PLS Member, Lo Claesson was one of the presenters at Check me out a one hour session at the WLIC 2017 developed by the Public Libraries Section together with Metropolitan Libraries and Acquisition and Collection Development. Here’s Lo’s report: The session had four speakers from PLS : Jan Richards, incoming chair, who gave her top ten […]
Read morePLS member Joe Siegrist attended MetLib’s ‘Public Libraries as Place Makers in Today’s Cities’. The session was one of the last on the WLIC 2017 program but as Joe wrote ‘leaving the best until last’. Steve Dickson explained how he come to a building as a creator and how a library is become a place […]
Read moreMembers of the Public Libraries Standing Committee are actively participating in the WLIC program in Wroclaw. Lo Claesson reports: I was invited as a speaker at the session Libraries’ Commitment to the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – Environmental Sustainability and Libraries SIG. It was an offsite meeting at the Center for Scientific and Technical Information […]
Read moreForget what you think about libraries! Biblo Tøyen, one of Oslo Public Library’s (Deichmanske bibliotek) newest additions, is breaking and changing all the library rules! This is a unique and innovative space, created for young people ages 10 to 15. Adults are not allowed to visit the space. A library to […]
Read moreWe’re just catching up with everything that’s happened over the past month or so, the IFLA WLIC tends to take the wind out of our sails as we go back to work enthused to find heaps of projects waiting for us! One initiative we did want to bring to your attention was the launch of […]
Read moreOn the 1 June we welcome our Guest Blogger Hitomi Takeuchi from Japan. In August 2016 the Japan Library Association conducted a survey about Public Library Policy in local government around 1,361 public libraries in Japan. One of the question was ‘does the public library have the policy to […]
Read moreOver the past few years many of us have watched the situation with the UK’s public libraries with great interest. CILIP’s Public and Mobile Libraries Group have constructed a presentation report on the advocacy for UK public libraries activities 2007-2017. The report includes an overview of political, professional and public advocacy campaigns and initiatives of […]
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