last day: Tony Durcan
lost property items... see picture from Janneke Staaks on instagram... no comments ;-)
Tony Durcan, Director of Culture, Libraries and Lifelong Learning at Newcastle City Council
History of the public library: a new library part of "Brazilia of the North" but the then library was elitist, staff intensive, so need for a new library.
The 2009 model...but why a new library? Campaign needed to be supported.
We want a building to "delight and inspire"
The city deserved a good building: locals delighted and they could choose the furnitures, stream of groups: young people group who gave the architects a hard time, wanted the building to look like a shopping mal,
discussion with staff triangular enquiry point
(to promote the Baltic there were meetings with hairdressers and taxi drivers, because those were the people who would promote the place!)
library opened by the Queen, ministery visit very successful ( I will not add here the very funny comment monsieur Tony Durcan made pour ne pas froisser l'ex-ministre en question, but gosh that was funny!). Andrew Motion poetical comment was usual for the library as well.
On the first day, there were people queuing to get in the library. ebook groups, reading groups etc
4th most visited library in the UK
delivery partnership: world book night, publishers, exhibition with BL
Article: colleges in their communities by Margaret Sharp
Conclusion: this was a wonderful talk! Inspiring! Great to see so much partnership on the project of a new library: with staff (working as team), with members of the public, with the BL (exhibitions), with other companies/campaigns. I then visited the library in the afternoon, and will add more pictures here, a beautiful, busy library, with a diverse population, a state of the art lending/returning system (with different languages, s'il vous plait!) and, yes, the famous triangular tables with very accessible staff reading to help you.
Tony Durcan, Director of Culture, Libraries and Lifelong Learning at Newcastle City Council
History of the public library: a new library part of "Brazilia of the North" but the then library was elitist, staff intensive, so need for a new library.
The 2009 model...but why a new library? Campaign needed to be supported.
We want a building to "delight and inspire"
The city deserved a good building: locals delighted and they could choose the furnitures, stream of groups: young people group who gave the architects a hard time, wanted the building to look like a shopping mal,
discussion with staff triangular enquiry point
(to promote the Baltic there were meetings with hairdressers and taxi drivers, because those were the people who would promote the place!)
library opened by the Queen, ministery visit very successful ( I will not add here the very funny comment monsieur Tony Durcan made pour ne pas froisser l'ex-ministre en question, but gosh that was funny!). Andrew Motion poetical comment was usual for the library as well.
On the first day, there were people queuing to get in the library. ebook groups, reading groups etc
4th most visited library in the UK
delivery partnership: world book night, publishers, exhibition with BL
Article: colleges in their communities by Margaret Sharp
Conclusion: this was a wonderful talk! Inspiring! Great to see so much partnership on the project of a new library: with staff (working as team), with members of the public, with the BL (exhibitions), with other companies/campaigns. I then visited the library in the afternoon, and will add more pictures here, a beautiful, busy library, with a diverse population, a state of the art lending/returning system (with different languages, s'il vous plait!) and, yes, the famous triangular tables with very accessible staff reading to help you.
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