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Libraries Without Borders / Bibliothèques Sans Frontières (LWB) is an international humanitarian organization devoted to facilitating the growth of libraries and expanding access to knowledge in the developing world.


Libraries Without Borders / Bibliothèques Sans Frontières (LWB) is an international humanitarian organization devoted to facilitating the growth of libraries and expanding access to knowledge in the developing world.

  • Urgency Of Reading

    Urgency Of Reading

    Click here to visit the official website:  www.urgencyofreading.org When a humanitarian catastrophe occurs, international organizations and governments...

  • BiblioTaptap Bookmobiles for Haiti

    BiblioTaptap Bookmobiles for Haiti

    Haiti

    Libraries Without Borders and its partners are launching Haiti’s first bookmobile service. BiblioTaptaps are named after Haiti’s...

  • A Media Library for Innovation and Development in Cameroon

    A Media Library for Innovation and Development in Cameroon

    Cameroon + Projects in Development

    MediYa is a re-imagined media library designed to expand access to information and culture while cultivating economic...

  • The Ruche: A New Central Library Reserve for Haitian Universities

    The Ruche: A New Central Library Reserve for Haitian Universities

    Haiti + Projects in Development

    The Ruche will be the principle place of storage, conservation, and distribution of academic resources in Haiti....

  • Training Program for Librarians from DRC

    Training Program for Librarians from DRC

    Africa + DRC

    LWB has begun a training and capacity building program for the librarians of 11 educational documentation centers...

  • Libraries for At-Risk Youth in Madagascar

    Libraries for At-Risk Youth in Madagascar

    Africa + Madagascar

    LWB is supporting libraries established for street children in Antananarivo

  • Library of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation in Congo-Brazzaville

    Library of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation in Congo-Brazzaville

    Africa + Congo-Brazzaville

    In response to a request from the Congolese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, LWB is assisting...

  • Reducing Inequalities in France

    Reducing Inequalities in France

    France

    In addition to its efforts in developing countries, Libraries Without Borders is active in industrial countries in...

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Recent Updates

  • Chairman Patrick Weil’s article in The Huffington Post

    Written By admin on January 14th      •      Comments Off      •      Non classé

    Libraries Without Borders chairman Patrick Weil recently published an article in The Huffington Post about LWB’s continued efforts to support Haitians three years after the devastating 2010 earthquake. To read the article, go here. A highlight from the article: “Haitians...

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  • Press Release: Three Years after the Haiti Earthquake

    Press Release: Three Years after the Haiti Earthquake

    Written By admin on January 10th      •      Comments Off      •      Non classé

      Press Release 10 January 2013   Three years after the Haiti earthquake: no to skepticism and pessimism as the country rebuilds Three years after the devastating earthquake ravaged Port-Au-Prince, many commentators have expressed pessimism about the disparity between...

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  • LWB Featured in The Guardian

    Written By admin on November 28th      •      Comments Off      •      Non classé

    Libraries Without Borders was featured in an article in the Guardian newspaper on Wednesday, November 28. Read the article here. “Books and ‘nourishment for the mind’ should be an essential part of the emergency relief effort when disasters such...

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  • An Hermès Scarf to Benefit Libraries Without Borders

    Written By admin on July 27th      •      Comments Off      •      France+, News & media

    An international icon in fashion, Hermès has unveiled a new scarf to benefit LWB

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  • LWB Hosts Conference on Literature and the Arab Spring

    Written By admin on July 20th      •      Comments Off      •      Events+, France+, News & media

    On June 14, Libraries Without Borders France held a conference on literature and the Arab Spring in Paris. Entitled “To Read and to Write is to Be Already Free,” the conference featured a panel of three writers and activists,...

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  • Big Step Forward for Higher Education in Haiti

    Written By admin on July 20th      •      Comments Off      •      Haiti+, News & media+, Non classé

    April 5, 2012 LWB and State University of Haiti Sign Memorandum to Build the Central Library Reserve Library Without Borders / Bibliothèques Sans Frontières signed a memorandum with the Rector of the State University of Haiti to formally launch...

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  • From Immediate Relief to Longterm Development

    Written By admin on June 18th      •      Comments Off      •      Haiti+, News & media

    How do you plan the future in the midst of a humanitarian emergency?

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  • International Call to Action

    Written By admin on June 11th      •      Comments Off      •      News & media

    The provision of access to books, culture and knowledge for victims of natural and manmade disasters is important because these allow individuals to reconnect with the rest of humanity and provide them the strength to look toward the future....

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  • LWB Presents at International Conference in Port-au-Prince

    Written By admin on June 8th      •      Comments Off      •      Haiti

    Libraries Without Borders presented on the 42nd Annual Congress of the Association of University, Research, and Institutional Libraries of the Caribbean (ACURIL) in Port-au-Prince.

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