On this side of the world the Australian IFLA contingent is getting ready to head on over to the Congress and the various satellite events. What an array of sessions to choose from! Please join our first session on Monday 15 August 2016 from 1-4.30 pm at the Columbus Main […]
Read moreLibraries throughout the world have a strong history of responding to natural disasters and humanitarian crises, providing a welcoming environment, a place of refuge for body and soul, and a source of information. An off-site session will be held at the IFLA WLIC in Columbus (a joint project of the Public […]
Read moreIFLA has announced that at this years World Library and Information Congress.in Columbus they will host an IFLA Little Library with the slogan Leave a book – Take a book! In many countries across the world, people have created mini-libraries, or street-libraries to share their books with their neighbours. You will have seen examples of these on […]
Read moreThe Swedish Motala library has received 670 000 SEK to a project where the newly arrived young people will teach seniors manage computers and how the internet works. The money comes from the non-profit organization Enter Sweden, which since 2010 runs the project IT Guide Sweden. The mission is that newly […]
Read moreFour libraries from Australia, the US, and Denmark, respectively, have been nominated for the Systematic Public Library of the Year which is awarded to the world’s best new public library. The presentation will occur at the IFLA WLIC in Columbus, Ohio, USA on 15 August as part of the Public Library Section’s program. The […]
Read morePrior to the development of a new library program, Library Director Nick Jones and the library responsible at Huddinge library analyzed library statistics and inserted it in a broader context. They have taken into account socioeconomic factors, public library use (non-library users), and geography to better plan future needs for library […]
Read moreAre libraries positively improving the lives of the children they serve and how will they know? These are two questions at the heart of a meeting convened by the Urban Libraries Council (ULC) when library leaders and education, philanthropy and non-profit leaders came together to discuss how to assess the effectiveness of library summer learning […]
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