It’s time to end the long suspense, and announce the dates and the location of Cycling for libraries 2012. After the very successful event in last year in 2011 from Copenhagen to Berlin, we know many of you have been anxiously waiting for the schedule for next summer. So, today, we are happy to welcome [...]
We are happy to announce today at IX’th Congress of Baltic Librarians in Trakai, that Cycling for libraries will take place in The Baltic States in August 2012. The three Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are the perfect place for contemplating and workshopping about libraries, cycling around the fantastic countryside with colleagues and [...]
One of the (numerous) frequently asked questions to us Cycling for libraries -organiser has been: why bicycles and libraries? What is the connection between these two, seemingly unrelated things? Any connection might be hard to see. Admittedly even to us organisers Cycling for libraries was initially a semi-random mash-up, based on intuition. We couldn’t be [...]
The Cycling for libraries unconference (28th May–7th June 2011) is now over. There are a million videos, photos, tweets, blogposts, news-stories, This Week in Libraries -episodes, articles, gossips, stories, anecdotes and vibes to experience and to share. Surprisingly enough, everything went better than expected. The thanks belong to the unbelievably awesome group of Cycling for [...]
After the smashing kick-off party last night at the Copenhagen main library, we are totally ready to ride. Thanks copenhagers for organizing it. I loved the wagons, and so did everybody else. And the awesome Orkestar Baxtalo really got us up in the air. It was fantastic to see you all there. With support like [...]
In my recent work I’m responsible about children and teenagers services – so I’m going to listen your experiments and practices in that area very carefully during the Cyc4lib. To think about this homework almost everything in the list has something to do with my daily work: communicating to customers – very important – [...]
My homework is to find the most effective ways to teach students and patrons to be life-long learners by selecting the best resources and methods for searching those resources. Most of my students and many of the patrons I deal with will only search Google and WIkipedia to find their answers. Both are great for [...]
I am part of a working group which is preparing a new website for the library of the University of Poitiers (25 000 students). The current website adress is http://scd.univ-poitiers.fr it’s quite old-style. We are working on a complete redesign. More specifically I work on the query interfaces, metadata harvesting, valorisation of the digital production [...]
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