Lubuto in the Media
October 2011
“The Lubuto Library Project: Proving the Value of High–quality Public–access Libraries in International Development 1h17m" San José State University, School of Library and Information Science Colloquium Series Webcast, October 19, 2011. The Lubuto Library Project (LLP) is the perfect example of the positive impact libraries can have on international development. LLP President Jane Meyers will discuss LLP's efforts to assist with both educational and economic development in Zambia. Flash is required for viewing
"Strong showing for UK authors on Astrid Lindgren award shortlist." The Guardian (U.K.), 18 October 2011. “Established in honour of the Pippi Longstocking author following her death in 2002, aged 94, the prize looks to reward "people and organisations who work in her tradition and safeguard democratic values". So Zambia's Lubuto Library Project, which creates libraries for Africa's street children, is up against The Very Hungry Caterpillar's creator Eric Carle….The winner, chosen by a 12-member jury of international children's literature experts, will be announced on 20 March in Lindgren's birthplace of Vimmerby in Sweden. They will join previous laureates including Maurice Sendak and Philip Pullman.”
August 2011
“Library programme teaches vulnerable children to read in local languages.” EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme Impact Case Study, July 2011. With support from EIFL’s Public Library Innovation Programme (PLIP), the Lubuto Library Project brought international expertise, local knowledge and technology together to develop computer-based lessons to teach children to read in their own languages, using the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) platform and its open-source Etoys application.
Stella Jones Gallery Group Exhibition. ‘Street Children, Exhibition June 1 – August 1, 2011. In Place, summer 2011. Announcement of a group exhibition of the work of LubutoArts participants at the renowned Stella Jones Gallery in New Orleans, LA, U.S.A.
July 2011
Lubuto Library Project: Bringing Knowledge to Zambian Children. Langner, Stacy; Meyers, Jane Kinney; Wagner, Mary M. In Global Perspectives on School Libraries: Projects and Practices. Edited by Luisa Marquardt and Dianne Oberg. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter Saur, 2011, p. 188-198. The Lubuto Library Project’s approach to meeting the needs of orphans, vulnerable children and youth in Sub-Saharan Africa is described.
"Members Learn About the Lubuto Library Project’s Programs for Zambian Children and Youth," by Rita Ormsby. Special Libraries Association New York Chapter, July 2011. Lubuto Library Project founder and president, Jane Kinney Meyers made a presentation to New York Chapter members on May 14, an update on Lubuto libraries being built and their programs for vulnerable street children and youth in Zambia
June 2011
“Lubuto Library Project Realises Education Vision,” by Jowit Saluseki. Times of Zambia, 13 June 2011. Sub-Saharan Africa faces serious social and economic challenges, yet none is greater than the devastation that the HIV/AIDS pandemic brings to the continent's children. As adults become sick and many die, vast numbers of young people are left without able caretakers, resources and without hope. But in the heart of Lusaka Lubuto Libraries are providing a safe and beautiful refuge that opens the world of learning to Africa and to some of Zambia's vulnerable yet valuable children.
US to continue literacy support. Zambian National Broadcasting Cooperation, June 2011 American Ambassador to Zambia Mark Storella has pledged his government's support to the promotion of literacy programs in Zambia being developed at the Lubuto Library Project.
May 2011
Society for International Development Podcast on the Lubuto Library Project Zambian Language Literacy Program.Washington DC Chapter of Society for International Development May 13, 2011. Jane Meyers and Mike Lee, of Sugar Labs and One Laptop Per Child, presented the Lubuto Library Project Zambian Language Literacy Project – LubutoLiteracy, demonstrated some of its results and discussed its impact. The Lubuto Library Project carried out an innovative program that teaches reading with 100 computer-based reading lessons in each of the seven Zambian languages. Zambian youth earned school fees for creating the lessons, working with Zambian teachers and guided by the government curriculum. A grant from the EIFL Public Library Innovation Program funded the project and the OLPC Foundation donated six XO 1.5 laptops. Under Creative Commons licenses the open-source computer-based reading lessons will be freely available to download from the LubutoCollections.org website. The Etoys-based lessons will run on any computer platform and can supplement classroom instruction as well as teaching out-of-school children in Lubuto Libraries. .
April 2011
SLA New York Chapter Presentation on the Lubuto Library Project. NY Librarians Meetup Group and NY Chapter of SLA, Caren Rabinowitz, April 14, 2011. Jane Meyers presented information on the innovations of the Lubuto Library Project at Baruch College, to students from Pratt Institutes LIS program and later to members of the New York SLA Chapter, commemorating International Special Libraries Day.
December 2010
Official opening of the Lubuto Library project second library at Ngwerere Basic School in Lusaka Zambia. InformationToday, December 2010 The doors to the second Lubuto Library were officially opened on Nov. 10 to the vulnerable street children and youth in Zambia. Dow Jones & Co. and its employees were instrumental in helping fund and supply resources for the library in Lusaka’s Garden Compound.
Teachers and students work together to create programmes designed to teach reading in local languages. eifl.net, December 2010 Teachers and students are working together to create pioneering programmes on the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) computers that will teach Zambia’s children to read in the country’s seven major languages.
November 2010
Official opening of the Lubuto Library project second library at Ngwerere Basic School in Lusaka Zambia, Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation,November 2010. Education Deputy Minister Chrispin Musosha In a speech read for him by his Permanent Secretary Andrew Phiri advised children to use the library to attain their dreams. Earlier Lubuto library Project President Jane Meyers said her organization will establish similar facilities in various schools across the Country.
Lubuto Library Opens its Second Library at Ngwerere Basic School, Embassy of the United States, Lusaka Zambia,November 2010. Lusaka — U.S. Ambassador to Zambia Mark C. Storella championed a community-led, community-driven initiative today when he helped officially open the Lubuto Library Project at the Ngwerere Basic School in Lusaka’s Garden Compound. Speaking at the opening, Ambassador Storella highlighted the American-supported Lubuto Library as a model of how public private-partnerships enable communities to find innovative solutions to their education challenges. Addressing youth, he advocated that they take ownership of their education.
Lubuto Library Project Opens its Second Library at Ngwerere School in Lusaka. Press release, November 5th 2010.
Lubuto Library Project Opens Second Library in Zambia, PUKU.co.za by: Nonikiwe-Editor,November 2010. Now the second and third libraries are soon to be completed. The second library will be launch on Wednesday 10th November at 16h00. The guest of honor will be Dr Kenneth K Kaunda who ‘will introduce innovative library services for Zambia’s most vulnerable youth’. The Launch will be at the Ngwerere Basic School, corner of Katima Mulilo and Garden Roads, Garden Compound, Lusaka.
October 2010
Report and Photo Highlights from ZBBY book making workshops, hosted by Lubuto Libraries (and future host communities) in Lusaka and Monze, Zambia, October 2010. Lubuto Library Project was instrumental in establishing the Zambian Board on Books for Young People and proposing (and hosting) its first activity, cloth book making workshops conducted by Anne Pellowski and Helen Kay Kennedy and funded by the International Board on Books for Young People’s Yamada Fund.
August 2010
CILIP ILIG Awarded to Jane Kinney Meyers, Focus Magazine, March 2009. For 2010 the ILIG Committee made two awards. They were to Vimbai Hungwe for services to health information worldwide and to Jane Kinney Meyers for her work with the Lubuto Library Project in Zambia.
June 2010
MLIS professor earns Fulbright
Scholarship to study in Zambia, St. Kate's News, June 19, 2010. Mary Wagner, a professor in St. Catherine
University’s Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) program, earns a Fulbright Scholarship to travel to Lusaka,
Zambia this Fall to teach at the University of Zambia. She will also be working with the Lubuto Library Project during
her time there.
May 2010
From Zambia
to Benning Road: Library activists visit new Benning Library, Capital Community News, May 2010
eIFL.net Press Release. Gates Foundation sponsored eIFL.net's Public Library Innovation Programme (eIFL-PLIP) has awarded 12 grants (from among 324 proposals) to libraries worldwide, including Lubuto's project addressing the lack of resources for teaching reading in Zambian languages.
April 2010
Georgetown African Interest Network (GAIN) Informational, April
2010. "Event: Culture and Arts in Zambia: Distinguished Lecturer Luncheon -
April 14
The African Studies Program and the Anthropology Department are proud to
present Culture and Arts in Zambia: Distinguished Lecturer Luncheon
featuring Mulenga Kapwepwe."
"Zambia's Cultural Heritage Is Subject of April 13 Program At the Library of Congress." News from the Library of Congress, April 2, 2010 (REVISED April 5, 2010). The featured speaker will be Mulenga Kapwepwe, policy advisor in Zambia's Ministry of Sport, Youth and Child Development, and chair of the Zambian National Arts Council.... A champion for literacy, Kapwepwe serves on the advisory board of the award-winning Lubuto Library Project.
Press release, April 15, 2010. "Lubuto Library Project, Inc. is celebrating National Library Week by hosting a special event in recognition of the recent opening of the Benning Neighborhood Library....The highlight of the event will be a reading by Danny Glover, world renowned actor and humanitarian, and Lubuto founding Advisory Board member Mulenga Kapwepwe." Read entire release.
Lubuto Library Project Announces "An Evening with Danny Glover" -- Event to Feature a Reading by Actor Danny Glover and Chairperson of the National Arts Council of Zambia Mulenga Kapwepwe. Press release, April 15, 2010.
"Hey, isn't that...?" The Washington Post, Friday, April 16, 2010. The Reliable Source, Roxanne Roberts and Amy Argetsinger, p. C2.
"Danny Glover Reads to Students at the new Benning Neighborhood Library," DC Public Library News. Glover's visit, the day before his new movie Death at a Funeral opens in theaters, was to celebrate National Library Week and to help the Lubuto Library Project with its effort to build new libraries in Zambia.
March 2010
“Lubuto Library hosts wife of IMF Managing Director, French journalist
Ann Sinclair.” Press release from Lubuto Library Project, March 10, 2010.
"Out of Africa”, Le blog d’Anne Sinclair: 12 mars 2010. Ms. Sinclair’s impressions of her visit to the Lubuto library in Lusaka. Translation to English.
January/February 2010
Vestal, Chris. “Lubuto Libraries Transform Youth Services in Africa,”
Washington, DC Chapter of the Special Libraries Association Chapter Notes, January/February 2010, p. 25-27.
October 2009
“XO Empowered Street Children at Lubuto Library,” One Laptop Per Child News, October 5, 2009.
August 2009
"ALA 2009: Jane Meyers receives Presidential International Citation,"
Emerald eZine, 2009, issue 4 (PDF 218KB)
July 2009
"Lubuto Library
Project receives ALA award," SLA Social Science Division Blog, July 24, 2009
"Three libraries are awarded the ALA Presidential Citation for International Innovation at the ALA 2009 Annual Conference in Chicago," IRRT News, July 2009
June 2009
"Jane Kinney Meyers Awarded One Year SLA Membership," SLA Blog, June 15, 2009
"Zambian Embassy in US to host Special Libraries Association international reception," Lusaka Times, June 11, 2009
"Dow Jones Hosts Special Library Association International Reception at the Embassy of the Republic of Zambia," Press release from Dow Jones & Company and Lubuto Library Project, June 2009
"Dow Jones and Lubuto Library Project has announced that it will this year hold the Special Libraries Association (SLA) international reception at the Zambian Embassy in United States of America on June 15." Zambian News & Information Services (ZANIS) Press Release- June 10, 2009
May/June 2009
“SLA Members Pitch In To Help Librarians Make A Difference in Africa,” DC/SLA Chapter Notes, May/June 2009. pp. 5-6
April 2009
"Lubuto Library Project Inc. President and Founder, Jane Kinney Meyers interview with Lara Mitra," Lara Mitra Blog, EMPOWER. pp. 8-9
March 2009
Embassy of Sweden in Lusaka Press Release. The Embassy of Sweden in Lusaka issued
a press release to announce the nomination of the Lubuto Library Project for the prestigious Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. (PDF 70KB)
"The Lubuto Library Project: Creating Excellent and Sustainable Libraries for Vulnerable African Children and Youth," Focus on International Library and Information Work, published by the CILIP International Library and Information Group, v. 40, no. 1, pp. 4-8. (134 KB). Note: A letter to the editor in response to this article was published in v. 40, no. 2, along with Jane Meyers' response.
February 2009
“Former Street Child Champions Literacy,” Education Post
(Lusaka, Zambia), Saturday, February 28, 2009, p. 1, 8-9. (PDF 2MB)
The Saturday education magazine of the Post of Zambia newspaper spotlights the first Lubuto Librarian, Vasco Severino.
January 2009
"Lubuto Library Project nominated for major award,"
News from Reading Today Daily
The news blog of the International Reading Association reports on Lubuto's nomination for the prestigious
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
December 2008
“The Lubuto Library Project and the universality
of public library services for youth,” Public Libraries. Chicago: Public
Library Association (a division of the American Library Association), v. 47, no. 6, p. 56-60,
November/December 2008.
Feature article by Denise E. Agosto, an Associate Professor in the College of Information
Science and Technology at Drexel University in Philadelphia. The article discusses Lubuto
Libraries as information gateways, as social interaction and entertainment spaces and as
beneficial physical environments, the three main roles that libraries play in U.S. teens'
lives according to Dr. Agosto's research.
"Lessons from Lubuto," Information Today Vol. 25, No. 11
November 2008
"Dispatches from Zambia:
An interview with a Lusaka Librarian: Anne Garner speaks with Holly Morganelli,"
AAMES Newsletter: A biannual publication of the Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Section of ACRL/ALA.
Fall 2008. (pdf)
Pratt SILS alumna Anne Garner ’07 interviews Pratt SILS student and Nasser Sharify Fellowship
recipient, Holly Morganelli, who is now serving in Zambia as a consulting librarian
for the Lubuto Library Project.
October 2008
"Politics & Prose Works With Dow Jones to Fill Lubuto Library,"
Bookselling This Week from the American Booksellers Association
"The Lubuto Library Project as a model of school
library media services for disadvantaged youth," Knowledge Quest : Journal of the American Association of School Librarians.
Chicago: American Library Association, v. 37, no. 1, p. 38-42, September/October 2008. (pdf 2 MB)
Dr. Denise E. Agosto of the College of Information Science and Technology at Drexel University
cites the Lubuto Library Project as a model for providing library services for vulnerable youth.
September 2008
"DC librarian builds libraries in Africa,"
Northwest Current
(pdf 2 MB)
The Current newspapers, Washington, DC community papers, profile Jane Kinney
Meyers and the work of the Lubuto Library Project in Africa. (Article starts in lower
left corner of page 1)
August 2008
DC/SLA Chapter News
Jane appears with DC/SLA President-elect Greta Ober at SLA Annual 2008.
July 2008
“Promoting Reading! Factors contributing to the
success of reading development projects in Africa,” Erató-Nadia Bizos and Francis Sampa.
South Africa: Association for the Development of Education in Africa Working Group on
Books and Learning Materials 2008. This publication, “written to further
ADEA’s aim of sharing good practice across Africa,” highlights the Lubuto Library Project
as a model for partnership and networking “contributing to the success of reader
development projects in Africa,” p. 22-26.
June 2008
"The Lubuto Project
Revisited," Infotoday Blog- A Conference weblog by the Editors of Information Today.
"Guest-Blogger Jane Kinney Meyers: 5 + Links About Lubuto"
Jane Meyers guest blogs on the highly respected literary blog,
Madam Mayo.
February/March 2008
"First Lubuto Library opens in Zambia," Reading Today
(PDF 8Mb)
The journal of the International Reading Association reports on the opening of the first Lubuto Library.
January 2008
"Lubuto Library Project: Power of One,"
Fox 5 News (video)
"Books can change the world, one person at a time. At least that's what one Maryland woman is counting on. Fox 5's Gurvir Dhindsa joins us now with her story in today's 'Power of One'." Watch Jane Meyers on Fox 5 News. Aired January 18, 2008.
"Lubuto Library Project: Bringing Enlightenment and Hope to Africa's Street Children"
C. M. Mayo, of the the highly respected Madam Mayo literary blog, posts about
the Lubuto Library $20,000 pledge challenge drive.
July/August 2007
“Lubuto Library Project: A Global Connection,” Information Today (PDF 808kb)
Lubuto Library Project President and founder, Jane Kinney Meyers is interviewed in Information Today about the organization and its beginnings.
May 2007
“A Special Librarian Creates a Special Library,”
Information Outlook, the magazine of the Special Libraries Association (PDF 640kb)
Jane Kinney Meyers is the feature profile for Information Outlook and discusses her work with the Lubuto Library Project.
"Jane Kinney Meyers Awarded Dow Jones Leadership Award," Inside Scoop from Dow Jones Factiva.
"Lubuto Libraries Provide Haven
for AIDS Orphans," America.gov
Louise Fenner, staff writer for America.gov, wrote about the progress of the Lubuto Library Project and its role in providing
a safe space for street children in Zambia.
February 2007
Kojo Nnamdi,
according to the Washington Post, may be the best interviewer in
Washington, D.C. Listen to a recording of the broadcast of the Kojo
Nnamdi Hour from Wednesday, February 28 to hear him discuss the Lubuto
Library Project with Jane Meyers and Debbie Chungu.
August/September 2006
“Building Libraries for African Children," Reading Today
The Lubuto Library Project is featured in the journal of the International Reading Association, with information on
how readers can help.
May 2006
“Guru Interview: Jane Meyers, the Lubuto Library Project turns the lights on,”,
Emerald LibraryLink Newsletter (PDF)
Jane Meyers is interviewed in Emerald LibraryLink to talk about the purpose behind the Lubuto Library Project and its progress to date.
July 2005
“Fountain of Hope: how a makeshift library in Zambia won a battle against
AIDS and Poverty,” Emerald Library Link,
Knowledge and Networks, monthly e-newsletter, July 2005 (PDF)
Jane Kinney Meyers discusses the early history of the Lubuto Library Project.
“A special librarian with a special mission: the Lubuto Library Project,” Emerald Library Link, Knowledge and
Networks, monthly e-newsletter, July 2005 (PDF)
An interview with Jane Kinney Meyers, featuring photographs of the prototype for the Lubuto Library.
September 2005
“Return to Zambia: Did You Know?” National Geographic
National Geographic, in its “Return to Zambia” feature, discusses the impact of HIV/AIDS on children in Zambia. The library at the Fountain of Hope Children’s Shelter
is identified as a place of learning and hope for these children.
March 2005
“Hope Continues in Zambia,” American Libraries (PDF)
A little over a year after her feature in American Libraries, Jane Kinney Meyers updates readers the progress of the Lubuto Library Project.
December 2003
“One Librarian’s Fight Against AIDS,” American Libraries (PDF)
Jane Kinney Meyers writes a feature in the magazine of the American Library Association documenting her work in founding the library at the Fountain of Hope Children’s
Shelter and the Lubuto Library Project.
