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“Reading Literature! Why?”- Meeting Liz Page (November 2014)

A group of our 3rd graders of Junior High School met Liz Page, the Executive Director of IBBY and talked about literature and IBBY’s work. They were fascinated about how IBBY was set up and they posed questions on IBBY’s activity around the world. They focused on how important it is to have libraries even in poor countries or countries in war zones and they were really surprised to find out that there were several countries that didn’t want to cooperate with IBBY and they preferred their kids to be uneducated. They also stressed the vital role of voluntary work and mobile libraries.

“If you want to destroy a country, ban its books.”  Liz Page – November 2014

Liz Page

Executive Director of IBBY

Liz Page grew up and lived in England until 1985 when she and her family moved to Basel. She soon became involved with JuKiBu, the Intercultural Children’s Library in Basel, of which she was a founding member. Later, she was elected President of the Intercultural Children’s Libraries Association of Switzerland. She joined IBBY as Executive Assistant in 1997, worked as Administrative Director from 2003-2006 and Director of Member Services, Communications and New Projects until March 2009, when she was appointed Executive Director.

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