Library Tours

Copenhagen City Library

 This week we have reached the portion of the trip where we have begun touring libraries around Copenhagen.  Our tour is comprised of about eight libraries.  This is a real delight and treat because it is difficult to arrange these private tours since librarians are such busy people.  It's not all books like everyone thinks!  But the libraries here in Denmark are absolutely inspirational for a library student. 

Fun Chairs For Children

Elsinore Library and Cultural Center

Their focus on innovation and making the library serve as a "third place" is so interesting.  The third place concept basically proposes that the library should be as central a place in people's lives as home and work, and inbetween home and work or work and home the library is a place to go.  Upon entering many of these libraries you immediately get that sense and see that the library members are using their library space abundantly.

The libraries here for the most part keep an architectural and engineering consultant on staff full time and they have adopted the idea that the libraries should always be changing.  So an interesting thing about the libraries here is that they experiment with and change the space often. 

Unfortunately I started having camera problems and have had to start using my phone and I cant upload online from it.  So I dont have all the pictures I would like to share, but if you're interested I have a ton of library pictures so you can see how they differ from the states.

xoxo