During one of their trainings under the Glob@l Libraries – Bulgaria Program conducted in the chitalishte library in the town of Zlatitsa, librarians from small chitalishte libraries created their first e-book.
 

For one year, the library team at Napredak 1895 Public Chitalishte in Radomir has been systematically analyzing the visits and the usage of the computers provided under Glob@l Libraries – Bulgaria Program.

For the second year in a row the initiative "Days of Museums and Galleries - Asenovgrad 2011" took place in Asenovgrad. The P. Hilendarski City Library took part in it with the "Seaside Memories" workshop.

The Arid Lands Information Network (ALIN) is the recipient of the 2011 Access to Learning Award. ALIN has created 12 Maarifa - or Knowledge Centers in the most hard-to-reach regions of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania so that these people have the tools they need to improve their health, increase their incomes, and better their lives.

The libraries participating in the Glob@l Libraries - Bulgaria Program in the Sofia district discussed together the opportunities, success stories and difficulties in the situation of installed computers with Internet access for users on a 2-day meeting in Borovets.

The "Pencho Slaveykov" District Library in Varna organized an "Alive History" workshop under the "Gruendwig" sector program of the European Commission from 11 to 15 April 2011.

Through a 2009 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), WebJunction and the State Library of North Carolina (SLNC) launched Project Compass, a one-year initiative to work with state libraries in support of public libraries' efforts to meet the urgent and growing needs of the unemployed.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation presented its 2010 Access to Learning Award of $1 million to the Veria Central Public Library for its creative use of information and technology services to meet the economic, educational, and cultural needs of more than 180,000 people.

In April 2010 project "Libraries for Innovation" and Lithuanian public libraries invited their users to contribute to the initiative "History of the Revival". The aim of this initiative was to publish memories, stories and photos of the 1988-1989 events in Lithuanian cities and towns from regular citizen point of view.

It turns out talking about gardening is an excellent way to attract visitors to public libraries. This is what our collagues in Lithuania found out recently through experience.