Conference Session 180

Innovative libraries: transforming our communities

Asia and Oceania

Congress track 5: Ideas, innovations, anticipating the new.

15 August 2012 13:45 - 15:45 | Room: Session Room 1 | SI

• How innovative services for literacy help a multicultural community become stronger - a view from New Zealand
  BILL MACNAUGHT (National Library of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand)
• Shelter-based community libraries: in search of alternative livelihoods for pavement dwellers in Dhaka City
  M.D. NASIRUDDIN (Department of Information Science & Library Management, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh)
• One who has been long in confinement: inspiring the prisoners' to read
  SUSMITA CHAKRABORTY (Bengal Engineering & Science University, Shibpur, India)
• A critical role of Academic Advisory Service in a part of the learning commons facility
  TAKASHI NAGATSUKA and TOYOHIRO HASEGAWA (Tsurumi University Library, Yokohama, Japan)
• Local Studies Centers: Transforming history, culture and heritage in the Philippines
  MARTIN JULIUS V. PEREZ and MARIEL R. TEMPLANZA (School of Library and Information Studies, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines)