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Libraries Powering Development: How Public Libraries Contribute Towards Reaching the Millenium Development Goals
Beyond Access;IREX (2012), 20 pp.
"Public and community libraries are sustainable local institutions that can stimulate grassroots development. The 21st century library is no longer just about books or solely a place for kids. Libraries around the world can and have become powerful partners to help deliver services that enable commu
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Public libraries on TikTok: Emerging platform vernaculars of communication and distribution
Information, Communication & Society (2025), 20 pp.
"Libraries have long embedded social media platforms into their work practices, TikTok being a comparatively new addition. After its international launch, TikTok quickly became a popular platform, especially a space for ‘book talk’, called BookTok. The literature on libraries and TikTok is spars
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Archiving activism in the digital age
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2024), 153 pp.
Principes généraux du métier de bibliothécaire
Paris: L'Harmattan (2024), 52 pp.
"Ce petit manuel se veut un guide pratique pour les jeunes qui embrassent la carrière de bibliothécaire, une carrière d’avenir." (Description de la maison d'édition)
Informationsressourcen: Ein Handbuch für Bibliothekare und Informationsspezialisten
Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Saur, 3., vollständig aktual. und erw. Aufl. (2023), xiv, 718 pp.
"Die vollständig aktualisierte und erweiterte Neuauflage des etablierten Werks bietet Informationsspezialistinnen und -spezialisten aus allen Sparten einen umfassenden Überblick über die Entwicklungen und die Typologie wissenschaftlicher Informationsressourcen. Darauf aufbauend werden rund 430 In
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Grundlagen der Informationswissenschaft
Walter de Gruyter (2023), xlv, 958 pp.
Disputed Archival Heritage
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xv, 342 pp.
"Disputed Archival Heritage brings important new perspectives into the discourse on displaced archives. In contrast to shared or joint heritage framings, the book considers the implications of force, violence and loss in the displacement of archival heritage. With chapters from established and emerg
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A Decolonial Approach to Open-Access Repositories: How to Set Up a Subject Repository for Documents on International Cultural Relations
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2023), 78 pp.
"This study is based on desk research, supplemented by a three-month open commenting period and a public workshop whose participants have substantial experience in the technologies and practices analysed, or are members of the communities of practice, amongst them experts who work in “Global South
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El futuro es hoy: Hacia la renovación de las bibliotecas, las prácticas y los espacios de lectura
Bogotá: Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC) (2023), 124 pp.
Espacios para leer, crear y crecer: Orientaciones para la puesta en marcha de salas de lectura y expresión artística para la primera infancia
Bogotá: Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC) (2023), 52 pp.
Wikipedia: Die rationale Seite der Digitalisierung? Entwurf einer Theorie
Sara Gaißmaier (collab.)
Bielefeld: transcript (2023), 414 pp.
"Die Wikipedia präsentiert das Wissen der Welt im digitalen Zeitalter. Damit stellt sie sich in eine Linie mit den Aufklärern des 18. Jahrhunderts - und quer zu den irrationalen Exzessen digitaler Filterblasen. Aber wie sehen die Produktionsbedingungen dieses Wissens in der Praxis aus und nach wel
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Disputed archival heritage
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xiv, 342 pp.
"Disputed Archival Heritage brings important new perspectives into the discourse on displaced archives. In contrast to shared or joint heritage framings, the book considers the implications of force, violence and loss in the displacement of archival heritage. With chapters from established and emerg
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Orte für die Menschen: Afrikanische Büchereien im Wandel
BiblioTheke: Zeitschrift für katholische Bücherei- und Medienarbeit, issue 4 (2023), pp. 33-35
"Book Bunk, eine Non-Profit-Organisation mit Sitz in Nairobi in Kenia, hat es sich vor fünf Jahren zur Aufgabe gemacht, Büchereien in Nairobi weiterzuentwickeln. Die Idee entstand aus einer Zusammenarbeit mit der McMillan Memorial Library – Nairobis ältester Bibliothek." (Seite 33)
A guide for community librarians: Reading comprehension and social-emotional skills
Reading Comprehension Interest Group (2023), 49 pp.
"The objective of this guide is to help teachers, volunteer teachers and librarians, and community leaders set up libraries where there are none and promote the use of community libraries that already exist. This guide helps community librarians set up libraries while engaging the full community in
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Grüne Bibliothek. Ökologische, wirtschaftliche und soziale Nachhaltigkeit in der Praxis
Kommission für One-Person Libraries des Berufsverbands Information Bibliothek (BIB) (2023), 27 pp.
Diversität in Bibliotheken: Theorien, Strategien und Praxisbeispiele
Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Saur (2022), xvi, 305 pp.
"Der Vielfalt der Gesellschaft gerecht zu werden, stellt öffentliche Bibliotheken vor Herausforderungen. Der Band gibt einen Überblick zur strategischen und diskriminierungskritischen Organisationsentwicklung sowie zur Veranstaltungs- und Bestandsarbeit für diversitätssensible Öffnung. Eine Vie
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Navigating Copyright for Libraries: Purpose and Scope
Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Saur (2022), vii, 547 pp.
"This book, produced on behalf of the IFLA Copyright and other Legal Matters (CLM) Advisory Committee, provides basic and advanced information about copyright, outlines limitations and exceptions, discusses communicating with users and highlights emerging copyright issues. The chapters note the sign
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Semillero Navegantes de la Memoria – Nadelam: Cuatro años “navegando” por los archivos comunitarios en Buenaventura, Colombia
Instituto Colombo-Alemán para la Paz (CAPAZ) (2022), 2 pp.
"En 2018 se inició en Buenaventura, Colombia, la conformación de un semillero local de Archivos y Memoria .. A partir de 2022, el semillero se ha autonombrado Semillero Navegantes de la Memoria-Nadelam. Está integrado por líderes y lideresas sociales, jóvenes y adultos quienes, conscientes del
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Desafios na identificação e organização de fotografias: Abordagens teóricas e boas práticas nos arquivos brasileiros
São Paulo: Cultura Acadêmica (2022), 449 pp.
Neglected to Indispensable: Lessons from Beyond Access for Global Public Library Reform and Development
Public Library Quarterly, volume 41, issue 3 (2022), pp. 273-293
"Beyond Access was the first major global attempt to connect the international development and public library worlds. Taking the form of a series of projects in a dozen countries meant to help catalyze library development around national goals, the program operated from 2011 to 2018. Starting from a
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