advocacy with a big a
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Gina Millsap, CEOTopeka & Shawnee County Public Library
The Aspen InstituteDialogue on Public Libraries
To learn more:
http://as.pn/libraries
Amy Garmer, Director
QUESTIONS?
A networked world
Gateway to lifelong learning
“Persistent education and learning are the reality …
the library as people, place and platform is the new
knowledge institution that can serve all those needs.”
-LEE RAINIE
People Place Platform
LIBRARY AS PEOPLE
“Take away my people, but leave my factories, and soon grass will grow on the factory floors. Take away my factories, but leave my people, and soon we will have a new and better factory.”
Andrew Carnegie
LIBRARY AS PLACE
“The public library is first and foremost a place…that promotes development in society. It is the family room of a community.”
Akhtar Badshah
Lawrence Public Library | Metropolis Magazine
4-year-old Asmund’sfavorite place to read in the library
Overbrook Public Library storytime
Ron Robinson Theater, Central Arkansas Library System
Philadelphia Free Library Virtual Branch at Airport
Topeka Library Trivia teams at the Kansas Expocentre
Mahjongg program at Basehor Community Library
In Topeka’s teen room, where kids come daily after school.
Atchison Library’s kids space
Lawrence Public Library’s Sound+Vision Studio
How is your library a community hub?
LIBRARY AS PLATFORM
Nashville Public Library Makerspace
Library computers at community centers
DREAM Center
Library as platform
R. David Lankes
Community-focusedstrategic plans
“We work together as partners with other community organizations in a spirit of cooperation, supporting each other's efforts to achieve organizational excellence.”Atchison Public Library
Our goals• Support the economic vitality of our community• Support and nourish the community spirit,
imagination and culture• Contribute to the growth and development of our community’s families and children
Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library
Our goals• Every child will be ready for kindergarten• Everyone will discover their passion for learning• Everyone will continue learning new ways to live
their best life.• Topeka and Shawnee County will be a community of
readers.
Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library
Share something your library is doing!
STRATEGIES
FOR
SUCCESS
1. Aligning with community goals
STRATEGIES
“The public library has movedfrom being an institution thatprimarily services individualsto one that navigates community.”
–Tessie Guillermo
We’re in the community
Are you at the table?
Once you’re at the table, what do you do?
2. Provide access to contentin all formats
STRATEGIES
ACCESS IS NOT ENOUGH!
3. Ensuring long-term sustainability
STRATEGIES
Toward a national digital platform
“With a nationally networked platform, library and other
leaders will also have more capacity to think about the work
they can do at the national level that so many libraries have
been so effective doing at the state and local levels.”
-MAUREEN SULLIVAN
Europeana
Digital Public Library of America
4. Cultivating leadership
Community leadership
Demonstrate the value of libraries
Policy Makers & Funders
How can you use the AI report?
Wichita Public Library
"When the Aspen Report was released, it was as if it had been written just for Wichita.”
Cindy Berner, Director
Using the action guide
Let’s SOAR
“Root for Columbus” campaign
How are you leading in your community?
Gina Millsap
785-580-4480
on twitter @ginamillsap
Let’s keep the
conversation going!