Post on 26-Mar-2015
Democracy, Innovation and Partnerships
Jens ThorhaugeDanish Agency for Libraries and Media
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Challenges a la carte
• To develop the new library concept – aiming at all citizens• To reorganise the library according to the concept – from
collection to connection to facilitating learning and inspiration• To create services in support of the agenda of the society
– where libraries can be of help
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The vision for a new concept
• Coherent digital library covering all fields of media and library services from baby- to researcher level
• Corresponding with the library spaceactivities and programmes
• Aiming at all citizens with segmented services and building on partnerships of all kind
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Reorganize library work
• Turn around from collection-centered organisation towards user-need driven organisation
• Build on national cooperation and national services and development in combination with local tailored services
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New cooperative models state/municipalities
• Danish Agency for Libraries and Media responsible for infrastructure
• Municipalities responsible for public libraries
• Create an organisation taking responsibility in new (inter)national structure and frame for (public) libraries, closer cooperation
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Segmented and including services
• The library niche is facilitating the use of media for lifelong learning, inspirational purposes & other kinds of personal and democratic development activities
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Challenges for democracy
• Bridge the divides in a still more fragmented society
• Coherence creating activities
• Educating the public• Democracy and social
media
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Innovation – more than a buzz-word
• 180.000 jobs lost in few years
• Competition on production costs lost
• Creativity and innovative ways to work should be pursued systematically
• Social innovation needed – find ways to integrate innovation work in everyday life
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Partnerships essential to change
Partnerships is a method• To ensure user orientation• For competence and scope
building• For segmentation of
services• For relationel development
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A new library concept
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Do we need a new kind of ’institutions’?
• We need a change from institution-centered thinking to user need-driven activities. We need more ’fluid’ and flexible activities
• We need to facilitate people where they are• Connect this need with the trend towards reorganizing library
work
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Some citizens’ needs – democracy and innovation related
• Develop media literacy- stimulate linguistic development
• Support learning, help pupils with difficulties• Inspire innovation – small and mediumsized
businesses• Building basic ICT competencies• Lifelong learning activities of many kinds• Inspire and support networking and participation• Coping with everyday issues in a strange culture
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Some Danish steps so far – integrating virtual and real services – and building on partnerships
• Bookstart• Paul’s Giftshop• Homework café• Home work online• Literature-web• Open access • Ageforce• Bibliotek.dk• Danish Digital Library
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Bookstart in ghettos
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The website forms an inspiring universe of its own – inviting children to participate
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Homework café works
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Homework-online hits boys that are not visiting the library
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’Borrow an expert’ – the human ressource!
• Billede fra karrierebiblioteket.dk
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Open access and inspiration for SMB
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The web for literature is a new intermediary
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Empowerment of 50+
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bibliotek.dk – a backbone to be improved
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Next library
• Danish Digital Library• Integrated acces/federal search to all relevant
material• Open source and SOA• National solutions on infrastructure and licensing–
local priorities and presentations, local profile in library space and programme
• Basic collection of web-media for all libraries
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The library space remains - but virtual services are part of it as water taps in a household