Interlibrary

Episode 3: the Athens Comic Library in Greece has a wide collection of comics and provides compassionate, fun programming to locals and refugees. It also organized Greece Refugee Week! Great people, a great library.

Bhutan has one municipal public library and a lot of rural isolation, as well as increasing migration from rural to urban areas. It also has people working hard to make libraries a big part of national development. In this episode of Interlibrary I interview four people: Sonam Wangdi, academic librarian at the Ugyen Wangchuck Institute for Conservation and Environment in Bumthang; Laxmi Subba, school librarian at a school in Gelephu, in the south of the country; Tshering Phuntsho, municipal...

Guatemala has no library system, a low literacy rate and geographically remote communities. I interview four library organizations to find out how they're approaching the problem. I speak to William Cartwright, President and CEO of international NGO Rieken Foundation, that builds community libraries in remote communities in Guatemala and Honduras; to Rigoberto Zamora and Myrna Ortiz of Guatemala NGO PROBIGUA that began its work with a bibliobus and now builds libraries and schools; to...