Ukraine Government Ministers Approve Plan to Create National Electronic Library
From Interfax Ukraine:
Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers has approved a Strategy for Librarianship Development until 2025.
The plan foresees a set up of Ukraine’s National Electronic Library, full computerization of Ukrainian libraries with Internet access.
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As of today, only 3,300 Ukraine’s public libraries have access to the Internet, which accounts for 21% of all the public libraries in Ukraine, the Strategy reads. There is on overage only one computer per public library.
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.