Which library is going to be awarded ”The Nordic Digital library of the Year”? - 2008-07-24
Axiell wishes to encourage the libraries to break new ground and be a co-player in the digital world, and wants to encourage the libraries to dare try new things, which can be useful for the libraries and their users, so the library can move into the digital world.
Therefore Axiell has founded a price “The Nordic Digital Library of the Year”, which is awarded to a library in Sweden, Denmark or Finland, which has been a pioneer in finding new ways of promoting the library in the digital society by being innovative and who can show some concrete results, which can carry over to other libraries in Scandinavia.
The price was founded last year and was awarded at Axiell’s Nordic Symposium in Turku in Finland. It was given to Aalborg Libraries in recognition of their ground breaking project “The mobile library” and it consists of two tickets to this year’s IFLA-conference.
Axiell has its 2nd Nordic Symposium – this year in Nacka in Sweden – with the title “The entrepreneurial library” – and just like last year the price “Nordic Digital Library for the Year 2008” will be awarded at the symposium.
As a consequence of the merger of DS and Axiell there have been some changes in the management of the company in United Kingdom.
As new Managing Director Jim Burton has been appointed to take the responsibility of the DS. He will replace Nigel Pegg who will be a Deputy Chairman. Nigel Pegg has been Managing Director of DS since 2000 and in his new role as Deputy Chairman he is going to work with both Axiell Library Group tasks and maintain his involvement with DS.
Jim Burton - the new Managing Director of DS has worked in the information technology sector for over 20 years both in the library sector and in other areas, and he has been appointed Business Developement Director of DS since 2007.
These changes in the management of DS will strengthen both DS as UK arm of Axiell and Axiell Library Group as a whole.
The libraries are ongoing a developing process in order to find its own role in the digital world. Today there is not only a single answer to that role; it will be different from library to library, from city to village, from country to country etc. One thing is common and that is the library has to find its way to promote itself towards the end-users, the citizens and the authorities. It can be done in many different ways, some more innovative than others.
Axiell is as a vendor – one of the libraries’ partners – and as a partner we wish to inspire the libraries to be even more entrepreneurial. “The entrepreneurial library” is the theme for Axiell’s 2nd Nordic Symposium, where entrepreneurship will be expounded according to the knowledge society and how one can be entrepreneurial in a library environment when it comes to: • management style • introducing new financial methods • new methods of management.
Keynote speakers from Sweden, Denmark and Finland will give presentations as well as keynote speakers from Canada and United Kingdom. Click at the programme and see it in full.
Axiell’s 2nd Nordic Symposium takes place in Nacka (Sweden), at the Dieselverkstaden, which in library circles, is renowned for its enterprising way of running a library.
Axiell’s and Bibliotheca’s product range of automats and sorting machines is constantly under further development. The newest automat TOR Maxi is a very flexible sorting and check-in automat, which suits both bigger and smaller libraries. This automat has been installed in Partille Library in Sweden nearly one year ago, and Partille’s TOR Maxi handles 95 % of all returned materials
Partille will not be the only library with a TOR Maxi. Soon two new libraries will receive the same automat. One of the libraries is Helsingborg City Library and they have signed a contract for a TOR Maxi automat with two throw ins and a sorting capacity of 26 boxes. Helsingborg City Library has an old TOR In sorting and check in automat, and has decided to continue with Axiell’s and Biblioheca’s TOR-product and let the new TOR Maxi replace the old one.
The social web and user-created data - 20080608
The social web and User-created data
Creating a library 2.0 portal evokes many questions. Among them who owns the user-created data? The user, the data-provider or…? How can these data be accessed? A user-created data e.g. can be a review or a comment.
This question is in vogue at the moment, because part of the library 2.0 is based on social technologies and social networking. That means that is it not only the library creating the content, but as something completely new the end-users are invited to participate and add content.
Therefore The Danish Agency for Library and Media has initiated a project on collection user-created data, and how these data can be reached through a national webservice. The Danish company Axiell Bibliotek A/S is participating in this project together with some of the big Danish libraries and the company DBC.
*** Axiell’s product Axiell Arena is a new approach using the library. It is the library’s new webpage, where the library catalogue is integrated with the Library 2.0 concept, which includes the social technologies. Axiell Arena is under test at customers in Sweden, Denmark and Finland and will be launched this autumn.
