Minutes of 2009 Annual General Meeting

The Minutes of the Annual General Meeting 2009 are now available for download.

Thank you very much to everyone who attended and participated.

2009 Annual General Meeting Information

Date: Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Time: 2:00pm Eastern Time
Place: ReadyTalk Webinar (online and telephone)

This year’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held as a webinar. We hope that this new format will bring more of us together by computer and toll-free telephone. Registration is fast and easy! Just follow the “Register Now” link below and complete the short questionnaire.

We encourage all of our members to participate. You can do this by either attending the AGM and/or by voting electronically for Executive Officers. A candidate biographies, annual report,and full AGM package can be found below.

We look forward to hearing from you, our valued members and followers. For information about Librarians Without Borders, email us at [email protected].

For information about ReadyTalk or the webinar format, please visit the ReadyTalk website where you will find answers to the most common questions.

Thank you for your support and we hope to see you there!

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Meeting Documents

2009 AGM Package

2008-2009 Annual Report

Stimulate 2010

Stimulate-2010, an International Training Program, offers a learning environment to information experts in the area of science and technology, who are in the early phase of their career. The aims are to sharpen their skills in collecting, storing, retrieving, presenting and managing information. This can be of great benefit to the teaching and research activities going on in their institute and to the further development of their organization and region. The training is offered for a period of 3 months mainly in Brussels, Belgium.

Grants/Scholarships are available for minimum 12 and maximum 15 participants from selected developing countries. The ideal age limit considered for applying the grants/scholarship is younger than 40 years. The last date for applying scholarship is by the end of January 2010. You may take this opportunity to apply for this training programme.

A discussion on access to information for medical students

Hosted by HIFA2015 Healthcare Information For All by 2015: a discussion on the difficulties of accessing up-to-date medical information in countries with fewer resources.

The issue of accessing information is a particular problem in Sierra Leone where there is no bookshop selling new books, and no medical text book importer. Even those who have money must send this abroad with friends and relatives to buy. Not only is this a cumbersome system, but it means that schemes such as BookPower and TALC are not having their desired effects.

We want to see this change. Not just for students of medicine, but for those of nursing and the other health professions, and all those already working in the health system. Whilst internet and computer is so minimal, books are the way to get information to providers.

2008 AGM Minutes

Minutes of the 2008 Annual General Meeting are now available for download.

2006 AGM Minutes

Minutes of the 2006 Annual General Meeting are now available for download.

Libraries, Aid, and Developing Countries

Libraries, Aid, and Developing Countries - Susanna Galbraith

Definitions of literacy are explained along with theory that has debated the usefulness and practicalities of education and literacy in the developing world. Some publishing industry concerns and challenges are overviewed particularly in the African continent. Other issues examined include book donation programs, collection development, and aid for library development.

Compass Connection June 2008

The compass connection for June 2008 is now available. Click on the link below to open the file.