Comments on: Bibliotecile publice şi învăţarea informală

By: Traian Bruma

Traian Bruma — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:24:50 +0000

Paul LeClerc, president and CEO, New York Public Library on the future of reading:

We’ve got one arm around all the traditional kinds of forms of human expression — stuff on paper. But the other arm is wrapped around digital information, e-books as well as subscriptions to an extraordinary number of databases so we can provide our readers with access to information they need, regardless of the format. Our position is to be nimble, to move quickly, to exploit technology, to give our readers what they want when they want it.

One of the most popular parts of our collection now are e-books. We do two things. Let’s say we want to buy copies of Catcher in the Rye, because the ones we have on the shelves are sort of beat up.

So we could buy x number of copies of Catcher in the Rye as books but also through a vendor we could buy y number of copies of Catcher in the Rye as e-books or e-audio books and then let’s say we buy 50 of each, 50 hardcopy and 50 e-books. It’s like having 100 copies of the book.

People can go to a library in their neighborhood, check out the physical copy, or a person could go online any time on his handheld device or computer. The digital version of the book would reside on the devices for three weeks and then disappear — no overdue fines to pay!

E-books are, in effect, flying off the shelves. We now circulate more e-books than any library in America, some 350,000 last year, and that number is growing dramatically year to year. If you care about people reading, should you be picky about what sort of a format they read it in? I don’t think so.

By: gabi

gabi — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 23:54:23 +0000

Intamplarea face sa fi fost acolo. :D A fost al doilea loc vizitat in Delft si prietena mea o stia pe arhitecta cladirii si stia povestea din spatele design-ului.

Chiar e un loc minunat.

Foarte fain articolul, mai ales ca eu sunt un pic indragostita de carti si biblioteci. Preferata mea e cea din British Museum din Londra.

By: Traian Bruma

Traian Bruma — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:16:35 +0000

Wow!! … E aproape incredibil! “It is the most frequently visited public institute in Delft.” Imi place cum isi vad ei rolul si cat de deschisi si inovativi sunt ca institutie. Nu e vorba de carti sau de alt mediu. E vorba de povesti. Si mi-a placut asta:
“Imagine that your grandmother is about to celebrate her 85th birthday. Wouldn’t it be great to make an exhibition of her life and show it in the library?” si Studioul mobil si toate celelalte intiative prin care in loc sa astepte oamenii la biblioteca se duc ei si pun statii de download in gari, spitale si cinematografe si organizeaza tabere pentru copii.

Ce putem face sa vedem si in Romania lucrurile miscandu-se in directia aceasta?

By: Cristina Vaileanu

Cristina Vaileanu — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:02:21 +0000

In fapt ceea ce descrii face parte/ar trebui sa faca parte/ar putea sa faca parte din oferta de servicii a bibliotecilor publice. E drept ca inca nu la noi, si nu orice fel de biblioteca (depinde de spatiul existent, de resurse si de nevoile comunitatii) dar asa arata o biblioteca publica moderna.

Pentru a avea o imagine mai buna a serviciilor pe care le ofera o biblioteca publica moderna, dau 2 link-uri despre biblioteca publica din Delft, Olanda, care, inca din denumire iti da masura in care valorizeaza inovatia si creativitatea – DOK Library Concept Center:
- un articol scris de cei care lucreaza in DOK: http://www.infotoday.com/MLS/mar08/Boekesteijn.shtml
- un post pe blogul unei bibliotecare care a vizitat DOK: http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2008/03/19/visiting-the-most-modern-library-in-the-world.html