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"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 ... more
"The article addresses the issue of the digital divide in Ecuador and illustrates how artefacts from television material heritage might be transformed into digital libraries to provide marginalized communities with access to digital information. It describes an ongoing socio-technical project which ... more

Las bibliotecas en las comunidades indígenas

Bogotá: Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC) (2011), 59 pp.

Smart Toolkit for Evaluating Information Products and Services

Wageningen; The Hague; Amsterdam: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA);Royal Tropical Institute (KIT);International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) (2009), xi, 321 pp.
"This is a practical and well structured manual aiming to use self-evaluation for organisational learning. The book consists of four parts. "The evaluation context" introduces the role of monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment as part of the project cycle logic. "The evaluation process" descri ... more

Facilitating and Managing Information for Rural Development: Information Service Tools, Methods and Experiences

Sabine Mendy (contrib.)
Paris: Groupe de recherche et d’échanges technologiques (GRET) (2006), 171 pp.
"Estimates of the impact of libraries on reading in eight villages in Burkina Faso and costs of running libraries enable us to suggest that the cost of getting an extra book read a year varies from $.74 to $1.30, according to the size of the school in the village, and the cost of an extra school yea ... more
This publication is a reference tool for rural libraries and information professionals mainly in developing countries. The document suggests ways in which the performance and impact of rural ressource centres might be measured. Qualitative and quantitative standards are developed together with techn ... more

Book development in national communications and planning

Karachi: UNESCO Regional Centre for Book Development in Asia and the Pacific (Pakistan) (1975), 113 pp.
"This publication, entitled Book Development in National Communications and Planning, comprises of a basic paper on the role of National Book Development Councils in overall national communication policies and development planning and the two studies on which it is based, namely, Books for the Rural ... more

Il Centro mobile di Lettura

In: Rapports et procès-verbaux du IIIe Congrès International sur l'utilisation des moyens audio-visuels pour l'instruction et l'enseignement professionnel en Afrique
Milano: Cidaeca e Mifed (1965), pp. 154-156
"Descrizione tecnica di un centro di lettura mobile (attrezzature didattiche, televisore, proiettore, registratore, biblioteca) - Funzioni e obiettivi dei centri di lettura mobili nei piccoli villaggi privi di assistenza educativa." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in ... more

Il Centro Mobile di Lettura

In: Rapports et procès-verbaux du IIe Congrès International sur l'utilisation des moyens audio-visuels pour l'instruction et l'enseignement professionnel en Afrique
Milano: Cidaeca e Mifed, Giuffre Ed. (1964), pp. 139-144
"Caratteristiche del “Centro di lettura mobile” (Biblioteca itinerante) e descrizione delle attrezzature - Utilizzo nelle zone rurali dove non c'è assistenza sociale." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 386, t ... more