We are happy to announce the themes of Next Library 2017: 

Literacy

E.g.: Early childhood literacy, the library in national reading strategies, eGov and digital literacy, media literacy, literacy and democracy, newcomers, social inclusion, neo-and semi-literates, family literacy etc.

The Learning Library

E.g.: Advocacy strategies, changing leadership skills, international networking, reframing Making in libraries, design thinking, libraries…

Next Library® is pleased to announce the formation of our new Next Library® Advisory Board.

This board will strengthening international perspectives and inspire to rethinking Next Library as an incubator of emerging library ideas.

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The Next Library® Festival takes place 11 – 14 June 2017 in Dokk1, Aarhus, Denmark

RETHINK is the overall theme, and we need to decide a number of sub-themes in order to ensure a scope of relevance and perspective for the future of libraries across the world.  

What are the most difficult challenges for innovation of public libraries - for pushing…

We are collecting documentation and information about Next Library Festival 2015.

Did we miss your blog posts or presentation? We welcome all contributions, so let us know if you have something for the list:…

This is the final evaluation from the Next Library Participants. Lots of input and great ideas for how to make an even better Festival in 2017. Thanks for that!

The evaluation questions:

1. What are the three best things about Next Library…

Time flies! It is already more than two weeks since you inspiring people from all over the world met in Dokk1. During the Next Library Festival 2015 many of you dropped by the Next Library Studio where the hosts, Jeppe and Helene,…

10 days ago we were ready to kick off the Next Library Festival. 350 amazing library people were together in Dokk1 to discuss, play, develop and rethink the Next Library! Thank you everyone for being a part of it!

Re-live the experience here!…

Next Library 2015 is over! You have been amazing and we look forward to see you in 2017 in Aarhus!

What’s next? Building and Implementing the Change Agenda at Aarhus

We are happy to announce another great Next Library Keynote Speaker: Donna Scheeder. She will talk about change and how to support the transformative service movement. 

Donna Scheeder, President of the International Federation of Library…

This year we are introducing a new format: The Next Library Innovation Keynote. This is where innovators and researchers from outside libraries will inform and inspire us. And we are happy to announce the first Innovation Keynote to be Erhardt Graeff from Civic Media, MIT. His keynote will be about how communities make changes!

Link to presentation:…

I'm so excited to be heading out today for Aarhus.  After what I know will be amazing conference (Come to our session: Library As Studio!) I'm taking a side trip to Copenhagen and plan to visit the Ordrup School. I've read a lot about this school which was designed to facility 21st Century learning and it just so happens that the architect…

We are excited to announce another Next Library Keynote: Dimitris Protopsaltou.

Dimitris will take us through a keynote about how the Greek libraries are dealing with societal challenges of scale. Greece is probably the most troubled of the EU countries in terms…

Come join this session at the Next Library Festival and explore the intersection of branding+culture - Sunday 11-12.30!

At Anythink, music constantly uplifts us, motivates us and helps us bring our community together. Using music as our inspiration, we’ll explain how a strong brand and vibrant culture can transform an organization – and how the two…

Next Library participants are well known for being some of the best to make the roof rise at dinner parties. But you should get ready to reach new heights as the Next Library Dinner Party takes of Sunday evening in Tivoli!

Enjoy food and drinks, lots of time for networking and a ride in…

We at @libarystrategy are excited to meet and talk in Aarhus.

Our presentation is a process through which you assess a program or service's viability and success, as well as figure out whether it needs new resources. At the Free Library, we have "stress tested" our book festival, a science camp, our text reference service, a mental health kiosk, and more.

At our interactive session, we will tell you more about our analysis of our Techmobile (…

Use the Next Library community to shape your interactive session and make it even more relevant to the participants at Next Library 2015. See how Erin Berman makes use of a survey to shape her Interactive Session "Privacy Literacy: It’s No…

More than 50 people from 14 countries are right now organizing 15 Interactive Sessions and Ignite Next Library Talks.

The preliminary program is available here. Stay tuned for announcements of additional sessions and keynote…

An excellent opportunity to see Aarhus - cycling with colleagues. 

An optional event offered by Next Library Festival Partner, Cycling for Libraries.



Videos from Danish Television:…

More than 300 participants from 28 countries are coming to the Next Library Festival 2015 in Dokk1, Aarhus. 

We look forward to see each one of you in Dokk1 in September!

Registration is now closed.