In 2005 Bloomberg BusinessWeek launched a ranking survey for the best Business Undergraduate Schools in the United States. For this purpose an academic quality ranking was build based on nine measures:
The “Let’s do it! ” initiative, a country clean-up project, was born in Estonia in 2008. By mobilizing the wider community, a team of volunteers succeeded in cleaning the waste deposited in many places across the country. Realized exclusively with volunteers, good-will and with the support of technology, the project was of a great success, replicated or in the process of being replicated in 7 other countries: Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovenia, Portugal, India and Italy.
According to a new press release from Statistics Netherlands, “in the period 1997–2007 real expenditure by subsidized educational institutes increased by 9 billion euro, from 20 to 29 billion euro. Some 3.2 billion euro can be attributed to changes in demography and participation in education, and 5.8 billion euro to increased spending per participant” (Statistics Netherlands, 2010).
With an estimated number of 122.566 establishments of all kinds (public, academic and school libraries) only in the Unites States (American Library Association, 2010), the public library sector is of major importance for the long-term development of the mankind, collecting and making available for use valuable sources of information people need and use in all-related aspects of life.