- 1. European Congress on E-inclusion: ECEI09-Technology and
Beyond in Public Libraries Creating inclusive digital environments
Brussels, 22-23 October 2009 Maija Berndtson Library Director
Helsinki City Library
2. Paul Otlet a Visionary
- The role of public libraries
- From hybrid to boundless library
- An example of new service
3. The World City a Utopian Vision
- In 1910, Otlet and La Fontaine first envisioned a "city of
knowledge", which Otlet originally named the "Palais Mondial"
("World Palace"), that would serve as a central repository for the
world's information.
4. The World City a utopian vision
- A city, which like a universal exhibition brings together all
the leading institutions of the world and would radiate knowledge,
construct peace, universal cooperation.
- The design of a Mundaneum (1928) and a World City (1929) by Le
Corbusier in Geneva next to the palace of the League of
Nations.
5. Prescient of the World Wide Web
- Otlet's writings = prescient of the current World Wide
Web.
- His vision of a great network of knowledge was centered on
documents and included the notions of hyperlinks, search engines,
remote access, and social networksalthough these notions were
described by different names.
6. The nature of the new world that was in the making
- How knowledge might be mobilised to manage social change more
effectively than in the past.
- To assemble and interrelate all documents in their various
formats.
- The objective was universality. The library, the museum and the
archive were all to be seen as aspects of a single documentary
organisation.
7. The Mundaneum
- The interlinking that was necessary had to be centralised in a
hierarchical arrangement.
- In a great world palace, the Mundaneum, would be located the
nerve center for managing knowledge acquisition and dissemination
on a global scale.
- A world city representing symbolically a new polity in which
international relations of all kinds could be rationally ordered
for the benefit of mankind.
8. The Mundaneum
- The Mundaneum, he tells us, is an idea of universalism. It is
aninstitutionin which is brought together the museum for seeing,
the cinema for viewing, the library, encyclopedias and archives for
reading, the catalogue for consulting, the lecture, radio and the
disc for listening, and the conference for debating Knowledge
organisation and a new world polity: the rise and fall and rise of
the ideas of Paul Otlet, B y W. Boyd Rayward*
9. The Ubiquitous Society Connects everyone and everything. Easy
connection to networks anytime, anywhere, by anything and anyone. A
society where ICT will be everywhere in daily life and can easily
be used. Person to Person plus Person to Goods, and Goods to Goods.
In every aspect, communication will play an even more important
role. Creation of vitality of the individual, vitalize the society.
Based on users viewpoints. Close to the user. Users can be
suppliers too, prosumers. 10. Library a space for democracy
- Non-commercial meeting place
11. Library a space for culture - Individuals development;
individual needs as starting point- Abilities: literacy,
it-literacy, media-literacy - Economical development- Social
development, for example energy, consumption, environment 12.
Library a space for learning - Identity - local, regional,
national, international- Forms of culture/ means of expression -
Word, image, sound - Meetingplace/interaction 13. Helsinki City
Library Vision 2000 - 2005 The whole nationshybrid library, serving
locally, acting nationally, esteemed internationally. 14. HelMet
weblibrary www.helmet.fi Hybrid library: Shelves Shelves Collection
Collection Collection DVD Magazines Workstations Reading places
Self- service Distance-use of the library Workstations Ask Online
http://www.lib.hel.fi /sv-FI/kysy/ iGS - Information Gas Station
http://igs.kirjastot.fi/sv-FI/iGS/ Librarys webpages www.lib.hel.fi
Libraries.fi -contains information about Finnish libraries and the
Finnish library system Lending 15. Loans, visits and virtual visits
1985-2008 kirjastokynnit loans visits virtual visits 1985 1996 2005
2007 2008 -/+ 2007-2008 Loans 6016 577 9004 437 10 073 766 9601 730
9 398 909 -2,1 % Visits 3991 909 6536 603 6 604 849 6388 564 6 418
060 +0,4 % Virtual visits 180 233 5 012 505 6435 666 6 631 318 +3,0
% 16. Library 17. Helsinki City Library Vision 2005 -
- The boundless library a source ofenlightenment and inspiration
throughout your life.
18. Google Book Search, http:// books.google.com / 19. The eBook
Store from Sony, http:// ebookstore.sony.com / 20. The World
Digital Library http:// www.wdl.org /en 21. https://
www.spotify.com /en/ 22. The boundless libraryStage Self-service
Learning enviroment Soft and comfortable seats Workstations Void
Photo: Anish Kapoor Content Visibility, to meet the customers
Experiences, encounters Guidance The digital library in your pecket
Boundless Library: 23. Information Gas Station iGS On air On the
road On the web 24.
- Answers, guidance and entertainment
- Treshold to participation as low as possible
- Customers participate in creating the content
- Promoting library materials and personnels expertise
25. iGS on the road: The Information barrel
- Fast and flexible touring
- Designed to function in various conditions
- The Barrel has visited shopping malls, festivals, fairs,
schools etc.
26.
- Co-operation with Finnish Broadcasting Company
- Question of the week - answer given in live radio
programme
- Co-operation, not marketing
- Teaching and librarish elements are hidden
iGS on air Ask anything 27.
- Library goes where the people are
- Library 2.0 extending beyond web services and use of new
applications
- Using all three iGS productsto market library services
- Enhancing information seeking skills of the whole staff
- Citizens special adviser 28.
- Answers to approximately 6 600 questions yearly
- Libraryvisits 434 424(year 2008)
- Answers to approximately 10 000 questions yearly
- Visits to IGS-webpages800 000- more than in any branch
library
- Collection: archive with 50 000 answers
- Staff: approximately 50 people in 20 libraries
Physical Virtual What kind of libraries do we create? 29. Teemu
Arina http://tarina.blogging.fi/ 30. 1. The changing role of the
customer
- Focus on the end-user and customer experience, not just the
information.
- Look into mass-customization: how to customize the library
experience to each individual regarding recommendations etc.
- Involve the net generation or experts from outside your own
field for rethinking the justification for your existence.
31. 2. Use new technology and work innovatively
- Look beyond first hand metadata, to second party
recommendations and third-party metadata.
- Utilize open data more, build interfaces for people to do
mashups with.
- Build mobile applications to locate books and get instant
social navigation to library books on-location and online.
- Look at QR-codes or similar cheap technologies and stamp them
into every book for contextual information.
- Look into user-generated taxonomies (folksonomies), information
visualization and new ways for putting the same book in multiple
shelves.
- What augmented reality applications could libraries
develop/use?
- Stop watching TV and work on (the next) wikipedia.
32. 3. See beyond the existing
- Transform the library facility to something that encourages
participation or new reasons to go to a library.
- Understand the changing framework, not just the the (changing)
content.
- Dont do the mistake of replicating libraries online as it is.
They already did the mistake of replicating the classroom
online.
- The web is not a destination, but a network of decentralized
components. Harness the network properties.
- Understand the technological, social andeconomical drivers for
future developments.
- Rethink the virtual visit to complement physical visits.
- Understand contextuality provided by the web and how to tap
into it from the library perspective.
33. The Mundaneum the brave new library?!
- Googles mission is the same as libraries have had for
centuries. Its time to understand digital convergence in new ways.
(Teemu Arina)
- Why are libraries not as visible as Google? Why dont we have a
global logo?
- Why are not libraries marketing them as citizensspecial
advisers?
- What is the Mundaneum today?
34. www.lib.hel.fi