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Public Libraries in their communities: a catalyst for
change
Monika SegbertRima Kupryte
Who we are
EIFL is an international not-for-profit organisation with a base in Europe and a global network of partners.
EIFL works in 47 countries in partnership with library consortia
EIFL - Licensing
EIFL Programmes
EIFL -OA: Open Access
EIFL-FOSS: free and open source
software
EIFL -PLIP: Public Library Innovation
Programme
EIFL- IP:copyright and
libraries
Core initiatives
Access to Knowledge for Education, Learning and Research
ensuring well-resourced libraries, modern ICT infrastructure and
skilled staff to provide essential support to students and
scholars.
Access to Knowledge for Sustainable Community Development
transforming lives through innovative services in public libraries.
The Challenge
Technology offers public libraries new opportunities to increase access to knowledge, helping to improve standards of living and transform lives.
Yet, in many countries where the need is greatest, public libraries are under-resourced.
Public libraries must develop innovative services and embrace technology in response to the needs of their communities.
EIFL-PLIP: Public Library Innovation Programme Improving lives and livelihoods through innovative public library services
Stimulate new public library services that are important to the community;
test the replicability of new services; and
encourage adoption of successful innovation by other public libraries through wide dissemination of the results of the projects.
EIFL-PLIP Objectives
Project proposals by or with a public library!
Open to 54 countries – EIFL and BMFG GL countries
What we asked for in the call for proposals:
Needs Assessment – the library had to go out to the community.
Innovative services – innovation in the local context.
Technology – the most appropriate!
Partnership – to bring skills and knowledge to the library.
The first PLIP Call for proposals, 2010
324 applications
49 countries
12 projects selected and under way since 1st May.
The first PLIP Call for proposals, 2010 - response
Teaming up libraries and health
services to improve community health
in Kisumu and Eldoret branch libraries.
Kenya National Library Service
New partnership between health workers and librarians;
New library users that never came before;
Services meet needs of the community and thus demonstrate library’s importance to the society;
eHealth programme is leveraging new funding for similar services in other branches or other subjects (eg agriculture).
Kenya National Library Service
Information and Communication Technologies to build
young leaders in the Tamale region.
ICT training for youth.
Training young trainers.
Aim to alleviate youth
unemployment.
Ghana Library Board
Encouraging pupils to go back to school. The public library is offering a computer game linked to the school curriculum.
Partnership between
school and library.
Take-up by truant
pupils.
Utena A. and M. Miskiniai Public Library, Lithuania
Creative space and computer
skills for school children
who spend hours each
week waiting for buses.
Project fits in and delivers on
town’s policy regarding youth
and informal education.
Zavidovići Public Library, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Using Open Source software
to engage children in
developing local
language reading materials.
Supports literacy as well as
computer literacy.
Lubutu Library Project, Zambia
Mobile phones, the Internet, radio, social networking:
making the most of many technologies to bring information to remote farming communities.
The library uses a mobile computer laboratory to bring training to the farming community.
Panguipulli Public Library, Chile
Developing agriculture and
building an online market
for local farm products.
Library portal AgroLib for
information for and by farmers.
Project fits into the policies of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Agency for small and medium households to support rural communities.
Public Library Jagodina, Serbia
Computer skills and job application training bring new hope to the unemployed.
Older people have asked for training.
library.
Trainees found jobs!
Public Library Radoviš, Macedonia
Digitising talking books
to create a national
network of libraries
for the blind.
Bringing content to
disadvantaged groups across the country.
Ulaanbaatar City Public Library, Mongolia
Bringing computers to
local artists and craftspeople to
generate ideas
and build online markets.
This community is starting to embrace technology with the help of their public library!
Saula Public Library, Nepal
Building the Mayan Digital Library
“U Kúuchil Na’at”
Using technology to keep the
Mayan culture and language alive.
Mayans show growing confidence in their own
language.
Public Libraries Coordination, State of Yucutan, Mexico
Using oral history to break the silence about Cambodia's painful past.
conduct oral history interviews and create a digital archive of the
community’s history
Very active participation by the community - this has never been done before.
The Lveate Centrestone Public Library, Cambodia
We can already see that introducing technologies has an impact on
staff, space, outreach, interaction with the community, services, but
this is early days. We are measuring the impact of the projects;
Perceptions are changing! Visibility of the library is changing! We
will see if there will be changes to funding;
Partnerships can work to the library’s advantage – and in fact the
community itself becomes a partner and advocates for the library;
Technology enables new services and this makes the library more
attractive.
Some of the things we are seeing after 6 months
All developing and transition countries are eligible
EIFL-PLIP: Public Library Innovation Programme Grant dates
Grant ProgrammeCall for Concept Papers April 2011
Deadline May 2011Grants Awarded September 2011
Innovations awardsCall for Applications January 2012
Deadline February 2012Awards Presented April 2012
Study to be undertaken in six countries:
Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe.
We will study the perceptions of various stake-holders actually or
potentially involved with public libraries.
Target groups: Decision makers / funders, officials at national / regional
/ local level, librarians, media, users / non-users.
Reports according to countries and target groups due in April 2011.
Study of the perceptions of public libraries.
Thank you for listening.
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