13 December 2017
Well, that is it. Our resumee: We had a great time and we learnt a lot. The most important things we have learnt are the differences between libraries in Switzerland and Denmark. For sure, there are a few things, which assume another way of living and government. But we will take our experiences back home and try to use them as much as possible. Here are the most impressive differences and conclusion points: In Switzerland we work in alliances. Instead of working just for ourselves, we decided...
01 December 2017
Since beginning of October, we were asked by our Danish colleagues about Christmas in Switzerland. At the end of October, we helped preparing the Christmas decoration for the library and a lot of shops in the city started decorating and selling Christmassy things. Most of the Danes are very fond of Christmas and they go crazy by buying food and decoration for Christmas time. You just cannot ignore it and they cannot hide it. Therefore, the topic of our second last blog post is easy to guess:...
17 November 2017
Our first article on this blog was about the different departments, including Bertha and IMS in the logistic department. Now the weeks can be counted on the fingers of one hand and we want to amplify their work a little more. As it is known, the Hovedbibliotek is in charge of many branches and busses. But the main library is also responsible for all media items all over the Aalborg Kommune. To manage that, it needs a lot of work and organisation – and a new technology. The department...
03 November 2017
Aalborg Bibliotekerne is not only the responsible public library for the city, but also for the little villages around. As you read in the last post, there are 12 branch libraries all over the Aalborg Kommune, to connect the wide surroundings of Aalborg to the library. However, there are still some villages with a longer way to the next branch library, so the main library sends three library busses for them. Every day and no matter what weather, they are on the road on different routes to...
20 October 2017
It is challenging to tell about everything we have learned and done the last two month. It is quite a lot, especially in just one day. We experienced that last week, when we had a guest from Switzerland. Our project leader visited us in the main library and in two branch libraries: The Aalborg libraries are, as is known, composed of the Main library, 12 branch libraries and 3 library busses. All libraries are located in the Aalborg Kommune (comparable with Bezirk). Two of them are about 2 km...
06 October 2017
Who thinks the library closes at 7 pm and goes to sleep, is completely wrong. There are not just the two hours of self-service from 7 to 9 pm. The library never sleeps. There is always something going on. In the past two weeks, there were many events with different topics. Last Friday was the “Personaledag” (employees day) at the Hovedbiblioteket. It started at 1 pm with a long lecture about the main tasks of libraries and librarians, followed by one hour of group discussion on the topic....
22 September 2017
They can be calm or be furious. They can be in a hurry and busy or might have some time to chat. And it does not matter, if they were angry, unpolite, saucy or whatever, because without them, we would not exist. ”They” are known as our patrons, users, readers, borrowers or clients. We want to make them happy and satisfied. We want to inform them, to serve them and – we want them to visit the library again. Because of that, the way we tread them is desicive. In the past, librarians were...
08 September 2017
The first two weeks are almost over. They were full of introductions and we received a great overview of the different fields in the library. We got introductions in IT, activities, projects, logistics and many more besides. We talked with people who are decorating and furnishing, coordinating and organizing. They are all very passionate in what they do and they do a lot. It seemed, there is one of them who must be really busy. Especially in the field "Indkøb og logistik" (acquisition and...