Librarian news from the UK

 

Read here an interesting story about Libraries across the world – the rise of the “Super Library”.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/0/23976745

 

Babies to be registered with library cards at birth in some parts of the UK

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/8665564.stm

Michael Rosen discusses the story of the UK library system.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b039v4gx

Biblioteca do Vapor

The Casa do Vapor will have its own library with initiatives to foster the spread of reading habits. The promoters of this project are the Portuguese General Direction of Archives (DGALB) and the Casa Azul Association, a brazillian organization that manages the International Literary Fair of Paraty (FLIP), the largest literature festival in Latin America. 

For the whole post follow this link.

The meeting in Cornwall

 

The ELLA project had the latest meeting in the UK hosted by Point Europe between 31 March - 3 April 2014. Among project issues the participants had meetings and presentations at the Torpoint Community Public Library and in the Truro Librar.

The aims of the mobility were to discuss, witness and observe best practice in method, training and competences. This was presented in a local and regional level and a rural and city/urban context. Community settings and educational settings.

Great pictures were made in Kaposvár to attract the people by books

National Libraries Day February 8 2014

If you want to find out more about championing and celebrating libraries in all sectors and promoting the good work that they do, click on this link: http://www.nationallibrariesday.org.uk/resources/


Also see the SHOUT about school libraries – see UK campaigns at this website: http://www.schoollibraries.org/

Arabic readers want poetry and cookbooks.

Along with the New Year will come a raft of new laws for 2014 and perhaps one of the most interesting is the one that calls for greater minority language representation at Sweden's libraries.

 

See the full story at Radio Sweden website

An Arabic auther tells stories in mother tongue to 40 children in the school-library

This is a feature from the local news before the International Children’s Book Week. During the week, authors from a number of countries will visit the schools of Västerås and meet children with a mother tongue other than Swedish. More than 40 children met in the gym hall of Trollbacksskolan yesterday to listen to stories in Arabic.

http://www.tv4.se/nyheterna/lokala-nyheter/sagor-på-arabiska-2485240