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Libraries in times of coronavirus: Viana Public Library (Spain) and Public Library in Aleksandrów (Poland)

Viana Municipal Library (Spain) and Public Library in Aleksandrów (Poland) continue with their longlasting cooperation agreement. During this pandemic they’ve designed an activity together: they’ve encouraged the children that normally go to the library to make drawings during the confimenent…. Continue Reading →

Libraries in times of coronavirus: Panevezys City Public library (Lithuania)

Children literature department “Žalioji pelėda”/Green Owl, Public library, other branches of library Šiaurinė/North, Židinys/Fireplace, Šaltinėlis/Little spring, Žiburėlis/ Flachlight, Parkas/park, Smėlynė/Sandy In difficult times of social quarantine, we took an online initiative addressed to children and adults. From March 16, we… Continue Reading →

Purchena Public Library (Spain): start over. Dedicated to all libraries, readers and librarians

Public libraries, after more than 5,000 years, we always come back. It does not matter how many times they burn us, destroy us, censor us or give us up for dead. We always come back. We have even survived the… Continue Reading →

Libraries in times of coronavirus: Municipal Public Library in Piekary Śląskie (Poland)

In difficult times of social quarantine, we took an online initiative addressed to children. From March 17, we have been implementing the series “A fairy tale in the library”, which consists in the fact that every day librarians read to… Continue Reading →

Libraries as gardens

We’ve  found this interesting innitiative and thought it was worth sharing: “Libraries as Gardens is a creative project that wants to geolocate and map, on a global scale, the before, during and after of the coronavirus lockdown, through recordings of the… Continue Reading →

Libraries in times of coronavirus: the case of Public Library of Pittem (Belgium)

Just as many Belgian libraries, Public Library of Pittem is closed for the public, but on April 6th we started a pick-up service. People can mail a list with materials they want us to prepare. On a fixed moment we… Continue Reading →

Dutch libraries are open online and provide extra (remote) services

The buildings of the KB, National Library of the Netherlands and al public libraries nationwide are closed until the 28th of April and all public activities have been cancelled. Nevertheless, online content remains available to the public and our customer… Continue Reading →

#TheLibraryatHome: the answer of Huesca Municipal Libraries (Spain) to the coronavirus

Alicia Rey, from Huesca Municipal Libraries (Spain), has sent us the activities they’ve organized to help combat the isolation of our communities: We have organized all our activities on Internet by JItsi Meet, a platform where the participants in physical… Continue Reading →

Writing a fairytale together: an initiative from Katerini Public Library (Greece)

Old and young ones are staying home. We stay at home to protect our loved ones. We stay at home hoping all this will soon be over. Our motto is for all of us to become better people. That’s why… Continue Reading →

Platform wih online resources for the Portuguese Public Libraries

The Portuguese Directorate-General for Books, Archives and Libraries (DGLAB) has designed a tool for supporting the work of the Public Libraries in Portugal. Using a platform, they share online contents like reading suggestions, virtual exhibitions, a selection of music and… Continue Reading →

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