Norway
New Icelandic portal – hvar.is
Everyone in Iceland has now got free
access round the clock to 30 databases,
7,500 e-journals, 3 encyclopedia and a
dictionary – from anywhere in Iceland.
Iceland’s national and university library
(INUB) and the Ministry of Education
will over the next four years pay
the amount of 20 mil. LSK, while libraries,
institutions and firms will pay part
of the costs in relation to their potential
use and size.
Synopsis, 2/2003
Denmark
Quiet please!
At Ishøj Public Library requests for
peace and order, reminders, reservations
and the turning off of public PCs
are done by remote control from the
control panel of the librarian on duty.
The librarians do not interfere in adult
patrons’ use of the Internet. They only
require one thing: Their behaviour in
the library must show respect for other
borrowers as well as staff. The library
has therefore introduced a new system
whereby noisy users get an initial
warning on the screen – if that does
not work, the PC is turned off.
Bibliotekspressen 11/2003
Translated by Vibeke Cranfield
