Every month, 20 children attend Pelči Library’s ‘Little school of local history’, where they research the library’s digital history collection and make animated films about the past.

The library's popular local history classes are stimulating children’s curiosity about the past, improving their creative and analytic skills and building their confidence.

INTRODUCTION

On 20 November 2015, Poland’s new copyright law entered into force bringing library services in Poland into the twenty-first century.

The centrepiece for libraries of the new legislation are provisions that enable digitization for socially beneficial purposes, such as education and preservation of cultural heritage. The new law also implements two important European Directives.

The 2nd SPARC Japan Seminar 2017 entitled "Preprint and Open Access" will be held on 30 October, hosted by SPARC Japan, in keeping with this year’s Open Access Week theme of “Open in order to…”. We will review the role and management of the preprint servers in these 30 years and discuss how to contribute to the advancement of scientific research and the issues concerning the importance of the commercial publication, sustainable models of the publication and the quality…

ეროვნული ბიბლიოთეკის ვახტანგ მეექვსის კორპუსი გაიხსნა

17 ოქტომბერს საქართველოს პარლამენტის ეროვნული ბიბლიოთეკის განახლებული მეექვსე კორპუსი გაიხსნა (მისამართი: ს. ცინცაძის 63). ღონისძიებას პარლამენტის თავმჯდომარე ირაკლი კობახიძე და პარლამენტის წევრები დაესწრნენ.

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The library’s open government service provides free access to thousands of municipal decisions and laws that regulate the lives and work of over 765,000 citizens of Chisinau, Moldova’s capital city.

During their regular outreach visits to schools, Nairobi Area librarians noticed that in order to study, five or more blind and visually impaired children were crowding around one braille textbook.  Some textbooks were only available in print, and the children would have to wait for teachers or sighted students to read the books aloud to them. For leisure reading, the situation was the same - schools did not have enough braille or audio books to serve blind and visually impaired children’s needs.

Kenya National Library Service / Nairobi Area Library has shared results of a project that supports education of blind and visually impaired schoolchildren by increasing their access to textbooks in braille and audio formats.

The project was supported by a small grant from the EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) in 2016/17, and matching funds from Kenya National Library Service.

EIFL and partners from the OpenAIRE and FOSTER (Facilitating Open Science Training for European Research) projects are celebrating Open Access Week 2017 (23-29 October) with a series of webinars on open science, open access and open data.

Open Access Week is an annual, global event established by SPARC in 2008 to raise awareness about open access (OA) and to call for OA to be the new norm in scholarship and research.

On 16 October 2017, following the announcement by the governments of the United States and Israel of their intention to leave UNESCO, IFLA released the following statement: 

 

Education, Science and Culture: Shared Objectives Need Shared Effort

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) regrets the announcement by the US and Israel of their withdrawal from UNESCO, and encourages all parties to work together to find a positive solution.
 
Libraries play a vital role in promoting education, advancing science, and preserving and celebrating culture. IFLA, as a global network, is built on the basis that our institutions, and our activities, gain from discussion, and cooperation, across borders. We advance faster and in a more sustainable way towards these objectives - as institutions and as societies - when we do it together.
 
IFLA, as the global voice of libraries, therefore affirms the value of UNESCO as a global intergovernmental organisation in the field of education, science and culture, working with libraries to achieve our common goals. We encourage all governments to join us in this.  

 

BACKGROUND

EIFL has been supporting open access (OA) and OA publishing in Serbia since 2000. As a result, Serbia was one of the first countries in eastern Europe to adopt an OA publishing model.

EIFL’s main partners in promoting OA publishing have been the Serbian Library Consortium for Coordinated Acquisition (KoBSON) and CEON/CEES (Centre for evaluation in Education and Science), which hosts a platform for OA journals.

ეროვნული ბიბლიოთეკის ვახტანგ მეექვსის კორპუსი გაიხსნება

17 ოქტომბერს 12:00 საათზე საქართველოს პარლამენტის ეროვნული ბიბლიოთეკის განახლებული მეექვსე კორპუსი გაიხსნება (მისამართი: ს. ცინცაძის 63).

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ეროვნული ბიბლიოთეკის მეორე კორპუსში მდებარე მერაბ მამარდაშვილის სახელობის სამოქალაქო განათლების სამკითხველო დარბაზი განახლდა.

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27th October is the UNESCO´s World Day for Audiovisual Heritage 2017

This year’s theme is "Discover, remember and share"

UNESCO and their World Day for Audiovisual Heritage Partner Co-ordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations (CCAAA) encourage you to register your event at CCAAA site.

You can also follow the Day on twitter #AudiovisualHeritage

You are welcome to join us at our Facebook group and our Twitter to share events at this day or your library´s work with audiovisual collections.

 

More information from UNESCO can be found at http://en.unesco.org/wdah2017

EIFL is delighted to announce that our popular library guide to the Marrakesh Treaty for persons with print disabilities is now available in Spanish, bringing to eight the total number of languages for the guide.

EIFL has been engaged in copyright work in Armenia since 2012, supporting a national  advocacy campaign to review the current copyright law (2006) and to make library-friendly recommendations for the new law.  

The new draft copyright law was published in 2017. EIFL and the Electronic Library Consortium of Armenia (ELCA) are evaluating the new draft law, and are making interventions as needed.

BACKGROUND

Support for and awareness about open access (OA) has been growing steadily in Armenia over the past decade. 

In 2007, Armenia's National Academy of Sciences, supported by the Open Society Assistance Foundation, launched two high-quality OA journals: the Armenian Journal of Mathematics and the Armenian Journal of Physics.

EIFL Open Access Programme Manager Iryna Kuchma will speak about OpenAIRE project, Open acc

The internet has become the major source of information, yet billions of people do not have the technology and skills needed to access the internet. Public libraries are important players in bridging this gap, but in developing countries many libraries also lack computers and internet connections.

EIFL is supporting a Data Management and Repositories Workshop, to be hosted by EIFL’s partner in Botswana, the Botswana Libraries Consortium (BLC), and the Botswana Library Association.

The workshop on the agenda of Botswana’s First National Open Data and Open Science Forum (ODOS), which is being convened by open access, open data and open science stakeholders in Botswana.

ეროვნულ ბიბლიოთეკას ცნობილი მხატვრების ჩანახატების ორიგინალები გადაეცა

3 ოქტომბერს საქართველოს პარლამენტის ეროვნულ ბიბლიოთეკას ცნობილი მეცნიერის ერასტი ვაჩნაძის უნიკალური არქივი გადაეცა.

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