Last week in the NAPLE Sister Libraries Blog we had the announcement of a new sistership in the Programme, this time between Public Library in Aleksandrów from Poland and Allo Public Library from Spain.
Remember you can check all the libraries participating here and the sisterships made so far here.
Today Gorazd Vodeb’s presentation in last NAPLE Assembly is available to read clicking here. It shows a general survey on the populations use of and attitude to libraries in Slovenia.
Tagged Conference, Library Service, NAPLE, NAPLE Assembly 2012
Last week in the NAPLE Sister Libraries Blog we had the announcement of the 21st sistership, this time between Kuusamo City Library (Finland) and Tavernes Municipal Library (Spain).
Remember you can check all the libraries participating here and the sisterships made so far here.
Congratulations to both libraries!
Svět knihy (Book World) is the book fair that takes place annually in Prague. The photo shows a mobile library in ownership of the Municipal Library in Prague. This mobile library traditionally arrives to meet its (potential) patrons 
visiting the book fair. The offer was targeted on comics, in accordance with the big topic of this year book fair. Patrons could lend comics and / or return books. A poster on doors announced a birth of the Superlibrian presented by the amateur theatre group Vý (Výtržníci, the Troublemakers) during the book fair.
Eva Bartunkova
Department Head of Information Centre for Librarianship
Czech Republic
The provisional programme for the Europeana Conference/VI Congreso Nacional de Bibliotecas Públicas is already available here. More speakers will be added as they are confirmed.
The Conference, as published recently, will take place in Burgos on 9, 10 and 11 October 2012.
Last week on Sister Libraries Blog, Danijela and Kristian from Public Library Fran Galovic in Koprivnica from Croatia sent a post telling us the last activities and projects they are developing with their sister library Sastamala Public Library from Finland.
They are swaping ideas about different projects as the new building for Fran Galovic library and the programme of Sastamala of cooperation with local high school students. Furthermore, they are preparing an on-line quiz for upper grade primary scool students in Koprivnica called “Learn more about Finland…” and, finally, they told us the prospect that their directors meet in the IFLA Annual Conference in Helsinki.
If you want to know more details about these entire interesting projects read the full post in Sister Libraries Blog.
Posted in Croatia, Finland, NAPLE
Tagged Blog, Children and Youth Service, Cooperation, Librarian, Project, Sister libraries
The registration for the Europeana Conference/ VI Congreso Nacional de Bibliotecas Públicas to be held in Burgos, Spain, next 9th, 10th and 11th October is now open here
As we published some time ago in this post, the Directorate General for Fine Arts and Cultural Assets, Archives and Libraries of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, through the Subdirectorate General for Libraries Coordination, is organising the Europeana Conference / VI Congreso Nacional de Bibliotecas Públicas (6th Spanish Public Libraries Congress), which will take place in Burgos (Spain) on 9, 10 and 11 October 2012 under the theme Public Libraries: Individual Memory, Global Heritage. This year the Conference will be a joint event with Europeana.
The website for the conference is: http://en.www.mcu.es/bibliotecas/MC/2012/CongresoBP/index.html
A draft programme will be published soon here, meanwhile here you can check the major topics that will be addressed. This year there is also a call for videos, now open for participation:
Contact address: congreso.publicas@mecd.es
Last week in Sister Libraries Blog, a new tag called “Logos” has been created on the blog. There all of you who wish to do it can download the NAPLE Sister Libraries letters and logo in different versions and formats.
This way, the aim is to provide the libraries with one more tool for preparing diverse activities with their sister libraries. More information in the tag itself.
EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) is inviting applications for a new award that recognizes the valuable impact of public library health services.
The invitation, by the EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP), is open to all public and community libraries in developing and transition countries. The prize is US$1,500 and the opportunity to showcase your service at an international conference or gathering. You can apply in English, Russian, French or Spanish.
With less than a month to go, the deadline – July 31 – is tight.
Libraries everywhere are providing valuable health services, using cutting-edge information and communication technology (ICT). For example, in northern Ghana, a public library uses mobile phones to send vital maternal health care information to pregnant women; in Kyrgyzstan, a public library is leading a campaign to combat TB; in Armenia, patients are asking their doctors questions through their library’s interactive website; in Kenya, health workers and patients have free access to the internet through their library’s e-health corners. EIFL-PLIP wants to make stories like these known, so that innovative libraries whose services improve lives win recognition and support.
If your library is using ICT to improve community health, then this award is for you. To enter, all you have to do is tell EIFL-PLIP your story and show the impact of your service.
For further information and details of how to apply, visit www.eifl.net
Source: ElFL-PLIP
Author: Jean Fairbarn, EIFL-PLIP Communications
Last week in Sister Libraries Blog, Aleksandra, Director of Library in Piekary Śląskie from Poland told us that children from Arucas Library, its Spanish sister library, and Piekary Slaskie made bookmarks at the International Day of Books. Then they swapped them and also wished each other on occasion this Day.
Then the bookmarks were the prizes for finalists readership contest of the book “Anne of Green Gables”. If you want to know more details, click here.
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