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Library space for community use
Kari Lämsä
Department Head of
Library 10 & Urban Workshop
Helsinki City Library, Finland
Finland and Libraries
Library 10 in Post Office building
• 5,5 milj. inhabitants
• Mostly forest (78%) and lakes (10 %)
• There is at least one public library in every
municipality, 836 libraries together
• Lending 18 items per capita
• Visits 10 per capita
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Helsinki City Library
• 600 000 inhabitants
• 36 libraries
• 16 loans / inhabitant
• 11,3 visits / inhabitant
Library 10 in Post Office building
•Opened April 1, 2005
•Open every day: 80 h/wk
•Customers 2 000/day
•Public space 800 m²
•Developing new library
services and working
methods for the Central
Library
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Urban Workshop in the
Lasipalatsi Film and Media Centre
Laboratory for pilot projects, thinking & • Urban Office working facilities
testing services for the Central Library • Urban Workshop equipments
New needs of customers
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Customers
• Mostly young adults
• A lot of active seniors
• Percentage of customers that
are male 50 %
• Percentage of customers that
check‐out materials 25 %
Customer as media creator
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Customer as cultural publisher
Customers can come to the library to
play, record and edit their own music,
spoken word and videos.
Customer as event organizer and performer
• Customers participate in organizing exhibitions, events and concerts
• 80 % of all events organized by customers
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Customer as digitizer
Convert records and casettes into digital files, and VHS video to DVD
Customeras
Customer as digital
digital citizen
citizen
Assisting the shift to digital errands: forms, banking, health
services, e‐collections etc.
An increasing need for digital help
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Customer as maker
Learning and making new things together
New needs of the library space
Library 10 before
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Library 10 now
‐ Materials that seldom circulated (once per year) were removed
‐ Lower shelves were installed
Visible entrance
Opening hours:
Mon‐Thu 8‐22
Fri 8‐20
Sat‐Sun 12‐18
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Must there be a reason for uncomfortable
chairs in libraries?
Comfortable furnishing
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Flexible furnishing
Suvanto = Backwater
Tranquillity space for
relaxation, silence and slowness
10colors blend and change fluidly
speakers shower individual
corners with meditative music
yoga hammock
a live wall with short videos of oversized beanbag
animals, forests, clouds…
soft tactile rug
Work how you want, furnish as you need
11From collection to selection
e‐materials, relevant music, current paperbacks
Paperback books ‐ Consumable mentality
• Fiction and non‐fiction • Minimal handling process
• Non‐renewable, non‐requestable • Short shelf life expectancy
• Not kept in alphabetical order • Read until they fall apart
1.7.2015
12e‐lounge
Read and download e‐books, e‐audio books,
e‐magazines, e‐newspapers, e‐movies
13Library as a part of the City’s economy
Urban Office for urban wanderers
Small business owners, freelancers,
associations, participants of meetings, and
employees of various businesses who are
running errands in the centre between
meetings.
14Mobile soundproof chairs
Bookable soundproof walls
American Library Association’s Presidential Citation for
Innovative International Library Projects
15The Forum
• Equipment for presentations &
possibility for flexible arrangement of the space
• Free of charge, reservable space
• Workshops, lectures, meetings
• Start‐ups and small scale entrepreneurs
• Organizations, societies and groups
16Library as a Maker Space
Equipment
3D printers, 3D scanner, vinyl cutter, 3D cutter, graphics
station, sewing machines + digitizing and media stations
The Aalto Design University Fablab was consulted
Customers could express wishes
17Staff: Helping the customers to do it themselves
Media workers and IT‐specialists
Assistance in using all
the available equipment
“Let’s find out together”
Action: Workshops and events ‐ even outside
opening hours…
18Projects: Everyone can be a designer
Working together with
friends & partners
19So what’s happened so far?
More customers, new customers, new kinds of customers:
”urban activists”, small scale entrepreneurs, voluntary workers, societies,
designers, artists…
New partnerships & strengthening old ones
Effective use of space and facilities
Enabling people to make their ideas
real
Helping to make the city more interesting, open and equal
Library is a verb!
20How change the way we work?
Average age under 40
All together 30
Males 70 %
• Department head
• 2 Service managers • Events organizers
• IT specialists • Library assistants
• Media assistants • Apprenticeship students
• Music librarians • Non‐military service
• Students and trainees
Visible staff
21From sitting and waiting to
walking and talking
During rush hours librarians walk around doing
”nothing” other than be available
22Side by side guiding
Librarian as a Personal Trainer
•Librarian and the customer together
create a personal listening plan in
person or by email
•The listening plan is tailored to meet
the needs and interests of the
customer
•Discussing and enjoying the selected
material in the library listening room
•Marketing our expertise
Old service in a new package
23Librarian as a 3D tinker
Librarian as a studio guide
Librarian as a laptop doctor
Librarian as an e‐guide
Librarian as a friend
Solving everyday situations together
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24From reading room to working room
Customers can furnish the library as a personal working space
From book storage to public space
‘Helsinki of my Dreams’ prize by Radio Helsinki and Finland’s largest national
newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat
´Quality Innovation of the Year Award´ in the public sector by the Excellence Finland
organisation
25The library as a facilitator
The customers describe what types of
events, materials, and guidance they
need.
The library provides its customers The library and its customers develop
with space, equipment, and know‐ activities and events together.
how as needed.
Transfer of the ownership
26Next step: The Central Library 2018
A hub of knowledge, skills and stories
• 10 000 visitors a day, 2,5 million a year • Long opening hours, even 24/7
• 10 000 m² of the library of the future – part of it
• The building is almost entirely open for • Construction cost 96 million
public euros
• Collection 150 000 items • Design: ALA Architects Ltd.
27“The Central Library will be completed in 2017‐2018 to
celebrate the centennial of Finnish independence. The
library is the Finnish Government's official centennial
project”.
Minister of Culture and Sports, Paavo Arhinmäki
• City Council decision 28.1.2015
• Ground breaking begins 9/2015
• Construction begins 11/2016
• The opening ceremony 6.12.2018
28•Confidently connected with its surroundings
• Standing out and taking its place as an important public building
• Inviting, easy to approach and identity with
Tutustu kirjastonhoitajaan
j j
– ylivoimaisesti parhaaseen hakukoneeseen.
The ground floor is an accessible and lively space where the entrance and service
points meet. It includes the lobby, an exhibition area, a library zone specifically for
families, an event spot, a café and restaurant, and a space just to hang around.
29This ground floor will be the most active environment in the library, where the
confluence of the city and the library will flow together.
The second floor is for hands‐on activities. It is a place for working, creating, interacting
and learning‐by‐doing. Here you will find studios, gaming rooms, a makerspace, a
kitchen, and areas for workshops, meetings, and other interactive exchanges.
30These areas will be functional, with the option to make divided or enclosed areas as
needed. They will be ideal for working, organizing meetings, testing ideas, editing
videos or creating objects with 3D printers.
Tutustu kirjastonhoitajaan
j j
– ylivoimaisesti parhaaseen hakukoneeseen.
31The third floor is designed for the individual and one’s own thoughts. It is a tranquil
area for relaxing and concentrating.
Under the cloud‐like ceiling one can study, escape from hectic routines, or just admire
the view of the city. This area provides the ideal atmosphere for the beloved pastime
of reading.
32The majority of the library’s collection resides here, in addition to quiet reading
areas, the children’s world, and the patron’s balcony.
The library will be extremely eco‐efficient, so called “zero energy building”.
33The
library
is
an enricher
off
ideas
whereand thoughts,
by sharing
knowledge,
skills
we together stories
t i
h andcreate
a new
civic Vision of the
Helsinki City Library
society.
The video presentation of the winner
• http://www.kirjastokaista.fi/en/welcome‐inside‐the‐central‐library/
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