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Yerevan: World Book Capital 2012
Submitted by LIASA on Wed, 04/25/2012 - 08:40Yerevan: World Book Capital 2012
web version: http://www.ifla.org/en/news/yerevan-world-book-capital-2012
In a festive celebration two days ago in Armenia, IFLA President Ingrid Parent witnessed the official hand over of the World Book Capital for the year 2012 to the city of Yerevan (Armenia).
Yerevan is the twelfth city to be designated World Book Capital after
Caroline Kennedy tells librarians their work is “truly life-changing”
Submitted by LIASA on Thu, 12/15/2011 - 09:07Caroline Kennedy tells librarians their work is “truly life-changing” at I Love My Librarian Award ceremony
Re-posted from ALAnews
For Immediate Release
Tue, 12/13/2011 - 16:04
Contact: Steve Zalusky
Reality-based Librarianship for Passionate Librarians
Submitted by LIASA on Fri, 11/11/2011 - 08:17Reality-based Librarianship for Passionate Librarians
Jenica Rogers: 8 November 2011 - Attempting Elegance
Mortenson Center Receives International Humanitarian Award
Submitted by LIASA on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 08:45Urbana, Illinois--The Mortenson Center for International Library Programs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library was selected to receive a 2011 Champaign-Urbana International Humanitarian Award for its efforts to facilitate international cooperation through research and education. The cities of Champaign and Urbana and the 2011 Champaign-Urbana International Humanitarian Awards Steering Committee honored the Mortenson Center on September 29, 2011.
A Library is not ...
Submitted by LIASA on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 09:14Phil Bradley's weblog
Where librarians and the internet meet: internet searching, Web 2.0 resources, search engines and their development. These are my personal views and not those of CILIP or any other organisation I may be associated with.
October 13, 2011
Montreal's Grande Bibliothèque: How to stay in circulation
Submitted by LIASA on Wed, 10/12/2011 - 10:30If libraries are doomed, there was no sign of it this week at the Grande Bibliothèque
The Men of the Stacks : Librarian Calendar
Submitted by LIASA on Wed, 10/12/2011 - 10:15The Men of the Stacks Librarian Calendar
September 28, 2011 - 8:01am — Blake
A Century of Philanthropy: Carnegie Corporation of New York
Submitted by LIASA on Mon, 09/19/2011 - 15:18A Century of Philanthropy: Carnegie Corporation of New York
Strategic nurturing “to try to make the world in some way better than you found it”
Posted Tue, 09/13/2011 - 17:14 in the American Libraries Magazine
Confirmed: The end of the paperback era
Submitted by LIASA on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 09:41Confirmed: The end of the paperback era
Daily Maverick, 12 September 2011
In 1935, when Allen Lane of Penguin Books built on the idea of an innovative German publisher whose business had been appropriated by the Nazis, a revolution occ
Setting up a library against all odds
Submitted by LIASA on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 16:49He Built a Public Library for His Village - Francis Kigobe
By John K. Abimanyi
5 September 2011
American poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, said, "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail." The life of Francis Kigobe, 43, a resident of Ajija in Buikwe district, could just as well have lived up to what Emerson was rallying for.
The reading culture in Uganda is so waned that the saying, "If you want to hide anything from a Ugandan, put it into a book," has passed into common usage.