The Keynote Presentation for the AZLA 2010 conference. There were technical issues, so the presentation was converted into Powerpoint from Keynote and lost some formatting.
1. Pushing it Forward:
Social Justice, Civic
Librarianship and
Information Activism
Anthony Molaro, MBA, MLIS
Head of Technical Services &
Technology,
Messenger Public Library
informationactivist.com
16. Humans naturally seek comfort and stability.
Without an inciting incident that disrupts their
comfort, they won’t enter into a story. They have to
get fired from their job or be forced to sign up for a
marathon. A ring has to be purchased. A home
has to be sold. The character has to jump into the
story, into the discomfort and the fear, otherwise
the story will never happen.
-Robert McKee
17. You don’t know a story is happening to you when
you’re in it. You slide into the flow of it like a
current in the ocean; you look back at the beach
and can’t see the umbrella, and your hotel is a
quarter mile behind you.
-Donald Miller
31. Social Justice
Creating an egalitarian society or
institution that is based on the principles of
equality and solidarity, that understands
and values human rights, and that
recognizes the dignity of every human
being.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_justice
35. Prisoners’ Right to
Read
“Freedom itself is a dangerous way of life, but
it is ours. When free people, through judicial
procedure, segregate some of their own, they
incur the responsibility to provide humane
treatment as well as the tools required to bring
the prodigal home. Chief among those tools is
a right to read.”
43. “How would we change our story if we
hold this truth to be self-evident, that all
persons are endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable rights, that
among these are the free access to the
sum of human knowledge so that we
may attain Life, Liberty and the pursuit
of Happiness?”
-Molaro
44. “sledgehammer to break down the
barriers of censorship, of ignorance, of
apathy about the state of the world.”
- Molaro
63. “If you’re going to have any
democracy, people have to have
access to the constitution. We got
copies of the constitution and the laws
passed by the parliament and
distributed them.”
65. an organization that was born in February 2005
by a group of socially-minded librarians who
wanted to address the vast information resource
inequity existing between different regions of the
world. Our vision is to build sustainable libraries
and support their custodians and advocates —
librarians.
88. We are all living a story. Our lives are
telling a story.
What story is your life telling?
89. Comfort and stability or
A rich story with twists and turns?
A great adventure awaits you
90. Where does your
story intersect with
their story?
http://www.markmallett.com/blog/wp-images/crossroad.jpg
http://www.markmallett.com/blog/wp-images/crossroad.jpg
111. Anthony Molaro, MBA, MLIS
Head of Technical Services & Technology,
Messenger Public Library
informationactivist.com
twitter.com/infoactivist
anthony.molaro@gmail.com