Robert Zepf Director of Rostock University Library Dear colleagues and enthusiastic cyclists! Rostock, a Hanseatic port city with a history of almost 800 years, is the largest city in Germany’s north-eastern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and home to the oldest university on the shores of the Baltic sea. Our port is an important gateway for [...]

To the Sign up form here This is what we have been waiting for and now it’s true! Registration for the Cycling for libraries is open! Read below first and then proceed to fill in the registration form. First step – Sign up! Registration takes place in few stages. In the first stage you sign [...]

When did the French King Charles VIII enter Naples to claim crown? When was William of Orange appointed viceroy of Burgundy/Charolais? When was it the HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin left Valdivia Chile? And when they did they play baseball for 1st time in San Francisco? Yesh, it was on February 22!!! February 22 is [...]

The participation fee for the whole 10 days journey is 250 euros. The support will include, apart from accommodation, meals and communication, also variety of activities and events during the trip. Please note, that the tour organizer will not support any of the following things: travel tickets of the participants and/or the transporting bicycles from/to [...]

Dear colleagues, thanks to two innovative Finnish library persons – Mace Ojala and Jukka Pennanen – the library people have the opportunity to experience Cycling for Libraries, the big cycling tour from Copenhagen to Berlin in the beginning of this summer. Cycling, discussing interesting and important library topics, meeting colleagues, creating new contacts, enjoying the [...]

Berlin will host the 100th Deutsche Bibliothekartag from 7 to 10 June 2011 under the slogan “Libraries for the Future – Future for the Libraries”. The largest central advanced training seminar and scientific conference for the German librarianship has been organised and brought to you by the Berufsverband Information Bibliothek (BIB) and the Verein Deutscher [...]

M.A. Numminen (Photo: Helena Vapaa) Happy bicycling everyone, with the legendary underground artist M. A. Numminen =) (via Eva Costiander-Huldén from Åbo Akademi University Library at the Cycling for libraries -Facebook event page)

Willkommen zum 100. Deutschen Bibliothekartag Als Veranstalter des 100. Deutschen Bibliothekartages, der wichtigsten und größten Fortbildungstagung für den Bibliotheks- und Informationsbereich in Deutschland, freuen wir uns sehr, dass unsere Jubiläumstagung der Abschluss der Radtour und das Ziel der sportlichen Kolleginnen und Kollegen sein wird. Cycling for libraries – quasi eine “mobile Vorkonferenz” mit internationaler Beteiligung! [...]