Today we are posting another presentation from our last NAPLE Assembly in Copenhagen. It is The Danish Digital Library, by Jakob Heide Petersen, from Denmark.
EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) is proud to announce the launch of fourteen new public library services that help meet their countries national development targets by serving local community development needs.The 14 libraries are working in the crucial areas of agriculture and health, supporting children and youth at risk and promoting employment.
The 14 services, in Africa, Europe and Latin America, received small grants from EIFL’s Public Library Innovation Programme (PLIP) to use technology to extend and expand their services to meet community needs.
Over the past three months, the 14 libraries have been purchasing and installing computers and other technology; setting up Internet connections; marketing their services through local newspapers, radio and TV; recruiting and registering service users, and training librarians and staff of partner organizations to implement the services.
The new services tackle important community development challenges, including promoting health among the over 60s; building farmers’ capacity to apply for government subsidies and modernize farming methods; helping young people and the homeless find jobs; extending e-health services to remote communities and fighting TB.
The libraries are using cutting-edge technology, including computer hardware and software and mobile phones. They are also making good use social networking tools like Skype, facebook, twitter, mobile phone text messaging (SMS) and webinars.
The 14 new services replicate innovative library services implemented by previous EIFL-PLIP grantees. Read more about the 14 new services and EIFL-PLIP’s past grantees. EIFL-PLIP grants and awards for innovative public libraries are announced on EIFL-PLIP’s website, so watch this space!
Jean Fairbairn
EIFL-PLIP Communications
Do you know where you can learn a bit more on NAPLE’s history from the very beginning? NAPLE’s website holds an archive with all the minutes since the founding of NAPLE and some of the papers presented every year.
NAPLE Secretariat
The NAPLE sister libraries programme seeks to help libraries foster cooperation links in the way they decide. It is a programme open to public libraries situated in any of the participating NAPLE countries that wish to find a partner library in another country in order to establish a cooperation programme. For more information you can visit NAPLE Sister libraries
NAPLE Secretariat
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We would like to introduce another of the blogs we are linking to, Huelvatecas
Huelvatecas, a pun on Huelva and the word Bibliotecas -libraries in Spanish- is a blog for library professionals, focused on the latest news on librarianship in Huelva.
Subdirectorate General for Libraries Coordination
Ministry of Culture
Spain
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Ciudad Real is a city of 75,000 inhabitants situated in the region of Castilla-La Mancha, approximately 200 Km south of Madrid. The State Public Library of Ciudad Real is one of the existing 52 State Public Libraries in Spain. It … Continue reading
Once more, IFLA celebrated its annual conference last August, this time in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Librarians from all over the world gathered for a week for this unique oportunity to learn from other colleagues and know what the latest experiences are in other countries.
As always, public libraries played an important role, with a number of sessions in which they participated. You can read many of the presented papers in the conference website.
Here, you will also find a detailed account of every day of the congress, including videos, tweets, posts, pictures, etc.
Subdirectorate General for Libraries Coordination
Ministry of Culture
Spain
The third edition of the IFLA Library Services to Multicultural Populations Guidelines, published in English in its original version in 2009, is already available in 7 languages, including Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Russian and Spanish. You can find all of them here.
The document is the culmination of a number of years work by members of the Standing Committee of the IFLA Section on Library Services to Multicultural Populations. The Committee regards the revision of the Guidelines as an important step in promoting the development of library services to culturally and linguistically diverse members of our communities. However, these Guidelines may be applied to all types of libraries.
Main source: Multicultural Communities: Guidelines for Library Services, 3rd edition, 2009
Subdirectorate General for Libraries Coordination
Ministry of Culture
Spain
On the 25th, 26th and 27th of May 2011 and under the name FESABID 2011, the 12th Spanish Documentation Conference together with the EBLIDA-NAPLE Conference 2011 (held in Spain for the first time) and the 16th Library Conference of Andalusia took place in Malaga.
You can find the program in this link:
http://www.eblida.org/uploads/EBLIDA%20Conference/Programme-Malaga_19th_Annual_Conference_EBLIDA.pdf
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