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Free Ebooks now at a library near you!

Ebooks and other digital content are now widely available and free to borrow at public libraries.

New Ebooks and Digital Media Service Announced

For the past 2 years an Association of Public Library Managers (APLM) working group has been brokering a nationwide deal to offer ebooks and other digital media in public libraries.

APLM Supports LIANZA Campaign to Keep Public Libraries Free

The Association of Public Library Managers supports the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) in its move to secure legislation to protect free public library services throughout New Zealand. Public Libraries engage, inspire and inform citizens and help build strong communities, contributing to the nation’s economic and social well being.

United Nations Literacy Decade: Education for All (2003-2012)

Literacy is a human right. Basic education, within which literacy is the key learning tool, was recognized as a human right over 50 years ago, in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Yet, today, this right continues to be violated for such a large proportion of humanity.

United Nations Launches Literacy Decade

Despite impressive advances in worldwide literacy over the past 50 years, an estimated 861 million people, or 20 percent of the world's adults, still cannot read or write or participate fully in their societies, according to the latest UNESCO statistics. Two thirds of these people are women....

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