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 [...]

Greetings from The Netherlands On behalf of the Dutch Association of Information Professionals (NVB) it is my great pleasure to congratulate the people who took the initiative with the succesful activity that you have developed. I would also very much like to wish the participants all the best in achieving your goal: bridging the distance [...]

You all have some really interesting and good ideas about library work. I am looking forward to discussions about all the different issues. No doubt, we will come up with some good ways to solve the different tasks within the field of library work. I have mainly been working at picture and media libraries. For [...]

Hi everyone! I’m interested in what libraries and file-sharing communities can learn from each other. I became interested in this whole topic when trying to purchase sound recordings that students or faculty had requested at our library. You see, part of my job involves working as the music and dance librarian here at our university. [...]