CONTENTS
'New roles for library staff' is the theme for this the first 2003 edition of SPLQ
The public library’s development from physical to virtual library – from
book collection to hybrid library - has produced a great variety of
new tasks, and this naturally affects the role of the ’new’ librarian.
No longer will it be sufficient to incorporate yet more materials in the
library’s collections. Library staff will also have to act in new and
innovative ways if they are to live up to the expectations of a vibrant
networking society. The librarian must assume the role of instructor and
learn to restructure his traditional reference work into chat on the
Internet. The present issue features a number of articles illustrating
these new roles.
We also welcome two new faces to SPLQ who will be regular columnists during
2003: Taking over from Dorte Skot-Hansen (Viewpoint),
will be Uno Nilsson, at present library adviser with Halland County Library
in Sweden, later this spring to take up the position of library
director at Tjörn in Bohuslän.
Nordbok (Nordic Literature and Library Committee) has moved from Denmark
to Norway. New chairwoman of the committee is Inger
Eide-Jensen, Sweden, while the new secretariat director is Asbjørn Langeland,
former director of the Norwegian Directorate for Public Libraries,
now integrated into The Norwegian Archive, Library and Museum Authority.
This means that from now on the feature Nordic Council of Ministers will
be edited in Norway.
Jonna Holmgaard Larsen
Editor-in-chief
