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WEEK17

– The National Library Week for Sustainable Change and Development

Online – november the 5. at 10.00 (ECT)

Nordic libraries together for Week17 – KICKOFF – open for everybody
– The Nordic Library Week for Sustainable Change and Development
During Week 17 of 2024, pilot libraries across the Nordic countries explored new and innovative ways to promote the Sustainable Development Goals. It was a week filled with creative initiatives and inspiring efforts that showcased how libraries can play a central role in advancing sustainability issues.

We invite you to a unique event where five libraries from different Nordic countries will share their experiences and demonstrate how, with limited resources and time, they managed to elevate the Sustainable Development Goals in their libraries. You’ll receive practical tips and ideas that you can easily adapt to your own context and use to start integrating sustainable development into your library’s work.

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Well WEEk17 is our answer…

WEEK17

Last year, Denmark organized for the first time WEEK17 (week number and 17 SDGs).
WEEK17 is now a nationwide Theme Week focusing on UN’s 17 sustainable development global goals. Based on a combined national and a joint local library campaign building on grass roots, citizen involvement and information around the SDG’s.

WEEK17 activates and forms partnerships among libraries, organizations, other institutions and civil society. WEEK17 takes place at the local libraries.

Our hope in 2023 was that 20 libraries would take part in the campaign, but in the end over 70 (out of 98 municipal libraries in DK) joined WEEK17 together with over 200 local partners. In 2024 over 80 libraries took part, with over 350 local partners.

The basic idea is that local libraries work with the importance of the SDG’s in cooperation with local organizations, institutions and individual volunteers.

Centrally, we support the local effort by establishing agreements with national partners plus we develop common announcements materials, posters, press releases ect.
We also run a common countdown up to WEEK17 – SDG 1 in Week one, SDG 2 in week two and so on.

We believe in the slogan – Leave no one behind. So to join the campaign all the local library needs to do is an exhibition og organize an event on the SDG’s. However most of the libraries do a lot more.

Join WEEK17 as a LIBRARY PILOT

Now we would like to expand and share the idea with libraries in other countries. We plan to start this year with what we call a “WEEK17 Library Pilot”, to then have the opportunity to upscale it next year (2025).

We already have an international WEEK17 “logo”.
We can also offer guidance for your work efforts if you want to come on board, and afterwards a workshop if more libraries would like to participate.

Just send a mail to tsr@db.dk, to Thomas Sture Rasmussen, The Danish Library Organization/DB2030, and we’ll find out what more you need to do to get started.

WEEK17 LIBRARY PILOTS 2024

Örnsköldsvik Biblioteken (SVE), Amtsbókasafnið á Akureyri (ISL), Universitetsbiblioteket i Oslo (NO), Bergen Offentlige Biblioteker (NO), Norway’s UKE17 (WEEK17) site (NO), Sunnfjord Bibliotek (NO), Frosta Bibliotek (NO), Levanger Bibliotek (NO), Sogndal Bibliotek (NO).

FUTURES LITERACY 

In order to live up to the UN report SUMMIT OF THE FUTURE, we work with Futures Literacy. A method developed by UNESCO, which, via future workshops, helps to give citizens hope, and thus inspire local climate action. In a project fonded by VELUX, we educate 60 staffmembers in 30 libraries to facilitate local future workshops as inspiration to climate action.

LOGO in englisH

WEEK17 Logo horizontal English – png

WEEK17 Logo vertical English – png