UNIVERSITY OF LIMPOPO, B.Inf students presentation on 8th October 2009 - 'Potency of the Library - extending the borders of our limitations'
Introduction: Raising our consciousness - Certain types of consciousness produce certain types of action, results and even certain types of habits. The perception, worth and importance of the library is often unnoticed by not only the laymen on street, but also by learners, students and even professional members of society – entrepreneurs, politicians, celebrities, development workers, church leaders, etc. This self-limiting mental paradigms needs to be re-mapped and pushing back the self-imposed borders of limitations and extending the lens through which we see the library, ourselves and the world. – fundamentalizing and mobilizing potency of the library for our own internal personal change, to empower others, and even producing change in the surrounding environment.
A librarian-leader changes the relationships that underpins this – that a library offers a platform-resource for a person to raise his/her own consciousness, esteem, confidence, abilities, possibilities, perseverance, enthusiasm, mood and positive impact – for in books and programs lies silent voices that has potency to re-awaken us, to inspire us and the re-designing & building our own society… positively. African renaissance through libraries.
Professor Eskia Mphahlele: mentions that ‘No Afrikan in their right mind can afford the luxury of prophesying doom for any segment of their society’
Carter G Woodson: Consumer pays the tax - and as such every individual of the social order should be given an unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself/herself - and by what his environment requires of him. The education effort must result in making a man think and do for himself inspite of challenges.
Barrack Obama says ‘Let us be the change that we want to see happening’
Bhakti-Tirtha Swami, born John E. Favors: mentions that ‘negative energy/thoughts can exert control over us only to the degree that we open ourselves up to their influence. We should shower everyone and everything in our environment with vibrant love. Exercising seeing ourselves as embodiment of love in action.
Al Gore states that ‘we act like we do not see because our salaries are depended on us not ‘seeing’ it!’ - referring to our day-to-day conduct affecting us, others and environment (global warming).
The decision to function on the positive mode represent the first step in transmuting energy to a higher level. Let us use our libraries, the library is a school, a technical college, a university, a window into the world – the world @ your library.
Synergy and interdependence in library programs - on environmental awareness, sexual diseases, teenage pregnancy, nutrition talks, and drug/intoxication; human rights education, animal welfare, cross-cultural understanding, religious diversity and tolerance, etc.
- Involved in the social needs of sectors of community with special challenges – abet, blind, immigrant, refugee, minority, orphanages, prison, etc.
Let us affirm the potency of libraries in our lives, schools and communities.
Libraries For All! In every Town & Village!
Introduction: Raising our consciousness - Certain types of consciousness produce certain types of action, results and even certain types of habits. The perception, worth and importance of the library is often unnoticed by not only the laymen on street, but also by learners, students and even professional members of society – entrepreneurs, politicians, celebrities, development workers, church leaders, etc. This self-limiting mental paradigms needs to be re-mapped and pushing back the self-imposed borders of limitations and extending the lens through which we see the library, ourselves and the world. – fundamentalizing and mobilizing potency of the library for our own internal personal change, to empower others, and even producing change in the surrounding environment.
A librarian-leader changes the relationships that underpins this – that a library offers a platform-resource for a person to raise his/her own consciousness, esteem, confidence, abilities, possibilities, perseverance, enthusiasm, mood and positive impact – for in books and programs lies silent voices that has potency to re-awaken us, to inspire us and the re-designing & building our own society… positively. African renaissance through libraries.
Professor Eskia Mphahlele: mentions that ‘No Afrikan in their right mind can afford the luxury of prophesying doom for any segment of their society’
Carter G Woodson: Consumer pays the tax - and as such every individual of the social order should be given an unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself/herself - and by what his environment requires of him. The education effort must result in making a man think and do for himself inspite of challenges.
Barrack Obama says ‘Let us be the change that we want to see happening’
Bhakti-Tirtha Swami, born John E. Favors: mentions that ‘negative energy/thoughts can exert control over us only to the degree that we open ourselves up to their influence. We should shower everyone and everything in our environment with vibrant love. Exercising seeing ourselves as embodiment of love in action.
Al Gore states that ‘we act like we do not see because our salaries are depended on us not ‘seeing’ it!’ - referring to our day-to-day conduct affecting us, others and environment (global warming).
The decision to function on the positive mode represent the first step in transmuting energy to a higher level. Let us use our libraries, the library is a school, a technical college, a university, a window into the world – the world @ your library.
Synergy and interdependence in library programs - on environmental awareness, sexual diseases, teenage pregnancy, nutrition talks, and drug/intoxication; human rights education, animal welfare, cross-cultural understanding, religious diversity and tolerance, etc.
- Involved in the social needs of sectors of community with special challenges – abet, blind, immigrant, refugee, minority, orphanages, prison, etc.
Let us affirm the potency of libraries in our lives, schools and communities.
Libraries For All! In every Town & Village!
