Libraries for Children & Young Adults and IFLA PAC Satellite Meeting

Swedish schools and public libraries in collaboration with cultural heritage institutions

and with authors.

Paper by Maud HellWriter, former school and public librarian

Lund, Sweden

BANGKOK

Cultural heritage

is considered important for

- Young people's construction of identity

- The sense of democracy

- Respect for others

- The sense of the public space

One way of learning about cultural heritage is to meet authors >

Collaboration with authorsTwo initiatives of Medioteket, resource centre for

schools in the Stockholm area: Schools can book an author, who writes

detective stories with students in connection to local history

As part of the 2012 Year of August Strindberg - innovator in drama and prose, a poet, a painter, a photographer – Medioteket introduced an interactive wiki.

Read or listen to a short story, translated and recorded in many languages

The author changed the title of the short story in his manuscript

Vestro Gothia – early example of heritage portal for children:Sneak inside the doors of archives, libraries and museums

Some of the activities offered:

Ask questions to experts (archaeologists, scientists, craftsmen, etc.)

Play or contribute to the game Tidsjakt (Time Hunt) - Municipality travel in time and space

Browse the old fragile books (some with amazing animal illustrations)

Explore themes such as Middle Ages, Children's fashion in the 20th century or Whales near us

Example of theme:search for ”children” and ”work”

Questions to consider based on the photos found:

What kind of work is performed by children? Do the children look happy or serious?

How was the children's lives and experiences of their childhood affected by that they had to work?

Would you be willing to work to help and support your family? Why / why not?

Stockholmskällan – The Stockholm City Museum

cooperating with teachers and libraries

Stockholmskällan (The Stockholm Source)

Coordinated by Medioteket, resource centre for schools and school libraries in Stockholm area

The content is collected from many different sources like Stockholm City Library, The Royal Library and several museums.

Cooperation with the Royal Library

Stockholmskällan has been the only platform for the Royal Library to display ephemera .

Now there is also an ephemera blog: http://vardagstryck.blogg.kb.se/2013/04/25/digital-ephemera-

collections/

Can improve Information Literacy

In Stockholmskällan there are different types of materials on the same phenomenon - students can have a width in their work.

Helps teaching students to seek information and to see how much information is available from the various memory institutions

You can explore

archaeological finds and objects,

images, photos, films

music and lyrics

documented art exhibitions, drawings,

maps, manuscripts,

statistics,

fact books and fiction

Joyful surprises, good teaching and the opportunity go deeper in the subjects can determine whether the projects will stay a

success

Photo: Flickr CC by SonnyandSandy

Read about things that happened 100 years ago in a

diary of a 14 year old girl

Students can compare an old photo of a place in Stockholm with a photo they have taken of the

same place in the present

Teachers can get many other tips in the lesson bank of Stockholmskällan

CC by Larssons Ateljé

Thank you, please read more in the full paper!

Sources and links from the paper

UNESCO http://www.unesco.org/

Course (Swedish) about teaching cultural heritage http://edu.mah.se/sv/Course/IS145F

Barnens bibliotek (The Children's Library) http://www.barnensbibliotek.se/Hem/OmBarnensbibliotek/English/tabid/439/Default.aspx

Vestro Gothia http://www.vestrogothia.se/, Tidsjakten http://www.tidsjakt.se/

Medioteket/Stockholmskällan – Strindberg Project: http://etthalvtarkpapper.se/category/lasa/engelska-lasa/

Kulturen, Lund http://www.kulturen.com/besoksinformation/welcome/

Stockholmskällan (The Stockholm Source) http://www.stockholmskallan.se/

https://www.facebook.com/Stockholmskallan

Hell, Maud Författarbesök i skolan. BTJ 2012. Links to Swedish resources about author collaboration in schools: http://corp.btj.se/?id=9824