Congratulations to two winners of the 5th EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) Award for empowering women and girls through ICT. READ Information and Resource Centre in Baluwatar, Kathmandu, Nepal for empowering women slum-dwellers to find jobs and start small businesses. Rija’tzuul Na’ooj Library in San Juan la Laguna, Guatemala for building business and […]
Read moreHartwig Pautz is studying for an MSc in Information and Library Studies at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. Hartwig has asked for support from colleagues in the United Kingdom, the United States and Germany in writing his dissertation which addresses income generation methods used by public libraries and the potential impact of income generation […]
Read moreThe Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has released a discussion paper The Future of the Profession; themes and scenarios 2025. The purpose of this paper is to promote discussion across the sector between library leaders, information service providers, vendors, practitioners, students, commentators, colleagues in Australia and internationally – anyone and everyone with an interest […]
Read moreThanks to Ljiljana Sabljak, for this photograph of Public Libraries Section members at the mid-term meeting in Paris in May. We were about to tour the wonderful Bibliothèque Marguerite Duras which had a host of exciting inititaives for us to explore.
Read moreBackground The concept for this project had its genesis at the Standing Committee’s second meeting at the 2012 IFLA Congress in Helsinki when we were discussing the papers that had been given over the course of the past week. It was noted that certain words had consistently been used by presenters to describe public […]
Read moreCologne’s first publicly accessible 3D printer can be found in the central library at the Neu-markt. Twice a day it is demonstrated how the printer works and people can print out 3D print files which they bring along. The price depends on the weight of the object produced by the printer. The movement of makers […]
Read moreA large red crime fiction dispenser, the first of its kind in the city, catches the eye at the Neumarkt in Cologne, in an area below ground level where people are passing by on their way up to the tram stops or down to the underground station. It is here, in the much frequented […]
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