Global Reach

Early Look at the International Supplement to American Libraries - pre IFLA

Posted: Aug. 4, 2011.
Pre-IFLA International Issue

In advance of IFLA 2011 in Puerto Rico next week, American Libraries magazine is providing a special preview of our Fall 2011 International Supplement. The preview is embedded below and will also be available as a hand-out in the Expo Center at the World Library and Information Congress in San Juan.

A Bavarian Librarian in California

Posted: Jul. 19, 2011.
Angela Güntner at UCSD Libraries

After touring libraries throughout the German state of Bavaria as part of a library-visiting program dealing with information literacy training, I decided to extend that rewarding experience by taking part in the German–U.S. Librarian Exchange Opportunity cosponsored by the American Library Association and Berufsverband Information Bibliothek (BIB).

Spreading the Library Word around the World

Posted: Jul. 13, 2011.
Graphic developed for the Campaign for the World’s Libraries

Latvia and Barbados are the latest nations to join the Campaign for the World’s Libraries.

Malta to Have a National Librarian

Posted: Jun. 23, 2011.

Malta’s Education Minister Delores Cristina announced June 14 that the nation would soon issue a call for applications for the position of national librarian.

Archivists Play Role in Locating Serbian War Criminals

Posted: May. 31, 2011.

Serbian President Boris Tadić announced May 26 that Ratko Mladic, one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who was accused of masterminding a 1995 massacre, had been arrested.

Warsaw Book Fair Makes Way for Librarians

Posted: May. 13, 2011.
The Palace of Science and Culture, venue for the Warsaw Book Fair in Poland.

Draped on the exterior of the Palace of Culture and Science, a gigantic digitally altered photograph of Marie Składowska Curie welcomed readers to the May 12 opening day of the four-day Warsaw Book Fair in Poland.

Japanese Libraries Assess Damage, Begin Recovery

Posted: Apr. 5, 2011.
Order begins to return to the Tōhoku University Library

Update on Earthquake-Stricken Christchurch Libraries

Posted: Apr. 4, 2011.

Carolyn Robertson, libraries and information manager for Christchurch City Libraries and president of the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa, which serve one of the New Zealand cities hard-hit by the February 22 earthquake, emailed ALA International Relat

More Preservation Aid for Haitian Cultural Heritage Enters the Pipeline

Posted: Mar. 29, 2011.
Haitians rescue what they can of records from the Tax Office.

A March 29 press release from the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions announces a contract signed between IFLA and the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development to “enable joint action to save Haiti’s still-vulnerable arc