What a great idea! Librarians Without Borders (LWB) was founded by the MLIS programme at the University of Western Ontario. Its mission:LWB is an organization that strives to improve access to information resources regardless of language, by forming partnerships with community organizations in developing countries.
Their first project is in Angola, helping to develop a medical […]

Edgardo Civallero has started to translate his blog Bitocaro de un Bibliotecaro into English: The log of a librarian. His first (english) post is a wonderful exposé of the problems he faced when, while giving a talk about aboriginal libraries, someone in the crowd asked “poor indians don’t need books, but food…”. His text […]