#WorldBookDay 2023: Indigenous Languages

Today is the global World Book and Copyright Day with the theme of Indigenous Languages. IFLA has a post on this https://www.ifla.org/news/ifla-celebrates-world-book-day-with-a-spotlight-on-indigenous-languages/ highlighting the IFLA Statement on Indigenous Traditional Knowledge. 

Given the theme, I will highlight the open access book by Rachel Chong -  Indigenous Information Literacy, which "outlines best principles for working with Indigenous print and oral sources in academic research": https://kpu.pressbooks.pub/indigenousinformationliteracy/

23rd April was chosen by UNESCO as World Book Day as it is the date on which William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega all died.
As a final link, my Twitter my eye was caught by a post by Visit Norway with some facts about Norwegian, books authors and readers - nice to see a tourist agency highlighting books and reading!

World Book and Copyright Day

Apologies, I missed marking the "real" World Book and Copyright day yesterday (23 April). Yerevan, Armenia, was named as World Book Capital for 2012. This year also marks the 80th anniversary of the Index Translationum, the international bibliography of translation. The UNESCO page has links to various resources and suggests some ways to celebrate the day. http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/prizes-and-celebrations/celebrations/international-days/world-book-and-copyright-day-2012.

World Book Day (UK & Ireland) #WorldBookDay

Today is World Book Day: at least in the United Kingdom and Ireland (elsewhere in the world it is on 23 April "for on this date and in the same year of 1616, Cervantes, Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega all died").
For the UK/Irish day there are free £1 book tokens (14 million of them) that can be exchanged for one of the special £1 books, or put towards the price of another book. The 8 £1 books include ones by popular authors, such as Jacqueline Wilson. On the official website http://www.worldbookday.com there are "resources, lesson plans and activity sheets about the latest books" (and there are lot of these). World Book Day tweets at https://twitter.com/#!/WorldBookDayUK/ and Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/worldbookday2012
Picture taken by me, in Second Life