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  <h4><strong>Support lifelong learning for a competitive workforce and engaged public.</strong></h4> »

  Education as the central function of all libraries and museums

  ...education as distinct from training, job training, development of social skills, citizenship, etc. In a former time, the roles of libraries and museums as essential extensions of the activities of a literate populace were widely accepted and understood. Today, the failure - in so many respects - of our public education system has raised the spectre of these insitutions facing a future with no audiences, and thus no ...more »

  ...education as distinct from training, job training, development of social skills, citizenship, etc. In a former time, the roles of libraries and museums as essential extensions of the activities of a literate populace were widely accepted and understood. Today, the failure - in so many respects - of our public education system has raised the spectre of these insitutions facing a future with no audiences, and thus no advocates. Libraries and museums must take a greater role in educating their present and potential users, as well as providing learners with the resources to expand their activities and their thinking well beyond what formal education presently offers.

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  Submitted by jbryant 1 year ago

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  <h4><strong>Promote effective public access to physical and digital content.</strong></h4> »

  Promote Communities of Inquiry

  Find out what people are curious about or want to learn. Gather local and community experts, develop workshops, use the workshops to increase skills and help people find out what they really need to know and what they really need to learn. In the context of topic focussed workshops, incorporate guidance in the resources, tools and strategies. Use the whole to build local learning communities and groups to spur creativity ...more »

  Find out what people are curious about or want to learn. Gather local and community experts, develop workshops, use the workshops to increase skills and help people find out what they really need to know and what they really need to learn. In the context of topic focussed workshops, incorporate guidance in the resources, tools and strategies. Use the whole to build local learning communities and groups to spur creativity and innovation..

  Coordinated and/or led by a librarian in a space the could be a library. In other words, feed people's curiosity and needs to develop skills, spur innovation and develop digital and information literacy.

  Nice to have powerhouse central location, but local locations more likely to attract. THe same workshop can "travel" between libraries.

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  Submitted by uwzarinnie 1 year ago

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