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A Future for Libraries? Perhaps, if…
Future Library Unconference Athens-Greece
9 – 10 December, 2013
Maija Berndtson
Ex Library Director (Helsinki City Library 1987-2013)
Georg Flegel (1566-1638): Stilleben – with apples ”The traditional library”
Pieter Brugel the Elder: The Fall of the Rebel Angels,
c.1562 ”The Internet Library”
Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals ”The People´s Library”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_GBwuYuOOs
”Fantasy is more
important than
knowledge”.
”Logic will take you from A to B
but imagination takes you
anywhere”.
Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
Library
WHAT ARE LIBRARIES FOR?
Culture all arts, continuity Democracy information, versatility Development lifelong learning Integration social cohesion, equality Exploration research Serendipity discovery, innovation
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THE STRENGTH OF
THE LIBRARY
Customer is the “doer”
Creative milieu for everyone
Face to face personal guidance
CHANGES IN THE LIBRARY
OPERATIONS
The physical form
of the library collections
loses its meaning
More diverse clientele
The concept of the learning,
working and leisure time
environment expands
The growing significance of
collaboration and interaction
The clients’ need
for independent
activities increases
The growing importance of
supporting social and digital equality
Locality and physical encounters
are still important
Library
services
diversify
Hybrid media
Metadata
Open
data
refinery
New knowledge
creation Cloud computing
Exhibition and
knowledge center
Open learning
National
digital
library
Electronic books
Classical
literature,
music,
movies
Meeting forum
Challenge
New building architecture
for digital universe
Helsinki Central Library Project, Feasibility Study 2010
by Klaus Oesch
eLibrary http://www.helmet.fi/en-US/eLibrary/eLibrary_news
• Borrow e-books (e.g. Overdrive e-books in English
• Read magazines anytime, anywhere (e.g.
Ebsco)
• Music library (e.g. Naxos)
• IndieFlix movie service
• HelMet-pocket library
Pocket Library in Helsinki Metropolitan Area https://github.com/helsinki-city-library/pocketlibrary
• Pocket Library is a new kind of a service for library patrons. It runs on modern iPhone and Android smartphones.
• The service expands the traditional notion of checking out materials, making it possible for library users to check out books and other items directly from other users anywhere. The latest is that the mobile is library card, too.
• To be more generally useful as a library users personal information assistant, it also has the ability to manage the users' loans and explore the library catalog.
Laptop doctor
The Laptop doctor helps customers one-on-one with updates, security issues, and installation of programs
Modern equipment, free work and business
negotiation place
Skype calls, scanners, headsets, printing,
WLAN-N wireless, web cams for loan, chargers
Urban Office Meeting Point open for all
Helsinki City Library – moving around
Digitize your LPs and cassettes at Vinyl Bar!
• At the new Vinyl Bar you can listen to LPs and audio cassettes, but also convert them to a digital format.
• The conversion of LPs and cassettes are specifically to CD-format, requiring a CDR / CDRW disc. It functions on a self-serve basis.
3D-printing at Meetingpoint http://www.helmet.fi/en-
US/Libraries_and_services/Meetingpointlasipalatsi/Whats_going_on/3Dprinting_at_Meetingpoint(22405)
• With our 3D-printer you are able to print your own 3D-models or free models from the internet. Free and ready-to-use models can be found for example from www.thingiverse.com The main purpose of Meetingpoint's printer is to experiment and to get familiar with the new technology.
The library as facilitator
The library provides its customers with space, equipment, and know-how as needed. The customers describe what types
of events, materials, and guidance they need.
The library and its customers develop activities and events together.
Cross-European survey to measure
users’ perceptions of the benefits of ICT in public libraries
Final report
March 2013 Susannah Quick, Gillian Prior, Ben Toombs, Luke Taylor and Rosanna Currenti
The purpose of the research was to understand the impact that public libraries in the EU have on users’ lives. http://www.minedu.fi/export/sites/default/OPM/Kirjastot/kansainvaelinen_ja_eu-yhteistyoe/Liitteet/Final_Report_-_Cross-European_Library_Impact.pdf
% of adults who have used a public library in the last 12 months/last month
The site of the new central library in Helsinki,www.keskustakirjasto.fi
The winner of the architectural competition of Helsinki Central Library, by ALA Architects,
Käännös
The New Central Library in Helsinki - Facts
• A hub of knowledge, skills and stories
• 5,000 - 6000 visitors a day
• 1.5 – 2.0 million visitors a year
• 200 000 items (books etc) to borrow
• Events and guidance
• 10,000 m² of the library of the future
• Open public space, free for all
• Open 24/7 – part of it
• Every day something new
• Construction cost over 90 million Euros
• Finished 2017-2018; 2017 The Centennial of Finland´s independence
New aspects in and for the planning process
- This is not a new main library with the administration and the book magazine – it is ”a people´s palace”
- User-oriented service design
- Not one style all over the building
- Ubiquitous building: from audiovisual to sensomotoric media culture
- All senses
- Knowledge, emotion and fantasy
- Special attention to the acoustics and the ecology
The hottiest topic - the Sauna
• Helsinki citizens already expect the new central library to have a sauna for their own and tourists’ delight
A Future for Libraries? Yes, if…
• we look at people´s lives and at the society, not at our services
• we are people-oriented: from collection and transactions to relations and communication
• our service code is: Not ”to people”, yes ”for people”, more ”with customers”, and even ”by customers”
• we create personified services
• we make library a living place with different activities and thus emphasize the role of library as public space and creative milieu
• we move from offering access to information to knowledge creating and innovation
• we learn to cooperate and work with different partners
we
library an enricher
is
ideas of
where by sharing
knowledge, skills
and stories a new
and thoughts,
together create
civic society.
The
Vision of the
Helsinki City Library
For me libraries are raw diamonds which need to be refined that their value can be seen!
Thank you! maija.berndtson@elisanet.fi