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WEEK17
– The National Library Week for Sustainable Change and Development
Nordic libraries together for Week17 – KICKOFF – open for everybody
See the webinar here…
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.
Just in…
IFLAs Information Futures Summit closes with launch of Brisbane Declaration
“We recognise our role in climate change, both as generators of emissions and as models, spaces and facilitators of climate action and resilience-building, including through facilitating access to environmental information.”
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 2024/2025
Örnsköldsvik Biblioteken (SVE), Malmö Stadsbibliotek (SVE), Härnösand Bibliotek (SVE), Amtsbókasafnið á Akureyri (ISL), Reykjavik City Library (ISL), Universitetsbiblioteket i Oslo (NO), Bergen Offentlige Biblioteker (NO), Brønnøy Bibliotek (NO), Bærum Bibliotek (NO), Flekkefjord Bibliotek (NO), Fredrikstad Bibliotek (NO), Fylkesbiblioteket – Akershus, Buskerud og Østfold (NO) , Klepp Bibliotek (NO), Lærdal Folkebibliotek (NO), Malvik Bibliotek (NO), Meieriet Bibliotek (NO), Narvik Bibliotek (NO), Norway’s UKE17 (WEEK17) site (NO), Sunnfjord Bibliotek (NO), Frosta Bibliotek (NO), Levanger Bibliotek (NO), Rakkestad Bibliotek (NO), Rana Bibliotek (NO), Sogndal Bibliotek (NO), Sula Bibliotek (NO), Trondheim Bibliotek (NO), Trysil Folkebibliotek (NO), Vågan Bibliotek (NO), Våler Bibliotek NO). And we have libraries with us from the Czech Republic, Slovakia and the USA (TBA).
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
WEEK17 national week – horizontal – WEEK17 national week – vertical
Ball – WEEK17 – WEEK17 at the library – Bærekraftsuke17 (NO) – VIKA17 (ISL)
INFOGRAPHIC – WHAT IS WEEK17
WEEK 17 Infographic png – WEEK 17 Infographic jpg
Leaf 1 png Leaf 2 png Leaf 3 png Leaf 4 png Leaf 5 png
Design by Henriette Ida Martha Eisfeld
Inspiration
Best-practice/SDGs and LIbraries Inspirational examples (DK)
Public meetings, swap markets and floral meadows. Ideas and new initiatives are coming thick and fast from the local library.
Bærekraftsbiblioteket (NO)
Bærekraftsbiblioteket består av boklister med aktiviteter til alle 17 bærekraftsmålene, og tilbyr deltakerne en litterær og samtalebasert forståelse av verdens felles arbeidsplan. Bærekraftsbiblioteket er et opplegg for skoler, biblioteker og andre organisasjoner til å arrangere lesesirkler for barn og unge i alderen 6–15 år.
The Brisbane Declaration (IFLA)
What future do we want for knowledge and information? The Brisbane Declaration sets out key principles, based on the collected inputs of participants at the IFLA Information Futures Summit.
Design Thinking for Libraries (DK/US)
The Public Libraries in Aarhus (Denmark) and Chicago (USA), with funding from the Gates Foundation, created the Design Thinking for Libraries toolkit to introduce a way of working that will help you understand the needs of your patrons and engage your communities like never before.
Futures Literacy (UNESCO)
Using the Future
This report is an exploration of how to enable future-ready decision-making in organisations, through strategic foresight, and more future-conscious decisions on an individual level, through fostering futures literacy and broader inclusion of the public in futures work in general. Participatory futures – a guide to how mass involvement with shaping the future can solve complex problems. Transforming the future – anticipation in the 21. century.
- Future Literacy Laboratory Playbook (UNESCO)
- The Futures Bazaar: A Public Imagination Toolkit (UK)
Future workshop toolkit, with focus on future objects. Developed for BBC/UK. - Come rain or shine: Preparing public libraries for the future in an age of uncertainty. (UK) Futures Literacy in public libraries. By CILIP/UK.
Inspirationshefte fra den Norske Biblioteksforening
Julie’s Bicycle – Learn, listen, read, watch, think, act…
Julie’s Bicycle is a pioneering not-for-profit, mobilising the arts and culture to take action on the climate, nature and justice crisis. Explore the resource hub for practical tools and support on how to take climate action now, to get up to speed on policy and to learn more about JB’s rich and varied programme.
Kulturlivets Klimapåvirkning (No)
Rapportens primære formål er at kortlægge, analysere og forstå de klimamæssige konsekvenser af aktiviteter i den norske kultursektor.
Resume på Dansk.
Libraries & Well-Being: A Case Study from The New York Public Library
In today’s society, libraries stand out as among the last truly public institutions. Providing access to resources without financial, social, or physical barriers, public libraries make a unique contribution to promoting individual and collective flourishing throughout the communities they serve.
Mistra Environmental Communication (SE)
Mistra Environmental Communication, a four-year research programme, seeks to develop communication in the area of environmental sustainability from often being a matter of one-way communication these days to becoming a real dialogue among various parties, even when they have divergent opinions and interests.
Nordic Green Roadmap for Cultural Institutions
The Green Roadmap for Cultural Institutions in the Nordic Region aims to enable cultural institutions and artists to act now – whether they are already engaged in green transition or taking their first steps.
SDG research (NO)
Explore SDG-related research from Norway
Second European Report on Sustainable Development Goals and Libraries (DK/EU).
SUMMIT OF THE FUTURE (UN)
World leaders adopt a Pact for the Future that includes a Global Digital Compact and a Declaration on Future Generations. The Pact covers a broad range of themes including peace and security, sustainable development, climate change, digital cooperation, human rights, gender, youth and future generations, and the transformation of global governance.
Sustainability in Danish Public Libraries (DK) – How do the Sustainable Development Goals Inspire their Work? From Bibliothek Forschung und Praxis (2021).
The World’s Best Solutions Live (DK) – SDG festival concept from Ballerup Library
Upscaling sustainable collaborative consumption using public libraries (NORDIC) Nordic Journal for Library and Informations Science. Vol. 4, no. 1 (2023).
What Is ‘Futures Literacy’ and Why Is It Important?
By Nicklas Larsen, Jeanette Kæseler Mortensen & Riel Miller, Farsight – Feb 11, 2020.