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National Library and final product – movie July 3, 2008

Thursday, Week 2nd

First part of the day was really interesting for me. We went to visit National Library and ABV-untvikling. That was wonderful opportunity. I heard lots of things about Scandinavian librarianship and after seeing a vivid example of it I saw that everything is as I heard and read. I had lots of questions and I was happy that I can ask someone about digital repository which I am interested in. I left my email and I got promise that article about it will be provided. Until today I wasn’t aware of the fact that we have all resources available. Sometimes it is hard and expencive to find papers you need for your work, even when you are educated for searching. I decided to take few days for research on topics of my interest, at the Oslo University and National Library.

I learned about ALM organization. I read about it in some articles but never got enough time to search deeper. I like the projects a lot. All the things ABM-utvikling is doing is reflected to the society. It is multicultural but ethnic groups are not separated, they are very well included in society. I thought that it is not possible to have librarians, archivists and museum workers in one organization but it seams that Norway did great job in this area.

National Library itself looks very well organized. I think this visit was more useful for me that to the rest of the group. I have some background and I have knowledge about organization of Croatian National Library to compare. I wish I could say that it’s the same in my country. National Library of Norway has the same role as other national libraries so I won’t repeat it. I was surprised that they use outsourcing for gaining the radio casting. I think that collaboration between institutions which are leaders in their field makes librarians job easier. The same is with the idea of getting newspapers in digital form directly from newspapers publishers. That will save time and money for the library.

After the inspirational visit to the NL we shortly discussed with Mr. Lars about differences between libraries, archives and museums. I think that most of people don’t even know when and how to use archive and don’t understand that library is library even if it’s in digital world.

Although, I think that other colleagues could have difficulties with following presentation of ABM-utvikling and maybe it wasn’t that interesting for them because they are in different subjects. I can say that I have more clear vision about this organization and about it’s importance to the community. Heritage institutions have to serve public, and their projects showed us that they are fulfilling their mission.

I noticed that most of LATINA participants take their assignments really seriously and they think deeply about subjects. I like Vera’s definition of museums and I think that we accomplished to fulfill each others definitions and we (as a group) are able to discuss certain tops which were brought up in lectures.

After the short discussion we had to finish our movie. Editing the movie is really hard job. If you want the movie to be perfect you have to have more time than few hours a day. But, in the end, with a little help of our technical support, everything turned out great. We are all satisfied with the result. We used video editing software Pinnacle which is quit simple but we still had some problems because we didn’t have enough time to try everything by ourselves. Tomorrow morning is premier. As I already mentioned, I don’t know if I be able to implement movie into my lectures but it was helpful to try to make one. And one thing I know for sure, an am not the right person for making the movie. I don’t like camera. I prefer photos. It was a long day…

Looking foreward to premier of the movie.