The document summarizes the key recommendations from a 2010 Danish report on transforming public libraries. It recommends that libraries develop new concepts for physical spaces, establish partnerships, and create flexible services. It also presents a four room model for libraries with spaces dedicated to inspiration, learning, meeting, and creative performance. The model is intended to help libraries reimagine their services and activities to better serve communities.

1. - A Danish Report 2010 incl. a
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KNUD SCHULZ
CITIZENS’ AND LIBRARY SERVICE AARHUS
STOCKHOLM 19. SEPTEMBER 2011

2. Knud Schulz
 Manager of the Main Library
 Member of a workgroup preparing the
passage about partnerships in the report
 Daily work focus – transforming the Main
Library into “Urban Mediaspace”
 ksc@aarhus.dk
 www.slideshare.net
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3. Agenda
 The report
 Recommendations
 Open Libraries
 The library of the knowledge society
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4. 5 recommendations and a model
of the modern library
1. Open libraries
2. Inspiration and learning
3. The Danish Digital Library (DDL)
4. Partnerships
5. Professional development
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5. Open libraries
 The committee recommends that new concepts for the
physical library space be developed. The library should
moreover locally work systematically on establishing
alternatives to the traditional library space, such as libraries
that are integrated with other types of institutions, as well as
new flexible library services
The committee recommends:
• library space be seen as an independent medium to be developed
• more targeted and offensive promotion of materials be developed
• partnerships be established about activities in the library space
• general concepts for arrangements be established
• flexible forms of service be further developed
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6. Four room model
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7. Four room model
– Inspiration space (Excite)
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8. Inspiration space
 The space for meaningful experiences that is to say
experiences that move us
 The space should open up to the irrational, emotional and
chaotic by communicating a diversion of aesthetic
experiences.
 This can happen through storytelling or other artistic
expressions within all kinds of media, cultural forms and
genres.
 The inspiration space should make the user want to move
beyond the usual choices and to come back.
 The library space in itself may also be an experience and
work as a stage for events and cultural arrangements.
 The inspiration space especially supports realisation
(cognition)/experience and innovation.
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9. individual concentration

10. Music

11. digital media

12. Inspiration

13. events

14. appearance

15. book clubs

16. picture book

17. reading aloud

18. staging

19. Four room model
– Learning space (Explore)
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20. Learning space
 Space where children, young people and adults can experience
and explore the world and thus strengthen their competences
and possibilities through free and easy access to information and
knowledge
 Learning is seen as a dialogue oriented process that is based on
the users’ own experiences and their wishes to define their own
learning needs
 Often takes place in informal settings which do not have learning
as the goal – learning happens through play, music and many
other activities
 Should meet the needs of especially young people for a more
experience oriented learning through the development of
playful, interactive and social learning methods.
 Learning is strengthened through the use of homework cafes,
study places, open courses and experiment areas.
 The learning space especially supports realisation
(cognition)/experience and empowerment.
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21. teaching

22. courses

23. informal learning

24. consultations

25. one to one

26. homework cafe

27. guidance

28. access to knowledge

29. selfservice

30. Four room model
- Meeting space (Participate)
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31. Meeting space
 An open, public space where citizens as a third space
between home and work can meet others who are both as
themselves and different from themselves
 Arenaes, where you can meet other people with different
interests and values and encounter opinions that challenge
you through discussions and debate, are necessary
 In the meeting space both non-commital, random
encounters can take place through lounge décor with
newspapers and café atmosphere as well as more
organised meetings
 This can take place both live and on the Internet in
chatgroups, blogs or other social media.
 The meeting space especially supports empowerment and
engagement
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32. meetings

33. lectures

34. discussions

35. debates

36. politics

37. being together

38. Four room model
- Performative space (Create)
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39. Performative space
 Users can interact with others for inspiration to create new
creative expressions in the encounter with art and culture
 Users can get access to tools that support their creative
expressions through interactive games and writing-, sound-
and video-workshops
 The users can also get support in their creative expressions
through workshops with professional artists, designers,
multimedia developers etc.
 Can act as a platform for communication by publishing and
distributing the work and products of the users and by
giving access to stages where users can perform and
express themselves.
 The performative space especially supports engagement
and innovation.
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40. writing workshops

41. experiment

42. edutainment

43. Workshops

44. playing

45. gaming

46. gaming

47. Use the model on your services
 Place your services in the model
 Discuss new possibilities
 Decide the future activities
 Lookup - involving partners
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48. Four room model
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