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New users – new libraries – new librarians

Meeting new user expectations at ELAG 2010 In the near future libraries and librarians will be very different from what they are now. That’s the overall impression I took away from the ELAG 2010 conference in Helsinki, June 8-11, 2010. ELAG stands for “European Library Automation Group”, which […]

July 8, 2010February 14, 2020Librarydiscovery, elag, elag2010, future of libraries, library systems, linked data, user expectations, user experience, web2.0, webservices

User experience in public and academic libraries

A couple of recent events got me thinking about differences and similarities of public and academic libraries in the digital age. I used to think that current and future digital developments would in the end result in public and academic libraries moving closer to each other, but […]