libraries, learning and lego
This piece is a rewrite of a chronical I wrote for national Danish newspaper Kristelig Dagblad. Link to the original piece (in Danish and behind paywall): https://www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/debat/bogbussen-er-blevet-en-sjaeldenhed-men-vi-har-brug-naerheden-til-laeserne In the middle of Zealand, Denmark, in Roskilde Municipality, a bus filled with books drives around. A good old-fashioned bookmobile…
I joined Twitter 13 years ago and it was a fantastic window to global librarianship and over the years I connected with so many great people and ideas. Anyway you all know the sad story about how Twitter / X has turned into Hell’s inner circle with trolls, bots and toxic content and many has [ ]
This blog post is a story about the importance of library impact and the importance of sharing your insights and create transparence on your designs and ideas. Hope you ll enjoy it. Back in 2021 Roskilde Central Library and consultant agency Seismonaut teamed up with the ambition to change the language for how we talk about [ ]
The Children’s Library is something special. Working with children in a library context (like in any context) is so important and comes with a huge responsibility; making children meet stories, imagination, books, community and open doors to new worlds. Being a Children’s Librarian is a crusade for a better future for us all. At Roskilde [ ]
After 4 amazing and fantastic years as Director of Libraries and Citizen Services in Roskilde Municipality I will take on a new role as Director of Culture, Libraries and Sports, still in Roskilde Municipality. In the new position, I will still hold my current responsibility for libraries, citizen services, local archives, our culture house for [ ]
Back in 2018 Marie and I launched Library Planet – the crowdsource travel guide to libraries of the world. Since then so many fantastic libraries from French Polynesia to Sweden has been added to the map of libraries of the world with yours contributions and willingness to share the library love. As I wrote in [ ]
Back in 2018 my fantastic library buddy Marie and I were having a chat on how traveling and visiting libraries are such a great combination. We agreed that the world needed a kinda Lonley Planet for libraries and I threw out a tweet about the idea: Turned out Marie and I was not the only [ ]
This year Roskilde Libraries are thrilled to be launching a new annual festival of literature. Roskilde are already famous for it’s iconic 50 years old music festival, Roskilde Festival, and will from this May be gifted with yet another festival with the dawn of Roskilde Festival of Literature to celebrate reading, stories, enlightenment and community. Why [ ]
This is a blog post on how libraries can help and be engaged in the Ukrainian conflict. It will be updated continuously. ”The first casualty when war comes is truth”. So said US Senator Hiram Warren Johnson in 1918 and I think he makes a strong point, which is still extremely relevant in 2022. [ ]
This piece is a rewrite of a chronical I wrote for national Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. Link to the original piece (in Danish and behind paywall): https://jyllands-posten.dk/debat/kronik/ECE13157234/folkebiblioteket-er-frirummet-hvor-vi-kan-genfinde-naervaeret-og-evnen-til-fordybelse/ Our ability to immerse ourselves is closely linked to our ability to learn and thrive and it is challenged…