SYRACUSE, N.Y. (NCC NEWS)– This week is National Library Week. Libraires are hosting events with speakers all week, but libraries no longer just represent a place to check out books.
One event this week at SU will feature a visiting professor and a member of the Ukrainian Library Association, Dr. Tetiana Hranchak who published a blog post in Syracuse University News highlighting the importance of libraries in Ukraine.
Director of strategic marketing and communications for Syracuse, Cristine Hatem explained what Hranchak said, “She talked about how libraries are bomb shelters, how they’re volunteer centers, how they’re territories of goodness, how they help displaced people, how they’re hubs for digital education, how they’re media literacy training centers, and how they’re sights of remembering cultural and historical knowledge of a place.”
Library week celebrates librarians and the contribution of libraries to society. “Libraries are timeless. We’re places and spaces for people to collaborate on ideas or access the internet. But they’re also available to folks from anywhere, ” Hatem said.
To celebrate the week SU and other libraries across the nation are hosting a variety of events and speakers.
Transcript
(Timmy Wilcox)
This week is National Library Week. CNY is celebrating but as libraries in the U.S. thrive libraries across the world are fighting to survive. NCC New’s Riley Fay has more.(Riley Fay)
Libraries are no longer just for checking out books are learning new information. Tetiana Hranchak a visiting professor at SU and a Ukranian Library Association board member, published an article describing the unconventional uses of libraries during war. Cristina Hatem director of communications at SU library explains what Hranchak wrote.(Cristine Hatem)
Libraries are bomb shelters, they’re volunteer centers, how they’re territories of goodness, how they help displaced people, how they’re hubs of digital education.(Riley Fay)
Hatem agrees libraries are just locations providing much more.(Cristine Hatem)
What she describes as the role of libraries is really timeless and is relevant to libraries everywhere, around the world.(Riley Fay)
Libraries around Syracuse are celebrating with special events and speakers. For NCC News, I’m Riley Fay.