23 Oct 2023
Posted by Ramune Petuchovaite, Public Library Innovation Programme Manager
From 3 - 8 September 2023 four public librarians, from Ghana, Kenya, Namibia and Uganda, took part in the EIFL Initiative for Young African Library Innovators (IYALI 2023) learning experience in Germany. Ramune Petuchovaite, Manager of the EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme, who accompanied (...)
15 Jun 2023
Posted by Ramune Petuchovaite, Public Library Innovation Programme Manager
In January 2023, we named four winners of the EIFL Public Library Innovation Award for Public Libraries enabling learning through play. With support from the LEGO Foundation, representatives of the four winning libraries, from Colombia, Kenya, Lithuania and Serbia, travelled to Aarhus in Denmark to (...)
13 Apr 2023
Posted by Ramune Petuchovaite, Public Library Innovation Programme Manager
Ramune Petuchoviate, EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) Manager, shares a series of training videos, made using microlearning methodology, for training public librarians and public library trainers.
During the most disruptive years of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020 - 2021), public (...)
19 Dec 2022
Posted by Ramune Petuchovaite, Public Library Innovation Programme Manager
The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2022 took place from 28 November to 2 December 2022 in hybrid format, with remote participation online and in-person participation in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. EIFL’s Ramune Petuchovaite reflects on shifts in debates at the Forum and highlights two reports that will (...)
28 Jul 2022
Posted by Ramune Petuchovaite, Public Library Innovation Programme Manager
The two African public librarians who travelled to Romania as part of the 2022 EIFL Initiative for Young African Library Innovators (IYALI 2022) programme, and the Romanian librarians they met on their journey, were amazed at how much their libraries have in common, writes EIFL Public Library (...)
02 Feb 2022
Posted by Ramune Petuchovaite, Public Library Innovation Programme Manager
Ramune Petuchovaite, EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) Manager, shares her insights from the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2021, which took place in Katowice, Poland, and online, from 6 - 10 December. The theme of the 16th annual IGF was ‘Internet United’.
IGF 2021 attracted a (...)
16 Jun 2021
Posted by Ramune Petuchovaite, Public Library Innovation Programme Manager
The first online Next Library 2021 Festival on 3 - 4 June offered a remarkable space for learning about public library transformation centred on the community. The main themes were: Democracy, Creativity and Playful Learning in Libraries, and the Sustainable Development Goals. During a session (...)