We are delighted to name four winners of the 16th EIFL Public Library Innovation Award, for Public libraries enabling learning through play. 

We are delighted to name four winners of the 16th EIFL Public Library Innovation Award, for Public libraries enabling learning through play. 

We are delighted to name four winners of the 16th EIFL Public Library Innovation Award, for Public libraries enabling learning through play. 

We are delighted to name four winners of the 16th EIFL Public Library Innovation Award, for Public libraries enabling learning through play. 

A project supported by EIFL has strengthened understanding of open access publishing at 46 institutions in Kenya. It has led to increased open access journal publishing capacity and gained greater recognition for open access publishing at institutions across the country. The project raised the importance of meeting open access journal quality requirements developed by the Directory of Open Access Journals.

A project supported by EIFL has strengthened understanding of open access publishing at 46 institutions in Kenya. It has led to increased open access journal publishing capacity and gained greater recognition for open access publishing at institutions across the country. The project raised the importance of meeting open access journal quality requirements developed by the Directory of Open Access Journals.

A project supported by EIFL has strengthened understanding of open access publishing at 46 institutions in Kenya. It has led to increased open access journal publishing capacity and gained greater recognition for open access publishing at institutions across the country. The project raised the importance of meeting open access journal quality requirements developed by the Directory of Open Access Journals.

EIFL has written to the President of Nigeria, His Excellency Muhammadu Buhari, requesting that he sign the Copyright Bill 2022 (SBs. 688 & 769) into law at the earliest opportunity. 

EIFL has written to the President of Nigeria, His Excellency Muhammadu Buhari, requesting that he sign the Copyright Bill 2022 (SBs. 688 & 769) into law at the earliest opportunity. 

EIFL has written to the President of Nigeria, His Excellency Muhammadu Buhari, requesting that he sign the Copyright Bill 2022 (SBs. 688 & 769) into law at the earliest opportunity. 

Biblioteca de la Creatividad (Library of Creativity) in Colombia takes children on a playful journey that inspires them with a spirit of entrepreneurship and gives them the skills needed to create and implement sustainable solutions to challenges faced in their community.

The library serves Ciudad Bolivar, a rural area in the south of Colombia's capital city, Bogota, where generations of children have grown up in poverty. The library designed the ‘Doers Programme: Leaders and Entrepreneurs of Change’, to arouse children’s interest in tackling social problems through service. 

Biblioteca de la Creatividad (Library of Creativity) in Colombia takes children on a playful journey that inspires them with a spirit of entrepreneurship and gives them the skills needed to create and implement sustainable solutions to challenges faced in their community.

The library serves Ciudad Bolivar, a rural area in the south of Colombia's capital city, Bogota, where generations of children have grown up in poverty. The library designed the ‘Doers Programme: Leaders and Entrepreneurs of Change’, to arouse children’s interest in tackling social problems through service. 

Biblioteca de la Creatividad (Library of Creativity) in Colombia takes children on a playful journey that inspires them with a spirit of entrepreneurship and gives them the skills needed to create and implement sustainable solutions to challenges faced in their community.

The library serves Ciudad Bolivar, a rural area in the south of Colombia's capital city, Bogota, where generations of children have grown up in poverty. The library designed the ‘Doers Programme: Leaders and Entrepreneurs of Change’, to arouse children’s interest in tackling social problems through service. 

Storytelling, drawing and painting, drama, building objects out of safe waste, LEGO, free play, board games like chess and scrabble - they are all available for children to learn through play at Eastlands Library in Kenya.

The library’s ‘Play Bunk’ programme offers play-time in the library after school hours to children from a densely populated but underserved area of Nairobi. Eastlands Library is extremely busy: from January to December 2022, the library served an average of almost 2,000 people a month. Most of the library users were children, their caregivers and young adults.

Storytelling, drawing and painting, drama, building objects out of safe waste, LEGO, free play, board games like chess and scrabble - they are all available for children to learn through play at Eastlands Library in Kenya.

The library’s ‘Play Bunk’ programme offers play-time in the library after school hours to children from a densely populated but underserved area of Nairobi. Eastlands Library is extremely busy: from January to December 2022, the library served an average of almost 2,000 people a month. Most of the library users were children, their caregivers and young adults.

Storytelling, drawing and painting, drama, building objects out of safe waste, LEGO, free play, board games like chess and scrabble - they are all available for children to learn through play at Eastlands Library in Kenya.

The library’s ‘Play Bunk’ programme offers play-time in the library after school hours to children from a densely populated but underserved area of Nairobi. Eastlands Library is extremely busy: from January to December 2022, the library served an average of almost 2,000 people a month. Most of the library users were children, their caregivers and young adults.

Naujoji Vilnia Library in Lithuania invites children who are going through emotional difficulties, and their families, to join therapeutic reading and storytelling activities in a virtual gaming environment. The activities, in the library’s ‘Isl@nd of Openness’ programme,  are designed to help the participants to cope with these difficulties, and to  encourage them to open up and speak to specialists who can provide further support. 

Naujoji Vilnia Library in Lithuania invites children who are going through emotional difficulties, and their families, to join therapeutic reading and storytelling activities in a virtual gaming environment. The activities, in the library’s ‘Isl@nd of Openness’ programme,  are designed to help the participants to cope with these difficulties, and to  encourage them to open up and speak to specialists who can provide further support. 

Naujoji Vilnia Library in Lithuania invites children who are going through emotional difficulties, and their families, to join therapeutic reading and storytelling activities in a virtual gaming environment. The activities, in the library’s ‘Isl@nd of Openness’ programme,  are designed to help the participants to cope with these difficulties, and to  encourage them to open up and speak to specialists who can provide further support. 

The ‘I have the right to read’ programme offered by Public Library ‘Radislav Nikčević’ in Jagodina, Serbia, is providing children aged from 6 - 12 years old with rich learning through play experiences to improve their reading comprehension.

By building reading comprehension skills, the programme is supporting cognitive development of the children, and helping them to improve their imagination and creativity, to develop empathy and friendships, and to gain a deeper understanding of the world around them.