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Girl reading in Burkina Faso

When you think of a library, what comes to mind? Row after row of books? The Dewey Decimal System? Kids but no adults? Those...

Paul-Andre Baran

I was recently given the honor of being named Romania’s Digital Champion by Ms. Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the...

Public Libraries can be a wonderful place for sustainable development.

IREX has been working with public access to information / telecenters for more than 15 years. In that time we’ve encountered many of the difficulties. How do the telecenters continue...

Tent Library

Donors and implementers who assisted Chileans in the aftermath of the 2010, 8.8-magnitude earthquake recently stood on stage at an event in Santiago organized by the ...

IREX President, Bob Pearson with Isangano Community Radio Staff

I just came home from Rwanda, Liberia, Romania and Ukraine. What do these countries have in common you ask and why is IREX focusing on them right now? Each one of these countries is in...

In September, 17 young librarians from nine public libraries in Romania successfully graduated from Biblionet’s first Summer School for Young Librarians.

Schoolteacher Tetyana Nishkur

When schoolteacher Tetyana Nishkur was laid off in 2005 after 33 years of service, she had difficulty finding a new job. With the help of the local public library, she learned to write a...

When the White House released its New Approach to Advancing Development earlier this summer, I was struck by two of its key points, tailoring development strategies and...

A survey of the latest discussions in the library blogosphere quickly reveals that public libraries in many parts of the world are...