1. Dissemination with iPads
best practice from Denmark

2. Gladsaxe Public Libraries
64.000 inhabitants
Suburb to Copenhagen
Yearly budget: Dkr. 46.000.000 (app. 8.5 mill. usd)
Yearly budget for materials: Dkr. 6.000.000 (app. 1.2
mill.usd)
110 employees
Main library and 4 branches

3. Dissemination with iPads
Agenda:
Goals
What do we do?
Handling and security?
Future perspective

4. Goals
Strengthen staff knowledge
Experimenting in the physical space
Educating our local patrons
Be a tech Savvy Library

5. What do we do?
Must important resources:
30 iPad 2
The staffs knowledge and competencies
Apps from Apples appstore
The physical library

6. What do we do?
Experiments:
Play with music
Jane Austen readling club
Read the daily news on the iPad
Angry Birds tournament
Book reviews on YouTube
Workshops

7. What do we do?
Play with Music:
Play with instruments, sounds, chords,
sheetmusic and mixing
2-3 iPads with relevant apps
1 iPad with musicquiz

8. What do we do?
Play with Music:

9. What do we do?
Jane Austen reading club:
Reading club for expats in english
iPads with Jane Austen manuscripts, books,
analysis and more

10. What do we do?
Jane Austen reading club:
iPad for all members of reading club

11. What do we do?
Read the daily news on iPad:
• 2-3 iPad with different kinds of news app
• Newspapers, TV and video, aggregators and
more
• Patrons can borrow and experimenting

12. What do we do?
Angry Bird tournament:
Gladsaxe
Championship in
Angry Bird
Part of a national
tournament
Finale in local movie
theater on the big
screen

13. What do we do?
Book reviews on YouTube:

14. What do we do?
Workshops:
Patrons
exchanging
knowledge
with each
other

15. What do we do?
Workshops:
Very popular workshops with lots of participants

16. Handling and security
Security is a challenge
iPads are expensive and needs protection
against theft
Security can influence the user experience
How do we find a proper solution?

17. Handling and security
Solution:
The patrons check out the iPad in the physical
space

18. Handling and security
Solution:
iPad kiosk mounts for
exhibition

19. Future perspectives
Evaluate the project
Make the iPads a natural part of the
Librarys exhibition and dissemination
toolbox
Develope new services, where the
use of iPads will bring added value for
the patrons

20. Thanks for listening
You can contact me:
email: esbenf@gladsaxe.dk
twitter: @esbenf
skype: esben.fjord