Thursday, April 22, 2021

Session 2 - Plan Stakeholder Consultation


Library Advocacy

Class Discussion 1

What do you think library Advocacy is? Why is it important? Who should be the ones advocating - the library (and staff) or the community?

Read about some of ALIA's library advocacy campaigns:

ALIA states that "Our advocacy campaigns are great opportunities for the sector to promote its value and to highlight issues of importance to the communities we serve."

FAIR

"Meanwhile the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has launched FAIR which campaigns for a fair, open and democratic society where information belongs to everyone.

FAIR stands for Freedom of Access to Information and Resources.

It will lobby for a series of issues including well funded libraries, copyright law reform, the digitisation of our history, evidence-based policy making, lifelong learning and qualified library staff in schools.

ALIA created FAIR to give people a way to actively support all kinds of libraries including public, TAFE, university, health, law, business, government as well as our National and State Libraries.

FAIR enables people to show their support for the FAIR issues and will help secure the future for libraries." https://blogs.ifla.org/public-libraries/2015/04/15/public-library-advocacy-in-the-us-and-australia/

FAIR ran throughout 2019  https://fair.alia.org.au/ Have a look at the website and click through and read about the issues that the campaign was addressing. These were:
  • copyright law reform, 
  • cybersafety and the problems with internet filtering, 
  • digitising our nation’s history, 
  • encouraging children to read, 
  • evidence-based decisions in law, health and business, 
  • evidence-based policy making, 
  • learning at any age, 
  • qualified library staff in schools, 
  • supporting Australia's book industry and 
  • well funded public libraries.

The Advocacy Toolkit

https://www.ila.org/content/documents/ila-advocacy-toolkit-013112.pdf

Academic Libraries 

https://mrlibrarydude.wordpress.com/2019/03/04/marketing-and-advocating-for-the-academic-library/

Class Discussion 2

What are some of the Advocacy programs that have been successful?

Group Assessment

Last class you were put into groups for your Assessment task. I know it seems like it was ages ago - well actually it was ages ago so here is a reminder of the groups that were created:

Group 1
Ann
Erin Morgan
Chelsea
Karen
Kirandeep

Group 2
Erin E
Hayley
Shamaila
Sharon
Stephanie

Lyn from our library will be coming in to have a chat about the Chisholm Library and the Stakeholders identified. From our last discussion, the stakeholders identified for our projects were:

Group 1 - Casual Teachers & Community Services students
Group 2 - Non-teaching staff, HR/WHS & Culturally diverse students 

Lyn has provided us with some basic stats to get started with - these are the Library borrowing statistics for 2020 and this year so far.   As you can see they are very low.  

There are for a few reasons for this:  

·         2020 – Being off-campus due to COVID-19

·         Staff tend to use their own department resources

·         Library online resources (databases & streaming Videos) statistics are not included in this.  Just resources added to our Library management system.



Group Assessment discussion

How can we find out what our stakeholder groups want or need from the Library?

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