Librarian's advocacy in supporting communities.

1. YourVoice
Counts:
Librariansin
Supporting
Community
Advocacy
Kevin ConradT.Tansiongco
Librarian | Millenial |Advocate |Volunteer

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3. Learning Objectives
•After the discussion, every
participants must be able to
know and understand the
following ideas;
•Advocacy and other key terms
associated with it
•Library Advocate
•Different Library Advocacy
•Library Advocacy Programs

4. What is
ADVOCACY

5. What is Advocacy?
“Public support for or
recommendation of a
particular cost or policy.” -
Oxford Dictionary-
“The act or process of
advocating or supporting a
cause or proposal.” -Merriam
Webster-

6. What is Advocacy?
“Advocacy is a planned,
deliberate and sustained
effort to raise awareness of
an issue. -Ohio Library Council-

8. Who are
Library
Advocates?

9. Library Advocates
•Library advocates believe
in the importance of free
and equitable access to
information in a
democratic society.
•Library advocates believe
libraries and librarians
are vital to the future of
an information literate
nation.

10. Library Advocates
•Library advocates speak
out for libraries.
•Library advocates are
everywhere although
they don’t always call
themselves that.

11. Library Advocates
• Librarians and Library
Staff
• Library Trustees
• Friends of Libraries
• Library Users
• Institutional and
Community Leaders
• Potential Advocates

12. What can we
Advocate?

13. What can we Advocate?
•Librarianship (RA 9246)
•Public Libraries (RA 7743)
•Media and Information
Literacy (MIL)
•Storytelling
(Bibliotherapy)
•Access to Government
Information (FOI)

14. American Library Association
Advocacy for Libraries and the Profession
The association actively works to increase
public awareness of the crucial value of libraries and
librarians, to promote state and national crucial value
of libraries and librarians, to promote state and
national legislation beneficial to libraries and library
users, and to supply the resources, training and
support networks needed by local advocates seeking
to increase support for libraries of all types.

15. Someofthegreat
advocaciesinthe
PhilippineLibraries

16. Library Renewal Partnership

17. Books For A Cause by Ramil Sumangil

18. Books in Bags

19. UP College of Engineering Library

20. KRIS
(Kristiyano-Islam)
Library

21. The Storytelling Project

22. Philippine Toy Library

23. What we can do as
LIBRARIANS to
support community
ADVOCACY?

24. MAGBASATAYOMOVEMENT
#LoveLibraries #LoveLibrarians
#LoveReading

25. Magbasa Tayo Movement
• It was founded on 2015.
• It was a movement to help
public libraries (barangay
reading centers) to have their
own library collections and to to
form partnership.
• Our first recipient was the
Community of Brgy. 555, Zone
55, Sampaloc, Manila.
• We extended book donations in
Lamitan City Library and Jose
Reyes Memorial Medical Center
– Pedia Ward.

26. Books for Brgy. 555, Zone 55, Manila

27. Storytelling Sessions at Brgy. 555, Zone 55

28. Donating Books at
JRMMCI Pedia Ward

29. KwEntista

31. Munting Aklatan

32. SiMADdonaatSi
KapitanBookmark
IAmMakingADifference(MAD), Corp
E:IAMMADMAD Videos and PPTI AMM.A.D.,Inc..mp4

33. Si MADdona at Si Kapitan
Bookmark
• It was introduced by I Am Making A
Difference last August 2016 in Palawan.
• This program is to advocate the culture
of reading to kids.
• We perform a short storytelling kit on the
importance of reading.
• Additional activity is by creating there
DIY bookmarks.
• And lastly, we will give them books each
for them to read at home.

34. MADdona Activity in Palawan and Davao

36. Aside from all of
these advocacies,
Ano pa?

37. Sustainable Development Goals
• E:MLIS FilesInvitation to TalkUN 2030 SDGTransitioning from the MDGs to the SDGs.mp4

38. What can libraries do to contribute to SDGs?
• Promote universal literacy, including media
and information literacy and digital literacy
• Closing gaps in information access
• Libraries as network of delivery sites for
government programs and services
• Access to information and research data
• Support digital inclusion
E:MLIS FilesInvitation to TalkUN 2030 SDGNumbers In Action.mp4

39. Be active.
Be an advocate.

40. References:
• A. (n.d.). ABC-CLIO. Retrieved March 23, 2017, from http://www.abc-
clio.com/ODLIS/odlis_A.aspx
• Contribution of Libraries to the SDGs - United Nations Partnerships for SDGs
platform. (n.d.). Retrieved March 23, 2017, from
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/partnership/?p=10909
• Lapuz, E. (2017). Libraries, Development and the United Nations 2030 Agenda.
[PowerPoint slides]. Retrieved from:
http://web.nlp.gov.ph/nlp/?q=node/9839.
• Cruz, V.J. (2016). Social Marketing and Public Libraries. [Powerpoint slides].
• UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. (n.d.). Retrieved March 23,
2017, from https://www.ifla.org/node/10091
• UNESCO and Sustainable Development Goals. (2017, March 01). Retrieved
March 23, 2017, from http://en.unesco.org/sdgs

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