,
progressively reach beyond their more “traditional” boundaries to establish partnerships that
advance economic and social development. These partnerships show a promising trend in global
librarianship and turn libraries into digitally advanced and inclusive development hubs. This paper
explores this potential by following several development initiatives in Ukraine and Romania from
2009 to 2013. The Ukrainian government was the first government in the world to create an Open
Government Partnership Action plan to recognize libraries as corner stones of the country’s digital
literacy program and e-government strategy. In Romania, the government created several successful
partnerships with Romanian libraries and development agencies to address key development
challenges. As this paper shows, libraries have great opportunities to work with governments and
development agents to address these goals. At the same time, they face major challenges. Most public
libraries around the world operate under the ministries responsible for culture or education, and are
therefore driven towards those areas primarily by their line ministries and existing legislation. Many
libraries also lack experience with partnerships outside the cultural and educational spheres, and
development agents often do not think of libraries as relevant partners. This makes the development
dialogue difficult to initiate. Additionally, at a time when ICT and development are increasingly
connected, many public libraries do not have the technology and skilled staff necessary for libraries
to become development hubs. And finally, libraries pay little attention to collecting and aggregating
compelling national data about their impact that could be used in advocacy efforts.

Keywords: Libraries, Development, Open Government Partnership, Ukraine, Romania

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IFLA WLIC 2013

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Singapore : International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions., 2013

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IFLA WLIC 2013, Submitted on: May 30, 2013

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English

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