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Libraries supporting social inclusion for refugees and immigrants

Our friends at the American Library Association are inviting proposals for presentations to be made at the next ALA Conference in New Orleans on the topic of Libraries supporting social inclusion for refugees and immigrants. Given all the great work that so many of our members are doing in this […]

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Libraries Transform

The American Library Association has announced details of its new public awareness campaign, Libraries Transform, will launch in Washington, D.C. and in communities and libraries around the country on 29 October 2015. The purpose of the new campaign is to increase public awareness of the ways that libraries of all […]

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Gift a Book and Change a Life

Are you coming to the IFLA Congress in Cape Town this August? If so make a little more room in your suitcase and bring a book to change a life. Delegates are being asked to share the joy of reading and discovery through books with Cape Town’s children and youth! […]

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Public Library Advocacy in the US and Australia

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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A Mobile with Pizazz, En bokbil med attityd, Ein Mobil mit Schwung

  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 […]

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2014 State of American Libraries

  In conjunction with National Library Week in the United States this week (April 13-19) the American Library Association has released its report on the 2014 State of America’s Libraries , detailing library trends of the past year. Its findings include:  More than 90% of the respondents in an independent […]

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Viva Las Vegas!

The American Library Association has advised that the deadline for early registration for the ALA Annual Conference Las Vegas, (June 26-July 1, 2014 ) is 3 March so you’d better be quick! The theme for the conference is Transforming Our Libraries, Ourselves and the ALA anticpates attendance of  20,000 library […]

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