• Cooperation - a way to survive for public libraries
• Bridging the abyss
• Students, Google and libraries
• Viewpoint: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
• The ELEF project of Eastern Finland
• Joint Library Card Project
• Nordic Council of Ministers
• Recent library developments
• IFLA 2005
• Scandinavian Shortcuts

But the electronic ‘explosion’ has over the past few years meant a readjustment of this conception and opened up for cooperation across the sectors. This development is undoubtedly an ongoing process. In Denmark a common national catalogue and online ordering facilities from the user’s own home have resulted in the interesting fact that for the first time the figure for library loans from the research libraries to the public libraries is higher than loans between the research libraries, and a recently published analysis proves that often young students are very keen users of both library types.

Norway is introducing a joint library card project, in Sweden some towns have built libraries that contain both functions and some of the Nordic countries are running joint digitisation projects. The articles in SPLQ 3 chart the landscape of the most recent developments within in area.

Jonna Holmgaard Larsen
Editor-in-chief
jhl@bs.dk