Project “ LIBRARIES FOR INNOVATION”: Goal, Activities and Impact

1. Project “LIBRARIES FOR INNOVATION”:Goal, Activities and Impact Stanislavas Zablockis Financial manager Project “Libraries for Innovation” Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

2. Goal of the project To achieve, through strengthening and using the capacities of public libraries, a considerably better use of the possibilities of information technologies among all the Lithuanian population for obtaining useful information and communication

3. Key tasks for libraries • Equipping public libraries with PIA • Strengthening information competence of public libraries’ staff • Helping librarians to become active promoters and helpersto the local community in mastering the opportunities of IT Note: PIA = Public Internet Access

4. Principal components of the project • Infrastructure • Training • Publicity and outreach • Impact assessment

5. Infrastructure

6. 97% of libraries were technically renewed 11 training centers, equipped in 2008 1276 libraries with PIA at the end of 2011

7. Training of libraries’ personnel Training in the training centre and in the mobile class

8. Training of local community

9. Publicityandoutreachactivities • To inform the society about the Project benefits • To increase internet use • To motivatepeople to use various internet resources • To motivate librarians to promote free internet access • To communicatethe positive changes in libraries

10. Advertising campaigns

11. Outreach campaigns For elderly people and people living in rural areas: “E-senior”: inviting people to come to the library for live internet broadcasted lecture on how to find information about health, savings, and entertainment online “Internet for Your Garden”: inviting people to come to the library and watch live internet broadcasted lectures about gardening and other upcoming seasonal activities For people that have never used Internet before: “First Time Online? Let’s Do It!”: inviting people to come to public libraries and try to use Internet for the very first time. For unemployed, disabled people, children, etc.

12. What have changed in libraries and society since 2008?

13. Impact on libraries & librarians

14. Nearly all libraries provide PIA(% of libraries / branches / subdivisions providing PIA)

15. Computer literacy skills of libraries’ staff improved(% of librarians evaluating their computer literacy skills as sufficient)

16. Librarians became much more pro-active trainers(% of librarians who contributed to the training of PIA users)

17. Librarians became much more pro-active promoters(% of librarians who organized events to attract to use PIA…)

18. Library image in society has improved(% of respondents who say that library is…)

19. Impact on users & communities

20. PIA is especially important for vulnerable social groups(% of PIA users considering library as the main place for internet access)

21. Tens of thousands attend training in public libraries(number of residents who participated in IT training)

22. ICT competences of PIA users have improved(% of PIA users evaluating their skills of internet usage as sufficient)

23. ICT competences of population have improved(% of population evaluating their computer literacy skills as sufficient)

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