Denmark’s public libraries are ‘open libraries’ — open around 15 hours a day, with staffing only about 16 hours a week. If you have a library card, you already have the key to lock yourself into the library. You can check media in and out, use the internet, use a PC, play games, read newspapers, study etc. What part does the building play in supporting the library strategy and the librarian in the community? How do we use nudging when we develop or change the library? Jan believes the best library is created by being globally inspired and transforming that inspiration into acting locally in your community.

1. Denmarks Open Libraries

2. Open libraries

3. Open libraries
Self service hours +
hours with staff

4. Open libraries
Self service hours +
hours with staff

5. The next 23 minutes:
Why open libraries?
How? (Including a lot of basic facts)
What are the strategic implications?

6. Open VS Closed

8. Facts
86 of 97 library systems in
Denmark have open libraries
=
260 open libraries in Denmark

9. Facts
32.000 opening hours (More
than the double of 2010)
61% are self service hours

10. Guldborgsund Public Library

11. Strategies for open libraries:

12. Design of the library
space aligned with
strategy

13. Strategies for open libraries:
Create a safe
environment

14. Strategies for open libraries:
Increased
usability

15. Strategies for open libraries:
Increase use
as local
meeting
place

16. Strategies for open libraries:
Nudging: How
to be present
when we are
not there

17. Radical trust

18. High trust societies

19. High trust societies
Scandinavia
Switzerland
China
Netherlands
New Zealand
Australia
Canada
UK
Data: Max Roser (2015) –
‘Trust’. Published online at
OurWorldInData.org

20. Surveillance

21. RFID

22. https://www.flickr.com/photos/kordite/3345389584
Problems?

23. https://www.flickr.com/photos/54459164@N00/7670356328/

24. Commuters

25. People use the library more
and treat it as their own

26. Nudging

27. Nudging
Nudge people to help
each other when
there is no staff

28. Nudging
People take part in
presenting good
books in the library

29. Connect the dots

30. Library strategy:
Actively support learning in
a fun and engaging way

31. Libraries will be
Cocreated active learning
spaces with the smell of
good coffee

33. janholmquist.net

35. Jan Holmquist
janholmquist.net
Twitter: @janholmquist
janholmquist@gmail.com
about.me/janholmquist
Keep in touch…

36. https://www.flickr.com/photos/urbanwide/84107876/

37. CORE

39. What is in it for libraries?
Reach People -> New Members