Donkey Mobile Library



Today the BBC had a wonderful story about the Donkey Mobile Library in Ethiopia. The library is a project of Ethiopia Reads.

The BBC article fails to mention the founder of Ethiopia Reads, Yohannes Gebregeorgis, who fled the his native country in 1981 for the United States and became a children’s librarian. He won the CNN heroes award in 2008.

January 8, 2009 · Filed Under Librarians, Present

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Looking to the past…

The new year is here and it is time to look to the past to see where we have been. Ars technica gives us an interesting post on the open source victories of 2008.

And what will the future bring? According to some, librarian will be one of the best careers for 2009. Apparently librarians will…

…go on shopping sprees, deciding which books and online resources to buy. They may even get to put on performances, like children’s puppet shows, and run other programs, like book discussion groups for elders.

It was also one of the best careers for 2008, but if you take a look the median salary appears to have dropped by $4000. Maybe we need to put on better puppet shows…

January 3, 2009 · Filed Under Future, Librarians, Open source, Past, Social software

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