| Small and Proud |
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| Date: | 10th – 11th February 2010 |
| Location: | Folkets Hus, Ulricehamn, Sweden |
| Price: | 1,200 SEK, incl. lunch, coffee, dinner and entertainment |
| PROGRAMME Wednesday February 10th |
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| 12.00 | Lunch Registration |
| 13.15 | Opening Session Roland Karlsson, Mayor, Ulricehamn Municipality The Town at the Lakeside - Jan Töve’s slideshow portraying Ulricehamn |
| 13.45 | Keynote Address |
| 14.45 | Short break |
| 14.50 | People are in Motion and the Library Follows Them – on the Mobile Library in a Mobile Era Ann Östman, Gävleborg Regional Library Ann Östmans PowerPoint-presentation |
| 16.00 | Coffee break |
| 16.20 - 17.00 | The Library of Diversity – Good Examples from Västra
Götaland Library is only one place in today's society where everyone can be free of charge and without any requirement for performance. Everybody is simply welcome! Therefore, the library has become a meeting place for different ages and different groups of society. While we have in Sweden the library law and in § 8 is written Public and school libraries should pay special attention to people with disabilities, immigrants and other minorities by offering literature in other languages than Swedish and in forms adapted to their needs. Surveys show that most lent languages after Swedish are Thai and Russian and borrowers are women who come to libraries to borrow books and leave. They do not stay long at the library. Contrast, men with origin in Middle East and the Balkans gladly stay longer at the library, they come in the morning to read newspapers from their countries of origin and then talk to each other, playing chess, etc. Meanwhile, the average librarian in a Swedish library is a Swedish-born woman of a higher middle age. Regional Library Office of Västra Götaland tried to do something about it. First attempt was Project Library hosts which ran between 2006 and 2008 and involved 12 new employees with non-Nordic background in 8 public libraries in the region. Another attempt is the language consultations. The objective is the improvement and renewal of the median stock in question for each community languages. Eugenia Granath, Västra Götaland Regional Library Eugenia Granaths PowerPoint-presentation |
| 19.30 | Conference Dinner at Hotel Bogesund |
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Thursday February 11th |
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| 8.30 |
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| 9.30 | Coffee break |
| 10.00 | Library of
the Year 2009 BUS-biblioteket (BUS-library) is a hospital library for children, young adults and their relatives at The Queen Silvia Children´s Hospital in Gothenburg. Since the culture- and improving project BUSKUL 2005-2008, the culture work of the hospital library has become wide, important and a natural part of the hospital´s every day life. The work and activities are built on cooperation and networking on many different levels. Playtherapist Victoria Klaiber and librarian Karin Graube present how this particular cultural centre is working. Vicki Klaiber and Karin Graube, BUS-Biblioteket, the library of the Queen Silvia Children’s Hospital, Gothenburg |
| 11.00 | The Red Ribbon and the Colour Yellow In April 2008 we opened a new main library in Hjørring, Denmark. This library is created by the artist duo Bosch & Fjord. The heart and pivotal point of the new library is a physical communication structure that twists and winds its way through the library. We call it the red ribbon. Focus in this presentation will be on the children´s department with its possibilities for play and creativity. Tone Lunden, Children´s librarian and Culture consultant, Hjørring Library, Denmark |
| 12.00 | Lunch |
| 13.00 | Local, Global or Glocal – workshops on the public
library of the future Introduction by Ulrika Geeraedts |
| 14.30 - 15.30 | Panel Discussion |
| The last date for registration is February 1st 2010.
Confirmation will be sent by e-mail. The Swedish Library Association
does not charge VAT, in accordance with Swedish tax legislation. Welcome! |
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