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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Cycling for libraries unconference (28th May–7th June 2011) is now over. There are a million videos, photos, tweets, blogposts, news-stories, This Week in Libraries -episodes, articles, gossips, stories, anecdotes and vibes to experience and to share. Surprisingly enough, everything went better than expected. The thanks belong to the unbelievably awesome group of Cycling for [...]
After the smashing kick-off party last night at the Copenhagen main library, we are totally ready to ride. Thanks copenhagers for organizing it. I loved the wagons, and so did everybody else. And the awesome Orkestar Baxtalo really got us up in the air. It was fantastic to see you all there. With support like [...]
Greetings from The Netherlands On behalf of the Dutch Association of Information Professionals (NVB) it is my great pleasure to congratulate the people who took the initiative with the succesful activity that you have developed. I would also very much like to wish the participants all the best in achieving your goal: bridging the distance [...]
The main Cycling for libraries event from Copenhagen to Berlin seems to be inspiring people to organize their own shadow-events. This makes us very happy of course! One such ride will take place in Kymenlaakso -area in south-eastern Finland, and another one has been planned to take place in Tennessee, USA. A third one will [...]
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