Educational Partnerships That Can Drive the Activation of Renewable Knowledge Process, Using the Public Libraries Infrastructure

The library environment in Romania is very fragmented, having neither the habit nor the culture of cooperation and partnerships. Driven by divergent interests, the library environment rarely interacts with other stakeholders for common goals, does not engage outside the narrow goals of micro-groups and does not actively participate in the development of the knowledge society. No matter how successful they are individually, libraries do not have enough vision and they lack the overall picture of how they can contribute to a better use of knowledge and to build a more efficient and impactful information literacy structure. The cultivation of information skills is one of the libraries major objectives, while representing the guarantee of sustainable and resilient efforts in terms of personal and professional development of individuals. Objectives: Our goal is to stimulate libraries as individual entities, but also the various consortia of public-private entities in the culture field to get involved as partnership brokers in information literacy to generate resilience skills that contribute to activating latent knowledge. Considered as actionable assets, renewable knowledge acts like a common base of intellectual acquisitions that are in the interest of heterogeneous library users' communities. This article aims to bring public libraries to the forefront as partners for renewable knowledge. After analyzing the partnership broker concept and the renewable knowledge significance, we will clarify how libraries can be encouraged to engage in cultivating educational partnerships with various public or private entities to contribute to activating renewable knowledge in libraries.