Next: The Baltic States, August 2012

We are happy to announce today at IX’th Congress of Baltic Librarians in Trakai, that Cycling for libraries will take place in The Baltic States in August 2012. The three Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are the perfect place for contemplating and workshopping about libraries, cycling around the fantastic countryside with colleagues and [...]

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Documentary premiere

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The Cycling for libraries crew are proud and happy to announce that the documentary film premiere is today, Friday, September 16th at 17 CET at the Finnish Film Foundation’s movie theater in Katajanokka, Helsinki.. The film ends the Cycling for libraries 2010  season to start a new one. Make sure you follow the news on [...]

Cycling and libraries – A reflective inquiry of selected metaphoras

One of the (numerous) frequently asked questions to us Cycling for libraries -organiser has been: why bicycles and libraries? What is the connection between these two, seemingly unrelated things? Any connection might be hard to see. Admittedly even to us organisers Cycling for libraries was initially a semi-random mash-up, based on intuition. We couldn’t be [...]

Cycling for libraries in TWIL’s interview

This week in libraries interview in Berlin. “A hot room, three guests and 40 minutes. These are the ingredients of another steaming live episode of This Week in Libraries from the Bibliothekartag in Berlin. Mace Ojala (right) and Jukka Pennanen talk about their cycling unconference. Dr. Hannelore Vogt tells about the use of social media [...]