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Intro for Library Camp17.-18.11.2008 in Helsinki
Maija Berndtson
Library Director
Helsinki City Library
Helsinki City Library's mission statement
• Helsinki City Library provides a basic civic service available to everyone. As a part of the worldwide network of libraries, we offer unrestricted access to sources of culture and information.
• As part of local community and on an interactive basis we develop the library services needed by our clients in order to be active members of society and enjoy life.
Vision 2010
The boundless library –
a source of enlightenment
andinspiration
throughout your life.
Library 10 New concept for a library The Library 10 unit was awarded the first prize in the Quality Innovation of the Year competition. In the category for
public communities two awards were given out. As one of the reasons for their decision the jury stated that the library has recognised the changes the world has gone through and has met the challenges posed by the change with extremely modern methods, which have yielded excellent results.
Meetingpoint@lasipalatsiThe service includes experts from different fields providing
guidance to those seeking information on the use of Internet-based electronic
services, mobile services and digital TV.
Meetingpoint@lasipalatsi isalso a venue where hardware
manufacturers and service providers put their services on display. It’s an
opportunity to meet customer groups and get direct feedback of
their services.
Meetingpoint@lasipalatsiThe service includes experts from different fields providing
guidance to those seeking information on the use of Internet-based electronic
services, mobile services and digital TV.
Meetingpoint@lasipalatsi isalso a venue where hardware
manufacturers and service providers put their services on display. It’s an
opportunity to meet customer groups and get direct feedback of
their services.
Library network in Helsinki
• 36 Libraries – all expect Library 10 are ”local libraries”
• Historically unique and architecturally beautiful library buildings: Rikhardinkatu, Kallio, Töölö, Pasila,Vallila,Arabianranta, Viikki,Vuosaari
• All library buildings are small: 200 m2 – 3 500 m2 for public spaces
Keywords in planning the new
central library• Innovative – the future is the sum
of the creativity in use today• Concrete – the project is alive
already today, practice and tests (for example Meetingpoint@lasipalatsi, rethinking the brand concept, projects with partners)
• Communicative – we tell, ask and listen: web, discussions, conferences
• Participating – we take part and we do it together
The functions of third places
open for everyone – not a club
uniting the neighbourhood– an inclusive place– social equality
a “mixer” – assimilation – a leveller – expand the possibilities
a “neutral ground” – people may come and go as they want
a staging area
provide “public characters” – human personality and individuality
brings youth and adults together
serve elderly as well
give the possibility to visit daily – the regulars – a low profile, easy to come - continuity
neither personal advantage nor civic duty
provide “fun” – but the entertainment is provided by the people themselves – the mood is playful
locally situated
political and intellectual fora – conversation is the main activity
may serve as offices – open off hours
not necessarilyfine but cosy and comfortable
Jyske, the Danish Experience Bankhttp://www.experientia.com/blog/jyske-the-danish-experiencebank/
“Jyske Difference” ["Jyske Forskelle"], slogan is “Jyske is the
bank that makes a difference.”
Jyske Bank is a bank, a store, and a modern library. Jyske Bank is the
place where customers become smarter, inspired, and experience a
straightforward atmosphere
Lessons to be learnedThere is a need for new kind of urban public space both in city
centres and communities in neighbourhoods
Libraries are not alone to trying to fill that need – but they are strong because they are the
most visited cultural institutionsIn comparison with others
libraries have the benefit to be free and secure, non-profit,
non-commercial public spaces, often also aesthetic
Lessons to be learnedLibraries have to get rid of the
image being just “temples of books”, we need space for
people not for the collection
Actually we have a new program every day or vice
versa: you cannot use during one visit all what library has to
offer
Libraries have to be accepted as third places not as static
places where nothing happens
What should we doInstead of collection or
“taking care of the library” we have to put our
customers first – a change in our own attitude
We have to ask what our customers expect – but we
have also to surprise by offering something they
never could expect, we give them “added value of library
services”
What should we doWe have to look at our premises from
the point of view of customer from the moment she/he enters to the library – it
means we have to create a new concept of the interior
The flexibility of the interior has been a mantra already long time – make it to
work in reality and add another mantra, namely “void” (it means empty space,
the state of nonexistence, nothingness )
Create exiting landscape within the library – silent rooms, group work
rooms, studios
What should we doMake library living – more
programme, discussions, happenings and new trends to the fore in style
“new season – new collection”
Do not think that you can do everything yourself – search partners
and experts in other fields
Smart places in smart citiesSmart places will collect and spit out
information and they will attend, anticipate and respond to our daily
needs in a vast variety of new ways. The distinction between building and
computer interface will effectively disappear.
Electronic intelligence , embedded everywhere, creates the necessary
interfaces between producers and consumers, and allows us to rethink
the ways that even the most mundane utilities are organized and run.
We will characterize cities of the twenty-first-century as systems of interlinked,interacting, silicon- and
software- saturated smart, attentive, and responsive places. (Mitchell)
Central Library - The Heart of Metropolis,
The Heart of Helsinki
Long live the library!• Mikko Leisti’s review report, appointed by The City of Helsinki Mayor
Jussi Pajunen, ”Central Library – The Heart of Helsinki, The Heart of Metropolis” was published 12.3.2008
• Based on- 150 Interviews and group discussions with representatives from different branches, fields and areas- Researches and source books- Strategies on national and local level- Study tours in Finland, Stockholm, Sendai, Seattle, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
The Heart of Metropolis - review• Proposes 25 000 m2 Central Library in Helsinki comprising
12 000 m2 of space for library services, 8000 m2 for variety of events and other programming and 5000 m2 for commersial activities
• Three potential locations: the Lasipalatsi building, the Post House, the Töölönlahti area
• A joint, national project between the Finnish state, the City of Helsinki and other cities in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area
Three potential locations for the new central library
Töölönlahti area in the future
Parts of the centrallibrary already exists
• IT- and music libraryLibrary 10
• Meetingpoint@lasipalatsi; a meeting point with different partners, both from private and public sector
• Some parts of the main library will move into the new central library
• Central library is not a new main library
Common vision for the Helsinki Metropolitan
Area
• The Helsinki Metropolitan Area is a dynamic world-class centre for business and innovation. Its high-quality services, arts and science, creativity and adaptability promote the prosperity of its citizens and bring benefits to all of Finland. The Metropolitan Area is being developed as a unified region close to nature where it is good to live, learn, work and do business.
Importance of Libraries
• Libraries as an opportunity
- Libraries as the cornerstones of our success
- Attractive and dynamic Finland
- A look into the future
- Building skills
- Libraries are for everyone
The Heart of Metropolis
• The library of the future
• A new library concept for a hub of ”knowledge, skills and stories”
• Content: resources, encounters and communication
The new central library,
by yardstick• Total area 25 000 m2• Libray: 12 000 m2• Meeting point 8 000 m2
- Exhibiton spaces, Suomi-experience, biography, studysauna, sauna, studio, auditorium, cinema, wintergarden, meeting rooms, free speaker’s corner, brainstorm, play room, family space, space for young people
• Commercial premises: 5 000 m2-Restaurants, cafés, shops, market, gallery-Visitors 1,5 mil., in other words approximately 4000-5000 daily
Place for people – not for
magazine
• The library space is meant for people, not for books/ media
• Collection approximately 200 000 (the stock stays in Pasila) – Seattle 1 million
• 1,5 million visitors is being calculated – Library 10580 000, Rikhardinkatu library 580 000
More information• Review was published on the web both in
English and in Swedish
• Take a look at www.lib.hel.fi , - - > Organisation - - > Central library, to find some more information about the Central Library!
Snöhetta ”Wisdom”
• "Are librarians and architects too conservative? Should they / we break out of old molds and renew their / our thinking?"
Snøhetta Architects, designers of Bibliotheca Alexandrina – and Oslo Opera House
The Future…
• The threat for the future
- perfectionism
• The possibility for the future
- boundless (without boarders)
The Customer Point of View…
• Unhappy people watch TV, happy people read/socialize
• A new study by sociologists at the University of Maryland concludes that unhappy people watch more TV, while people who describe themselves as very happy spend more time reading and socializing. The study appears in the December
issue of the journal Social Indicators Research. http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/unhappy-people-watch-tv-happy-people-readsocialize-17794.html
• The challenge for libraries thus is: how to make people to read/socialize