The 10th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services (NKOS) Workshop took place from September 28-29, 2011, in Berlin, Germany, as part of the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2011, formerly ECDL).  The workshop was attended by 35 colleagues from 17 countries on 4 continents. All presentations and abstracts are available ...

EIFL’s Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) announced a week ago the names of the 14 winners of their replication grants.  Using ICT in innovative ways  The 14 new services meet community development needs in the areas of agriculture, health, children and youth at risk and employment. They form part of EIFL-PLIP’...

ICT to improve farmers’ lives  Webinars, smart phones, an Internet-enabled library on wheels – public libraries are using a variety of cutting edge ICT to improve flows of vital information to farmers, to connect farmers to support agencies and to each other, and to enable farmers to apply for government grants ...

The Open Access Repositories Capacity Strengthening Programme (OA-IRCSP) is a joint initiative of the Association of African Universities (AAU) headquatered in Ghana, and the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) in the Netherlands. The aim of this initiative is to stimulate and strengthen the capacity of establishing intellectual output repositories based on ...

UNESCO hosts meeting of experts  UNESCO will host a meeting of experts on Open Accesson 22 and 23 November 2011, at its Headquarters in Paris (France), to discuss how to operationalize the UNESCO Open Access strategy approved by the UNESCO Executive Board at its 187th session and further adopted by the 36th session ...