Friends of African Village Libraries (I post regularly here)- Animation à la bibliothèque de Koumbia
- Compte rendu de la rencontre extraordinaire de Amis des Bibliothèques de Villages du Burkina Faso/ABVBF
- Organisation d’une séance de dessin à la bibliothèque de Koumbia
- Une visite de l’animateur de ABVBF à la bibliothèque communautaire de Koho
- Some recent photos from the mobile library in Hounde, Burkina Faso
- Remise du deuxième prix du meilleur gérant des bibliothèques de la zone du Tuy
- Rencontre des gérants des bibliothèques du Tuy le 4 avril 2026 à la bibliothèque de Karaba
- Une séance d’encadrement du gérant de la bibliothèque de Dimikuy
- Encouragement des élèves de l’école Lokiéhoun à lire
- Organisation d’une bibliothèque mobile à l’école de Gnindékuy
Category Archives: Public library history
The Greenville Eight – Integrating American libraries in the South
On the afternoon of July 16, 1960, eight African-American students bravely filed into the whites-only Greenville County (S.C.) Public Library and sat down in the reading room to look at newspapers and books. One of those students was a young … Continue reading
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Wayne Wiegand’s short article on the struggle of young people like Joseph Jackson to desegregate libraries in the South in 1961
Read the full article here, “Desegregating Libraries in the American South” Forgotten heroes in civil rights history” by Wayne A. Wiegand in American Libraries. At 11 a.m. on March 27, 1961, nine students from the historically black Tougaloo College walked … Continue reading
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Anecdotes about the power of libraries never stop coming
Growing up, Clementine spent much of his teenage years at the library, which became his sanctuary. He was taken by the writing of William Blake and Immanuel Kant, and was particularly interested in the work of the 17th-century philosopher John … Continue reading
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Libraries pass the Pritchett postulates of development test with flying colors!
From Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution:. After promoting women’s groups in West Bengal as a route to development a West Bengali woman asked Lant Pritchett: You all are from countries that are much richer and doing much better than our … Continue reading
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Did the Civil War cause Americans to become readers?
I was skimming a fun book by library historian David Kaser Books and Libraries in Camp and Battle: The Civil War Experience where he suggests that in 1860 American men were pretty much 90% literate and books had become incredibly … Continue reading
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Michael Kevane 