Conference Session 123

Rethinking the role of public libraries

Public Libraries Section with Metropolitan Libraries

Congress track 5: Ideas, innovations, anticipating the new.

16 August 2011 09:30 - 12:45 | Room: Exhibition Hall A

• Leading the library of the future - challenges and opportunities
  CLAUDIA LUX (Central and Regional Library Berlin, Berlin, Germany)
• It takes courage to make mistakes - how to get the staff involved in making the future libraries
  Translations: [Français]
  JAANA TYRNI (Library Services, Espo, Finland)
• "What and why libraries?" - looking at what libraries might look like and why we still need them now and into the future
  MAIJA BERNDTSON (Helsinki City Library, Helsinki, Finland)
• Building socially sustainable libraries: citizen participation in library design
  JUDIT HARE (Halifax Public Libraries, Halifax, Canada)
• Transition to an e-and-globalised age: Shanghai Library's practice of change
  WU JIANZHONG (Shanghai Library, Shanghai, China)
• A new paradigm calls for a new kind of leadership
  ELSEBETH TANK (Malmo City Library, Malmo, Sweden)