Future Libraries

Libraries lead us through a flood of analogue and digital information, can be a platform for exchange, space for encounters or social anchors in the city. With our series “Future Libraries” we shed light on challenges, trends and examples of success around the future of the library.

Media competence versus manipulation
What can libraries do against fake news?

Libraries are ill-equipped to fight fake news, critics say. Maybe they were celebrated too soon as bastions against misinformation. But as part of a network they can certainly act against manipulated reports.

Modern Work in Librarys
„We need to diversify“

When modern libraries are discussed, the staff is often envisioned as experts in digitization, integration, inclusion. „But it’s unfair to ask someone to learn everything“, says Nate Hill, Metropolitan New York Library Council.

Libraries as Learning Locations
“Knowledge for everyone, for free. Period”

Public and accessible meeting space becomes increasingly rare and high quality education remains out-of-reach for many people. Nico Koenig and Grif Peterson from “Peer 2 Peer University” talk about the potential of libraries as a shared space for community building and lifelong learning.

Libraries and Social Media
“Make libraries great again”

Ville Vaarne, communications manager of the Finnish Library Association, has received over 200,000 hits with a Youtube video about US President Trump. For Vaarne the proof that social media is a must for libraries.

Libraries and Civil Society
Just saving the world, by the way

“Nobody expects libraries to save the world, but we are in a perfect position to do just that,”say Rebecca T. Miller and Rebekkah Smith Aldrich. In this interview, the two US library experts explain why the belief that digitisation makes libraries irrelevant is a myth.

Libraries between tradition and progress
Preserve and move forward

Libraries have always offered their users a share in cultural memory and knowledge of the times. This has not been changed by digitization. But the manner of knowledge transfer has.

Up-to-date library work
Libraries are about People, not Media

Libraries create a future. Their own is uncertain. Start of the “Future Libraries” series on the libraries of tomorrow.

Authors

Leonard Novy © Photo: Otto Kern Leonard Novy

Leonard Novy
is a journalist and political scientist, co-director of the Institute for Media and Communications Policy – a Cologne-based think tank providing research and advice on media policy, digitalization, journalism and political communication – and co-editor of the multi-author blog CARTA.

Samira Lazarovic © Photo: private Samira Lazarovic

Samira Lazarovic
is a freelance journalist and author specializing in culture and literature as well as business and the stock market. She has also been working in project management at n-tv.de for three years.

Next Library® Conference Berlin 2018

This series is being produced on the occasion of and in cooperation with the Next Library® Conference in Berlin, September 12-15, 2018, at which the Goethe-Institut was also a guest.

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Next Library® Conference – The Future of Public Libraries

An event of the Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin (ZLB)* and the Kulturstiftung des Bundes** in cooperation with the, Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH and Aarhus Public Libraries. Next Library® Berlin is a Satellite Conference of Next Library® Aarhus.
*Central and Regional Library Berlin | **German Federal Cultural
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Future Libraries

Media competence versus manipulation What can libraries do against fake news?

Modern Work in Librarys „We need to diversify“

Libraries as Learning Locations “Knowledge for everyone, for free. Period”

Libraries and Social Media “Make libraries great again”

Libraries and Civil Society Just saving the world, by the way

Libraries between tradition and progress Preserve and move forward

Up-to-date library work Libraries are about People, not Media