2008

September

• PL 47/08. Early birds at IFLA 2009. The first calls for papers and posters have already appeared.
• PL 46/08. Free tools for rapid change. New opprtunities for library innovation.
• PL 45/08. Evidence-based librarianship 101. Basic concepts - from the EBLIP journal.
• PL 44/08. Visits in Denmark and Norway. Decreasing number of public library visits per capita since 2005.
• PL 43/08. Reading into the sunset. Library success in Wyoming.
• PL 42/08. Lending of non-fiction. New data on Norwegian titles.
• PL 41/08. Steady decline in book lending. The trend is down, down, down.
• PL 40/08. What the heck’s going on? Books that interpret the world around us.
• PL 39/08. Most books are flops. The US book trade has an exceptionally long and thin tail.
• PL 38/08. Web traffic to Danish portals. Nes statistics show to moderate interest in national portals.
• PL 37/08. Public libraries go digital. Libraries bridge the digital divide.
• PL 36/08. Two ways of being together. In the flesh and through the web.
• PL 35/08. Browsing in the cloud. Google launches Chrome.
• PL 34/08. IFLA visual 2008. A collection of photo sets from Quebec.

August

• PL 33/08. Presentations and conversations. Meeting new demands for participation.
• PL 32/08. Hi tech. Hi touch. Deep thought. Web 2.0 explained.
• PL 31/08. IFLA amplified. Lorcan Dempsey’s term - for everybody’s reality.
• PL 30/08. From Pliny to Plinius. Small change of name. Big change of policy.
• PL 29/08. More blogging from Quebec. Mapping the IFLA blogosphere.
• PL 28/08: Global library statistics. W When library data are sparse on the ground, statistics must be developed from the ground.
• PL 27/08: Pictures from IFLA 2008
• PL 26/08. IFLA from below . The grass has mouths as well as ears.
• PL 25/08. IFLA Quebec on the web
• PL 24/08. The rambling librarian. Ivan Chew blogs from Singapore.
• PL 23/08. Virtual visits in large cities. Metropolitan data.
• PL 22/08. Really big libraries. Collected by Toronto.
• PL 21/08. Metropolitan visits. Distributed by IFLA.
• PL 20/08: Seven papers from Norway. Small, but active country.
• PL 19/08. Physical and virtual traffic. My two papers for Quebec both deal with traffic..

July

• PL 18/08. Hippo racing in Calgary. Enjoy!
• PL 17/08. Students gather in Porto. BOBCATSSS 2009.
• PL 16/08. L&T make R&D. Learning and teaching - not lettuce and tomato.
• PL 15/08. LATINA on YouTube. Student productions from Oslo.
  
• PL 14/08. Instant web. Teaching in the new web environment.
• PL 13/08. Blog reflections [requires password]
• PL 12/08. Replace, separate, integrate. Three stages in digital education.
• PL 11/08. LATINA on the Nile. Oslo University College cooperates with Upper Nile University in Southern Sudan.
• PL 10/08. Teaching in the fall. From information poor to information rich environments.

June

• PL 9/08. Digital stories. A new tool for learning, teaching and communication.
• PL 8/08. Midsummer start for LATINA. Summer schools are popular in many countries.

May

• PL 7/08. Traffic papers for IFLA 2008. Libraries need visitors - and visitor statistics.

February

• PL 6/08. Pyrrhus the general. At Harvard, scholars must deposit their papers in institutional repositories.
• PL 5/08. The high cost of quality. Proposal for IFLA satellite paper on technical and political issues in library indicator development.
• PL 4/08. Observing the traffic. Proposal for IFLA paper on physial visitor statistics.
• PL 3/08. How much is much?. Proposal for IFLA paper on national library web visitor statistics.

January

• PL 2/08. BOBCATSSS opens. Report from Zadar, Croatia.
• PL 1/08. Librarians in the knowledge economy. Background paper for “identitty” workshop with Kari Frodesen.