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America@yourlibrary

American Art & Culture in German Libraries | Education USA | Professional Development

What's behind America@yourlibrary

America@yourlibrary is a partnership initiative between the U.S. Embassy and public libraries in Germany. It is based on the American Library Association’s @yourlibrary® campaign which showcases libraries as centers for learning, information and entertainment in their communities.
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Past Events

• April 4, 2008 - Presidential Elections Exhibit on Display at A@YL Partner in Saxony-Anhalt
After the closing of the Leipzig Book Fair on March 16, the Consulate General's Information Resource Center (IRC) Leipzig proceeded with donations of U.S. publishers’ contributions to the Consulate’s booth, to academic, public and special libraries within the consular district.

• March 6, 2008 - Transatlantic Relations Revisited
Dr. Andrew Denison, director of Transatlantic Networks, an independent network of scholars facilitating information exchange and knowledge building across a broad array of European and American policy areas, met in Görlitz with 15 students and in Zittau with about 50 interested citizens of all ages to explain the U.S. electoral process, and to discuss the status quo and perspectives of transatlantic relations and NATO policy.

• January 22, 2008 - "What a Difference a Trip Makes!" Alumni Talk to Library Community and University Students
The U.S. Consulate General in Frankfurt arranged a discussion for two alumni of a state department exchange program and professors and students of library science at the media university in Stuttgart as well as invited librarians from the region on January 22.

Education USA

Upcoming EducationUSA Events:
• April 28, 2008, 16:00 - Wege in die USA: Studium & Austausch Amerika Gedenkbibliothek (Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin)
• Webchat: Studieren und Arbeiten in den USA: April 14, 2008, 15:00-16:00
• April 11, 2008 - Schule, Job, Praktikum oder Studium in den USA? (Frankfurt Public Library)

Professional Development

• December 11, 2007 - Introducing Students Of Library Science To The American Way Of Managing Knowledge
• November 19, 2007 - Interkulturelle Kompetenz durch interkulturelle Bibliotheksarbeit (Bibliothek am Luisenbad, Berlin)
• November 5, 2007 - Barbie Keiser on the re-structuring of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency library network in Berlin

• Knowledge Management and Library Innovation/IRO Sheila Weir  (Frankfurt, April 2007)
• Kinder- und Jugendliteratur: Schlüssel zur interkulturellen Bildung/Jeff Garrett, Northwestern University Library (Schwerin, Cologne, September 2006) 
• Impressions from U.S. Libraries/Ute Trampe, Wismar City Library (Wismar, April 24, 2006)
• Der "American Way of Library" - US-Bibliotheken als Treffpunkt, Servicecenter und Bildungsstätte/Irini Courzakis, Central and Regional Library Berlin  (Published in Buch und Bibliothek, 58:2006)
• Cooperative Relationships Between Public Libraries and School Library Media Centers (Berlin, April 4, 2006)
• Teaching Information Literacy (Berlin, March 14, 2006)
• The Visible Librarian (Stuttgart/Berlin, October 17/18, 2005)
•  Just Do It! American Initiatives @ Your Library. Programs for Teenagers and Young Adults at American Libraries. Ann Arbor Public Library/Josie Parker (Mannheim, July 2006)
• Public Libraries in the USA: Example - Ann Arbor Public Library/Josie Parker (Berlin, July 2006)
• Open Access zu wissenschaftlichen Ergebnissen (Berlin, March 22, 2005)
• Cooperation and Partnership in American Libraries: Serving the Library Users of Today-and Tomorrow (Berlin, April 20, 2004)

Last updated: April 14, 2008