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WebJunction Scholarship for Spanish-language Outreach

Criticas has announced that WebJunction is offering scholarships to its Spanish Language Outreach workshops to be held during ALA’s Washington, D.C. meeting June 21-27, 2007.

Former workshop participants are eligible; the winner will present a poster on a program that he/she has implemented successfully after attending a previous workshop.

Says workshop coordinator Laura Staley, “Our goals for the scholarship are to both recognize the outreach efforts of our workshop participants and to inspire other libraries to reach out to their Spanish-speaking communities.” Applications are due April 9.

March 22, 2007 by Uncategorized 1

Kenyan Mobile Library Service Comes via Camel

The poor and rural areas populated by nomadic tribes in northeastern Kenya receive mobile library services delivered by camel. Tables, chairs, tents, and books are brought out by the Kenya National Library to serve communities up to 15 km away from the North East Province capital city of Garissa.

The target population of these library services are children and youth, girls in particular. Says provincial librarian Sheikh Rashid Mohamed Farah, “Right now, we have quite (a) number of them in the universities — a good number of young boys and girls from this province who have gone to the university as a result of library services which we are providing.”

March 9, 2007 by Uncategorized 0

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