The paper is a presentation of the national programme on competence development - an extraordinary effort undertaken in the wake of the new Danish Act on library services in 2001-2002. The programme involved a major push to integrate learning activities in the daily work in the organization, to strengthen networking and project work on several levels and the nourishing of new leadership in the public libraries.
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For an introduction to the government agency Danish National Library Authority and the Danish library model see: Thorhauge, Jens : Danish library policy. Copenhagen: Biblioteksstyrelsen , 2002.
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‘Hybrid library’ is here used as a term for a library service that combines a traditional library, with access to books and other physical media, with electronic access to digital resources and access to search and request traditional materials via the web.The term ‘hybrid library’ is widely discussed in the latest LIS literature. See for instance: Brophy, Peter . The library in the twenty-first century. London: Library Association Publishing , 2001.
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Danish inspiration for instance from ‘Den lærende organisation’ af Vagn Strandgaard, Finn van Hauen og Bjarne Kastberg, who on their part are inspired by, for instance, James H. Shonk, L. Moran, E. Musselwhite.
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English translation published: Act regarding library services. Copenhagen: Danish National Library Authority , 2001. Also available at www.bs.dk.
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For a further presentation of the bibliotek.dk, see: Andresen, Leif : Bibliotek.dk: visit your library from home . Scandinavian Public Library Quarterly, vol 35. no 1, 2002.
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The planning of the continuing education at the Royal School of Library and Information Science to support the implementation of the Act on library services is described in Larsen, Gitte : Developing skills for new electronic services in libraries . Scandinavian Public Library Quarterly, vol. 34 no 4, 2001.
