A site devoted to thoughts about books, reading, and libraries relevant to Africa mostly by Michael Kevane, co-Director of Friends of African Village Libraries, a small 501(c)(3) non-profit devoted to helping village and small community libraries in Africa. I am also an economist at Santa Clara University. Other frequent contributors are Kate Parry, FAVL-East Africa director, and Anne-Reed Angino, FAVL networker extraordinaire! For more information see the FAVL website, http://www.favl.org
Saturday, October 25, 2008
How to network all the friends of community libraries of Africa?!
At FAVL we're working on creating a Google Earth database that will be linked to wikiable pages where library friends can upload information, photos and comments about libraries that they support and visit. But why re-invent the wheel? Some library supporters have already started using the TakingITglobal portal for just such a purpose. It is a great example of what we have in mind. So now the hard question... follow Sara Switzer's lead or carry on with our own possibly clunky efforts?
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