Monthly Archive for February, 2017

Libraries’ democratic role

        This year it there will be five Library Conferences in Sweden and the topic of libraries democratic role will be on the agenda at all of them. Our society has changed over the past year and of course the role of public libraries also. The political […]

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        Hi, I have been a Library Director in Hässleholm’s municipality,Sweden now, for over 3 years now. I have many times been thinking about these questions: How long time does it take to prepare for making big changes or development in a Library organization? What do you […]

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Nordic News

        Here comes blog number 2 from Sweden or shall I say from Scandinavia (Norway, Denmark and Sweden ). One advantage of speaking Swedish and live in Scandinavia is that you can understand and read Norwegian and Danish if you really want to do it. Of course […]

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Public libraries as place makers in today’s cities: urban development, resiliency and social equity

IFLA’s Metropolitan Libraries Section (MetLib) is seeking submissions for its main program at the 83rd IFLA World Library and Information Congress to be held in Wrocław, Poland, 19-25 August 2017 with the theme Public libraries as place makers in today’s cities: urban development, resiliency and social equity. The Section intends to […]

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Integration of Refugees in Hässleholm

        My name is Anette Mjöberg and I’m working as a Library Director in Hässleholms’ Public Libraries. Hässleholm is a city in the south  of Sweden close to Malmö and Lund. We have one main library and Six branches and 1 mobile bus for our 51,000 inhabitants. […]

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