Music Library as a work of art
By invitation from Odense Music
Library and with financial support
from the Danish National Library
Authority, the art group van Gogh
has over the past year created a Vision
for the music library of the future.
The Vision chooses as its starting point
a re-defining of the concept of public
service, and the proposed solution is
developed specifically for Odense Music
Library, which houses the largest
music collection for public use in Scandinavia.
The Library is centrally placed
in Odense, the third largest city in
Denmark, next to the exhibition space
for modern art Kunsthallen Brandts
Klædefabrik.
“The art group van Gogh has created a
fascinating vision for Odense Music
Library which over the next two-three
years will be able to transform the
library into a coherent compositional
work with everything that could
possibly be imagined in relation to
symphonies between interior design,
website, logo, lighting, signs and innovative
mediation projects. The library
has been recreated on the basis of four
formulated ‘intonations’: Sensualism,
Bildung, Curiosity and Dialogue. The
result is a profusion of creative ideas”.
Information, 26. January 2005.
Public Service is an altogether brilliant
re-launching of Odense Music Library
with i.a. concert hall and sound
studio.”
Dansk Musiktidsskrift, January 2005.
In the words of van Gogh:
“The composition concept is also the
awareness that everything is experienced
in relation to something else and
forms part of a greater whole. In this
way all elements are charged with
impact – which in the meeting with the
user will strengthen and tune up his
attention.”
(Vision for Odense Music Library can
be downloaded on www.soundart.dk)
Evaluation of The Reflexive Learning Environment
Development of learning environments
at Nordfyns Gymnasium in collaboration
with Otterup Public Library was
evaluated by Birgitte Gottlieb in 2003;
but as all the means granted by the
Development Pool for Public and
School Libraries had not been spent
during the original project period, an
extension of the period was allocated.
This year (2003-2004) has been evaluated
by consultant Peter Gorm Larsen,
MA (Political Science) who sees the
project as a forerunner of the new
Danish grammar school reform and
concludes that the project has lived up
to the original intentions, and in
chapter five he presents a number of
recommendations for the work with
the study and information competencies
of the pupils.
Bente Buchhave, library consultant
Danish National Library Authority
bbu@bs.dk
