MetLib 2015

Our friends in the IFLA Metropolitan Libraries Section has announced that the 47th MetLib Conference,  will take place at the Pestalozzi-Library in Zurich, Switzerland, from May 3 to May 8, 2015. They say: Public Libraries are places that provide us with knowledge and information. Very often, we find ourselves limited in what we would like to […]

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Learning across boundaries – a call for papers

IFLA’s Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning and Public Libraries Sections invite you to consider submitting a proposal for the joint session being planned for the 81st IFLA General Conference and Assembly  to be held in Cape Town South Africa 15-21 August 2015. (Program dependent on acceptance of Joint Session proposal by IFLA) Theme:   Learning across […]

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The importance of public libraries for digital inclusion

The European Parliament Committee on Culture and Education (CULT) on March 18, 2014 adopted an own-initiative report on new technologies and open educational resources. The report was drafted by rapporteur Cătălin Sorin Ivan (S&D/RO) in response to the European Commission’s communication ‘Opening up Education’. Among others, the report (item 36) mentions the important role public […]

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Library Leadership Programs

Arabella Advisors, a philanthropy consulting firm, is producing a study of library leadership programs for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The study seeks to identify key players and highlight opportunities in the field of library leadership in a report that can be shared broadly. As part of the initial research, Arabella is building an […]

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Opportunity for EU Public Libraries

Throughout the implementation of the Public Libraries 2020 programme, the Reading & Writing Foundation calls on public libraries and associated organisations to apply for advocacy grants. These grants are aimed at supporting advocacy projects at any level (local, national or international) that highlight the services that public libraries provide in the areas of social inclusion, […]

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Children eReading

The UK’s  National Literacy Trust has published a literature review summing up The Impact of eBooks on the Reading Motivation and Reading Skills of Children and Young People. In 2012, for the first time ever, the National Literacy Trust’s annual literacy survey reported that the number of children ‘reading on screen outside school outnumbered those […]

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