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Potential Role of Libraries in post-conflict societies

Experience from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Potential Role of Libraries in post-conflict societies. Fe đa Kulenović @kulinba www.psotc.org. Disinformation. Destruction. WAR. Miscommunication. No Conversation. Loss of Trust. WAR. Post conflict. Lost in Transition. Great potential.

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Potential Role of Libraries in post-conflict societies

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  1. Experience from Bosnia and Herzegovina Potential Role of Libraries in post-conflict societies Feđa Kulenović @kulinba www.psotc.org

  2. Disinformation Destruction WAR Miscommunication No Conversation Loss of Trust

  3. WAR Post conflict Lost in Transition

  4. Great potential

  5. inspiration

  6. My experience (what worked for me)

  7. Librarians can! • transform post-conflict societies • creative space • dialogue possible

  8. Goal #1 • Show the users I can help them

  9. How?

  10. Improvements • Create library wherever you are • Listen out for your user’s needs • Be a librarian in a café, street, at a party… • Be an EBMBEDED LIBRARIAN

  11. Notice possibilities • Beyond the walls • For improving information needs of everyone • Or certain groups

  12. Reading for Ubuntu • www.citanje.org • (citanje=reading) • Web platform • Blind and visually impaired

  13. Reading for Ubuntu • Audio recordings of textbooks and… • Everything else • TO IMPROVE INFORMATION ACCESS

  14. Beyond “Reading for Ubuntu” • Promotion at universities in BiH • Involving university schools in creating spaces for reading • Adapting for the blind and VIP • practical implementation of articles related to education and FOI of the UN convention on rights of persons with disabilities;

  15. Beyond “Reading for Ubuntu” • Proposal: government to implement better support for access to information of blind and VIP; • pilot short films about young blind and VIP • Mobile Training Team of Blind and VIP IT experts • Improve information literacy

  16. “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”Hellen Keller

  17. The MISSION of LIBRARIANS is to IMPROVE SOCIETY through FACILITATING KNOWLEDGE CREATION in their COMMUNITIES The Atlas of New Librarianship http://www.newlibrarianship.org

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