International Open Access Week is upon us! The theme of 2023 is Community over Commercialization. Libraries are places of community, and – as has been meme’d online, possibly tracing back to Neil Gaiman – are one of the few public spaces people can visit without being expected to buy something. ‘The default setting of libraries […]
Read moreThe internet helps enable people worldwide to be creative, develop ideas in conversation, explore new uses of existing content, and make their own. It has opened up pathways for fun uses of copyrighted material generally allowed under law, such as memes and Instagram art, as well as more serious ones, such as news reporting by […]
Read moreMaking the most of ‘international days’ and other events for communication and advocacy can be a great way to join the wider conversation, and underlined both the relevance of libraries, and the need for support in order to realise our potential. This post sets out the opportunities open in the first half of 2022, to help with your planning!
Read moreIn many parts of the world, 1 April is a day for playing pranks on others – April Fool’s Day. In some countries, there’s a tradition even of newspapers or other media publishing hoax stories as jokes – to take two examples from the BBC, the story of the spaghetti harvest in 1957, or of […]
Read moreThe theme of this year’s World Social Justice Day is ‘A Call for Social Justice in the Digital World’. The focus is timely – the last decades have seen digital technologies play a more and more central role in the economy, shaping the way we work, and the type of work we do. As the […]
Read moreDuring the second campaign of # 1Lib1Ref 2020, libraries invested themselves all over the world! Roy Cohen is head of cataloguing and classification department at the Elyachar central library in Israel, and unveils the first launch of the campaign in his institution! 1. Could you please tell us a little bit about your institution and […]
Read moreThe COVID-19 pandemic is having a huge impact on our lives, societies and economies. Millions have fallen ill, and billions have faced restrictions on their movements, with early evidence indicating serious economic consequences. The next months will reveal more about how quickly it will be safe to lift the controls in place, and what the […]
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