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Introducing one of the five different tracks at this year’s IFLA World Library and Information Congress in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Helena Asamoah-Hassan opens up the track of Policy, strategy, […]

Cycling for libraries is a politically and economically independent international unconference and a bicycle tour starting from Copenhagen, Denmark to Berlin, Germany May 28. – June 6. 2011. The event […]

Cycling for libraries is a politically and economically independent international unconference and a bicycle tour starting from Copenhagen, Denmark to Berlin, Germany May 28. – June 6. 2011. The event […]

Cycling for libraries is a politically and economically independent international unconference and a bicycle tour starting from Copenhagen, Denmark to Berlin, Germany May 28. – June 6. 2011. The event […]

Cycling for libraries is a politically and economically independent international unconference and a bicycle tour starting from Copenhagen, Denmark to Berlin, Germany May 28. – June 6. 2011. The event […]

Cycling for libraries is a politically and economically independent international unconference and a bicycle tour starting from Copenhagen, Denmark to Berlin, Germany May 28. – June 6. 2011. The event […]

Cycling for libraries is a politically and economically independent international unconference and a bicycle tour starting from Copenhagen, Denmark to Berlin, Germany May 28. – June 6. 2011. The event […]

Cycling for libraries is a politically and economically independent international unconference and a bicycle tour starting from Copenhagen, Denmark to Berlin, Germany May 28. – June 6. 2011. The event […]

Cycling for libraries is a politically and economically independent international unconference and a bicycle tour starting from Copenhagen, Denmark to Berlin, Germany May 28. – June 6. 2011. The event […]

Cycling for libraries is a politically and economically independent international unconference and a bicycle tour starting from Copenhagen, Denmark to Berlin, Germany May 28. – June 6. 2011. The event […]

Cycling for libraries is a politically and economically independent international unconference and a bicycle tour starting from Copenhagen, Denmark to Berlin, Germany May 28. – June 6. 2011. The event […]

What’s the difference between E-books and regular books? In this series of videos we’re trying to find out. Remember you can borrow different kinds of E-book readers from Espoo City […]

President of the American Library Association Roberta Stevens visited Fnland in June 2011. She gave a keynote speech at the National Library Conference in Oulu and had another presentation at […]

Has this ever happened to you? Library staff have an idea that they believe will really be helpful to the public, ‘if only we marketed it’ and ‘if only we […]

Helle Juul, well-known architect and CEO of the JUUL FROST architect team, gave a presentation in The New Library-conference with the heading The Future Library – from bookshelves to cultural […]

Pablo Riquelme, interior architect from design agency Kuudes kerros, is the man behind the Helsinki City Library’s new concept. Kuudes kerros has created a spatial and visual concept for Helsinki […]

Brian Gambles was one of the speakers at The New Library – Design and Function conference in Helsinki. He has been directing the development of the new library being constructed […]

From the Magic Boxes to the Media Lab, a new project Ioannis Trohopoulos, Library Director and Dr. Dimitris Protopsaltou, Media and Communication, Veria Central Public Library A pecha kucha presentation […]

Kista Idea City/Lab – Partnerships for inclusion Åke Nygren, Stockholm City Library A pecha kucha presentation from ‘The New Library – Design and Function’ conference held February 10-12, 2011, at […]

A new public library in Barcelona Josep M. Miró i Gellida, Architect A pecha kucha presentation from ‘The New Library – Design and Function’ conference held February 10-12, 2011, at […]

Explore, Discover, Be Inspired Inger Edebro Sikström, Library Director, Umeå Public Library A pecha kucha presentation from ‘The New Library – Design and Function’ conference held February 10-12, 2011, at […]

Katja Kyllönen from Libraries.fi gave a presentation about libraries as media educators at the experts seminar More Than Just Child’s Pl@y which was held 11.2.2011 and organized by Mannerheim League […]

Small children and children in school age spend a great amount of their time among different media. That’s why it’s important to develop media education in early childhood. The subject […]

Tanja-Riikka Knyazev from Finnish Youth Societies told about the Mun Vuoro! My Turn! -project at the experts seminar More Than Just Child’s Pl@y which was held 10.-11.2.2011 and organized by […]

Finnish Society on Media Education and Mannerheim League of Child Welfare organized a meeting for experts on 10.-11.2.2011 in Helsinki. Annikka Suoninen, a researcher from the university of Jyväskylä, gave […]

Second nordic library labs gathering took place 19th – 20th Jan in Helsinki, Finland. Library innovators from Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark got together to Suomenlinna island to find ways […]

Sinikka Sipilä, Secretary General of the Finnish Library Association is interviewed by Tuula Haavisto, Director of Libraries in the City of Tampere. They discuss on Sinikka Sipilä’s experiences in the […]

Professor David Nicholas (University College London) visited the National Digital Library day in Helsinki, Finland. In his keynote ‘The Google Generation: challenges and changes for libraries, archives and museums’ he […]

Professor Stefan Gradmann (Humboldt University of Berlin) gave the second keynote at the National Digital Library day in Helsinki, Finland. In his talk ‘Linked Open Europeana: Semantics for the Citizen’ […]

Ellen Namhila is the head librarian at Namibia’s University Library. She completed her library studies in Finland in the early 1990s and now returned to visit as a guest of […]