Cultural Agora @ Your Library
Details of the organization
Name *
The National Association of Public Librarians and Libraries in Romania
Country *
Romania
Website (URL)
http://www.anbpr.org.ro
Type *
Others
Information about the project
Project title *
Cultural Agora @ Your Library
Title acronym
Agora
Description *
The project proposes a new vision of cultural information management in public libraries, suggesting a shift from just a provider of cultural knowledge and information, to the cultural facilitator allowing co-creation and collection of cultural materials coming from users, contributing to enhancing intercultural dialogue and European identity awareness by understanding cultural diversity. The project’s innovative approach in managing cultural knowledge and happenings in public libraries by proposing a shift from library being a provider of materials, to a facilitator for the creation of materials that come from users, involving ordinary people coming in to the library and interacting with it. This way people are allowed to add their own stories, video, text, photographs, and more, allowing the library to grow through community participation. The libraries become real "Agora" space as the digital storytelling provides a way for the collective memory of communities to be shared and any library to become a community spaces ready to facilitate the exchange of community knowledge using digital story, which design is a creative process that requires the use of the imagination and also develops communication skills. During the project over 2500 original digital stories were created by beneficiaries, ordinary people from different minorities as library users, that reflect the history and culture, the beliefs and values of the community at large. The libraries involved, seen as a community space, facilitated the exchange of knowledge using the digital story whose construction is a creative process that requires the use of imagination and develops communication skills.
Project website
http://www.agoraculturala.ro
Geographical coverage *
National implementation:
Romania
Status *
Completed
from 01/01/2015
to
31/08/2016
Partners
The Cultural Association Replika, Romania Jazzmontor AS, Norway
WSIS information
WSIS action lines related to this project
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Cultural diversity and identity, linguistic diversity and local content
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to this project
Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
Project type *
Project
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