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September - October newsletter issue available online

Our September - October newsletter issue is already online, with the latest news on all eIFL programmes and an overview of exciting projects planned by local library consortia in many member countries for the next couple of months.
Please read our September - October newsletter.

eIFL Director receives IFLA Medal for groundbreaking work with libraries in transition and developing countries
Rima Kupryte, Director of Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL.net) was honoured by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) at the 74th World Library and Information Congress in Quebec, Canada. The IFLA Medal is one of the highest professional accolades and is awarded to an individual for their distinguished contribution to international librarianship.

Please read our PRESS RELEASE, August 14, 2008.

eIFL Program Brochures available in several languages
We have created a special section where eIFL general and program brochures can be downloaded freely. As we are doing with selected pages of our web site, it is our intention to make these brochures available in languages other than English in order to reach out an increasingly wider community. Thanks to Abdrahamane Anne, librarian of the University of Bamako (Mali), eIFL program brochures have just been translated into French, which adds to the Portuguese and Spanish versions.You can get them at http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/about/brochure.

July - August (Summer issue) newsletter issue available online
Our July - August (Summer issue) newsletter issue is already online, with the latest news on all eIFL programmes and an overview of exciting projects planned by local library consortia in many member countries for the next couple of months.
Please read our July - August (Summer issue) newsletter.

May - June newsletter issue available online
Our May - June newsletter issue is already online, with the latest news on all eIFL programmes and an overview of exciting projects planned by local library consortia in many member countries for the next couple of months.
Please read our May - June newsletter.

March - April newsletter issue available online
Our March - April newsletter issue is already online, with the latest news on all eIFL programmes and an overview of exciting projects planned by local library consortia in many member countries for the next couple of months.
Please read our March - April newsletter.

January - February newsletter issue available online
Our January - February newsletter issue is already online, with the latest news on all eIFL programmes and an overview of exciting projects planned by local library consortia in many member countries for the next couple of months.
Please read our January - February newsletter.

November-December newsletter issue available online
Our November-December newsletter issue is already online, with the latest news on all eIFL programmes and an overview of exciting projects planned by local library consortia in many member countries for the next couple of months.
Please read our November-December newsletter.

Welcome to eIFL 7th General Assembly in Belgrade

eIFL would like to thank the local organizing committee for all their arrangements and assistance for the eIFL General Assembly 2007 to take place in Belgrade, Serbia, on November 8-10. We all look forward to meeting with them in a couple of days!

eIFL also thanks all the sponsors for their support to this major annual knowledge sharing conference which brings together eIFL country coordinators, staff, board members, publishers and invited speakers in the field of library and information sciences.

The final programme is available here .

September-October newsletter issue available online
Our September-October newsletter issue is already online, with the latest news on all eIFL programmes, next steps on several fronts, updates on our upcoming 7th General Assembly in Serbia in November and an overview of exciting projects planned by local library consortia in many member countries for the next couple of months. Please read our September-October newsletter.

Summer newsletter issue available online
The issue brings together the most updated information about eIFL ongoing initiatives on the content, open access, copyright and related matters for libraries and free and open source software fronts. Some exciting news about library consortia in eIFL countries are also featured.
Please read our July-August newsletter.

Libraries in developing countries: eIFL joins the BBC in broadcasting to the world

With an average listenership of 163 million people worldwide, the BBC World Service provides international news, analysis and information in English and 32 other languages. The Word, a weekly look at books and writing, this week explored libraries, a vital foundation of literary culture, and their role in developing countries. Rima Kupryte, eIFL Director, was joined by two librarians from Uganda to discuss the changing face of libraries in Africa from reading tents to telecentres and the new opportunities in the digital world. Rima highlighted the lead role of librarians in transforming connectivity for the education and research community in Malawi and the importance of having access to up-to-date information for development.

South African author Justin Cartwright explains why libraries are important to him and prize winning novelist Lionel Shriver, believing that there is no greater leveller than giving people equal access to information through libraries, has left her money in her will to a public library.

You can listen to it anytime here

New Newsletter Issue available
You can read our May-June issue at www.eifl.net/News and Events