Welcome on MEDiakitab blog. This program aims at sharing information and ressources dedicated to reading and writing practices, from story telling to digital form, in the Euro-Mediterranean space.

MEDiakitab association, located in Marseille, is in charge of administrating the blog. Contents are a reflection of the activities, analysis and knowledge developped by the network members.

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E-corpus, a collective and patrimonial digital library

Arles Book Conservation Centre distributes digitalized documents in Europe and the Mediterranean

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Founded in 2009, by Arles Book Conservation Centre (CCL), the “e-corpus” database indexes and spreads many type of documents (manuscripts, books, maps, archives, newspapers, pictures, audio documents, video…) coming from collections scattered all over the world, mostly in Europe and in the Mediterranean. Today, the platform accommodates more than 100 000 references from more than [...]

The digital book transformations, II

The Agence Régionale du Livre PACA’s seminar crosses experts sights

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On the occasion of its second edition, the 28th and 29th November 2011, the seminar gave the floor to various disciplines specialists, who came to provide their concepts about a matter of which social, economic and technical realities are deeply changing: the digital reading actors, mediums and practices. All these lectures are now available [...]

“Reading the book” : Mathilde Chèvre references

Research blog on youth literature in Arabic countries

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« To read the book » is a blog about children’s literature in arabic countries. It is an invitation to enter a « bookshop of koutoub»* where one speak French and Arabic language, where some discuss about politic and Palestine, or talk about children’s temporality, about the images’ language and about a publishing history that still [...]

Hypotheses.org, academic blogs

Platform for academic blogs : stages from the reseach process

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Hypotheses.org is a publication platform for scholarly blogs open to the academic community in all disciplines of the arts, humanities and social sciences. If you want to publish a field work blog, a research blog on a definite theme, the every day notes of a collective research program, the accounts of archaeological excavations, [...]

Youth literature in Arab countries

The example of Lebanon: revival & permanence

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By Mathilde Chèvre

In Lebanon, in Beirut more exactly, fifteen children’s publishers have been created since 2000. Their production is added to that of other publishers created in the 1950′s and 60′s and is behind a true editorial spring for the youth. This spring finds its roots in a need to write history, both [...]

Reading Here, There and Everywhere

Regional Award for Arabic children’s books now launched

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From today and till the 15th of October 2010, publishers of children’s books in Egypt, Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon and Syria are invited to submit their books in Arabic language and get the opportunity to be recognized at the national and regional level.

“Reading Here, There and Everywhere” is an annual book award organized by the [...]

IT training fot teachers in Egypt

Developping new educative tools within French speaking schools

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Egyptian Catholic Schools Training Consultant

June 2010

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Technology for Improved Learning Outcomes-TILO is designed to improve the quality of teaching, learning and school management thanks to the use of technology by pupils in schools. The American Agency for International Development & Technology and Technology for Improved Learning Outcomes are working [...]

Public reading in Lebanon

Cultural action for youth and book policies

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Imad Hachem/Head of Books & Reading/Lebanese Ministry of Culture

 

“The Lebanese are scattered around the globe. In 2009 they played hosts”. Chosen by UNESCO as the World Book Capital in 2009, Beirut was the scene of a cultural year such as Lebanon had never known.

“A window on the diversity of cultures and a [...]

Milan libraries

A network for public reading

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The Public Library System in Milan is made up of 26 units : that is 1 Central library , 24 branch libraries and 11 circulating libraries scattered throughout the town. The organization of the whole system is based upon two coordinated units ; one responsible of the Central library and the other for the branch [...]

Gilles Eboli’s view on future libraries

The challenge of hybrid librairies

Gilles Éboli. Marseille – Alcazar Regional Library.

After having managed the Moselle departmental loan library, Gilles Éboli, an archivist and paleographer, was Assistant Director of Dijon Municipal Library, project manager at the Carré d’Art in Nîmes and Director of the Cité du Livre in Aix-en-Provence. Today he is Director of the Alcazar Regional Library in [...]