2010 Access to Learning Award
At the 2010 IFLA World Library and Information Congress, AL editor Leonard Kniffel talks to Ioannis Trohopoulos, director of the public library in Veria, Greece, which won the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s $1 million Access to Learning Award “for its creative use of information and technology services to meet the economic, educational, and cultural needs of more than 180,000 people.” Learn more about the Veria library on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation website.
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