While at ALA I met a couple of very cool librarians, one of which has a blog I have been following for some time now. Here’s a brief description of these great woman and their projects. Hannah Winkler is the woman behind the Global Librarianship blog. I’ve had this blog on my RSS feed for [...]

Today I went to visit a couple of the libraries that make up the BiblioRed in Bogota. BiblioRed is Bogota’s public library systems, and it’s composed of a number of large, and small libraries, as well as a bibliobus. Today I went to visit the Biblioteca Pública Parque El Tunal, and the Biblioteca Pública Virgilio [...]

I’ve seen biblioburros, a camel mobile library, a traveling library in a suitcase, and now here’s a bibliomoto offering library services around the Huarmey province in Peru. The bibliomoto is part of the Biblioteca Comunal Obraje which aims at promoting literacy and increasing a general level of education among the population. The project has a [...]

Boston’s Chinatown used to have a public library, but this library has had its ups and downs. It opened in 1896, closed in 1936, reopened in 1951, and closed again in 1956. After this there was a bookmobile that attempted to fill the void, but this didn’t last too long. For several years now there [...]

The Colombian Biblioburro has gotten a lot of press over the last few years. I’ve read articles in the NYT, around the blogosphere, and writen one myself (here), but here’s a video that will give you a visual of the work of this tireless librarian. (And it looks like he could use the help of [...]

Bubisher is a really heart-warming project that started with a group of students at the Colegio San Marciso who wanted to help promote literacy among refugees in the Sahara. The children initially got involved to help promote literacy, but when the realized how difficult it was to access reading material in the area, they thought [...]

This morning I was reading Críticas and found a fascinating article by Loida García-Fedo about Wilton Hurtado Cuero, a man truly dedicated to making this world a better place. Hurtado Cuero is a librarian in Chocó, a department (state) on Colombia’s Pacific coast where poverty is prevalent, there is little infrastructure, and citizens have seen [...]

Library work is usually perceived as being practiced only indoors, but in developing countries the promotion of education, reading and books needs to happen wherever people are. This has lead to creative approaches to the old model of book mobiles. Some of my favorite examples include a mobile library in Kenya which aims at providing [...]