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EIFL update
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Professor Michael W. Carroll will be the keynote speaker at this year's EIFL General Assembly (GA) which will be held in Yerevan, Armenia. The GA will be hosted by the American University of Armenia with financial support from the Ministry of Culture of Armenia. Yerevan is the World Book Capital 2012, and the EIFL GA is incorporated into the official programme of celebrations. |
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EIFL will have a strong presence at IFLA2012 – the International Federation of Library Associations World Library and Information Congress – in August. The theme of IFLA2012 is Libraries Now! – Inspiring, Surprising, Empowering. |
EIFL-Licensing update
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EIFL has signed a new agreement with SAGE Publications for SAGE Journal Backfiles. |
EIFL-OA update
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Helena Asamoah-Hassan, EIFL Country Coordinator for Ghana, has been announced as Biomed Central's Open Access Advocate of the Year. |
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Funding was granted to 11 projects in Africa, Asia, and Europe: six projects in Africa (in Ghana, Kenya, Sudan, Uganda and Zimbabwe), one project in Asia (in Nepal) and four projects in Europe (Belarus, Lithuania, Moldova and Serbia). |
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On June 11, an OpenAIRE workshop “Linking open access publications to data – policy development and implementation” was organized as a pre-Nordbib meeting at the Royal Library in Copenhagen. |
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EIFL-OA was one of the speakers for the first online event to launch this year’s Open Access Week. |
EIFL-IP update
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Seven projects in Africa, Asia and Europe will be funded under the EIFL-IP programme in support of advocacy for national copyright law reform. |
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The latest translation of “Copyright for Librarians” was recently launched in Romanian, with students at Moldova State University presented with certificates for their work on the translation. |
EIFL-FOSS update
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Nicole Engard of Bywater Solutions delivered a webinar for EIFL FOSS introducing WordPress and providing a wide variety of links to supporting information and exemplar projects. |
EIFL-PLIP update
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Eleven trainees of East Kazakhstan Oblast Puskin Library’s Youth IT-Yurt service, which builds young people’s information and communication technology (ICT) and job seeking skills, have found jobs, internships and volunteer positions. The service is supported by EIFL-PLIP. |
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Three new library services have been launched in Kenya with EIFL-PLIP support. Two of the new grantee libraries are working with vulnerable youth and the third aims to improve farmers’ livelihoods. They bring the total number of innovative services initiated in Africa with EIFL-PLIP support to 16. |
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The prestigious IFLA Journal published in its June issue a paper on the EIFL research study on perceptions of public libraries in six African countries. |
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On 1 July we will open the second call in our exciting series of Innovation Awards. The new award is for public and community libraries offering services that improve community health. The call will be open for one month only – 1 July to 31 July – so start preparing your application now! |
Library consortia news
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Arnold Hirshon gave a very engaging presentation on identifying stakeholders and participants in the planning team, holding meetings, and environmental scanning (trend analysis, SWOT, scenario planning, etc.) in the first session of a four-part series. |
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Through the EC-Tempus funded project (ISTeMAG) whose goal is to increase access to scientific and technical information in higher education in the Maghreb, EIFL recently conducted training with librarians from across Tunisia. |
Events
| 3 Jul 2012 | EIFL 2012 General Assembly. Location: Yerevan - Armenia |
| 9 Jul 2012 | OA and the Evolving Scholarly Communication Environment workshop in Uganda. Location: Kampala - Uganda |
| 16 Jul 2012 | WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (24th session). Location: Geneva - Switzerland |
| 26 Jul 2012 | VuFind (search engine and portal software) webinar from EIFL-FOSS. Location: Online |
| 8 Aug 2012 | Libraries in Networks. Location: Klaipeda - Lithuania |
| 9 Aug 2012 | Libraries for Children and Young People. Location: Joensuu - Finland |
| 10 Aug 2012 | Library Services for People With Special Needs. Location: Tallinn - Estonia |
| 11 Aug 2012 | IFLA World Library and Information Congress. Location: Helsinki - Finland |
| 20 Aug 2012 | Kampala meeting: advocating for innovative public library services in Uganda. Location: Kampala - Uganda |
| 30 Aug 2012 | OA/IR Policy discussion at University of Nairobi, Kenya. Location: Nairobi - KenyaUniversity of Nairobi |
Keep in touch | About EIFL
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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 60 developing and transition countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America, EIFL enables access to knowledge for education, learning, research and sustainable community development. |
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Through your generous contributions, EIFL will continue doing what it does best - creating strong library communities that provide top quality electronic information to millions of students, scholars, researchers, and professionals in transition and developing countries across the world. |
