Cycling for libraries “Around the Sound”
On 19th-20th of May 2017 the international bicycling unconference will ride around the Øresund/Öresund, starting and finishing in Copenhagen. The journey will take us through seaside scenery, visiting small and large libraries along the way.
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Cyclo-biblio 4e édition — “Le Léman” (Suisse-France)
Du 18 au 24 juin 2017, plus de 50 bibliothécaires et amoureux des bibliothèques pédaleront autour du lac Léman pour promouvoir les bibliothèques et échanger entre professionnels pour améliorer leurs pratiques. Cyclo-biblio 2017 est soutenu par les associations professionnelles suisses et l’ABF.
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More than 50 librarians and library lovers will cycle around Lake Geneva on June 18-24, 2017! Cyclo-biblio 2016 is supported by the French librarians association’s (ABF) and the Swiss librarians associations.
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Cycling for libraries Belgium – United We Bike!
From the country that supplies the world with beer, chocolate, waffles and surrealism: we bring you a four-day local tour (10–13 September 2017) in the East of Belgium. It’s Belgian to the core: co-created by librarians and library lovers from all three of the country’s official language communities. Communities that know each other very little and have separate media, culture and library policies. It will be an adventure in the best Cycling for Libraries tradition: an international bicycle unconference and library advocacy tour, crossing language borders and connecting different countries. We strive to bring together librarians from the Dutch, French and German speaking parts of Belgium, so they can get to know each other and share experiences with international colleagues. We are inspired by our country motto: ‘Unity makes strength’. We believe this to be true on many levels. Hence our motto for this tour: ‘United we bike’. Hop on your bikes and join us on this quadrilingual tour, celebrating language learning and mutual understanding! Registration for the full tour is now open. Single day participation following soon.
What is Cycling for libraries?
Founded in 2011, the 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.
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Passion for Libraries…?
In November 2013, the Cycling for libraries team with its members set up an international association to support Cycling for libraries tours as well as voluntary based library advocacy and library campaigns. The official name of the association is International Association for Library Advocacy, but it has also been called as “Voice for libraries” or “Passion for libraries” according to its mission.
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They said about libraries
“An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.”
STEPHEN FRY, ENGLISH ACTOR
“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.”
ANDREW CARNEGIE, AMERICAN INDUSTRIALIST
“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.”
JOSE SARAMAGO, PORTUGUESE NOBELIST