Community Capacity

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Community Capacity
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Outcomes

• An understanding of Community Capacity Building
• An understanding of key concepts
• Identification of the roles of libraries

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Local Libraries

• Whats already there and basic
• A Place civic building/venue/ encouraged to
  enter
• A Resource information (including data about
  the community)
• Expertise Librarians how to access
  information
• A Symbol civic values meaning
• New ways of seeing
• New ways of working
• New policies, strategies skills

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Some Queensland activity

• SLQ
• Partnership with Community Renewal
• Queensland Stories
• Regionalisation Strategy
• Multicultural Documentary Heritage Workshop
• I.K.C.S.
• Public Libraries
• Caboolture
• Mackay
• Maroochydore
• Brisbane- (Zillmere/Banyo/Holland Park)
• Logan

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Examples

• Learning Communities
• UK and USA Creative Communities
• Placemaking/Place Management
• Australia - Community Renewal
• Ideas and Knowledge Shops
• Holland and UK Tower Hamlets
• Community Cohesion
• Museums/Libraries Archives
• Imagine Chicago
• Positive Inquiry

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Definitions / Key Concepts

• Community Capacity Building
• Developing the capacity and skills of members of
  a community in such a way that they are better
  able to identify and help meet their needs and
  participate more fully in society
• (UK Charities Commission 2005)

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This is likely to involve

• Equipping people with skills and competencies
  which they would not otherwise have
• Realising existing skills and developing
  potential
• Promoting peoples ability to take responsibility
  for identifying and meeting their own, and other
  peoples needs and
• In consequence encouraging people to become
  involved in their community and wider society in
  fuller ways
• (UK Charities Commission 2005)

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Information Literacy

• The ability to
• Know you require information
• Know where and how to get it
• Interpret and assess its
  quality/relevance
• Apply skills
• Practice Lifelong Learning

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Engaged Consumers
Life-Long Learning
Partially engaged consumers
Partially engaged consumers and creators
Disengaged
Fully engaged (central to life) consumers and
creators
Life Span(individual learner)
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Cultural Literacy

• Cultural awareness
• Cultural interpretation (reading)
• Cultural intervention (action)
• Community Cohesion
• Shared vision
• Diversity is valued
• Equity of opportunity
• Positive relationships between people groups

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Foundations and Stages

• Understanding the community
• (0.1.3. Partnership / Relationships with
  Purpose)
• Community mapping
• Cultural mapping
• Needs analysis
• Opportunities/aspirations
• Process getting the map can also build skills
  and knowledge

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Community Capacity
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0.1.3. Head, Heart and Hand (Kelly)
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Partnership

• Partnership Map
• Who is family? Who are friends?
• Who is an acquaintance?
• Shared vision/mission
• Managing the Process
• Objectives
• - Outcomes
• - Process
• - Relational
• Monitor

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Intervention

• Pick the issue
• Who are the leaders and learners
• What can be built upon

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Role of the library

• Broker
• Advocate
• Planner
• Resourcer

Changes over time and situation
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Indicators and planning framework
Adapted MLA
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Knowledge Development

• Review evaluation
• Systems
• Values and beliefs
• Relationships
• Resources
• Skills

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• The MLA has just published a report on Public
  Libraries and Community Cohesion, co-authored by
  Martin Dudley and Kevin Harris. It's available on
  the MLA website here - http//www.mla.gov.uk/docu
  ments/id1410rep.pdf The weblog associated with
  the project is available here -http//neighbourho
  ods.typepad.com/libraries/