02 Dec 2024
Posted by Jean Fairbairn, Communications Manager / Website
Britt-Marie Wideberg, EIFL Licensing Programme Manager, analyzes the amount of research published in open access in 2023 by authors from EIFL partner countries to find out how EIFL-negotiated open access agreements are making a difference.
The EIFL Licensing Programme has been negotiating open (...)
14 Jun 2022
Posted by Jean Fairbairn, Communications Manager / Website
Teresa Hackett, EIFL Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager, reports on recent evidence highlighting the need for strong copyright exceptions for libraries to support the delivery of online content and services during the COVID-19 pandemic.
As the world moves from emergency mode to living with (...)
18 Dec 2020
Posted by Jean Fairbairn, Communications Manager / Website
In 2018, the EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) and the Kenya National Library Service (KNLS), which manages a network of 62 public libraries staffed by 600 people, entered into a partnership to strengthen continuous professional development of public librarians in Kenya. Through (...)
08 Nov 2020
Posted by Jean Fairbairn, Communications Manager / Website
Since the EIFL Copyright and Libraries Programme (EIFL-IP) was launched 15 years ago, it has had some remarkable achievements, gained international recognition and staff have won awards. Jean Fairbairn, of EIFL, asked Programme Manager Teresa Hackett about the programme’s past and present, and (...)
09 Sep 2020
Posted by Jean Fairbairn, Communications Manager / Website
In 2018, the EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) and the Namibia Library and Archives Service (NLAS), which leads a network of 66 public libraries, staffed by over 260 librarians, entered into partnership to strengthen continuous professional development of public librarians in (...)
12 May 2020
Posted by Jean Fairbairn, Communications Manager / Website
In February 2020 five young public librarians from Africa travelled to Nashville in the USA to take part in an international learning, knowledge-sharing and networking experience organized by EIFL and partners. The five were participants in the EIFL Initiative for Young African Library Innovators ( (...)
13 Mar 2020
Posted by Jean Fairbairn, Communications Manager / Website
EIFL guest blogger Velenasi Mwale Munsanje, the immediate past president of the Library and Information Association of Zambia (LIAZ), looks back at a two-year partnership with EIFL to build capacity of public librarians in Zambia.
The EIFL-LIAZ partnership to build capacity of our public librarians (...)