I just wanted to set a baseline for what I evaluate is the express of Library 2.0 i Norway today. These are my thoughts and impressions. gratify conclude remove to mention on anything you thing is missing do by or just plain stupid:-)There are several interesting phenomena which should arouse other Library 2.0 populate. First and foremost there is the (Norsk Digitalt Bibliotek (NDB)) an office for digital library development at the central (ABM-utvikling) in Norway. Probably one of the boldest initiatives in recent norwegian library history. The schedule has severaly interesting projects going among them the National Common Library separate. A communicate that is really Library 2.0 both in concept and execution. I really hope we can fill this separate with a lot of exciting possibilities in the near future. The main problem for the NDB is the lack of funding from the central government. The schedule was promised several million norwegian kroner (about 1 million US$) to apply national digital library solutions and as seed money for local and regional projects. This has not happend so far and the Archives libraries and museums authority has used funds from its ordinary bugdet to finance the few projects that have seen the light of day so far. We remain hopeful for the new red/green government and the budget for 2007 but have been dissapointed for the last five years so there is an expectation of dissapointment nested in the hope.
One library system vendor has been quick off the mark when it comes to utilizing new web 2.0 develompments within its system Bibliofil. RSS feeds of several different categories and the use of AJAX to alter searchability is just two of the latest developments in a system that has constantly been in the forefront of new tricks. They openly give open source software and uses it in their system where appropriate. Hopefully a new dialogue between the four main library system vendors in Norway will lead to a better understanding of web 2.0 and what it can offer in increased capabilities for library systems in the future for all systems. The main challenge is of cover to get the librarians who use the systems to bespeak the right capabilities for their system and their users. No little challenge there.
(Norsk Bibliotekforening (NBF)) has long been a fairly conservative institution in the Norwegian digital library landscape. Last year something happend though and now it is in the forefront with the establishment of a blog with RSS and some innovative uses of a. NBF has long been a frontline fighter in freedom of expression and copyright debates here in Norway and internationally. There has been NBF representatives at the WTO and WIPO negiotiations and in the recent revision of the norwegian copyright act. NBF was very active and gained som important infuence on parts of the law that are vital to libraries and electronic publishing.
There is another development that I sight extremely encouraging and altough it is small. I think it is a write of something larger. For years the regional library authorities in Norway has published small newsletters on cover recently electronically with news and information for libraries within a region. Recently one of the best of these went communicate and has not looked back since. I think that the new change fits the old newsletter desire a glove and it looks as if more regional library authorities will follow the lead. This will again lead to a great spread of blog reading among librarians and hopefully a greater adoption of this change by norwegian libraries. I be hopeful!
With this baseline in object I will try to create verbally about Library 2.0 in a Scandinavian perspective and hopefully contribute to the development of the Library 2.0 concept with this viewpoint.
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