Multilingual Digital Literacy in Public Libraries (NAB)
DURATION
2026–2027
OBJECTIVES
Strengthening librarians’ competences in working with vulnerable groups; improving the digital and media literacy of adult migrants; increasing access to multilingual digital newspapers; promoting multilingualism and the critical evaluation of information; strengthening international cooperation and the exchange of good practices.
TARGET GROUP
Librarians and adult migrants with limited proficiency in the language of the host country.
DESCRIPTION
Ljubljana City Library (MKL) is the coordinator of the international project News Across Borders: Multilingual Digital Literacy in Public Libraries (NAB), co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme under action KA210-ADU – Small-scale partnerships in adult education.
The two main objectives of the project are to strengthen librarians’ competences in planning and delivering inclusive learning activities using multilingual digital newspaper resources and to support adult migrants with limited proficiency in the language of the host country in developing digital, media and information literacy.
The project involves partners from three European countries:
- Ljubljana City Library, project coordinator (Slovenia);
- De Krook Library in Ghent (Belgium);
- Jyväskylä City Library (Finland).
PLANNED ACTIVITIES
- An initial transnational project meeting in Slovenia and alignment of the methodology.
- Training for librarians on working with adult migrants in Belgium.
- Development of learning materials and a handbook containing methodological guidelines and activity cards.
- Pilot delivery of inclusive learning activities for adult migrants in the partner libraries.
- Evaluation and improvement of the developed materials and learning activities.
- A final transnational meeting in Finland.
- Dissemination of the results and their integration into library practice.
EXPECTED RESULTS
- Nine librarians trained to work with migrants.
- One new learning activity in each partner library.
- Two existing activities enhanced in each partner library.
- Increased use of multilingual digital newspaper resources.
- Demonstrable improvement in digital, media and information literacy.
- Use of the developed materials in regular library services.
- Continued cooperation between the partner organisations.
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