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Ana Fernández

Project “SDGs: Together we change the world”

The Municipal Library Camilo Castelo Branco, in Vila Nova de Famalicão, has just won the Maria José Moura Award – Good Practices in Municipal Public Libraries 2020 (7th Edition), with the project “ODS: Together we change the world”. In its… Continue Reading →

New library! Wigan libraries (England)

We are very happy to announce the incorporation of another English library to the NAPLE Sister Libraries program. Wigan libraries have 10 library buildings serving a community of over 300,000 residents. The purpose of the Wigan libraries is to exchange… Continue Reading →

How Public Libraries can help Ukrainians refugees

From NAPLE Sister Libraries we want to help those libraries who are trying to help the refugees that are forced to flee their country. Izabela Koryś, from the National Library of Poland and member of NAPLE, has prepared this text… Continue Reading →

Sister libraries in Huesca (Spain) and Panevėžys (Lithuania) cultivate culture

Panevėžys County Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė Public Library (Lithuania) hosts an exhibition from Huesca Art School (Spain). The exhibition “Cultivate Culture“ was created by Sheila Armañac, Izarbe Ciprés, Lucía Diez, Rodrigo Gutiérrez and Claudia Leal, students of Advertising Graphics and lead by… Continue Reading →

Extraordinary People who are Women from Vega-La Camocha Municipal Library (Spain)

This year to celebrate March 8 at the Vega-La Camocha Municial Library we have created an online quizz game on Genially entitled Mujeres Geniales (Extraordinary People who are Women: https://view.genial.ly/61fc02c456f23500188afaeb/interactive-content-mujeres-geniales) in which gamers have to answer questions about 6 important women: Frida… Continue Reading →

Interview with Julie Ann Winkelstein

Julie Ann Winkelstein worked as a librarian for the Alameda County Library system for 20 years: from jails and prison librarian to Family Literacy coordinator to children’s and young adult librarian. In 2012 she received her PhD in Communication and… Continue Reading →

International Women´s Day Campaign

This March 8th we want to celebrate the International Women’s Day. Public libraries are spaces that help to promote gender equality between men and women through different actions. We have such interesting examples as our last interview that we invite… Continue Reading →

New activities in the sistership between Public Library in Aleksandrów (Poland) and Viana Municipal Librar(Spain)

Sister libraries from Aleksandrów (in the South-east of Poland) and Viana (in the North of Spain) have taken a series of mutual joint activities. It´ s a photographic exhibition with the images of the 10 most read novels in our… Continue Reading →

Interview: “The key to success of the women’s empowerment project: if I don’t believe in it, it won’t work, but if I do- it is already half of success”

When the door of the library opens, the natural association is – books! But libraries are closer to us and closer to the communities than we can imagine. The word “community” is strange as it seems that everyone belongs to… Continue Reading →

“Caixas-biblioteca” from Municipal Library “Camilo Castelo Branco”(Portugal)

With the intention of promoting books and reading as a reference for the occupation of the free time of the elderly, empowering them with new forms of contact with the world of literature and writing, the project SPACE S(énior), which… Continue Reading →

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