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Vol. 41, no. 3, 2008
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Editorial: Children's right to excellence in library service

Literary paths for children in Northern Finland

Tromsø Apple Library project for functionally disabled children

Ten Commandments for the future children library

The key to future libraries for children and young people

Viewpoint: Portrait of the Google Generation

The (more or less) bookless children’s library

The room as mediator

Days of children’s literature in Åland

Gamers ... in the library?

Bill & Melinda Gates foundation. Access to Learning Award 2009


Scandinavian Shortcuts

Scandinavian Public Library Quarterly


 

 

Children’s right to excellence in library service
Libraries for children and young people have long been a high priority area for Swedish municipal politicians. Municipalities have had years of experience in successfully developing and maintaining library services for children and young people.

Ten Commandments for the future children library
A new report gives recommendations and suggestions for the libraries’ services to children in Denmark. The goal is that the libraries can match children’s actual everyday lives, media interest and various other cultural needs with focus on the position of play, social inclusion, cultural formation and good reading skills.

Portrait of the Google Generation
New research has burst the bubble about the Google Generation’s traits of media behavior. However, the generation is a diverse one and demands that library services are intuitive, interactive and sociable.

The (more or less) bookless children’s library
A children’s library designed with children very much in mind and within the framework of the knowledge society – this is the underlying ambition of Aalborg Libraries’ development project ‘The (more or less) bookless children’s library’.