Libraries Transforming Communities: Turning Outward

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Communities have challenges. Libraries can help. Libraries Transforming Communities (LTC) seeks to strengthen librares' roles as comunity leaders and change agents using the Harwood Institute's Turning Outward approach to community engagement. Libraries Turning Outward. The Turning Outward approach involves asking the right questions to find out what your community really wants, and bringing together the right teams to help make those dreams a reality. Libraries around the country are using the approach to better understand their communities and to bring about positive change. Expore their stories below.

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Libraries Transforming Communities (LTC) was an 91´«Ã½ initiative with the Harwood Institute for Public Innovation. The two-year initiative, offered in 2014-15 and made possibly by a grant from The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, offered training and resources to libraries based on the Harwood Institute's "Turning Outward" approach.