Written by Library Planet editor Christian Lauersen, director of Libraries and Citizen Services in Roskilde Municipality, Denmark. For how to contribute to Library Planet look here: https://libraryplanet.net/contribute/ With it’s population of 3.500 located near Vejle in Jutland, Denmark, Jelling might doesn’t stand out but the area holds huge significance in Danish history. In the Viking Age it served as the…
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Billund Public Library – a smack of library and a place for kids in all ages
Written by Library Planet editor Christian Lauersen, director of Libraries and Citizen Services in Roskilde Municipality, Denmark. For how to contribute to Library Planet look here: https://libraryplanet.net/contribute/ You know that feeling as a kid when you got a present for your birthday or for Christmas and you just didn’t have any high expectations? Small soft present from auntie…
Skaelskoer Public Library, Denmark – a community anchor by the harbor
Written by Library Planet editor Christian Lauersen, director of Libraries and Citizen Services in Roskilde Municipality, Denmark. For how to contribute to Library Planet look here: https://libraryplanet.net/contribute/ Skaelskoer is a small town with a population of around 6.500 located by the seaside in the South-West of the Island of Zealand in Denmark. Driving in from the seaside…
Tingbjerg Library, Copenhagen Denmark – a wooden slice of heaven
Written by Library Planet editor Marie Eiriksson, library consultant at Gladsaxe Public Libraries, Denmark. For how to contribute to Library Planet look here: https://libraryplanet.net/contribute/ I had the wonderful oppotunity to visit this new and very cool library with my team this week. The library in Tingbjerg is part of the Copenhagen library system, situated in a…
Ladha Meghji Indian Public Library, Tanzania – A breath of history
Written by Helle Arendrup Mortensen For how to contribute to Library Planet look here: https://libraryplanet.net/contribute/ Ladha Meghji Indian Public Library, Post Street, Mwanza, Tanzania The library is situated in one of the Oldest buildings in Mwanza and named after Ladha Meghji, an indian businessman and industrialist who has never been to school but dreamt about…
Galway City Library, Galway, Ireland – an elegant oasis in the heart of a lively city
Written by Ciara Ní Riain. For how to contribute to Library Planet look here: https://libraryplanet.net/contribute/ Galway City Library is an elegant oasis in the heart of one of the best and liveliest small cities in the world . Yes that’s right, in the whole wide world. Located in the heart of historic, hopelessly hip and…
Bibliotheque de Moorea, French Polynesia – a little library can make a big difference
Written by Françoise Quaire For how to contribute to Library Planet look here: https://libraryplanet.net/contribute/ Places like Moorea is the stuff of dreams ! On this little island near Tahiti, in French Polynesia, you can find an associative libray created in 2006 by a teacher’s wife and the library is open to everybody. Even from the…
Library at the Dock, Melbourne Australia – reclaimed Wood and a recording studio
Written by Jes Layton For how to contribute to Library Planet look here: https://libraryplanet.net/contribute/ A favourite of Melbourne’s inner suburbs, Library at the Dock is one of the City of Melbourne’s six public libraries and four community hubs. The Library at the Dock—built mostly of engineered timber and reclaimed hardwood—faces north along the waterfront and…
Kista Public Library, Sweden – in the right place
Written by Alejandra Quiroz Hernandez For how to contribute to Library Planet look here: https://libraryplanet.net/contribute/ Back in 2016, some colleagues and I were talking about libraries from around the world. Ramón brought up the recently awarded Best Public Library of 2015. He said it was a library located in Kista, a suburb in Stockholm, Sweden….
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