Finland
Library web for all (biblioteken.fi)
Since 1995 the public libraries in Finland
have had a common web portal
for all the Finnish municipalities.
The aim is to unite the services of the
public and the research libraries and to
develop an electronic library where it is
possible to combine databases. Another
objective is production of metadata, i.e.
a centralised cataloguing and content
description of the media.
Bibliotekforum, 9/2002
New director of NORDINFO
The Nordic Council of Ministers has
appointed dr.phil. Eva Hesselgren Mortensen
as director of NORDINFO (The
Nordic Council for Scientific Information)
for the period 1. August 2002
until 31. July 2006. Prior to taking up
this appointment, Eva Hesselgren Mortensen
was library director of Karlstad
University Library in Sweden.
NORDINFO has now moved into new
premises in Helsinki, Finland. An
evaluation report on NORDINFO
suggests that the organisation be
attached to a dynamic institution, like
for example The Office of the National
Librarian in Sweden, The Danish National
Library Authority, The Norwegian
Archive, Library and Museum Authority,
Helsinki University Library or The
National Library in Iceland.
NORDINFO-Nytt, 2-3/2002
Denmark
Preben Kirkegaard
With the death of Preben Kirkegaard
on 3. December 2002, the Danish and
the international library world has lost
of the most outstanding and influential
library pioneers of the 20. century.
Preben Kirkegaard was the creator of
the library school and librarian’s
training that we have today. At the
same time he tuned the Danish library
world towards the global reality
through his enthusiastic involvement
in the international library association,
IFLA, of which he was president for a
number of years.
Danmarks Biblioteker, 1/2003
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