News and Videos – World Librarians

News, Literature and Videos related to the
World Librarians Program

2020: Schweik, C.M., Meyer, C., Chinkondenji, P., Smith, J. and McHenga, P. “World Librarians: A Socio-Technical System Providing Library Search Services to Offline Schools and Libraries in Malawi.” World Development Perspectives. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2020.100234. Open access pre-print available here. (scholarly paper)
2023: Open Access Week 2023 presentation article in UMass Daily Collegian
2020: An audio story, part of an episode of People Fixing the World by the BBC World Service, is here (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p08vgmnv). The whole episode is interesting, but to hear about World Librarians, start at minute 19:35 and you will hear one of the Malawi couriers, Frank Kazembe, talking about his role as a requester and courier for St. Michael’s Girls school in Malawi.
2020: A short UMass news piece on the program.
2018: Schweik, C.M. Smith, J. and Meyer, C. “World Librarians: A Peer-to-Peer Commons for Closing the Global Digital Divide.” Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication. 6(2). https://jlsc-pub.org/articles/abstract/10.7710/2162-3309.2249/.
2018: Information Possible. Bookmark Magazine.