Category Archives: BiblioWorks

Bolivia’s Capital Hosts its first Literary Festival

The hard-working BiblioWorks team (Matt & Co!) working in Bolivia recently coordinated Sucre’s first ever book fair with the help of a number of volunteers. You can also read more from the point of view of one of the volunteers who was instrumental to pulling

BiblioWorks opens its 8th community library

BiblioWorks has opened its eighth community library in rural Bolivia.  You can read more about it over at Biblio or read about the inauguration itself here. This is Biblioworks’ first library in 2 years, so we’re excited to see Tomina up and running and benefiting

Biblio Charitable Works’ new site live!

BiblioWorks has a new, updated website just launched today, featuring (finally!) a Spanish translation, not to mention a much more attractive layout and design.  Shout out to the team over at Stout Monkey Networks who volunteered their time to assemble all this! For those who

See you at the NY Antiquarian Book Fair this weekend!

We’ll be attending the New York Antiquarian Book Fair this weekend, and hope to see you there! This is a great opportunity for booksellers, avid collectors, or readers who just simply want to feast their eyes on some beautiful books. Here’s the official info, courtesy

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Web 2.0 may not be evil after all…

OK — I have to admit that I’ve long been more than a bit sceptical about social networks and the whole web 2.0 fad.  Mainly, I’ve long suspected that there is a direct and inverse relationship between how quick and easy it is to broadcast

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BiblioWorks Documentary

Here’s our first pass at creating a promotional documentary / video for BiblioWorks (the non-profit we founded and continue to support that builds libraries in rural South America and provides support to local literacy organizations here in WNC).  Thanks to Paul Sherar for his volunteer

BiblioWorks hires new project coordinator

We are delighted to announce that BiblioWorks has hired Matthew Lynn to lead our library projects in Bolivia. Matthew takes over this position from Megan Sherar who has worked for the past three years to build and develop seven community libraries in the impoverished rural