Its been difficult finding time to blog from Denmark since there is just so much to do! The NextLibrary unconference starts tomorrow. Here’s a couple of brief observations.

First, I’m headed to the Hjørring Bibliotek in about an hour. Check out a timelapse youtube video of this place getting set up, and you’ll see why I’m so excited to go!

Also I thought people back in the USA might be interested to learn about “Hyves” the European social networking site. I just joined. I have no friends yet, so friend me! At a glance, it looks more like MySpace than anything else, but I look forward to playing with it more. One of the things that drove me to experiment: I’m locked out of Facebook on my laptop! Facebook seems to be detecting that I’m far from home and they sense something fishy, so I’m stuck! Whats funny is that it works fine on my iPhone. Twitter is the other way around- I can’t get Twitterific, my client of choice, to work right here. On the laptop its fine.

More later- I’m off to see a great library!

But before I go, let me share with you some information about the Next Library conference (or unconference) in Aarhus, Denmark in June of 2009.  The event will feature presentations focusing on:

CO-CREATION
USER CENTRED INNOVATION
YOUTH CULTURE
THE PHYSICAL LIBRARY
INTERACTIVE LIBRARY SPACES
COMPETENCES
COMMUNITY BUILDING
CREATIVITY AND LEARNING

Sounds Like pretty great stuff, right?  If you aren’t convinced to get a plane ticket to Denmark yet, have a look at this Transformation Lab video created by Rolf Hapel and his team.  Rolf is the conference chair and Director of Citizen’s Service and Libraries in Aarhus. 

And if even THAT isn’t enough to bring you to Denmark, maybe I can convince you to come and see me present there!  I’m really looking forward to the opportunity to share a presentation of the Library Outpost service model integrated with a user-generated materials shelving system.  I’ll be drawing from data and my experiences at Brooklyn Public Library as a case study.  Should be fun!