A new award with the name ‘schmidt hammer lassen architects – Public Library of the Year Award’ is awarded by the Model Programme for Public Libraries with the architectural firm schmidt hammer lassen architects as sponsors. This Award is open to public libraries worldwide. The award is DKK 25,000, which will […]
Read full post…Monthly Archive for June, 2014
With only six weeks to go before we meet in Lyon for the IFLA World Library and Information Congress it’s a good time to read the article ‘An overview of libraries in France’ in the latest IFLA Journal (Volume 40, No 2, June 2014). of particular interest to readers […]
Read full post…Innovation should look like Silicon Valley…if you serve Silicon Valley. Otherwise, it should look like your community.
The quote Innovation should look like Silicon Valley…if you serve Silicon Valley. Otherwise, it should look like your community is from R David Lankes a professor and Dean’s Scholar for the New Librarianship at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies and director of the Information Institute of Syracuse. If you […]
Read full post…The Archives, Library and Museum Alliance UK (ALMAUK) has put a value on public library visits following reseach on how users feel about them reports CILIP in the latest UPDATE magazine. The report is based on results from just over 4,000 surveys of public library users and puts a theoretical […]
Read full post…Congratualtions to the Scottish public library service, Midlothian Libraries who have been awarded the 2014 Bookseller’s Library of the Year 2014. Midlothian Libraries scooped this prestigious title on the merits of its strong children’s service and “hugely impressive” programme of events. Midlothian’s victory proves once again that the people […]
Read full post…From CILIP’s Public Libraries and Mobile Group’s June Newsletter comes this wonderful photograph and story: Retired teacher Antonio La Cava promotes reading in the rural Basilicata region of Italy by driving his bookmobile around the local villages. La Cava announces his arrival with the sound of an organ and […]
Read full post…The Australian Library and Information Association has just released the Comparison of ebooks and elending in Australian Public Libraries 2013 v 2014 report. This report provides a snapshot of the situation in Australian public libraries in January 2013 and May 2014 and is essential reading for all public library colleagues. […]
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