IFLA WLIC 2019: Legislators’ Panel: What Lawmakers Think about Libraries
Channel: IFLA
Date: 2019-08-26

Libraries depend heavily on the decisions taken in councils, parliaments and ministries. The success of our institutions requires us to understand, and win the support of decision-makers.
 
But in turn, libraries are great ways for governments to achieve their own goals in education, culture, health, and across the board.
 
This panel – a first for IFLA – will discuss how people in power see libraries contributing to their agendas, how they perceive libraries in general, and what we can do to ensure that decision-makers go from awareness, to support to action on our behalf.

Speakers:

* Rabih Azad-Ahmad, Aarhus City Council, Alderman, Aarhus Kommune
* Catherine Stihler, ex-Member of the European Parliament / Executive Director, Open Knowledge Foundation, United Kingdom

Session 124

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There will be a Q&A at the end of this session! Send your questions for this session using Mentimeter. Take your device, go to www.menti.com and enter the code 65 41 65 to ask!

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