This document summarizes a multilingual library award program. It discusses the library's vision, funding sources, documentation of policies, gathering visitor data, encouraging participation, partners and networks, ensuring staff competence, collecting feedback, and benchmarking cultural participation programs. Specific initiatives discussed include learning workshops, a national conference, advocacy, and a European conference to increase migrant engagement and cultural institutions' legitimacy. Power dynamics and representation are noted as complex issues to consider. Recruitment, public demands, evaluation, and making diversity programs core activities are highlighted as factors that can influence power and participation.

1. Multilingual Library of the Year
Pilot example of how to use the
benchmark

3. Vision and Policy
•Financing?
Project funding (random) Ear marked
resource
•Documentation?
Visibility of policies

4. Visitors/Audiences
•Gather data and statistics?
How do you learn to know your visitors and
community
•Encourage participation?
Focus groups, dialogues

5. Partners
•Who are your partners and networks?
Formal and informal
Staff
How do you ensure the competence in your staff?

6. Feedback
•Complex tool
•Adapt it to your needs
•Develop question
•Criteria for assessment instead of gut
feeling

7. Sweden in numbers
•Population 2014: 9 728 498
• 28 % has a foreign background
• Immigration mainly from the Nordic countries, 50% from Finland
• 14 % from Africa, Asia or South America
• In Stockholm, Göteborg and Malmö approx. 60% has a foreign
background and between 40-55% of the young population
• In the municipalities of Botkyrka and Malmö the majority of the
inhabitants has foreign background
Source: Statistiska Centralbyrån (SCB)

8. Normcritical voices
diversity controllers

10. Museerna och Mångfalden av Riksutställningar
An analysis of the museum sector, how the sector can support and
include the potential of diversity in Sweden.

11. Professor Joanna Rubin Dranger –
The power of visual images

12. Complexities
• Stereotypes visible in culture
• Increased representation but also intercultural
competence
• Power and increased influence
• Mobilization of the anti-racist movement
• Norms and white privileges are questioned
•Structural discrimination

13. A question about power
and influence

14. BROKERING MIGRANTS’
CULTURAL PARTICIPATION
In Sweden- 11 cultural institutions; museums,
libraries, performing arts – and culture houses.
Benchmark – pilot at libraries
The Multilingual Library of the Year

15. BROKERING MIGRANTS’
CULTURAL PARTICIPATION
Increase the capacity to engage people with migrant
background in cultural institutions. Increase the
legitimacy for the institution.
• Benchmark tool
• Interviews
• Learning partnership workshops
• National conference the 8th December
• Opinionmaking and advocacy
• European conference in Barcelona, June 2015

17. Välkomna!

18. CONCLUSIONS-
INFLUENCE AND POWER
• Key factor - recruitment
• Demands from public funders - consequences
• Evaluation and measurable data
• Core activities not projects
• Legitimacy and relevance

19. THANK YOU!
bella.lawson@regionvasterbotten.se
and
ida.buren@intercult.se