Balancing traditional and virtual storytelling events in a post-COVID world: Aruba's Children's Book Festival in 2022 and beyond ; Equilibrio de eventos de narración de cuentos tradicionales y virtuales en un mundo posterior a COVID: Festival del Libro Infantil de Aruba en 2022 y más allá

In 2021, Biblioteca Nacional Aruba, the Aruba National Library, organized its annual Children's Book Festival for the twenty-ninth time. The COVID-19 pandemic hit the small Caribbean island nation of Aruba and its tourism-focused economy quite hard, and disrupted all areas of society, including government and education. The 2020 lockdown forced many library operations to either seize or to go virtual. With reading promotion and library activities traditionally being in-person and hands-on, Aruba's annual week-long celebration of children's books and reading, traditionally being planned to incl... Mehr ...