I was honored to be an invited speaker at the three-day library conference within a conference, “Information in the Building of Society and Citizenship,” which was held November 28–30 during the 2011 Guadalajara Book Fair.
A delegation of 10 library leaders from China, including the directors of several provincial libraries, a library educator, and a university library director, traveled to the United States in the summer of 2011 to observe the operations of several library associations, including the American Library Association, the Urban Libraries Council, and the Chinese American Librarians Association.
On November 28, 85 members of the US National Commission for UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) met in Washington, D.C.
Santa Claus is no doubt pleased with the giant Christmas tree at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland, constructed for the holiday season by the staff entirely from books. The tree stands at approximately five feet wide at the base and about eight feet high, and is made of 1,600 mostly hardcover volumes.
The Bulgarian Library and Information Association has presented its annual Support for Libraries Award to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Libraries Initiative for its contribution to the development of public libraries in Bulgaria and their establishment as vital centers for information, communication, and electronic public services.
The January 2011 uprising that led to the ousting of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak may be over, but the Bibliotheca Alexandrina—Alexandria, Egypt’s nearly 10-year-old center for culture and scholarship—has seen some recent upheaval.
The January 2011 uprising that led to the ousting of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak may be over, but the Bibliotheca Alexandrina—Alexandria, Egypt’s nearly 10-year-old center for culture and scholarship—has seen some recent upheaval.
Libraries are social entities: They are established for society and are supported by society. Moreover, it’s been said by the American Library Association that “Libraries are the mind and soul of their communities, and librarians are the mind and soul of the library.” For this reason, libraries should keep pace with societal change.
Some 80 librarians from every region of Bulgaria gathered September 29–30 in the city of Shumen to celebrate the 130th anniversary of the birth of Stoyan Chilingirov, a prominent Bulgarian author of books about history, ethnography, and folklore and an early library advocate.
What was arguably the most provocative program of the entire IFLA World Library and Information Congress in San Juan, Puerto Rico, was also, ironically, the least formal and structured of the entire conference.
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