“Libraries are beacons of hope”: Interview with Yuko Yoshida from Japan

For several years now, Yuko Yoshida from Japan has focused her “researcher’s lens” on the Latvian library system. She is a professor at the Institute of Library, Information and Media Science, University of Tsukuba. In the summer of 2024, her book in Japanese “Latvian Libraries as Hubs of Language and Culture” will be published.

Desirable Tomorrow of Public Libraries: Interview with Estonian Designer Mikk Lemberg

Mikk Sander Lemberg is an Estonian designer who graduated in 2021 from the Interactive Design program of the Design Faculty of the Estonian Academy of Arts with a master’s thesis dedicated to public libraries “Shaping the Future of Public Libraries”.

“Read for kids!” Interview with Goda Baranauskaitė-Dangovienė, head of the Children’s and Youth Literature Department of the National Library of Lithuania

“Every family with a newborn receives a bag with his or her first book, tips on reading for parents, and his or her first library card. Therefore, every family in Lithuania at least has the opportunity to acquaint themselves with the benefits of early reading and its best practices.”

“We have a wonderful job!” The best Green Library project in Paris

Best Green Library Project this year is the Canopée Mediathèque in Paris, France. It was awarded as a pilot project – to try out how to be a sustainable library without a special budget for that, so that the lessons learned could be implemented in the entire Paris library network

Together for the Community: An Interview with Missoula Public Library Director Slaven Lee

“Together” is a keyword for the Missoula Public Library. Not only the structure of the building is made up of elements inspired by the surrounding nature, put together, but also the library itself implements a visionary idea: to gather various organizations under the “hat” of a public library.

Silent Stories: Interview with the creators of Brooklyn Public Library project “Our Streets, Our Stories”

Next year will mark 10 years since the Brooklyn Public Library launched a community studies project, collecting, recording and digitally storing the stories of residents of Brooklyn neighborhoods. The ambitious and at the same time intimate project “Our Streets, Our Stories” is easily accessible to every citizen of the world on the interactive map.

Don’t use “all caps”: Interview with library marketer Mark Aaron Polger

This material first appeared on the Library Portal on September 20, 2022, in Latvian. I interviewed Mark Aaron Polger as an editor of … More

Interview: Future Library in Norway

Interview with the creators of Future Library in Oslo, Norway, by Libraries Portal.