Community-Library Inter-Action (CLIA): Advancing the UN Sustainable Development Goals Workshop
Dr. Clara Chu,
Director of the Mortenson Center for International Library Programs
As community anchors and catalysts, libraries are poised to work WITH communities to address challenges they are facing, through shared understanding, empowerment, reflection and collective action. The theme of the first QNL annual forum is “Libraries as Catalysts for Achieving UN Sustainable Development Goals”, and the CLIA workshop will introduce a process that empowers libraries to lead, not by doing it FOR their communities, but through engaging WITH them as facilitators, while community members become actors in their own actions to advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).