I´m an enthusiastic supporter of crowdfunding and use Kickstarter.com as much as I can. Just yesterday a new crowdfunding proposal appeared on my radar. LIBRII is an attempt to make a template for a new type of library suitable for…
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Coding in libraries – a new service?
There are so many things happening around in libraries these days. I love how some libraries are becoming makerspaces, and other libraries are connecting to their communities in new and creative ways. At the same time there is a drive for more…
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The future of the book, and libraries
It is really hard to think about the future of the book and not link it to the future of libraries. But increasingly it seems that this is something we must do. The nature of the book will change in…
What, me worry? Or the Amazon “Library”
I am about as worried about the Amazon Kindle Lending Library as I would be if a guy set up a box of worn paperbacks outside the library entrance and offered to lend them to people for $ 1 as…
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The library card is a barrier to library use
I just came back from London and the Internet Librarian International conference. (The twitter stream is the best way to get an impression). The conference was one of the best I have ever been to. Greatly due to the wonderful…
iPad in my library
I’m lucky enough to be working in a great library. Last June the library director, Marit Gro Berge, approved a project to give an iPad to all librarians working the reference desk. I was given the task of setting up…
Why did you become a librarian?
“I love to read!” Is the most common answer to the question of why you became a librarian. Sometimes longtime librarians sigh a little at this and start going on about how libraries are about so much more than books…
Top five TED talks for librarians
Inspired by the brilliant Library blog Agnostic, maybe who made a list of top five TED talks that librarians should watch, I wanted to make my own list. Why don´t you do to? 1. Temple Grandin – The world needs all…
One month without Facebook and Twitter
On January 26th it was one month until my tenth anniversary as blogger. This started a train of thougth that mostly was about how my blogging frequency has decreased over the years. Of course it was easy to blame life,…
Thank you Jo Walton
Jo Walton has written my favorite book of 2011 (maybe the whole decade). Among others is not like other books. The number of layers in this book is so great that I will probably have to re-read it several times…
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