Authors: Carla Canongia and Marta Puig ( Xarxa de Biblioteques Municipals. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bibliotequesXBM/ Twitter: @bibliotequesxbm Wide open: Read and read is a new resource designed to facilitate the work with young people from 12 to 16 years through picture books; a universe where art, literature and philosophy go hand in hand. The DNA of […]
Read moreThe State Library of New South Wales (NSW) in Sydney (Australia) recently launched Indigenous Spaces in Library Places a strategy to provide Indigenous services across the State’s public library network. The program’s goal is to create interest and awareness on the way libraries across the state can engage and support Indigenous peoples and communities. The main […]
Read moreOur friends at EIFL have announced a new EIFL Public Library Innovation Award – for public library services that improve lives. All public and community libraries in developing and transition economy countries may apply. The deadline for applications is 27 January 2017. Libraries that apply must use information and communication technology (ICT) to improve lives […]
Read moreOur Guest blogger , Montse, has invited her colleague Montserrat Alvarez Massó. Gerència de Serveis de Biblioteques to write this post. Montserrat can be contacted at [email protected] 2015 Manager of Library Services launched the portable Reading Labs project with the aim to provide those in charge of the children’s areas of the […]
Read moreJoin a discussion on How can libraries better serve refugees and asylum seekers? Web-conference sessions: December 2, 2016 10:30-11:30 am CT Participant link: http://tinyurl.com/pw-room Best used with headset and high speed internet on the Chrome browser, or another browser with Flash Player Twitter chat sessions: November 29, 2016; 1:00-2:00 pm CT December 5, 2016; 8:00-9:00 […]
Read moreGuest Blogger: Tamar van Moolenbroek, product manager ProBiblio March 2016, a town near Amsterdam. Two young librarians (26 years old) are eagerly anticipating fifteen young colleagues that enthusiastically responded to the proposal to get together. Would these colleagues recognise their ideas and the need for mutual contact? What is YLN? […]
Read moreGuest Blogger: Levien den Boer, moderator National Knowledge Sharing at Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library of the Netherlands. Although there are of course differences between the various (public) libraries in the Netherlands, they face similar questions, challenges and needs. In order to prevent them from reinventing the wheel and foster […]
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