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Deadline 30 June - Call for PLIP grant proposals!
20 Jun 2011
Grants for innovative public library projects
EIFL-PLIP is pleased to announce a call for concept papers from public libraries in countries with emerging and developing economies. This Call will focus on the replication of services from projects funded in the first round of EIFL...
EIFL 2010 annual report is online
6 Jun 2011
Our 2010 annual report is out and available for download!
Read about our successful year, all made possible thanks to ongoing collaboration with our partner countries and the continued support of our funders.
Read the 2010 EIFL annual report
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EIFL-PLIP Serbia partner honoured
18 May 2011
EIFL-PLIP grantee, the Public Library Radislav Nikčević in Jagodina, and the town of Jagodina, have been chosen to host Serbia’s annual Biblionet conference, which takes place from June 22-24 this year.
Hosting the conference is a great honour. Each...
May-June newsletter is online
17 May 2011
Our May-June newsletter issue is online, with the latest news on EIFL and partner country activities, including a spotlight on the EIFL-PLIP programme.
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Smart and innovative – public libraries for development
11 May 2011
Sparking new and innovative services to improve people's lives through the use of new technology
Public libraries have enormous potential to help people in so many ways. Through them people can learn new skills, find jobs, discover history and culture, understand current affairs, improve their health, meet other people, connect to other sources...
STEP completes oral history viewing room
11 May 2011
STEP has completed building of a special room attached to the Lveate Centrestone Library where villagers will be able to meet to view films and listen to recordings of oral histories of survivors of the brutal Khmer Rouge period.
The completion...
Prime Minister praises Lithuania library's PLIP project
11 May 2011
Lithuania's Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius has praised the Utena A. and M. Miskiniai Public Library for its vision in creating the educational computer game, Iššūkis (The Challenge).
Librarians presented Iššūkis to Prime Minister Kubilius when he...
EIFL-PLIP Call for concept papers
30 Apr 2011
EIFL requests submission of concept papers from eligible public libraries by 30th June 2011. The best of these will be developed jointly by the proposing library and EIFL into project plans for up to 20 small grants of up to $15000 [USD] each....
Jagodina library wins grant to sustain PLIP project
26 Apr 2011
The Public Library Radislav Nikčević in Jagodina, Serbia, has won a grant of RSD 500,000 (about US$7,150) from the Ministry of Culture to extend its AgroLib-Ja project.
The project was launched in May 2010 with EIFL-PLIP support. The library’s aim...
Zavidovići library names photo contest winners
18 Mar 2011
Zavidovići Public Library has announced the names of the two winners of the youth photo competition that the library organized to promote the beauty of their town.
The photo competition is part of the library’s innovative Youth Corner project, which...
EIFL-PLIP grantee wins Next Library 2011 scholarship
18 Mar 2011
Omar Abdi, project librarian in charge of Resource Mobilization and coordinator of the Ehealth Corners project at the Kenya National Library Service, has been awarded a scholarship by Next Library 2011. The scholarship will enable him to attend the...
Talking books used to train Mongolian massage therapists
10 Mar 2011
“Thanks to this project, I now have confidence that I will successfully complete my massage course.”
A driver in Ulaanbaatar, Erdenebat lost his sight because of a traffic accident. Aged 38, he had to change his profession. He joined a group of 20...
March-April newsletter is online
8 Mar 2011
Our March-April 2011 newsletter issue is online, with the latest news on all EIFL programmes, including a spotlight on 3 of our consortia celebrating 10 years.
Lubuto literacy project profiled at ALA conference
7 Mar 2011
Jane Kinney Meyers, President of the Lubuto Library Project, has been offered a platform to present the Lubuto Library Project’s work at the American Library Association’s Annual Conference, which will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana (USA) in June...
Prize-winning novelist visits Mayan library
24 Feb 2011
A surprise visit by the prize-winning Mayan novelist Sol Ceh Móo will lead to new content being added to the growing collection in the new digital library of Mayan culture and heritage that is being created by the Public Libraries Coordination in...
New links to sustain library learning game
22 Feb 2011
The Utena A. and M. Miskiniai Public Library is holding high-level meetings with government officials to ensure sustainability and expansion of the ‘Play to Study’ project, which uses a new computer game to motivate reluctant children to go back to...
Library launches youth photo contest
14 Feb 2011
Zavidovići Public Library’s Youth Corner has organized a photo competition to involve young people in promoting the Zavidovići Municipality, and to publicize the beauty of their town.
The photo competition is part of the Zavidovići Public Library’s...
Chief supports library training project
14 Feb 2011
The Northern Regional Library in Tamale’s popular Internet Access and Training Programme (IATP) has attracted the support of the influential Chief of Tamale, the Dakpema Naa Mohammed Dawuni, who has given the project his blessing.
During a visit to...
Library tunes in to farmers' needs
28 Jan 2011
The Panguipulli Public Library No. 296 is now reaching farmers in remote and mountainous areas of Southern Chile through radio.
The radio programmes are aimed at informing farmers about new farming methods, pest control, environmental conservation...
STEP prepares to share interviews about the Khmer Rouge regime
28 Jan 2011
“During the Khmer Rouge Regime, I learned that people were divided into three groups: Left people, Middle/Reserved people, and Righteous People. Angkar sent their men to spy on the Left People who were mostly the ones evacuated from Phnom Penh on...
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EIFL at eLearning Africa 2013
30 May 2013
EIFL-PLIP at the Next Library 2013 conference
16 Jun 2013
