CLIA Activities

CLIA aims to expand and promote processes of community-library collaboration across the world. Besides the two co-creation Labs held at Champaign -Illinois and Bogotá-Colombia, throughout the years 2017-2018 CLIA has held and will hold  international presentations, workshops and online monthly meetings:

CLIA workshops: 

Community-Library Inter-Action (CLIA): Libraries as Community Anchors Promoting Peaceful and Sustainable Communities

• National Institute of Technology (NIT) Silchar Library, India, July 6, 2017. Workshop with librarians, library staff and students.
• Department of Library and Information Science, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India, July 11, 2017. Workshop with doctoral students.
• Qatar National Library, Doha, Qatar, July 13 2017. Workshop with librarians and library staff.
• Online workshop for conference “Libraries and Community Catalyst“, organized by The State libraries in Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, and Maryland, August 16, 2017.
• San José, Costa Rica, Escuela de Bibliotecología y Ciencias de la Información – Universidad de Costa Rica, November 6, 2017. Workshop with librarians, library staff and students.
• Bogotá, Colombia, Red de Bibliotecas del Banco de la República y la Red Nacional de Bibliotecas Públicas, November 8-9, 2017. Workshop with librarians, library staff and community members.
• Lima, Perú, Colegio de Bibliotecólogos del Perú, November 13, 2017. Workshop with librarians, library staff and students.
• Valencia, España, El Col·legi Oficial de Bibliotecaris i Documentalistes de la Comunitat Valenciana (COBDCV), December 2017.  ***Read our article about the CLIA workshop in Valencia – Spain, and one of our participants’ tweet  about it.
• Crossroads Public Library, Cape Town, South Africa, March 9, 2018. Community conversation with library users, 20-25 years old.
• Entebbe, Uganda,  XXIII Standing Conference of Eastern, Central and Southern Africa Library and Information Association (SCECSAL XXIII) April 23rd-28th, 2018.
• Buenos Aires, Argentina, Biblioteca del Congreso de Argentina, IFLA-LAC Midterm Meeting , April 28, 2018.
• San Jose, CA, New Librarians Summit, San Jose State University, August 3, 2018.
• Kuala Lumpur, Malasya, IFLA LAC, Kuala Lumpur Congress Centre, August 28, 2018.
• Peru (Tarapoto, Chazuta, Lama, Callao, Miraflores, Huancayo, Chupaca), September 6-8, 10, 15, 17, 2018.
• Albuquerque, New Mexico, The Joint Conference of Librarians of Color (JCLC), September 26, 2018
• Medellín, Colombia, Public Library System of Medellín, October 17, 20, 2018, Workshop with librarians and library staff, and community conversation.
• San José, Costa Rica, Public Library System of San José, October 23, 2018, Workshop with librarians and library staff.
• Bogotá, Colombia, Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, December 10, 2018, Workshop with academic and specialized libraries.
• Valencia, Spain,  Biblioteca Pública de Valencia “Pilar Faus”, December 18, 2018, Workshop with public librarians.

Monthly meetings:

CLIA intends to promote collective learning and to contribute to global-wide social transformation through community-library inter-action. To enhance this process and support librarians and communities in developing interaction that drives to social transformation, we will use virtual meetings as our communication strategy. There will be two kinds of virtual meetings:

1. Monthly public meetings:  CLIA’s intention is to include as much international participants as possible to offer broader opportunities for collective learning. For this reason, the monthly meetings will be two-hour long bilingual meetings. During the first hour, the meeting will be held in English, and for the second hour, it will be held in a different language (Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, etc), depending on the representation of participants on previous meetings and on their communication with the project. These meetings will be programmed at a time that works best for different time zones around the world.  Information about dates and times of these meetings will be published soon.
2. Specific follow-up meetings: The CLIA coordination team will also set-up meetings to provide more one-to-one orientation and support according with the participants’ specific needs. Just email us at: cmchu@illinois.edu and we will set up a follow-up meeting with the CLIA process coordinator at your library.

The initial CLIA conversations have concluded.  

Presentations and Conferences:

• Kalyani University (India), July 4  2017: Presentation by Clara M Chu, PhD, Mortenson Center Director
• International Conference Transforming Library (ICTL), Central Library CIT Kokrajhar (India), July 8 2017 – Presentation by Clara M Chu, PhD, Mortenson Center Director keynote speaker on Library Trends

1. About CLIA : Co-developing CLIA
2. Activities
3. Current Projects: CLIA-Iberoamérica | CLIA Colombia-Universidades
4. CLIA Resources