Public libraries in The Netherlands: a powerful networkFers
In this presentation I will briefly present the structure of the public library network in the Netherlands, with particular emphasis on the way public library innovation is “organised”. There is currently a community of practice (CoP) organised for every specific area of library innovation which at the same time also addresses officially established national priorities, i.e. lifelong learning, development of traditional library services, education of the young population, etc. Librarians in each of the CoPs share experiences specific to their field based on which they identify future activities aimed at the development of the particular field. Librarians included in this CoP system come from libraries of all types and sizes regardless of the province or region.
Keywords: innovation, collaboration, Communities of Practice, network
Presented at 11th Croatian Conference on Public Libraries: “Public Library Network – Cooperation in the Development of Digital Services and Public Presentation” http://www.nsk.hr/en/11th-croatian-conference-on-public-libraries/
Newman Numismatic Portal Overview - Mar 2015Chris Freeland
The Newman Numismatic Portal will create the world’s most comprehensive online encyclopedia of American and Colonial coinage, currency, realia, and related correspondence and published literature. Materials from the Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society’s coin collections and supporting reference libraries will be digitized along with University collections and made available to an online community of scholars and enthusiasts. Digital content will be stored, curated and preserved by specialists in the Libraries, with corresponding curatorial activities on physical/analog materials. Outreach activities will raise awareness about the research portal and its contents.
Public libraries in The Netherlands: a powerful networkFers
In this presentation I will briefly present the structure of the public library network in the Netherlands, with particular emphasis on the way public library innovation is “organised”. There is currently a community of practice (CoP) organised for every specific area of library innovation which at the same time also addresses officially established national priorities, i.e. lifelong learning, development of traditional library services, education of the young population, etc. Librarians in each of the CoPs share experiences specific to their field based on which they identify future activities aimed at the development of the particular field. Librarians included in this CoP system come from libraries of all types and sizes regardless of the province or region.
Keywords: innovation, collaboration, Communities of Practice, network
Presented at 11th Croatian Conference on Public Libraries: “Public Library Network – Cooperation in the Development of Digital Services and Public Presentation” http://www.nsk.hr/en/11th-croatian-conference-on-public-libraries/
Newman Numismatic Portal Overview - Mar 2015Chris Freeland
The Newman Numismatic Portal will create the world’s most comprehensive online encyclopedia of American and Colonial coinage, currency, realia, and related correspondence and published literature. Materials from the Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society’s coin collections and supporting reference libraries will be digitized along with University collections and made available to an online community of scholars and enthusiasts. Digital content will be stored, curated and preserved by specialists in the Libraries, with corresponding curatorial activities on physical/analog materials. Outreach activities will raise awareness about the research portal and its contents.
Documenting Ferguson: Building a community digital repositoryChris Freeland
The August 2014 shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, along with other recent police-involved shootings around the country have inspired demonstrations, conversation, debate and calls for systemic change in our society. Soon after Brown’s shooting, Washington University Libraries and other St. Louis cultural heritage institutions established a repository to document events in or inspired by Ferguson. Appropriately named Documenting Ferguson, this community-sourced open repository now has more than 1,500 files of digital photographs, video recordings and other media contributed from all over the country. These are viewable online at http://digital.wustl.edu/ferguson. Video of this talk available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6whGNsesYA.
Presentation to the Suffolk Libraries Staff Conference in Ipswich looking at the many ways in which public libraries help their users improve their lives.
Digital Cultural Heritage: Experiences from British LibraryNora McGregor
Slides from seminar on Digital Cultural Heritage given to UCL Institute of Sustainable Heritage's two programmes: the MSc Sustainable Heritage and the MRes Science and Engineering in Arts, Heritage and Archaeology.
The Social Digitization Workshop of the Silesian Digital Library at the Siles...Śląska Biblioteka Cyfrowa
Presentation given at the third European Congress on E-Inclusion ‘Transforming Access to Digital Europe in Public Libraries’ (ECEI11), European Parliament, Brussels
101 This is Digital Scholarship Staff TrainingNora McGregor
Slides for our internal staff introduction to Digital Scholarship course. When does scholarship become ‘digital scholarship’? This course takes a thought-provoking look at how information technology has transformed research today. Touching on the growing application of computing in various research disciplines we’ll familiarize ourselves with the concepts, methods and tools that define digital scholarship and explore how we can best support digital scholars at British Library.
Slides from Special Libraries Association 2010 Conference session International Virtual Libraries
Description: Virtual libraries comprising materials spanning nations now populate our professional world. Probe the major ones: UNESCO‘s World Digital Library, The European Union’s Europeana, and the very latest on the Google Books settlement.
Speakers: Lyle Minter, U.S. Congressional Research Service; Ann Sweeney, European Union Delegation to the U.S.; Doug Newcomb, SLA Chief Policy Officer; Peter Brantley, Internet Archive, Independent Expert on the Google Books Settlement.
Presentació de Lluís M. Anglada, director de l'Àrea de Biblioteques, Informació i Documentació del CSUC, a l'International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC), que va tenir lloc del 20 al 22 d'octubre de 2014 a la Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal.
En aquesta presentació, que formava part del bloc dedicat a noves eines, Anglada presenta el nou sistema integrat de biblioteques i eines de descobriment com a oportunitats per als consorcis.
Slide 2 - 66: Shaping innovatin in education with cultural heritage by Fred Truyen, Steven Stegers, Evita Tasiopoulou and Marco Neves
Slides 67 - 152: Multilingual access and machine translation by Andy Neale, Antoine Isaac, Pavel Kats, Alex Raginsky and Sergiu Gordea
Slides 155 - 164: How to implement the FAIR principles in digital culture by Sara Di Giorgio, Saskia Scheltjens and Makx Dekkers, Seamus Ross, Franco Niccolucci and Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra
Slide 166: EuropeanaTech Unconference by Clemens Neudecker
Documenting Ferguson: Building a community digital repositoryChris Freeland
The August 2014 shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, along with other recent police-involved shootings around the country have inspired demonstrations, conversation, debate and calls for systemic change in our society. Soon after Brown’s shooting, Washington University Libraries and other St. Louis cultural heritage institutions established a repository to document events in or inspired by Ferguson. Appropriately named Documenting Ferguson, this community-sourced open repository now has more than 1,500 files of digital photographs, video recordings and other media contributed from all over the country. These are viewable online at http://digital.wustl.edu/ferguson. Video of this talk available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6whGNsesYA.
Presentation to the Suffolk Libraries Staff Conference in Ipswich looking at the many ways in which public libraries help their users improve their lives.
Digital Cultural Heritage: Experiences from British LibraryNora McGregor
Slides from seminar on Digital Cultural Heritage given to UCL Institute of Sustainable Heritage's two programmes: the MSc Sustainable Heritage and the MRes Science and Engineering in Arts, Heritage and Archaeology.
The Social Digitization Workshop of the Silesian Digital Library at the Siles...Śląska Biblioteka Cyfrowa
Presentation given at the third European Congress on E-Inclusion ‘Transforming Access to Digital Europe in Public Libraries’ (ECEI11), European Parliament, Brussels
101 This is Digital Scholarship Staff TrainingNora McGregor
Slides for our internal staff introduction to Digital Scholarship course. When does scholarship become ‘digital scholarship’? This course takes a thought-provoking look at how information technology has transformed research today. Touching on the growing application of computing in various research disciplines we’ll familiarize ourselves with the concepts, methods and tools that define digital scholarship and explore how we can best support digital scholars at British Library.
Slides from Special Libraries Association 2010 Conference session International Virtual Libraries
Description: Virtual libraries comprising materials spanning nations now populate our professional world. Probe the major ones: UNESCO‘s World Digital Library, The European Union’s Europeana, and the very latest on the Google Books settlement.
Speakers: Lyle Minter, U.S. Congressional Research Service; Ann Sweeney, European Union Delegation to the U.S.; Doug Newcomb, SLA Chief Policy Officer; Peter Brantley, Internet Archive, Independent Expert on the Google Books Settlement.
Presentació de Lluís M. Anglada, director de l'Àrea de Biblioteques, Informació i Documentació del CSUC, a l'International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC), que va tenir lloc del 20 al 22 d'octubre de 2014 a la Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal.
En aquesta presentació, que formava part del bloc dedicat a noves eines, Anglada presenta el nou sistema integrat de biblioteques i eines de descobriment com a oportunitats per als consorcis.
Slide 2 - 66: Shaping innovatin in education with cultural heritage by Fred Truyen, Steven Stegers, Evita Tasiopoulou and Marco Neves
Slides 67 - 152: Multilingual access and machine translation by Andy Neale, Antoine Isaac, Pavel Kats, Alex Raginsky and Sergiu Gordea
Slides 155 - 164: How to implement the FAIR principles in digital culture by Sara Di Giorgio, Saskia Scheltjens and Makx Dekkers, Seamus Ross, Franco Niccolucci and Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra
Slide 166: EuropeanaTech Unconference by Clemens Neudecker
As We Move Toward the Future, How Are We Doing?Jill Hurst-Wahl
Subtitle: Convergence & Sustainability: Why Our Future Is Bright, Part 2
This presentation provides information on the services libraries are providing for their users and which are moving them (the libraries) toward a vibrant future.
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On June 7, Jill Hurst-Wahl spoke at the New York Archives Conference. Her presentation was a follow-up to her plenary session for NYAC in 2011.
This PowerPoint was created for use by participants and others after her talk, and covers all of the information she provided in her session. Jill did not use PowerPoint during her session.
Presentation at 2013 World Summit on the Information Society multistakeholder review event (WSIS+10)
UNESCO, Paris, 25-27 February 2013
ISSC Session: Critical Social Sciences in the Digital Age
Engaging Your Community Through Cultural Heritage Digital Libraries Karen S Calhoun
Based on the book Exploring Digital Libraries, this ALA Techsource webinar examines cultural heritage collections in the context of the social web and online communities. Calhoun and Brenner explore the possibilities and provide examples of digital libraries' shift toward social platforms, along the way discussing how to increase discoverability and community engagement, for instance through crowdsourcing.
Danish library association and the danish digital libraryMichel Steen-Hansen
In The Danish Library Association we are always happy to have guests from around the world. This week we had a visit from Estonian Librarians Association and the National Library in Ljubljana.
On this occasion I made a short presentation on Danish Library Association and The Danish Digital Library.
A description of the public library service in Finland. Presented by Barbo Wigell-Ryynänen at the CILIPS Centenary Conference which took place on Tue 3 Jun 2008.
Summary from presentations by Michel Steen-Hansen at a HIBOLIRE seminar in Copenhagen, December 14-15, 2009
Will the library spirit continue in the future?
Yes…..
– if we redefine the Library in a political context
The question then is, how to make the political decision-makers understand, promote and finance these changes.
I think our major challenges just now is to describe a new narrative frame to get public recognition
New narrative frame for the libraries
We need to create a new narrative frame, or should I say, create a definition for what the modern library is and we need to keep debating how to describe it.
We need to develop strategies to gain access to the politicians to convince them of the continued relevance of libraries in modern society.
See the hole Summary http://biblioteksdebat.blogspot.com/2009/12/will-library-spirit-continue-in-future.html
Emerging Technologies in the Workplace For Quality ServiceFe Angela Verzosa
presented at the Seminar on the theme “Basics and Beyond Librarianship: Towards a Compleat Librarian,” held at Holy Angel University, Angeles, Pampanga on September 9, 2009
Digital Infrastructures that Embody Library Principles: The IMLS national dig...Trevor Owens
Digital library infrastructures must not simply work. They must also manifest the core principles of libraries and archives. Since 2014, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has engaged with stakeholders from diverse library communities to consider collaborative approaches to building digital library tools and services. The “national digital platform” for libraries, archives, and museums is the framework that resulted from these dialogs. One key feature of the national digital platform (NDP) is the anchoring of core library principles within the development of digital tools and services. This essay explores how NDP-funded projects enact library principles as part of the national framework.
Dorina bralostiteanu, chief librarian at public library of fillasi, dolj coun...
Rafal Kramza, FRSI President, Director of the Library Development Program (PL)
1. » LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM IN POLAND
Joint venture of the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation and Polish-American
Freedom Foundation
Implemented by the Information Society
Development Foundation (FRSI)
2009-2013
$28 million
3,327 public libraries from rural areas
and small towns (c. 50% of the
eligible group)
2. » POLAND
Out of over 38,400,000 population
60% live in communes of less than 50,000
inhabitants (including 38% in villages)
Disparities („Poland of two speeds”): in e.g.
access to education, culture, and also in
the Internet usage: c. 50% rural areas
vs. c. 75% large cities
Libraries: extensive network, public
trust, librarians working with passion
3. 1st round: 1,873 libraries
(610 communes)
2nd round: 1,454 libraries
(497 communes)
3,327 libraries in 1,107 communes
across Poland
4. » THE PROGRAM’S VISION OF SUCCESS
Within 5 years public libraries
participating in the Program
will have (re)gained power
to support the development
of individual citizens and
entire communities
5. » THE PROGRAM’S OBJECTIVES
THE KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION NEEDS
1 OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES ARE BETTER
ADDRESSED BY LIBRIARIES.
INHABITANTS HAVE BETTER ACCESS TO
2 ICT-SUPPORTED NEW SERVICES PROVIDED
BY LIBRARIES.
USERS, PUBLIC OPINION AND POLICY MAKERES
3 PERCEIVE LIBRARIES AND LIBRARIANS AS MORE
IMPORTANT FOR INDIVIDUAL, COMMUNITY AND
COUNTRY DEVELOPMENT.
6. Practical
training courses
In total: c. 6,000 participants
Library Development
Planning Workshop
(10 days)
Specialist courses
(3 days)
IT training courses
(5 days)
8. Many other activities, e.g.
Small grant programs and support for
c. 880 projects (new library functions)
Networking and best practices sharing
between libraries
Support for library system institutions, e.g. the
National Library, 18 provincial libraries (provincial
coordinators, courses for training units’ employees),
Polish Librarians’ Association (development strategy
Outreach campaigns, e.g. „Get Online Week”
(c. 15,000 persons), „Library – A Place For
Safer Internet” (c. 5,000 young people trained)
9. » IMPACT
Libraries undertake People visit libraries more For almost 30% of
new activities (beyond often, benefit in various computer users library
book- areas, e.g. is the only place where
related), becoming the education, culture, social they have access to
„third place” (meeting integration, civic ICT (c. 200,000).
place) serving c. 2,6 participation, life-long
learning, everyday life, Almost 40% first-
million users & c. 10
job searching - c. 100,000 clickers (c. 250,000).
million inhabitants –
Program only. users.
10. » LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM AND FRSI
RECOGNIZED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION
e-Inclusion Award
„Be Part of IT!” 2012
for good practices in
using ICT and digital
technology to tackle
social and digital
exclusion across Europe
12. Free Internet access for all public libraries
in Poland (c. 3,500 have taken benefit so far)
13. » PARTNERSHIPS FOR LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT
c. 100 people - representatives of central
NATIONAL government, librarian community, key
PARTNERSHIP NGOs, national associations of local
FOR LIBRARY governments, opinion leaders
DEVELOPMENT (writers, filmmakers, scientists, journalists, heads
of business organizations)
PROVINCIAL
representatives of the governor, chairman of the
PARTNERSHIPS
province board, head of the provincial library
FOR LIBRARY 16 partnerships signed
DEVELOPMENT
more than 160 partnerships (formal and non-
LOCAL formal) engaging e.g. representatives of local
PARTNERSHIPS authorities, schools, media, local leaders and
NGOs, entrepreneurs etc.
14. » LOCAL PARTNERSHIPS. GOING BEYOND.
» strengthen libraries’ potential to serve local
communities (beyond resources)
» strengthen position of libraries among other local
institutions / organizations and support advocacy
efforts (beyond milieus)
» promote culture of cooperation (beyond mindset)
15. » LOCAL PARTNERSHIPS. SUPPORT WITHIN THE
LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM.
» idea and skills developed within
the library development planning
workshops (e.g. values, principles,
rules of cooperation, benefits)
» consultancy on the spot: trainers assist libraries to
organize first meetings with partners (partnership
rules and objectives set-up,
identification of potential joint
ventures based on community
needs assessment)
» partnerships as part of the
rules/criteria of e.g. grant
programs
16. » LOCAL PARTNERSHIPS.
CHALLENGES, ISSUES, QUESTIONS…
» (not enough) facilitation/communication skills
» (not enough) good ideas for ventures
» ideas developing into something new (else)
» more partners, more opportunities (?)
» target group involvement (?)
» business = money (?)
» being determined/concrete and open for others’
ideas (?)
» one-activity partnership vs. project partnership vs.
strategic partnership