Libraries have a big role in society
100 librarians cycling from Amsterdam to Brussels to speak for libraries in June!
Read the greeting from Herman Van Rompuy, the President of the European Council!
Important role of public libraries
Public libraries play an important role in providing local communities with access to digital resources. They are well placed to provide innovative e-inclusion services at grass roots level alongside local and regional private, public and third sector stakeholders. Public libraries can compliment smart, sustainable and inclusive growth in society.
What is “Cycling for libraries”?
Cycling for libraries is an international cycling conference for librarians and library lovers. It aims to advocate libraries and increase awareness of the valuable services and resources that libraries offer to the community. Cycling for libraries is also an “unconference”, and so there will be minimal exposure to PowerPoints and sitting in auditoriums listening to somebody talk on the podium.
They said about libraries
“An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.”
“There is not such a cradle of democracy on earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.”
“I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.”
