Libraries are more important than ever. This is not the headline you see in news media these days. If there happens to be a library-related headline it often says that libraries are obsolete because of the technological development. In a world where there is more information than ever before and where modern societies compete to get the attractive knowledge jobs librarians and libraries guide people towards digital literacy thereby empowering them as digital citizens and lifelong learners. Therefore libraries are strategically important for modern knowledge societies. Aligning to the conference theme Different Perspectives, New Horizons Jan shares how a library strategy with a focus on learning lead to opening a library FabLab and what implications it has for supporting learning about new technology and creating new knowledge communities. A library FabLab must have the focus on digital literacy, searching and evaluating information and actively supporting the creation of new knowledge just like the library does with more traditional media. Jan also shares insights on European library advocacy from Public Libraries 2020 and the Library Advocacy Lab on how libraries change lives and he reveals the secret on how Public Libraries 2020 will be a driving force in creating a global knowledge school for forward-thinking librarians and why that is important. https://www.inforum.cz/proceedings/2018/42

1. New Horizons: How Libraries Create Smart
Communities
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@janholmquist

2. Agenda

3. Agenda
Strategy

4. Agenda
Strategy Advocacy

5. Agenda

6. @janholmquist

7. Strategy

9. IFLA Global Vision
Shape the future
David Lankes Global librarianship

10. @janholmquist

11. Your strategic plan is
not your strategy

12. To which challenges in society
is your library the answer?
Rolf Hapel

13. Challenges

14. Challenges
Youth and education

15. The Law – Libraries
The purpose of public libraries is to promote information,
education and cultural activity
Core task – municipality and Libraries and Citizens service:
We must strengthen citizens' opportunities to master their own
lives and in cooperation with the citizens ensure that everyone
can join relevant communities.
We do this by –
Guldborgsund Public Library actively supports life long learning
on all levels. We inspire and strengthen the community.

16. Unlearn
H A C K
Learn

17. FabLab Guldborgsund

18. FabLab Guldborgsund
Spark learning opportunities by bringing the knowledge of
the community together

19. FabLab Guldborgsund
Spark learning opportunities by bringing the knowledge of
the community together
Tactile learning Social learning Physical learning

20. FabLab Guldborgsund
Spark learning opportunities by bringing the knowledge of
the community together
Tactile learning Social learning Physical learning
Library core values are important – it is a Library FabLab

21. FabLab Guldborgsund
Spark learning opportunities by bringing the knowledge of
the community together
Tactile learning Social learning Physical learning
Library core values are important – it is a Library FabLab
Search and evaluate information

22. FabLab Guldborgsund
Spark learning opportunities by bringing the knowledge of
the community together
Tactile learning Social learning Physical learning
Library core values are important – it is a Library FabLab
Search and evaluate information
Project with schools and youth school

24. Challenge and opportunity

25. “We need to out-
innovate,
outeducate and
outbuild the rest
of the world”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/26/us/politics/26speech.html

27. Libraries are
strategically important
for modern knowledge
societies

28. Advocacy

29. Challenges

31. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYnpJGaMiXo&feature=youtu.be

40. Martin Schulz

43. Tell stories

44. With the heart
To the heart

47. Connect the dots

49. Libraries are
strategically important
for modern knowledge
societies

56. janholmquist.net

57. Jan Holmquist
janholmquist.net
Twitter: @janholmquist
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