Yearly Archives: 2013

A group of youths from Ireland, Italy and Finland visited the Kouvola main library’s Mediamaja and recommended books, music and movies, at the same time learning about filming, sound recording […]

Greetings from Vincent Bonnet, the director of EBLIDA, to Cycling for libraries -event 2013. More information: Cycling for libraries Video: Tuomas Lipponen Music: Cycling through Ikeburo by Koen Park

Ville Oksanen (Electronic Frontier Finland) talks about Lex Snowden, a citizens’ legislative initiative that would criminalize excessive surveillance of citizens and enhance protection of whistle-blowers in Finland. Reporter: Päivikki Karhula […]

TWIL is back for another year of library innovation. This and much more in this week’s episode of TWIL: your weekly dose of library innovation! This video was imported to […]

Catching the twinkle in the customer’s eye, authenticity in communication, The Alpe d’HuZes project and storytelling for companies. This and much more in this week’s episode of TWIL: your weekly […]

Building self sustaining libraries in Africa, making use of fiber optic broadband. Finding a new Carnegie model and understanding new information needs. This and much more in this week’s episode […]

Creating an open environment for reading and research, all shades of grey of copyright, bringing together libraries, archives and museums and new ways of accessing digital collections. This and much […]

Librarian generations, Library schools and landscapes in Canada, the role of sharing in the library community and the library as a 3rd place? This and much more in this week’s […]

Choreographing content, Facebook strategy, giving multiple perspectives on a single subject and the overconcern with the death of libraries. This and much more in this week’s episode of TWIL: your […]

A People’s Lab, Maker Spaces, buildings partnerships, user driven innovation and engaging with users from the heart. This and much more in this week’s episode of TWIL: your weekly dose […]

The new Rijksstudio website, the importance of deadlines, using SCRUM in public sector developing and creating Core Values. But also conversation about bringing collections close to the people and “Concept […]

Allowing the past to be a playground, curatorial voices, changing the way we think about time and Information dessimination in the trenches. This and much more in this week’s episode […]

Delpher, organisational boundaries, the quality of OCR and Big Data and stepping over your own shadow. This and much more in this week’s episode of TWIL: your weekly dose of […]

Paper is dead, move on! Translating your “Why” to the modern age, Creativity and Culture and how to compete with free. This and much more in this week’s episode of […]

Getting more return on your collections, taking the temperature of libraries in Europe, Big Data and Personal Collections and high quality access to research. This and much more in this […]

A new Library Law in The Netherlands, the importance of curiosity, one national digital library, Borges and connecting the digital to the physical library. This and much more in this […]

Deconstructing the conference model, worries about the future of innovation in libraries and investing social energy. This and much more in this week’s episode of TWIL: your weekly dose of […]

The story behind TWIL. The most interesting libraries around the world. Fanmail and the potential of podcasting. This and much more in this week’s episode of TWIL: your weekly dose […]

In the “Tuunaa kirjasto” project, the renovation of the Hakunila library is planned together with the customers and implemented with the help of the partners. The video has been imported […]

Greetings from Tuula Haavisto, the director of Helsinki City Library, to Cycling for libraries -event 2013. More information: Cycling for libraries Video: Tuomas Lipponen and Panu Somerma Music: Cycling through […]

Council for Finnish University Libraries – SYN has produced a video about its new strategy. The Council of Finnish University Libraries is a co-ordinating and developing co-operation of the University […]

The Library of Parliament – 100 Years of Openness

The story of parliament’s library is part of the history of finnish society. Started in 1913, the library’s openness sets a good example of finnish democracy. There’s only a few […]

‘Libraries Now! – Inspiring, Surprising, Empowering’ is a theme in which the International IFLA Conference World Library and Information Congress gathered in Helsinki from 11th to 17th August 2012. An […]

Greetings from Robin Knowles, the director of Civic Agenda EU, to Cycling for libraries -event 2013. More information: Cycling for libraries Video: Tuomas Lipponen Music: Cycling through Ikeburo by Koen […]

Richard Russo performed at the Prosak Prose Club organized by Nuoren Voiman Liitto in September of 2012 at the National Theater’s Lavaklubi in Helsinki. In the video David McGuire from […]

My Media Playground 2nd biannual seminar on media education in childhood 14.-15.2.2013 in Tampere, Finland. The topic of the seminar was 0-12-year old children’s media use, media skills and best […]

Greetings from Michel Wesseling, the President of Dutch Library Association, to Cycling for libraries -event 2013. More information: Cycling for libraries Video: Tuomas Lipponen Music: Cycling through Ikeburo by Koen […]

Librarian Mia Dimblad from Culture Department of Hässleholm, Sweden, tells about her project “Warning – read on!”. Read more: The Nordic-Baltic Library Meeting 2013 Filming: Panu Somerma Editing: Tuomas Lipponen […]

Greetings from Maria Heijne, the director of Netherlands institute for public libraries, to Cycling for libraries -event 2013. More information: Cycling for libraries Video: Tuomas Lipponen Music: Cycling through Ikeburo […]

The story of the Library of Parliament is a part of the history of Finnish society. The library being open to everyone since 1913 is a good example of Finnish […]