Cost: FREE (but please confirm attendance by emailing Alice Tyler: [log in to unmask])

You are invited to join us for this ILIG Informal when Paul Sturges, who was chair of IFLA FAIFE (Freedom to Access to Information and Freedom of Expression) until August 2009, and Shane Godbolt, Director of Phi (Partnerships in Health Information) will be sharing their experiences of a pilot 'training the trainer' project to encourage librarians to get involved in the provision of health information to the general public in developing countries.

Workshop materials were developed by a wide partnership (including colleagues from Cuba) and piloted at 3 workshops in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania at the beginning of August. Paul and Shane will take a break from their punishing schedules of international activity to talk about the project and its role in both the wider advocacy programmes of IFLA and the dense networks of health information provision for the public that have so far hardly begun to include libraries and the library profession.

For further details about FAIFE: http://www.ifla.org/faife

For further information about Phi: http://www.partnershipsinhealthinformation.org.uk/