This document discusses how libraries can transition from simply distributing information to actively engaging their communities. It notes that engagement requires listening to community members, leveraging resources, raising awareness of a community's identity, and cultivating community involvement rather than just building programs. The key is for libraries to focus on building communities rather than just distributing information.

1. Web Junction | Building Community: Distribution to Engagement
Helene Blowers | LibraryBytes.com | November 2010
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bormang2/4676757080

3. “I like to listen. I have learned a
great deal from listening carefully.
Most people never listen.”
– Ernest Hemingway
Listen
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rvoegtli/4927466

7. “When you combine ignorance and
leverage, you get some pretty
interesting results.”
-Warren Buffett
Leverage

8. “The strength of Columbus will lie in its
“neighborhoods of tomorrow…the
centerpiece of our 21st Century
city….[the work of the bicentennial] is
not just about setting out towards our
future legacy, but about raising
awareness of who we are already.”
—Blueprint for the Bicentennial
www.columbus2012.org

13. • Levy slides

14. Let it go
“Courage is the power to let go
of the familiar.”
- Raymond Lindquist
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15. http://teens.columbuslibrary.org

18. http://www.flickr.com/photos/hisgett/4709467190.

19. http://www.flickr.com/photos/hisgett/4709467190.
“It’s not about building a field of dreams …

20. … It’s about cultivating a community garden”
- H.Blowers |LibraryBytes.com

21. Helene Blowers | hblowers@columbuslibrary.org | LibraryBytes.com