Comments Welcomed on Burger's Library Agenda Draft

-- Library Journal, 01/29/2007

American Library Association (ALA) President Leslie Burger has released the discussion draft of "Toward a National Agenda for Libraries", which got a kickstart from a December 10-11 meeting in Washington, DC to identify ways to gain support for improving libraries and build a case for investing in libraries at local, state, and national levels.

The national agenda involves six major theme areas, each with five or six proposed agenda items:

• Libraries preserve the past and provide a bridge to the future
• Libraries build and strengthen communities
• Libraries support lifelong learning
• Libraries create information and technology literate communities
• Libraries encourage economic development
• Libraries support democracy

Burger and the National Library Agenda Task Force seek comments nationalagenda@princetonlibrary.org by February 15, so the discussion can continue and an agenda can be posted April 16, two weeks before the May 1 National Library Legislative Day.