Keskustakirjasto 2017

Rum för Barn is a children’s library in Kulturhuset, Stockholm. But it is also an expedition, discovery and mystery. “Emma thought it was really exiting!” the mother of a little girl writes in her blog Där mitt hjärta bor after their visit on Tuesday in Rum för Barn. It is must be true as this “Mother Svea’s children’s room” includes all characteristics of a circus: curiosity, bold experiments, acrobatics, laughter from surprise as well as a feeling that something magical has just passed by and touched us. Read more »

The Fox Den Library is an imaginary future library. The Fox Den is known in the entire city for its friendly service, and its personnel is asked to help in solving many kinds of problems. Tubs of recommendation materials, barrels of digital data, yards of travelling exhibitions, pounds of reading, and dozens of events – that’s what libraries are made of. Many things happen in the library during the day, too much for one person to handle. Therefore, there is a clear distribution of work in the library.

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At the end of the decade, people’s working environments in cities will change to a significant extent. While most of the work today is still done at the primary workplace (office) or at secondary workplaces (for example, partners’, customers’ and subcontractors’ premises), it has been predicted that in 2017 as much as 50% of so-called office work will be done at third workplaces (for example, in hotels, cafés and congress venues).

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