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HELLO LIBRARIANS!

HELLO LIBRARIANS!. ….we do more than wheel books around!. Heidi Ryan Advisor, Ostfold county library E-mail: heidi.ryan@ostfold-f.kommune.no Topic for today: OSTFOLD COUNTY LIBRARY – a true library without walls About the library. What do we do?

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HELLO LIBRARIANS!

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  1. HELLO LIBRARIANS! ….we do more than wheel books around!

  2. Heidi Ryan • Advisor, Ostfold county library • E-mail: heidi.ryan@ostfold-f.kommune.no Topic for today: OSTFOLD COUNTY LIBRARY – a true library without walls • About the library. What do we do? • From project to reality: Culture Net Ostfold • Project Ostfold library • The future – what now

  3. OSTFOLD COUNTY LIBRARY Østfold County Library is situated approx. 80 kilometres south of Oslo, in Fredrikstad

  4. OSTFOLD: 250 000 people live in County Ostfold. Until 1992/94 : 25 municipalities. From 1994: 18. 25 public libraries 130 public schools (6 - 15) 22 senior high schools 1 university with 4 branches 1 medical library

  5. Østfold County Library’s main task is to support and develop the libraries in the county within all fields of librarianship, ranging from new user demands in the electronic society to the traditional focus on literature and fostering high skills of reading.More: http://www.of.fylkesbibl.no/about.html 8 employees: 1 boss 3 advisors 1 ill-librarian 1 journalist 2 secretaries

  6. THE ADVISORS • All librarians Different fields of expertise: • Fostering reading • Project management • IT Webdesign, library system, training library staff. Ostfold county library has owned many projects to strenghten the libraries. We will learn about two of them today.

  7. From project to reality: Culture Net Ostfold

  8. CultureNet Ostfold is the online gateway to County Ostfold's cultural organisations, websites, resources, events and news. • Part of National Culture Net • Owned by the county • Run by the County Library • 30 000 users every month • First Culture Net in Norway – opening October 1998. A handful of links only http://ostfold.kulturnett.no

  9. Network / partners • Culture Net Norway – other regional Culture Nets • Municipalities: Information sector LibrariesMuseumsGalleriesArchivesCulture calendar, news, webprojects. Using Culture Net Ostfold to market themselves. (ex: 6000 aerial photos)

  10. Network building • Training – visit partnerts • Arrange seminars / workshop • Newsletter • Interaction on web – Send us news! • Competition – crime book, painting • Newspapers to promote ourselves

  11. Plans • Building more relationships – more networking • More webexhibitions Important to self produce! Ideas should come from the ground and up • Cooperation with other Culture Nets important

  12. Project Ostfold library • Ostfold - short distances • Ostfold - many libraries • Ostfold - great variations • Ostfold - large financial cuts • Ostfold - ready for cooperation

  13. The beginning…. • Library Plan for Ostfold 2000-2005 • Start of project 29.8.2002 • Funds from Archive, Library and Museum Authority for a 3 year period

  14. Visions • A united library • Mutual values, attitudes and directives • A high standard of qualifications • Joint resources

  15. A library without walls We were the first project in Norway to try out ”The library without walls”

  16. To offer a ”library without walls” in Østfold, the libraries needed: • Efficient and inexpensive transport between the libraries • Mutual rules and agreements • A mutual websearch • Mutual collection development

  17. How did we work? Four project groups: • Marketing - Awareness of the libraries. Promote literature and the pleasure of reading through special campaigns, meetings with authors, exhibitions, etc. Using Culture Net! • IT- Mutual websearch, mutual library card, mutual website. • Training- Training programme for library staff. • Common rules- Rules and regulation –collection development – mutual thinking.

  18. Achievements for libraries • A close and committed cooperation between the libraries. • Libraries have achieved strenghtened position within the county through joint actions. • The project have made libraries more service minded and efficient. • Efficient and inexpensive logistic at a fixed price. No more packing of books for ILL. • Common rules and agreements • Common web search • Common collection develepment

  19. Achievements for the public • The public can make use of collections in all the libraries regardless of municipal borders and place of residence. More than one million books available. • The service includes not only public libraries but also those in secondary schools, colleges of higher education and even a medical library. • Faster delivery because of transport system. • Public can use a mutual websearch to search the libraries. • Borrowed material can be returned to whichever library is most suitable for the user.

  20. Project is over. What now? • Transport plan continues • Group work continues – two groups: - Professional development- Marketing Coordinated by Ostfold County Library, continuing under normal, daily managment.

  21. So… Librarians really do more than wheel books around  Thank you – and have a nice day!

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