If you want to go fast: walk alone, if you want to go far: walk together

Abstract

The Agenda 2030 and its Sustainable Development Goals offer big opportunities to libraries and more specific to public libraries. Whether they are aware or not, public libraries are supporting development goals in every country around the world. This presentation will touch up on the timeline from start, year 2000 Millennium Goals till year 2030 when the Agenda 2030 should be realized. It will show how IFLA was speaking at the UN meeting but also the steps that have been taken into getting libraries on the agenda, showing that libraries are agents and motors to change. This valuable asset to society knows an infrastructure worldwide, a connected library field, to work for a better world. Worldwide libraries contribute to help people get connected to the internet and access the information they need. Informed people are citizens that can make better decisions and deliver support to an inclusive society.