ABSTRACT
This chapter explores a partnership between the National Library of Colombia, with its national network of public libraries, and a global non-profit that seeks to strengthen communities through local history and story-sharing. Local libraries and community members would share historical photographs and discuss them around a ‘wheel of emotion’, collectively deciding how a photograph made people feel. Colombia has a national network of over 1,400 public libraries. These cultural institutions are coordinated at the national level by the Ministry of Culture, through the National Library of Colombia. In 2011, the Ministry of Culture of Colombia became a grantee of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Libraries programme. The National Library of Colombia archives and cataloguing team mapped the fields to their own collection management system, retained the licensing information and all other metadata and added the entirety of the collection into the permanent archives of Colombia.
