Closing Ceremony IFLA 2010

The ceremony began with awarding Claudia Lux, former President of IFLA, as an honorary fellow of IFLA. Her first IFLA conference was in 1987 and in 2010 she was blogging and on Twitter, making her point that IFLA has changed dramatically. She said she was able to achieve all that she did, “with a little [...]

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E-learning SIG

Barbara Sen, Information School, University of Sheffield, UK There are many positive benefits to using e-portfolios.  The University of Sheffield encourages reflective journal writing with their MA library students. They call their e-portfolio “The Secret Diary of Librarian Mole: My Online Learning Environment.” These entries build to an e-portfolio and supposed to launch them into their [...]

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Notes on Libraries promoting reading in a multicultural, multilingual society

Maija Berndtson, from the Helsinki City Library, Helsinki, Finland, discusses her paper entitled “Libraries promoting multimodal literacy in an intercultural society.” She states, “We are empowering people. We need to focus on our customers, our users, our citizens–more perhaps than our institutions.” She poses a few interesting questions: What does it mean to be literate in a [...]

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Friday the 13th

Today started with one of the most engaging and thoughtful speeches I’ve ever had the pleasure of hearing. Professor Hans Rosling gave a speech that used statistics to show how people’s perspectives don’t always come from facts. What would it be like to live with a fact based world view? If we didn’t align our [...]

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Lost in translation?

My first experience with the translation system made me quite aware of how lucky I am to speak the language that so many people present in at this conference. It is not easy to listen to the translation when the speaker can also be heard. Also, if the speaker speaks quickly, you can hear the [...]

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Metropolitan Libraries With Public Libraries

Metropolitan libraries with public libraries From institutions of the industrial age to change agents for the networked society: experiences from Denmark The projects and partnerships that Rolf Hapel of Denmark spoke of today were impressive. Despite a 50% decrease of libraries in Denmark, the library services seem to have increased. Hapel stated that libraries are really [...]

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Creating my own library tour

After trying multiple times unsuccessfully to register for a library tour, I found myself with two choices.  Either I stay in Gothenberg and go on one of the spontaneous walking tours, which is a viable option, or I create my own library tour. I have to be back in Gothenberg by 5:15 for a meeting [...]

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A Warm Welcome

Despite the chilly winds that pushed me to bundle up like it was late fall when I arrived yesterday, Gothenburg has given such a warm welcome. I am here at IFLA 2010 with 10 other students and 2 professors from St. Catherine’s University in St. Paul, Minnesota.  Yesterday when Marilyn, one of my professors, mentioned [...]

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