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Changing lives Share your stories of impact
Libraries Change Lives Week is a new campaign to highlight the power of libraries in all their forms. The aim is to show how librar- ies, information and knowledge services, and the people who work in them are helping change lives for the better – from individuals to society at large. Here Rob Green looks at how your service can get involved.
THE capacity for libraries to deliver positive impacts on people’s lives is nothing new. For hundreds of years, they have been repositories of the world’s knowledge helping society to develop and driving progress. Librar- ies now are very different, but the impact they have is no less important and that is why CILIP has launched Libraries Change Lives Week – to cel- ebrate and share the positive change that libraries empower.
Local and regional elections have just taken place in many parts of the country, and we are gearing up for a general election that will see a huge influx of new MPs. At least 100 current MPs have said they will be standing down at the next election, so whatever the outcome of the election there is guaranteed to be a host of new faces in Parliament.
The campaign will focus on surfacing and sharing positive stories and impacts from across the library and information sector. The campaign includes a public platform where library users, staff and service man- agers can share their stories and evidence of the value they are providing.
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Rob Green (
rob.green@
cilip.org.uk) is Editor of Information Professional
Jo Cornish, CILIP’s Chief Development Officer, says the campaign will help to show leaders how libraries’ reach and impact moves beyond the obvious. She said: “Anyone who works in libraries will instinctively understand how their services can change lives. Whether that is giving people the opportunity to engage with learning on their own terms, supporting a business enterprise take flight, intro- ducing young children to a love of reading through rhyme times, or as a knowledge
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