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2/24/2020 What's Trending in Libraries https://ola.informz.ca/informzdataservice/onlineversion/pub/bWFpbGluZ0luc3RhbmNlSWQ9NzU3NTY5 1/4 What's Trending is your new source for news in the library world! Problem viewing this email? Click here. , your membership number is .   NOTICE: OLA's office will close on Dec. 23 and reopen on Jan. 3 New IFLA Statement: Access to Public Legal Information at Risk without Government Action "Governments have a responsibility to provide such access, and so support transparency and accountability, civil engagement and a just society, in line with Sustainable Development Goal 16.10. The Open Government Partnership has also seen 70 countries underline the importance of citizen understanding and participation. Law libraries have traditionally played a crucial role in this area by maintaining and making available definitive versions of statues, codes, judgements, and other pubic legal information." READ THE STATEMENT >> Canadian National Heritage Digitization Strategy Foundational Assembly Report Over 130 people participated in the Foundational Assembly, held on Oct. 14, 2016 at Library and Archives Canada (LAC) in Ottawa, to discuss the Canadian National Heritage Digitization Strategy (the Strategy). The event included presentations from community leaders, followed by a discussion around the challenges, opportunities, potential audiences and key elements of the Strategy. READ THE DOCUMENT >> A NEW WEBSITE FOR LIBRARIES 2025 This website captures the themes that most public libraries in Ontario participated in and provided at the Libraries 2025 Summit at the Royal York Hotel. Building on the success of Libraries 2020 Summit it provides a report on what we've done collaboratively, where we stand, and what is still to do. The directors and CEOs of FOPL, CULC, OLA, OLS-North, and SOLS are committed to tackling all of these themes in conjunction with public libraries across the province. This is what we heard from you: Three themes emerged at Libraries 2025: 1. The need for libraries to have the tools to tell their story; 2. the need to have trained and knowledgeable staff; and 3. the ongoing transition and evolution of libraries. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg16 http://www.opengovpartnership.org/ http://www.ifla.org/node/11063 http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/about-us/Pages/national-heritage-digitization-strategy.aspx http://ola.informz.ca/OLA/data/images/NHDSFoundationalAssemblySummaryReport.pdf http://symposia.library.on.ca/?id=2025.asp&label=2025