Next week 13 representatives from the Stockholm Public Libraries, including Kista Library/Learning Center and Kista Idea Lab, are off to this summer’s most interesting library event: Icecamp 2010 in Reyjkjavik, Iceland. Inspired by the library camp/unconference format, 7 libraries in 5 nordic countries* will during the following two years co-create innovative ideas for common Nordic [...]

Notes from lecture Ulf Jämterud was invited today by the Stockholm Public Library to give a talk to the staff on how school teachers and pupils work with ICT. Jämterud works as a high school teacher himself but is also a freelance writer for Skolverket and a guest lecturer at Stockholms university. Jämterud talks from [...]

Mattias Pettersson, Kista Idea Labs utsände på Dreamhack Winter 2009, gick runt och filmade för att ta tempen på spelkulturen av idag. Mattias intervjuade även fyra profiler i spelvärlden om speltrender, deltagarkultur och bibliotek. Läs här de intressanta svaren, fundera och tyck till! ”A wizard has turned you into a whale. Is this awesome? (Y/N)”, [...]

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I held this presentation yesterday, at the library conference Biblioteket – Kunnskapsallmenning for kunnskapsnasjonen in Oslo, Norway. I used the video World Builder, by Bruce Branit, as a framework for my presentation about Kista Idea Lab and Kista Idea City our vision of a new digital and social media oriented library in Kista.