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The GA will be in Yerevan, Armenia, 3-5 July. We are honored that our GA will be a part of the larger Yerevan World Book Capital programme. The theme for this year's GA is: "From Gutenberg to the Internet - A New Renaissance for Libraries” |
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EIFL and IFLA jointly, and in close partnership with other stakeholders, have submitted to the IGF secretariat the proposal to establish a Dynamic Coalition for Public Access in Libraries |
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EIFL Spotlight: Through EIFL-OA, 11 library consortia and libraries in Africa and Eastern Europe were awarded small grants in 2011 to implement national and institutional OA advocacy campaigns to reach out to research communities. |
EIFL-Licensing update
EIFL-OA update
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On January 31 we hosted a webcast with Nick Shockey, Right to Research Coalition, targeted to students and young researchers who want to get engaged in OA, educate their peers on the severe barriers to access to the latest research, the benefits of OA, and to get involved that the student voice for OA becomes louder and stronger. |
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EIFL has provided small grants to support Open Access publishing initiatives in Lithuania and Serbia and now Eleonora Dagiene, Chair of the Council at The Association of Lithuanian Serials, and Pero Šipka, CEON/CEES, describe the results. |
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February 14, 2012 is the 10th Anniversary of BOAI. EIFL attended a strategy meeting in Budapest to mark the 10th anniversary of the declaration and to discuss what we have learnt over the past ten years and how we can navigate the next ten. |
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Following the success of last year's grant competition, the EIFL-OA programme invites new proposals from EIFL partner countries for organising national or institutional open access advocacy campaigns to reach out to research communities. |
EIFL-IP update
EIFL-FOSS update
EIFL-PLIP update
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The Municipality of Berd (Armenia) has agreed to fund renovation of a room in Berd Public Library to house the library’s new computer laboratory for farmers. ‘I am very glad that the municipality will contribute to this project, as supporting farmers is a high priority for us,’ Berd Mayor Andranik Sharyan told the library. |
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EIFL-PLIP grantee Pasvalys Mariaus Katiliškio Public Library in Lithuania has won a prestigious national award for starting three innovative services: an EIFL-PLIP supported service for farmers; a service that aims to build young people’s entrepreneurial and business skills, and a service that opens access to local cultural heritage. |
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Successful advocacy must come from the heart, according to librarians who succeeded in winning local government funding support for their EIFL-PLIP services. Three librarians, from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Macedonia, told stories about their advocacy achievements at an EIFL-PLIP seminar in Ljubljana. |
Events
| 5 Mar 2012 | Library ‘champions’ to meet in Nairobi. Location: Nairobi - Kenya |
| 5 Mar 2012 | Open Education Week. Location: Worldwide, online and in locally hosted events |
| 8 Mar 2012 | Tanzanian Library Services Board meets with EIFL. Location: Dar es Salaam - Tanzania |
| 12 Mar 2012 | EIFL at ICTD2012. Location: Atlanta - United States |
| 20 Mar 2012 | Technologies of scientific, educational and technical information development and use in electronic libraries. Location: Tashkent - Uzbekistan |
| 28 Mar 2012 | EIFL 2012 Advisory Board meeting. Location: Amsterdam - Netherlands |
| 11 Apr 2012 | IFLA CLM mid-term meeting. Location: Vancouver - CanadaVancouver |
| 12 Apr 2012 | Berkeley Orphan Works Symposium. Location: Berkeley - United States |
| 13 Apr 2012 | Open science & education conference, Poland. Location: Bydgoszcz - Poland |
| 16 Apr 2012 | London Book Fair. Location: London - United Kingdom |
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EIFL is an international not-for-profit organisation based in Europe with a global network of partners. Working in collaboration with libraries in more than 55 developing and transition countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America, EIFL enables access to knowledge for education, learning, research and sustainable community development. |
