{"id":560,"date":"2014-07-01T01:02:13","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T00:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/?p=560"},"modified":"2014-07-01T01:02:13","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T00:02:13","slug":"the-public-librarys-collection-in-a-digital-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/2014\/07\/01\/the-public-librarys-collection-in-a-digital-age\/","title":{"rendered":"The public library\u2019s collection in a digital age"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Latest edition of Scandinavian Library Quarterly<\/em> <\/a>focuses on collections in the digital era. Lots of good reading.<\/p>\n

Of particular interest for public libraries is the article ‘The public library’s collection in the digital age’<\/a> written by Jakob Heide Petersen from\u00a0Copenhagen Central Library.<\/p>\n

Jakob describes how media development and the expansion of the Internet pose a challenge to the public libraries\u2019 traditional approach to their core service,\u00a0(ie the collection) and the digital age produces a veritable media glut. Is it, therefore, relevant for the public library to offer the public access to just part of the media? Or should the library in fact ensure access to all media for all citizens? The question is whether focusing on the collection and the media is the right point of departure for the public library\u2019s future development?<\/p>\n

Another ‘must read’ is ‘National cooperation in Finland’ \u00a0<\/a>\u00a0by Aino Ketonen.\u00a0 Since the end of February, the public libraries in Finland have had the opportunity to join a consortium agreement and approximately 60 municipalities have joined the consortium since the\u00a0initiative was introduced.<\/p>\n

Finally Rikke Lind Andersson talks about Denmark is reading <\/a>\u00a0the national campaign initiated in 2013by the Danish Minister for Culture, Marianne Jelved. DKK 20 million has been allocated to the initiative over the next four years. A central element of the campaign is a competition between the 98 municipalities to become Denmark\u2019s best reading municipality. 46 municipalities entered the competition by submitting their applications describing the creative ideas to leverage fiction reading amongst nonreaders. The national reading campaign is called Denmark is Reading. Recently 12 Danish municipalities were awarded the title \u2018reading municipalities\u2019 by an independent jury, based on their creative and innovative reading activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Latest edition of Scandinavian Library Quarterly focuses on collections in the digital era. Lots of good reading. Of particular interest for public libraries is the article ‘The public library’s collection in the digital age’ written by Jakob Heide Petersen from\u00a0Copenhagen Central Library. Jakob describes how media development and the expansion of the Internet pose […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":723,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20941,20940,7264,16114,3759,6899],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-copenhagen","tag-denmark-is-reading","tag-e-books","tag-e-lending","tag-finland","tag-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/723"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}