Today’s post comes to us from Maggie Wong and Chris Chan, librarians at the Hong Kong Baptist University Library. It’s an exciting read about an innovative product they have introduced their patrons to and is quite interesting. We hope you enjoy! This past August, Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) Library launched Asia’s first story dispenser. […]
Today’s post comes from Fiona Blackburn, a member of our ILN community. Fiona works at the ACT Heritage Library but at the time of writing was the Senior Collections Officer at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies in Canberra, the Australian capital. The simplest description of cultural competence I have found […]
Today’s guest post comes from Lora Worden from Portland, Oregon in the USA: There are countless reasons to attend library conferences: invaluable networking opportunities, gathering new program ideas, meeting the authors we love, enhancing our collections, and scoring swag. Attending conferences as a student can be especially beneficial, providing an exciting introduction to the field. […]
Today’s postcard comes to us from Gulshan Mehdiyeva the Head of the Library Information Center at Khazar University in Azerbaijan: Khazar University holds the largest library collection among private universities and the largest collection in the English language in Azerbaijan. Khazar University Library Information Center (LIC) collects printed and electronic materials in Azerbaijani, English, Russian, Turkish, Arabic, Persian, […]
Today’s post comes from a member of our ILN community, Michelle De Aizpurua, who has recently graduated with her LIS qualification from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. After finishing my law degree and realising I didn’t want to practice, I was lucky enough to discover the library world. I completed a post-graduate diploma in […]
Today’s guest post comes from our ILN Ambassador in Egypt, Dr Ghadeer Magdy Abdelwahab Said. She’s eager to share with us some of the interesting things happening in libraries in Egypt that are directly targeting the library community. Thanks for sharing Ghadeer! Many librarian initiatives have been done in Egypt in the last few years […]
Today’s post comes from our Australian Country Ambassador, Jenny Mustey. Campaspe Regional Library is in northern Victoria and serves a regional population of over 35,000 spread across more than 4,500 square kilometres. Just recently I attended a conference and many of the sessions that were enthusiastically presented were about games and gaming and their place in […]
Coming up later in this round will be a discussion topic about moving cities/towns/countries for a job. As part of this we would love to hear your stories and showcase them on our website during the 2 weeks the topic is running. If you have ever moved for a job and you’d like to share the […]
Today’s guest post comes from the ILN representative for Cameroon, Roseline Bawack. Thanks for sharing your very busy day Roseline. I work in the central library of the University of Yaounde I. I am a librarian in charge of institutional repository and networks. The official time to start work is 8 […]
Today’s post comes to us from Magda Gomułka, our country coordinator in Poland. Magda is a great friend to the ILN and has been with us as a volunteer since the very first call for help went out soon after we launched the program. I am a librarian in the Silesian Library in Katowice and […]