Sinikka Sipilä Secretary General Finnish Library Association I wish every success for the Cycling For Libraries project. It is a perfect example of the creativity that can be found in libraries. Cycling For Libraries supports the ideology of sustainable development in libraries, it is a concrete and collaborative way to promote libraries and it brings [...]

Monika Ziller Chair Executive Committee German Library Association 100 and more cycling international library colleagues are on their way to the 100th German Library Conference—the German Library Association (dbv) is excited about the Cycling For Libraries idea and looks forward to welcome our athletic colleagues in Berlin in June 2011! Speed, dynamics and motion—such qualities [...]

Hi, I am Kai Halttunen, a cycling loving teacher of information studies in Tampere, Finland, and I am one of the founders of the cycling group. I would like to invite you and your library colleagues to a different and exciting cycling trip from Copenhagen to Berlin in spring-summer 2011 – Cycling for libraries! We [...]

How hard are the daily trips ? This is understandably a very frequently asked question. The daily stages are approximately 70 km each, so they are reasonable even for inexperienced cyclists, or for simple bikes. However, we recommend that inexperienced cyclists make some 70 km trips before the main event in spring/summer 2011, to get [...]

Cycling for libraries is a politically and economically independent unconference and a bicycle tour.  We are bicycling from Copenhagen, Denmark to Berlin, Germany via Gedser and Rostock from 28th May to 7th June 2011. Read more about the route. The tour will take about 10 days. At the moment we have confirmed only the day [...]

Here below are two videos which were made quite extemporaneously with iPhone while cycling along Friedrichstrasse to the Amerika Gedenkbibliothek on October 10th 2010. Sorry for the raw versions with wind wheezing and camera shaking… In the second video Mace Ojala interviews Beate Rusch from KOBV. [video type="vimeo" id="18023585" width="500" height="325"] [video type="vimeo" id="18024806" width="500" [...]

A new phase in the cycling project began in November when Turku City Library began to manage it. We now have new and energetic members who are taking care of the preparing of the cycling event Copeanhagen-Berlin with us. Turku is the one of the oldest towns in Finland and it shares the title of [...]

Information about Cycling for libraries event Cycling for libraries is a politically and economically independent unconference and a bicycle tour. It also supports physical and mental well-being of library professionals, grassroots networking, and internationalism and — last but not least — the crucial role of libraries for the society and for the intellectual and scientific [...]