Comments Welcomed on Burger's Library Agenda Draft
-- Library Journal, 1/29/2007
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.
