State Public Libraries in Spain: Ciudad Real

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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 →

Maneras de leer: Meeting of Best Practices on Reading

Next 20th and 21th September, the Congress “Maneras de Leer- Ways of reading” will be held in Madrid, organized by both the Education and Culture Ministries. The main topic of the congress will be to disseminate different experiences of reading in libraries and education centres.

During the congress, there will be reading experiences in volving diverse section of population: youth, senior, men, women, multicultural populations and broad population. Overmore, other experiences reading in different media (radio, TV, Internet) and in different fields (libraries, schools, hospitals and prisons) will be introduced by the speakers. The attendants are teachers, librarians and book and reading professionals. In short, the meeting will promote the interchange of opinions and knowledge about reading.

For more information:
http://www.manerasdeleer.es/manerasdeleer/Inicio.html

Subdirectorate General for Libraries Coordination 
Ministry of Culture
Spain

Czech E-conference on E-books

Czech libraries are facing to the problem of lending e-books and e-readers. The current main challenge is licensing and connected legal issues. The new e-conference EKNIHY (i.e. EBOOKS), was launched in June. Detailed information and application form can be found on the address:

https://andrea.vc.cvut.cz/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/eknihy

The language of the conference is Czech.

Eva Bartunkova
Department Head of Information Centre for Librarianship
Czech Republic

Estonian Public Libraries

557 public libraries, ca150 inplaces where library does not have to be. According to the Public Library Act public library has to be in places where lives at least 500 inhabitants. In such places library usually is the only public institution and local authorities keep them because lot of public services can get in the library. Free Internet for public use is very much needed in smaller places.  

Last three years has been very difficult economic situation in Estonia, but it has been very interesting time too. For libraries there were many challenges, for examples how to organize the everyday work of libraries in view of significant budget cuts both – from the state and local government side. But only 2 part-time working libraries were closed this time. From 2009 library use is growing again. We are especially glad to witness that children and young people have come to visit libraries more in last couple of years. 2010 we celebrated the year of reading and lot of library events helped to get library more needed and attractive.  We even built some new libraries during these hard years. The most beautiful is of course the Tallinn  University of Technology Library. And several new buildings for public libraries in a bigger villages.

EBooks: the Irish Story, so far…

More information in this link:
EBooks: the Irish Story, so far…

Norma McDermott
Director of An Chomhairle Leabharlanna- The Library Council
Ireland