| 9.00-10.00 | Arrival and Registration at the Turbinehallen
Breakfast, coffee and fresh fruit |
| 10.00-10.15 | Welcome and introduction to conference keynote
Library Director Mr. Rolf Hapel, Aarhus Public Libraries |
| 10.15-10.45 | New Strategies for Children's Libraries
Director Mr. Jens Thorhauge, Danish National Library Authority
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| 10.45-11.15 | Libraries for a knowledge society: a bottom-up perspective
Professor Ms. Kirsten Drotner, University of Southern Denmark
Children are key to the strategic development of tomorrow’s libraries
because children exercise multimodal competencies that are of vital
importance to future library provision in democratic societies.
Based on empirical analyses of children’s library uses, key questions
to be answered are as follows: how do children use library services
to negotiate virtual and real-life engagements? How do library
uses relate to children’s everyday media appropriations?
What are the chances and challenges for libraries posed by children’s
multimodal uses?
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| 11.15-12.00 | ImaginOn; Envisioning the future of library spaces and experiences for youth.
Youth Services Director Ms Melanie Huggins, Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. ImaginOn
With the October 2005 opening of ImaginOn: The Joe & Joan Martin Center, the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County has taken some exciting risks in creating a new model of library services for youth. With the goal of creating a destination for families that provides both the quality materials and exceptional customer service libraries are known for, PLCMC now shares a facility with the Children’s Theatre of Charlotte. The partners share the mission to "bring stories to life" which has shaped everything from architecture to interactive exhibits to staffing. Melanie Huggins will share the philosophies that guided the development of this partnership and the lesson learned thus far.
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| 12.00-13-00 | Lunch - Buffet a la chef |
| 13.00-13.45 | The Children's Interactive Library – prototypes and netWORKing
Project manager Mr. Peter Gall Krogh, Interactive Spaces and
Project manager Mr. Jannik Mulvad, Aarhus Public Libraries
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| 13.45-14.45 | The Library of a 100 Talents; towards a new concept for children's libraries
Head of Children's Department Ms. Marijke Troelstra, Amsterdam Public Library and Library Consultant Ms. Karen Bertrams, ProBiblio, The Netherlands
The information society is changing. The way children look for information and the way they use information is changing. The question is whether we as libraries are also keeping pace with the change and if so; is it in the right direction and in what way are we involving children – with their different talents - in this proces ? Marijke Troelstra will give the highlights of the project of The library of 100 talents and talk about her plans for Amsterdam. Her collegue Karen Bertrams ( Heerhugowaard Public Library ) will talk about her experiences in translating the theory into pratice. She workes with groups of children getting them involved in the new concept for the new children's library in Heerhugowaard
PDF-Presentation Marijke Troelstra
PDF-Presentation Karen Bertrams |
| 14.45-15.00 | Five Minutes Madness |
| 15.00-15.30 | Coffee Break |
| 15.30-16.15 | Children’s Rights, access to information and IFLA’s Guidelines
for Library Services for Children and Young Adults
Consultant Ms. Ingrid Bon, Biblioservice Gelderland and
secretary of Section Libraries for Children and Young Adults of IFLA
For all who are concerned with children and young adults, the United Nations Convention on The Rights of the Child offers support in library policy and practice.
Libraries, and especially children’s libraries should have as its goal "to advocate for the children’s right to information, according to the United Nations’ Convent on Children’s Rights".
From that point of view it is only a small step to a specific Health Information Point for children. In a new approach some library and information students, supported by specialists on health information and children, work together in this project. Their task is to develop both a physical and digital access point with health information for children.
And last but not least, the international library community (via IFLA Section Libraries for Children and Young Adults) has developed the Guidelines for libraries for children and young adults, to provide all libraries with some tools to improve the international standard of library services.
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| 16.15-17.00 | New Communication Strategy – push as well as pull strategies
Consultant Ms. Bente Buchhave
Professor Roy Langer describes a communication strategy as containing push as well as pull strategies. Particularly the last dimension challenges traditional thinking and is perhaps essential for the library in order to be seen as appropriate and relevant in its own time.
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| 19.00-02.00 | Conference Dinner at Turbinehallen
Dinner of the six senses and beverage ad lib. |
