Shanachies ask Cory Doctorow about Copyright.
After the conference “Computers in Libraries 2009″ in Washington, The Shanachies: Erik Boekesteijn and Jaap van de Geer, visited the famous Darien Library. John Blyberg gave us a tour of the new building and we talked to some of the wonderful staff members about some of the new services and ideas. So kick back and [...]
13-08-2009 Plakias, Crete, Greece from the most southern public library in Europe I am looking back at our Irish adventure and realize that it is a little more than 2 weeks ago that we were at the most northern point of Ireland. Crazy life we lead sometimes. From the cold Atlantic and the hills of [...]
Shanachies interview Eddie and Georgina Byrne (not related) about libraries and new services in Ireland.
Koen Rotteveel, Interaction Designer and Developer
DOK, Library Concept Center made this incredible application that browses the collection of the local photo archive “Erfgoed Delft” and presents photographs of streets of patrons/users based on their ZIP code.
For more information please contact:
Jaap van de Geer (Head of Innovation), j.vandegeer@dok.info
Koen Rotteveel, k.rotteveel@dok.info
Shanachies are in Chicago to attend the movers and shakers lunch and give a presentation for the LITA President’s Program
Shanachies interview Knud Schulz about new library in Aarhus and the Next Library Unconference. The Libary as a space of desire.
http://www.nextlibrary.net
Scott Nicholson is doing an exciting one month course on Gaming in Libraries at the moment that can be found on http://www.gamesinlibraries.org/course/
Shanachies interview Kathy Dempsey and Helene Blowers at CIL 2009 about the future of libraries and the UGame Ulearn conference.
Shaking and on the last drops of unleaded we reach Sale, Gippsland, Victoria and refuel the Lizzard King. The rain pours down and we are actually getting a bit fed up being the Drought Busters. We get safely to Melbourne and thanks to our Tom Tom we find our camping park at Coburg. Award winning [...]
We wake up early as we know the traffic in Brisbane gets insane and our Tom Tom is not 100% reliable at times. During breakfast we decide that after the four hour presentation and tour around the library we will try to make it a few hours south away from this disaster area and hope [...]
After our touch of summer and presentation in Perth we left early for the airport with the hotel shuttle. The flue is getting worse and all my muscles ache. The last thing I look forward to is another 5 hour flight, but it has to be done. Sharan Harvey is waiting at the airport of [...]
After amazing food at the local Chinese Duck restaurant, where we find out that people in Australia bring their own beer and wine to the restaurant we go for one big beer at a local pub. This day has been so long and we are so tired that we seem like bewildered eskimos looking at [...]
Erik Boekesteijn and Jaap van de Geer, DOK Library Concept Center. travel to Chicago (2007) to explore gaming in libraries. Interviews with famous bibliobloggers Jeny Levine, Michael Stephens and Leah White and visits to Kankakee Public Library and Shaumburg Township District Library give us some insights into potential benefits of gaming for communities in this [...]
Christine Mackenzie interview from Jaap van de Geer on Vimeo.
Shaking and on the last drops of unleaded we reach Sale, Gippsland, Victoria and refuel the Lizzard King. The rain pours down and we are actually getting a bit fed up being the Drought Busters. We get safely to Melbourne and thanks to our Tom Tom [...]
I still have pieces of hat between my teeth and a rather upset stomach. Oz kitchen for poor excuse for a fisherman is deadly. If the snakes and floods don’t kill you a Kangaroo leather hat will. This trip has been well laid out and the travel distances are just managable. It takes us about [...]
Road to Melbourne: Picton Library from Jaap van de Geer on Vimeo.
After another rainy night we pack up our wet chairs and get out of Sydney before it gets to us. It is another 1000 kms to Melbourne and we need to revive a little before we are ready to break some barriers and speak [...]
Sydney from Jaap van de Geer on Vimeo.
There it is. The city unfolds itself and opens like some sort of shell. We find our camping park after some miscommunication with our Tom Tom and see that it is situated only 20 yards of the first graves on a huge cemetary. We probably have a couple [...]
Road to Sidney, part one from Jaap van de Geer on Vimeo.
Byron Bay and the lighthouse are in every way what we hoped they would be. The most Eastern point of the mainland of Australia. We are overlooking the bay and think of the crew of captain Cook and how they saw this country for [...]
Brisbane City Council Library from Jaap van de Geer on Vimeo.
We wake up early as we know the traffic in Brisbane gets insane and our Tom Tom is not 100% reliable at times. During breakfast we decide that after the four hour presentation and tour around the library we will try to make it a [...]
Queensland State Library from Jaap van de Geer on Vimeo.
After our touch of summer and presentation in Perth we left early for the airport with the hotel shuttle. The flue is getting worse and all my muscles ache. The last thing I look forward to is another 5 hour flight, but it has to be [...]
Perth Down Under from Jaap van de Geer on Vimeo.
After amazing food at the local Chinese Duck restaurant, where we find out that people in Australia bring their own beer and wine to the restaurant we go for one big beer at a local pub. This day has been so long and we are so [...]
ShanachieTour Down Under: Trailer from Jaap van de Geer on Vimeo.
Finally the ShanachieTour kicks off. It seems like yesterday that we landed in Amsterdam after our little tour from London to Monterey. The weather was much the same as this morning. Drizzle and cold and depressing. We really enjoyed getting our ShanachieTour book and the [...]
Amazing. Who could have a thought that in two years time we would be back in London as keynote of the second day at Internet librarian International. It seems yesterday when we were illegally filming at Internet Librarian International 2006 after buying tickets to the conference. The first time we met Marydee, Dick Kaser, and [...]
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Another 4500 miles on our Shanachie flying account. After 12 hours, with one stop on the Dominican Republic we land on tropical Jamaica. The land of Reggea music, rum, jerk food and libraries and we want to explore it all. No flues, fever or other setbacks this time. We are exited and ready to enjoy [...]
Monterey, the final episode
There it is. After 5000 miles we are guided by the sound of the Sea lions towards our hotel and the conference center. Right next to fisherman’s wharf we park the mother ship to leave her behind for two nights. We have been lost in beautiful national parks without internet, so there [...]
The road to Monterey
Salt Lake City PL was the last library on our list, well we had more, but that would have been impossible. I guess we have to come back. That is, if you will have us. But the reception everywhere has been so warm and the people so friendly that I put my [...]
Salt Lake City Pl. let this Northern star be a guide
Coming towards Salt Lake, we are a bit disappointed at first. After a drive through beautiful scenery we see enormous smog hanging over downtown Salt Lake. We expected a clean, healthy town, but as Andrew our tour guide explains, it is because of the mountains [...]
Florence, Co. Brave librarians throw away all lame excuses
After our admired friend Jenny Levine posted our tour on her blog Karen Hixon was brave enough to invite the Dutch gang over to her library. Despite our impossible schedule we really wanted to visit a small town library to see how they are facing [...]
Future history is treasured in Denver Public Library
It is 6.00 am. Nebraska alarm. Temperatures are below zero in the mother ship. This to me is Bruce country. Today we have to cross it to get to Denver, Co and it turns out to be the big void. A sort of Bermuda triangle. We lose all [...]
Barbara Peterson runs a terrific show in Iowa
How big is this country? I feel like there is no end to it. The drone of our rolling mother ship goes on and on. I Feel much better and I am so glad with the all the positive reactions on what we are doing. Just goes to [...]
Mother ship touches Home base Chicago
After what I hope will be the worst drive of my life we reach Chicago. My food poison reached worst stadium and I had to spend nearly 4 hours of the night trip to Chicago banged against bathroom walls trying to sit on toilet. My prayers were heard and we [...]
Eli puts G-force in Ann Arbor’s District Library
This distance, however ambitious we maybe, is not something we can do in 1 day. So from Charlotte we head out for a 5 hour drive in the Appalachian Mnts. Full of inspiration of our visit with Matt we rolled through the red, brown and green mountains in [...]
Matt Gullet is lifting library standards in Charlotte
Very close to being arrested for illegal camping, we were almost at gunpoint directed to a spot in one of the darkest places I have ever seen. Exhausted as we were, we went to sleep early to [...]
NYPL or New York PauL Oxygenizes New York library
After a night without oxygen, which actually made Jaap wake up in the middle of the night screaming for air, we got out of our hotel at 8.00 am to meet Paul Holdengraber at the New York Public Library. Expectations were high as we knew the [...]
OK. After two hours of trying to get our soundsystem to work and having warm feelings about the person who bought this garbage, we head out for Chinatown to get a proper meal.And a proper meal we did find. The Peking Duck House is confirmed to be the place to get Chinese food in New [...]
Finally it has really begun now. Left Schiphol Amsterdam and on a big blue bird we are flying to America. Lost Jaap and Geert in an, as it seems totally absorbing Die Hard movie. After somewhat undefinable airbus food I long for good spicey New York Food. Not a clue how long it is going [...]
Friday the 28th we had an early kick off to the Shanachietour visiting one of the most beautiful libraries in the Netherlands: Amsterdam Public Library. In the next couple of days we will publish the travel plans from New York to Monterey.
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Shanachie Tour Trailer
The Shanachie tour Trailer is made by Robin Slierendregt at 3komma14.
Read more about the tour on the “about page”. Please leave us a comment when you know of innovative libraries in between New York and Monterey CA we should visit.
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Cor Boekesteijn
3 oktober 1931 - 21 augustus 2007
In loving memory of a true poet and shanachie
Grotere kaart weergeven
13 oktober New York - 30 oktober Monterey, CA
New York Public Library-Paul Holdengraber
Darien Public Library-John Blyberg
Charlotte & Meckleburg Public Library-Matt Gullet
Ann Arbor District Library- Eli Neiburger
Mortenson Center-Barbara Ford
Council Bluffs Public Library-Barbara Peterson
Denver Public Library-Dianne Lapierre
Salt Lake City Library-Britton Lund
Route so far. There is still time for one or two more visits. So if [...]
Queensland State Library from Jaap van de Geer on Vimeo.
After our touch of summer and presentation in Perth we left early for the airport with the hotel shuttle. The flue is getting worse and all my muscles ache. The last thing I look forward to is another 5 hour flight, but it has to be done. Sharan Harvey is waiting at the airport of Brisbane, which hopefully is still there, as we heard on the news that Bisbane has been declared a national disaster area. More than 200.000 homeless and 1 teenager dead. The tropical cyclone and thunderstorms look frightening on the screens at the airport and they expect more bad weather. Nothing indicates that when we fly over middle Australia. Clear sky and good views of red desert as far as the horizon. There is so much space here and so much land yet uninhabited and maybe full of natural resources. We pick up our luggage and there she is. Sharan has taken the day off to bring us to our new mothership and guide us to her beach house on Sunshine coast. She decides to call us Shanachies the Droughtbreakers as they were in a long period of drought and short of water till we hit the country. When we ride north following her we drive in the rain and hit traffic jams. This is so much like the Netherlands that we find it unbelievable to be so far away, yet facing this same routine. The beach house is made of wood and over 80 years old. It looks stunning and from the terrace we have a view of the sea and the incoming storms. We decide to cook and go out to the supermarket. 1 pound of honey, terriyaki Y bone steaks for 3 Euro is for us meat eaters almost too much to bear. Sharan leaves us and we have the house to ourselves. I am so tired that it is almost 11.00 am when I wake up. Jaap is just back from a walk on the beach and had an encounter with a deadly brown snake. It must be the weather conditions, for they have not been spotted for a long time we hear. We have a nice breakfast and go out to look for a coffee shop with internet. Internet in this country is not as fast as we are used to and it takes almost three hours to upload a video. In the meantime we have a great coffee and talk to Sally, who runs the coffee shop with her husband. They are surfers and travel around to make great photos of beaches, which they print on canvas to sell. I buy some cd’s by local unsigned artists to use as music under our videos. She tells me she has not been in a library for 15 years, but when we show her the pictures of our DOK she is really impressed. I tell her to definitely go to see some libraries in Brisbane as we heard they have some great libraries overthere. After we are done we pack our things and it is on to Brisbane to a campisite in the city and to get ready for our presentation at the State Library of Queensland. It is raining so hard that rain comes in our van and the matrasses get wet. It is 03.30 am when we hear screams ‘Evacuate now your life is at stake”. We get so wet as we wade knee deep through the streaming water. The creek near the camping is flooding the site and we are given directions to get out of there. We park the mothership on a hill somewhere and try to catch us a few hours of sleep. This is not helping me to get over the flue, but we arrive in time for our presentation, which goes like a breeze. Always nice to have a good screen, good sound and a good crowd. We receive the Shanachiebooks and sell some and some t-shirts. After the presentation we find out that we have to do an unexpected one on gaming of 45 minutes for a group of 26 librarians. We tell them about Dark Ink, the library game we developed with Liesbeth Mantel and the TU Delft Library. After this speaking we get a tour around the library and find out that they have great open spaces outside the library where there is wifi and where people come to eat and use the outdoor bbq and they make fires and tell stories. This is a good example of the library without walls. They also have a large space reserved for the stories and history of the Aboriginals and we are happy to hear that the views of many people in Australia have changed and that the cultures are finding each other and merging into one Australian history. There are so many computers here, and they are all being used. Again it is clear that libraries these days are used for so much more than just for books. People like the atmosphere and like to study together in the safe environment of the library. The youth department for the little ones is beautiful and run mostly by artists Amanda tells me. They really look at the many ways children communicate and learn and provide this space to parents and kids to meet here and share experiences. They also have artists coming in to work with the kids on all sorts of creative funshops. It is late and I am really worn out. We decide to take on the offer from Sharan to use yet another one of her houses in the city as they expect more bad weather and I do not want to have another night with floods and evacuation. Tomorrow it is a 4 hours presentation at the Brisbane City Council library and we need sleep.
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