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Julelesing

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27. desember 2008

Når den store kvelden er over og tiden til å lese åpenbarer seg, er det bare å slå til. Jeg har lest Jan Roar Leikvoll sin bok Eit vintereventyr og er slett ikke skuffet, bare lettet over at jeg klarte å lese den uten å måtte løpe ut for å spy. Boken henter handlingen fra en eller annen konsentrasjonsleir uten geografisk henvisning eller tidsbeskrivelse. Eg-fortelleren og hans kjærlighet til Hans er hovedsaken. Romanen viser hvordan hovedpersonen tar alt Hans sier som sannhet, det eneste rette. Snauskallene – betyr sykdom, kvinner er værst, mens små gutter kan man kose med en stund. Hovedpersonens naivitet er påfallende, men med Gutten med den stripete pysjamasen i minnet fra 2007-lesingen, kan denne totale mangelen på realitetssans til en viss grad forståes. Leikvoll legger små hint om tidlig misbruk inn i teksten, slik at hovedpersonen skaper en slags sympati hos meg som leser. Det er flere scener hvor den detaljerte beskrivelsen av vold og bestialske handlinger gjør lesingen til en lidelse og jeg spør meg om dette egentlig er nødvendig? Jeg er ikke glad i å lese bøker med sterke beskrivelser av vold, men dette kan gjøres på mange måter og her var det kanskje litt mye? Er det godt å lese slike vonde bøker? Tja, det som gjør denne boka lesverdig er språket, påminningen om at man ikke trenger en verdenskrig for å skape systematisk brutalitet og nedbryting av det mennskelige. Det er sikkert mange aspekt som kan nevnes, men jeg sliter med forfatterens behov (?) for å beskrive gørra.

Christmas at the library

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26. desember 2008

Same procedure as last year! The library invites the colleagues from the culture and school department to the traditional Christmas lunch. This year we were 21 persons, only two children but they kept themselves and their mother busy! Christmas lunchThe staff are in charge of the arrangement, but the boss has to make a speech! Alina from Romania came to our rescue when we should decorate the tables, but all took their share and the arrangement went well. These days I am reading, eating and enjoying the company of my family, it`s great! Yesterday I read Eit vintereventyr of Jan Roar Leikvoll, I felt sick! Some of the descriptions were sickening because of the horrors of the concentration camp. It was very well written, but I wonder if these terrible descriptions of human evil were necessary to get the message through? I think I will try something more light hearted the rest of the vacation…

Travel lørdag!

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13. desember 2008

I dag var det åpning av fotoutstilling på biblioteket, Ola Moen stiller ut flotte fotografi, både i svart-hvitt og farger. Det var dessverre heller få som kom til åpningen, men utstillingen skal stå en stund ut i januar, så det er håp om at den blir godt besøkt. Etter åpningen dro vi på juleshopping! Tre og en halv time seinere kom vi hjem, nedlesset av ting og tang til heimen, til våre nære og kjære. Dessuten var vi kjempesultne! Nå har vi fallt til ro og prøver å gjøre litt før det blir helt natt.

Ikke en lyd siden september, akk o ve!

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10. desember 2008

Hva har skjedd siden jeg ikke har skrevet på denne bloggen siden september? Blitt lei av hele greia? Ikke hatt noe å skrive om? Nei, problemet er vel heller at jeg har for mange ting å henge fingerene i og skrivelysten går svært opp og helst ned for tiden. 

I dag har jeg fordypet meg i Hans Sande sine bøker. Hvorfor det? Bibliotekene i Nordhordland skal jobbe med nynorsk barnelitteratur og har satt hverandre stevne i neste uke for å presentere viktige nynorsk forfattere for hverandre. Min oppgave var å lese meg opp på hr. Sande og lage meg noen notater som kan fremføres for de andre.  Det var fint å bruke dagen til dette, men jeg føler vel at jeg kunne brukt uendelig mye mer tid for å få fram flere sider ved denne forfatteren. Det er når en begynner å finlese at budskap, språklige formuleringer og annet snacks kommer til syne, bare synd at slike ting må feies over – for å bli ferdig!

Oslo, the Opera and the fjord

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10. desember 2008

View from the bridge overlooking the Oslo Opera and the fjord

View from the bridge overlooking the Oslo Opera and the fjord,
originally uploaded by bentebing.

The trip to Oslo with my colleagues was a great experience! The Book fair was a rather noisy, slightly confusing but full of energy and in Norwegian terms a lot of people. A lot of things were going on and not so very easy to find our way. But that depends on my lack of experience! I met a publisher from England and he said that this was quite a small book fair! Of course, if you compare to the Bologna Children Book Fair it is very small, but  the joy of seeing all the books, the presentations in one place is really great!

Saturday we visited the Opera, we had a tour with an excellent guide and got round to the different parts of the building both in the main hall and backstage. I had planned to go to the Opera with my friends to see «Thora frå Rimold», but the performance was cancelled so I will have to wait for a new opportunity. It was however a beautiful day, a lot of people were walking on the roof of the Opera and the Oslofjord was calm like a dance floor. A day to remember!

Find your Dewey!

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26. november 2008

My friend Thomas, the right honourable Miromurr, has once again shown the way to enjoy the various ways of the libraries!

Bente Bing Kleiva’s Dewey Decimal Section:
027 General libraries

Class:
000 Computer Science, Information & General Works

Contains:
Encyclopedias, magazines, journals and books with quotations.

What it says about you:
You are very informative and up to date. You’re working on living in the here and now, not the past. You go through a lot of changes. When you make a decision you can be very sure of yourself, maybe even stubborn, but your friends appreciate your honesty and resolve.

Find your Dewey Decimal Section at Spacefem.com

Participate

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11. november 2008

Last Sunday my husband, eldest son and I went for a walk. I decided not to bring my camera, but my husband did. We went down to the river and had to do some climbing because the path is quite rough. My husband soon got very occupied with his camera, he tried different angles, saw some interesting stones and then there was this bird and so on. My son and I went on for a while, but then we had to stop and wait for him but he did not show up. Then we went to look for him and there he was still pondering how to take the best picture of the waterfall. We turned around again and continued, but much slower this time, but still we had to wait for him. I started to regret I had gone out at all, but then I realized that if we all had brought our cameras we´d had a great time all of us.

This made me think about how some of us have the need to participate, when we want to. I have noticed at the library more people asks for services where they can get what they want by doing most of the ordering themselves. Some sends the links for the books they want to borrow and some want the material sent by email or at least get the message by their mobile or email. The services must offer a kind of interaction, preferably on the internet or at least via some electronic devises. I think this is interesting because it challenges the way of thinking and makes it necessary to create more easy accessible  library services for all. This has of course been on the agenda for many years but in a small library you tend to notice these trends a bit later. People are not expecting us to deliver the same services and when they actually discover that we do, they are quite pleased. I don´t think this should be an excuse for not being able to make a good library service, but I have to admit it takes a bit longer to reach the goals because – and I hate to say it – the resources are limited.

November – what will you bring?

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3. november 2008

The very last day in October ended rather discouraging: my boss sent me an e-mail saying we will have to stop buying stuff for the rest of the year! That is really too bad! In these days we should have the opportunity to buy all the books we wanted to and furbish our borrowers with new and exiting books, but alas – no more new books. I try to tell myself, this is only a job, do the best you can, you have to adjust – but it does not work. I get frustrated! I think the libraries should be spared for cutbacks and recessions they are made to serve the people, to tighten the gap between those who can afford to buy the books and stuff they want and the ones who can´t.  But in the organization of the Meland kommune everyone have to make some sacrifices! Well, we will have to make some interesting exhibitions of our old books. Perhaps we can make the borrowers forget about the newest books for a while? LOL

e-citizen and the e-library

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18. oktober 2008

Last Wednesday my colleague and I went to Sarpsborg to attend a conference on e-citizenship and e-libraries initiated by the NLA/Østfold. The State secretary Wenche Lyngholm(SV) from the Ministry of Government Administration and Reform was quite surprised of all the librarians at the conference had their own profile on Facebook! Little did she know that the librarians had attended the course 23Things!! She did not reveal anything we did not know before. When asked of the plans how to initiate the e-citizenship in all the municipalities, she pointed to the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development. This should of course not be a surprise to anyone attending, but it would certainly be refreshing once to experience a politician on a governmental level say: This is our task, we will deal with it! Lyngholm said that the libraries are almost the only noncommercial meeting point in our society and suitable for giving people training in using the PC and the internet. Lyngholm left in a hurry after giving her speech and never got the opportunity to hear the question Tord Høivik put to the panel discussion: Did we think the government understand what they are asking the libraries to do to take on the task of educating the people with no ICT competence? I think the government are not interested in understanding the consequences if the libraries should embark on this journey. They want the job done, they don´t ask how.

The host of the panel debate, Tord Høivik  transformed the rather dull and traditional discussion to a slightly confusing but very engaging conversation making everyone attend in some way or other. Well done, Tord!

Ønskebok

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18. oktober 2008

I have been an Ønskebok reader for one and a half year and I have learned a lot during this period. Ønskebok is a Norwegian internet site for finding books, a good read in a new way. Our tutor is Rachel Van Riel who first made the Whichbook.net the site is for mainly adult books, while Ønskebok has juveniles as their main target group. 

What have I learned? To read books I normally would not have chosen, to reflect while reading and not as I usually do read to be entertained. I notice that I am more sensible to the main atmosphere of the book and not that eager to look for the more dramatic parts of the story. I find that this way of reading is quite rewarding and it helps me when people coming to the library asks for help to find a nice book. One day at the library a boy in his teens asked for Dan Brown: The Da Vinci code, I showed him where he could find it but a few minutes later he came and asked for another book more suitable for his age. Later I saw he had used Ønskebok to make his choice! I hope he enjoyed the book as much as the young man sitting in Byparken did.

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