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World Library and Information Congress: 75th IFLA General Conference and Assembly

The World Library and Information Congress 2009, 75th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, will take place in the Fiera Milano Convention Centre (MIC), Milan, Italy. The entrance to the MIC is located on the Via Giovanni Gattamelata 5. All information is available here.

Italian LIS students visit the Netherlands

From 11 until 15 June 2008, a group of 20 LIS students and professors from the Department of Education, University of Padua, visited the Netherlands. Their purpose was to learn more about libraries in the Netherlands. Their programme was arranged by four ENSIL members - Donatella Lombello and Luisa Marquardt from Italy and Matji Tsjebe and Helen Boelens from the Netherlands. Here you can find a report of their visit. 

ISLD: International Seminar in Rome

The Library: a Partner with the school in the Educational Process.
Reflections, practices and perspectives

That is the theme of an international seminar in Rome on 29 October 2007.  The seminar is part of the activities on International School Library Day.

You find more information in the leaflet here. (155.5K)

Biblioteche nelle Scuole

Connecting schools with the local context and the library world, providing innovative services, granting access to information, by the means of co-operation and the services of the Italian National Library Service (SBN), are the main goals of “Biblioteche nelle Scuole” (“Biblioscuole”) project.

This national three-year pilot project is funded and supported by the Ministry of Education, University and Research, Direzione Generale Servizi Informativi (MIUR-DGSI) and Department of Technology and Innovation (DIT), in collaboration with National Centre for the Union Catalogue (ICCU) and the Ministry of Cultural Heritage (MiBAC). It was launched in April 2004.

The main aims of the project are: providing a wider access to information; enhancing information literacy, and promoting reading. The overall goal is to contribute to lifelong learning, for a continuous cultural development and the social inclusion.

More information on www.biblioscuole.it.