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August 24, 2010
A survey of the latest discussions in the library blogosphere quickly reveals that public libraries in many parts of the world are struggling with an identity crisis. But in the countries where I work – Romania and Ukraine – where more than 65% of the population lack access to the internet, there’s no question about the ongoing relevance of public libraries. |
August 3, 2010
 In Comrat, Moldova, doctors are showing how IT training can improve a community and its health. |
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July 31, 2010
 When Mariya Firman, librarian at the Chernykhivtsi village library, first heard that the Bibliomist program would be equipping libraries with computers and training librarians, she knew the community her library serves would greatly benefit from new internet-based library services. |
July 31, 2010
 Oblasts across Ukraine inaugurated new librarian training centers throughout June and July that will be used to train public librarians in technology and new library services. Here’s a sampling of some of the events and activities that libraries included in their celebrations: |
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July 31, 2010
 Access to information at the local library is a high priority for Ioana and Adrian Hochia of Firiza, a district of Baia Mare. |
July 31, 2010
 Iasi county librarians understand that desperate times call for desperate measures. After hearing that the county council was planning to strip the community of its library building in the local Palace of Culture, Iasi librarians started an advocacy campaign to ensure officials provide their citizens with a proper library home. |
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July 31, 2010
 Nataliya Miroshnychenko is not your stereotypical librarian; she spends more time blogging then shuffling through the card catalog. Nataliya manages internet services for visually impaired people at the Kherson Oblast Universal Scientific Library. During her 25-year career as a librarian, she has worked at various library departments, from the main collection and periodicals sections, through the local history and marketing departments, to the regional information center. Nowadays, her most important tool as a librarian is the internet. |
July 15, 2010
 On the last day of the IREX hosted C2C Summit, held in Washington on June 23-24, more than 150 C2C Summit participants and guests took part in an Innovation Marketplace that was highlighted by a tour and remarks by U.S Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton. |
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June 10, 2010
 IREX is bringing together government and civil society stakeholders to provide a unique opportunity to take advantage of this prospect for fostering good governance, through its Building Bridges through Technology program, sponsored by the US Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. |
May 28, 2010
 The recent emergence of collaborative new media efforts, such as mapping for crisis response, demands full civil society participation. |
