EIFL’s Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) has announced the winners of the EIFL-PLIP Innovation Award for Creative use of ICT in public libraries. The winning libraries use a wide variety of hardware, software and online resources. To meet the winners and read about some creative and cost-effective ways in which public libraries are using ICT to change […]
Read moreAlready January is disappearing fast and February is almost upon us with two big library celebrations that we’re aware of (we’d love to hear of any others). In the United Kingdom on Saturday 8 February they’ll be celebrating National Libraries Day, a culmination of a week’s worth of celebrations in school, college, university, workplace and […]
Read moreCongratulations to our colleagues in Macedonia who have formed a new association, Innova Lib, to promote development of public libraries and innovative public library services across the country. The idea for the association was born at a national conference held in Radovis in southeastern Macedonia in February 2013. The two-day conference was supported by EIFL’s […]
Read moreApplications for the 12th IFLA International Marketing Award close on 1 February 2014. With the chance to win $2000 for your library and a free trip to the IFLA Congress to be held in Lyon, France August 16 – 22, 2014 you’d be crazy not to enter. Public Libraries have a strong record of success […]
Read moreOne of the great annual conferences on the Library and Information Calendar (next to the IFLA Congress!) is the Annual American Library Association Conference which this year will be held in Las Vegas 26 June-1 July. Today the ALA have announced that registrations are now open.
Read moreThe IFLA Public Libraries Section is now calling for proposals for its 2014 Satellite Meeting in Birmingham, UK 12-13 August. The Conference theme Public Library Futures in a global digital world? provides great scope for presentations the on the themes of the public library as a physical and a virtual space in the digital […]
Read moreCongratulations to Corinne Hill who has been named Library Journal’s 2014 Librarian of the Year. Corinne is Executive Director at the Chattanooga Public Library in the US state of Tennessee and is also a member of the IFLA Public Libraries Standing Committee. A former LJ ‘Mover and Shaker’ Corinne has been recognised for transforming the […]
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