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Learn how to engage your community in new ways, shape shared aspirations, and become a trusted neutral space. Strengthen your role as a public innovator and change agent. Join the movement towards community ownership and impactful narratives.
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Libraries Transforming Communities Rich Harwood Founder and President, The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation
We Need Libraries • Now more than ever • People are looking for trusted organizations • Safe, neutral space • Boundary spanning
Public Innovators • Deep affection for the community • Highly pragmatic • Willing to take risks
Turning Outward An Institutional and Professional Shift in Orientation from Internal to External
5 Keys • Community Ownership • Strategies that fit • Sustainable Enabling Environment • Impact and Belief • Narratives
Community Ownership • Engage the community in a fundamentally different way • The problem with “problems” and visioning exercises • Shared aspirations
Strategies That Fit • Local context • What space do you occupy? • Stages of community life
Sustainable Enabling Environment • Underlying Conditions • Public Capital
Impact and Belief The intangible factor
Narratives • The great hidden factor • The story a community tells about itself • Shapes people's mindsets, attitudes, behaviors, and actions
What We’re Doing with ALA Libraries Transforming Communities Strengthening librarians’ roles as core community leaders and change-agents
How You Can Begin • Tools and Resources for Libraries –bit.ly/transforminglibraries • The Harwood Public Innovators Lab – Oct. 8-10 • Blog & E-Newsletter – Sign up to learn about current thinking and innovations @RichHarwood #turnoutward