We are now open for your proposals for Ignite Talks and Interactive Sessions! “Encourage the unexpected” is the motto for the Next Library Conference in Berlin. For more information about the Call for Proposals, the overall themes for the conference and how to send a proposal, please check the webpage. We are eagerly awaiting your proposals which you can send until 19 January 2018!…

Keeping them hooked: An investigation into the drivers and barriers to successful volunteer use in Public Libraries (RDF18/CIS/CASSELDEN)

Project Description Volunteers have increasingly become more involved in public library delivery within the UK, such that between 2010 and 2016 a quarter of all UK library jobs disappeared, 343 libraries closed, and 15,500 volunteers were recruited (Wainwright 2016). This mixed delivery of public libraries is part of a more general…

You can watch here experience of participatory methodology in the Brazilian libraries

https://youtu.be/hHbdVmXseW4

Have you booked your seat for one or more sitevisits? Deadline is extended to May 8! This means you still have an opportunity to get to visit innovative branch libraries, LEGO Idea House, Billund, Silkeborg and Herning Libraries, Moesgaard Museum or learn about design thinking in practice, new street food concepts and…

Get Peters slides.

We are happy to announce Peter MacLeod as one of the keynote speakers at Next Library 2017. Peter…

Next Library badges are sold out in only 12 days. But - you can still register on the waiting list!

We are excited to announce our first keynote speaker: Philipp Schmidt from MIT Media Lab. 

Join us for Next Library 2017 - for networking, inspiration, engaging meetings, co-creation, surprises and much more!

This year more than 25 countries are already represented among our Interactive Session Hosts, Ignite Next Library Talkers and Scholarship Grantees! 

And more to come -…

EIFL and Next Library® are delighted to announce the names of six winners of a scholarship to attend the 2017 Next Library International Festival in Aarhus, Denmark.

Each of the six winners will participate in the Festival by helping to shape the programme,…

With the reference to American Corner Kano, Kano State Library Board, the information center develop partnership with Government Agencies,CBOs,CSOs, Youth Groups, Student Associations, Traditional Rulers, Religious Leaders, Women Cooperative Societies. Parents etc in order to keep organizing various programs that educate, sensitize and engage the community to support the sustainable development goals as last year closed we have the total of Eighty Nine Programs (89) successfully…

We are excited to announce that the EIFL Public Library Innovation Award - for public library services that improve lives - is now open for applications. The winner will be presented at Next Library 2017. 

The award is open to all public and…

Illiteracy is a global problem. The Systematic – Joy of Reading Award, worth $10,000, is awarded to projects that promote the joy of reading and fight illiteracy. Check out the call for applications. We look forward to see the winner presented at the Next Library…

Next Library® and the EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) take pleasure offering six scholarships for public and community librarians from developing and transition economy countries to attend the international Next Library 2017 in Denmark.

Call is out…

The interactive sessions bring together library innovators, practitioners, researchers, designers and researcher from different parts of the world to discuss and explore the future of libraries. The sessions should be interactive and hands-on and we are looking for sessions that involve the participants in new ways! …

"Enlighten us, but make it quick!” is the slogan of Ignite Talks. At Next Library® 2017 we will continue the success from 2015 and do the Ignite Next Library Talks again.

Ignite Next Library Talks are an opportunity for Next Library…

We are happy to announce the themes of Next Library 2017: 

Literacy

E.g.: Early childhood literacy, the library in national reading strategies, eGov and digital literacy, media literacy, literacy and democracy, newcomers, social inclusion, neo-and semi-literates, family literacy etc.

The Learning Library

E.g.: Advocacy strategies, changing leadership skills, international networking, reframing Making in libraries, design thinking, libraries…

Next Library® is pleased to announce the formation of our new Next Library® Advisory Board.

This board will strengthening international perspectives and inspire to rethinking Next Library as an incubator of emerging library ideas.

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The Next Library® Festival takes place 11 – 14 June 2017 in Dokk1, Aarhus, Denmark

RETHINK is the overall theme, and we need to decide a number of sub-themes in order to ensure a scope of relevance and perspective for the future of libraries across the world.  

What are the most difficult challenges for innovation of public libraries - for pushing…

We are collecting documentation and information about Next Library Festival 2015.

Did we miss your blog posts or presentation? We welcome all contributions, so let us know if you have something for the list:…

This is the final evaluation from the Next Library Participants. Lots of input and great ideas for how to make an even better Festival in 2017. Thanks for that!

The evaluation questions:

1. What are the three best things about Next Library…