New Delhi was the setting for the inaugural India Public Libraries Conference 2015 which was held on 17-19 March. The Conference was attended by more than 400 participants comprising of international and national speakers, delegates from national, state, district public library domains and other public library professionals. The program focussed […]
Read full post…Monthly Archive for April, 2015
Public library services around the world have reached the cross-roads. Collection formats and community needs continue to evolve at a rapid pace. Technology plays a major role providing people with access to information; bringing library staff out from behind the desk to engage with users and delivering programs and activities, […]
Read full post…Is yours a six star library? To find out we’d like to introduce you to a new public library evaluation tool, LRE Library Ranking Europe. This project is being undertaken by retired Librarians Maija and Mats Berndston who argue that ‘in order to measure the quality and the standard of a public […]
Read full post…The hunt is once again on to discover the world’s best public library. In 2015, the Danish Agency for Culture will again have the honour of presenting the Systematic Public Library of the Year Award sponsored by Systematic with prize$US 5,000. Applications close on 15 June 2015. The prize will be […]
Read full post…Often it takes everyday people to really bring issues home to local legislators. That’s the thinking behind the American Library Association’s Ilovelibraries.org initiative. One of the features on the Ilovelibraries.org site is a library value calculator (What’s your library worth?) that visitors can use to determine how much they would […]
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