IFLA Satellite Meeting
We in the IFLA Public Library Section are happy to welcome you all
to the beautiful city of Malmö 7-10 August 2010.
Malmö and the county of Skåne is located in the south of Sweden in
the Öresund Region, a dynamic and beautiful part of Scandinavia.
How do we unleash the potential of libraries?
In collaboration with The Regional Library Scania, Malmö
City Library and The Swedish Arts Council we are proud to present an
interesting programme.
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PLACE, PRODUCT, PROMOTION, PARTICIPATION, POLITICS
The five P:s!
We offer you plenary sessions with key-note speakers,
sessions for discussion and networking. The discussions are
organized around the five P:s Place, Product development,
Promotion, Participation and Politics.
Look at Finland!
What´s the secret behind Finlands successful libraries?
What role does the political process and attention play in the
context?
Frederik Tellerup 和almö Turism
Alexander Brandel 和almö Turism
Programme Highlights
We are glad to present some key-note speakers with international
reputation; Sari Feldman, Bert Mulder, and Barbara Gubbins. They
alla emphazise the vital role of the modern library but also the
need for new approaches.
Frederik Tellerup 和almö Turism
The Darling Library
Elsebeth Tank presents the strategy for transformation of
Malmö City Library that has gained a lot of attention. The challenge
is to reach new targetgroups in a multiethnical city with 118
nationalities.
Alexander Brandel 和almö Turism
Study tours in beautiful Skåne
Welcome to a wonderful afternoon om Monday the 9th of August. On
This day we will go by bus on an exciting studytour in Malmö and to
some outstanding libraries in Skåne.
.... welcome to enjoy IFLA Public Section in Malmö
This conference is a unique opportunity to hear about, Malmö
discuss and exchange ideas and inspiration with colleagues
from all over the world. We also want you to enjoy yourselves
and we try to put special efforts in designing an excititing social
programme.
Looking forward to see you!
Frederik Tellerup 和almö Turism
Green libraries are a part of the larger green building movement. Also known as sustainable libraries, green libraries are being built all over the world, with many high-profile projects bringing the concept into the mainstream. Along with library 2.0, green design is an emerging trend, defining the library of the 21st century. Many view the library as having a unique role in the green building movement due to its altruistic mission, public and pedagogical nature, and the fact that new libraries are usually high profile, community driven projects.
Although most academic libraries have collected data on the size and use of their collections for decades, it is only since the late 1990s that many have embarked on a systematic process of assessment (see sample workplans) by surveying their users as well as their collections. Today, many academic libraries have created the position of Library Assessment Manager in order to coordinate and oversee their assessment activities. In addition, many libraries publish on their web sites the improvements that were implemented following their surveys as a way of demonstrating accountability to survey participants.
Several libraries have undertaken renovation or expansion projects as a result of their assessment activities as well as enhance resource discovery tools, improve web site usability and stop redundant services.
In order to determine what is important to library users and how satisfied they are with services, resources and physical space, library assessment utilizes a variety of research methods such as: website usability testing, observation, 'In-Library Use' surveys, focus groups, interviews, wayfinding, balanced scorecard, furniture usability, photo and mapping surveys, organizational climate, statistics and satisfaction surveys. The most widely used library satisfaction survey is LibQUAL+, a service quality evaluation survey developed by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) based on ServQUAL. Other satisfaction surveys are: the SCONUL Satisfaction Survey, Insync Surveys (formerly Rodski), and Counting Opinions LibSat survey.
Although courses on library assessment are not commonplace on the curricula of library schools, in the past few years several schools have opened courses, such as: the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science and the joint Digital Library Program of Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway, Tallinn University, Estonia, and the University of Parma, Italy.
In addition to the basic functions of access to the library catalog, and a user's subscription records, significant elements of a library portal normally include:
- "Metasearching tools, browsable interfaces, and online reference help," which aid in the discovery process, for example Knimbus, Mendeley, J-Gate, EBSCO Discovery services;
- Links to full-text articles, OpenURL,
- availability of interlibrary loan (ILL) or document delivery, for material the library does not own
- Citation management software, user preferences services, "knowledge management tools"
More recently, the focus has been on the discovery goal, which has led to even more difficulties in defining a library portal. The terms "discovery tool," "discovery services," "next-generation discovery tool," "next-generation OPAC" are used interchangeably.
There are no accepted standards for library portals. The only standards in the literature are the more general search and retrieval standards, including Z39.50 and ZING (Z39.50-International: Next Generation), the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, and OpenURL.