One of my favorite professional problems is the question how we librarians are able to go on with our librarianship in the changing library. How we can maintain the enthusiasm to work with many kind of customers and the patience to learn new techniques? For me the cycling event is a good possibility to practice [...]
How to teach children to spend their free time? That there is no sense of omission? I’m working at the National Library of Latvia in Children’s Literature Center. Our visitors mostly are children of the nearest schools and they spend part of their leisure time here – in Children’s Literature Center. At the Center they [...]
I am interested in exploring the “image” the library is “selling,” and developing alternative platforms to interface with the public, including library artist residencies and locally elected classification systems. Branding and marketing are popular approaches many libraries feel forced to adopt to stay competitive, keep their image fresh and relevant, and maintain funding. In an [...]
The challenge I’ll try to solve, is to find new ways how small public libraries could co-operate and share ideas more openly with large libraries and how both could benefit from co-operation Juha Kortesluoma Espoo City Library
What should the public library provide to the customers in the internet? I mean besides an access to the library database and the services concerning the customer account (renewals, reservations, payments…) Should we recommend novels? Recommend music, games, language courses, links to internet sites etc? Give online homework-help? Some educational entertainment to children? What? See [...]
Council services, such as social and health care, education, child-care and culture/the arts, depend on the money available. In small towns there can be a main library and several branch libraries in different districts. People can come to a library to read newspapers and other publications, free of charge. People have access to computers, as [...]
I would like to think alone and together with you about what are the strengths the public libraries. What are those strengths today and what could they be tomorrow? I’m sure there will be a competition of public funds and it could be useful to be able to describe our strengths anytime in one’s own [...]
I have to say that it is quite difficult at the moment to specify some only one professional problem I want to solve. But well… for me was always very interesting inter-cultural cooperation and communication, so one professional challenge to be solved during the trip I would specify as getting new ideas and thoughts about [...]
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