Libraries Contributing To The Arts, Cultural Inclusion And Social Cohesion The Irish Experience

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Libraries Contributing To The Arts, Cultural
Inclusion And Social Cohesion The Irish
Experience

• Brendan Teeling
• Assistant Director
• An Chomhairle Leabharlanna

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Social Inclusion Policy Framework
Branching Out Future Directions
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• Social inclusion is
• The process by which certain groups are brought
  from the margins of society to participate more
  fully in that society through the removal of
  barriers to them so doing by virture of poverty,
  low education, inadequate life-skills, and/or low
  recognition and status in terms of cultural
  identity and contribution.

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• Cultural inclusion is
• The process by which certain groups are brought
  from the margins of society to participate more
  fully in cultural activities through the removal
  of barriers to them so doing by virtue of
  poverty, low education, inadequate life-skills,
  and/or low recognition and status in terms of
  cultural identity and contribution.

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• Social cohesion is
• what makes social systems hold together as
  opposed to falling apart

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• The key question to be considered was if and
  how participation in the arts adds to social
  capital, and hence to social cohesiveness. If it
  does, then the concern arises that if a broad
  spectrum of the population do not participate, we
  are not making the best use of the arts as an
  avenue to increase social capital and social
  cohesiveness.

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• The key question to be considered was if and
  how participation in public libraries adds to
  social capital, and hence to social cohesiveness.
  If it does, then the concern arises that if a
  broad spectrum of the population do not
  participate, we are not making the best use of
  public libraries as an avenue to increase social
  capital and social cohesiveness.

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• Reading is one of the essentials of the good
  life. For it is not just the familiar pleasures
  that come from responsive reading that matter,
  but the effects of these on how we live our
  lives, and what kinds of communities we
  accordingly create. (A. C. Grayling)

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Westside library, Galway
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