Get your employees in good condition now!
We hope that you as a good and open-minded employer – a library director, a library chief or a head librarian – will understand the nature of this professional unconference and will give your employees the opportunity to participate Cycling for libraries during their working hours. This is very much professional and also supporting your employees well-being at work.
We operate with the support and encouragement of a number of different library associations and we share the values of IFLA and EBLIDA. We speak for the openness and cooperation and we want to support non-governmental and non-organizational, i.e. cross-border library expertise and library skills at all levels. It’s great if your employer will support the event, because it gives you the opportunity to keep yourself in good physical condition and keep up to date in the development of the rapidly changing library world at one go! It is certain that you will come back in better shape than you left! Your entire organization will benefit. And bring your colleagues too!
Publicity for your ideas, publicity for libraries
Collect your impressions and broadcast them on the web – An important part of the cycling tour will be the sharing of experiences and thoughts with each other. We intend to make use of the modern communication tools and techniques to let people know about the various events and also mishaps during the journey on-line. Whether you make the trip with old retro style or contemporary manner, whether you cycle effectively or just enjoy the scenery, whether you cycle in a small group or in a big one, we just hope that you will share your impressions with the other participants and push them to our website as well. You can do this with photographs or blog text. The videos are also welcome. We will collect pictures, tweets and other material tagged #cyc4lib on to our website at http://www.cyclingforlibraries.org.
Video production – The cycling tour will also be videoed with small but professional production team all the way from Copenhagen up to Berlin. The team is already very familiar with the library world, and runs a web-TV called Kirjastokaista (the site will soon be published also in English and Swedish). Throughout the journey the team will make interviews of both the participants and other library professionals and also shoot the events of the trip with all its incidents on video tape. The video material will be produced as a documentary movie, which is offered for international television distribution.
Publication – We plan to collect presentations, stories, discussions, anecdotes and photos of the cycling tour together and publish the best of them as a book. The editorial board members will be requested at a later date; all participants are eligible to offer themselves as members to the editorial board of the book. The publication will be either English or multilingual one. However, we strive to make a book which is a bit different from what we are used to see and which then describes best the spirit and nature of our cycling tour. We hope that as many participants as possible will allow the use their images for the publication. Note that the cycling tour organizer does not collect any money by making this publication, its purpose is only to make libraries, their activities and their admirable and proactive approach known as widely as possible.
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