Dean Frey is the Director of Red Deer Public Library and a great believer in strong marketing and connecting with communities.
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The RISE Network is an incredible project that connects libraries across Alberta Canada.
The Shanachies visit Chinook Arch Regional Library System and a couple of libraries to learn more about the initiative.
risenetwork.ca/
28th April Strathcona. From Book Mobile to Baby Singing to Shanachie Horse Show.
It is early Wednesday morning. Dreamt of the prison and the idea of making the best of any situation. We will cary this with us for some time to come and we are determined to make all the good work that is done [...]
Bill Mcnaught and Dale Cousens talk about librarianship and lifestyle at Puke Ariki, New Plymouth New Zealand.
pukeariki.com/
Look at this great Shelfari Program for kids at South Library and the amazing gaming area at New Brighton.
After a good night sleep in Bad Blake our RV we find that there is no washroom on this site and only a Dixie toilet that reminds me of the worst I have seen at music festivals after three days of 50.000 people on S D and R ‘n R.
So there is nothing to do [...]
CBC Anchor Evan Solomon talks about libraries during Alberta Library Conference in Jasper.
Bouncedown in Calgary 23rd April - the Wild Rose tour begins.
YES!! We are off. Frank our host has secretly arranged a sort of limo to drive us to the Heathrow as he says: “You guys should leave England as the library rock stars that you are”. Frank you are amazing. Thanks!
Heathrow is very busy, but [...]
Great Expectations - The London Years
It is unbelievable. The word delay has to be given a new meaning. More than a week can no longer be called a delay. Regular attempts to talk with the airline and the travel agent learns that we are really out on our own. “no sir, you have to wait [...]
Stranded in London and swinging along with moodswings, Shanachies live in hope and fear of missing out on this so long awaited tour through Alberta to meet our good friends in Canada. But like all the reactions on Twitter and facebook indicate we will have to make the most of this.
We are so happy with [...]
ShanachieTour 2010
The Wild Rose- A library road trip across West Canada
15th April - An Act of God
We started out so exited!! Jaap and I woke uo early to get to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport on time with all our luggage. Camerera, tripod, photo camera, laptops and of course fishing rod and hunting knife….. I mean this [...]
The Wild Rose Shanachie Tour starts april 15th in Calgary.
See the Tour Schedule here:http://www.rdpl.org/shanachietour and follow us on this website.
Questions and remarks on @shanacchietour #WildRoseTour
Trailer made by Robin Slierendregt (www.3komma14.nl)
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 [...]
Bouncedown in Calgary 23rd April - the Wild Rose tour begins.
YES!! We are off. Frank our host has secretly arranged a sort of limo to drive us to the Heathrow as he says: “You guys should leave England as the library rock stars that you are”. Frank you are amazing. Thanks!
Heathrow is very busy, but well organized and we get our tripod as extra luggage on the plane for free. Looks like our luck is changing. We also manage to change our flight back from Vancouver to Calgary so we have a day extra to see one more library. Flight of almost 9 hours was good as they had some good movies on the program such as The man who stare at goats and Sherlock Holmes. The landing however due to strong winds was more than shaking and the last 20 minutes were more like a rollercoaster ride.
Turning on the iPhone brings us the good news that Ellen of the Calgary Public Library is picking us up in red dress and red shoes. Can not miss her and we are so pleased to see her. She brings us to the RV Rental and tells us that there is a festivity going on at the library to celebrate the work of 1700 volunteers of the library. 1700 volunteers unbelievable. The RV Rental is closed so we check in at the hotel opposite and drive on to the library although it is already way after midnight London town and we are quite beat.
We manage to stay up and talk to Barbara about her plans and struggle to built a new library and with Dean, a volunteer, who educated himself with the help of volunteers at the library. Good story Dean. About 06.00 am London time we find our beds. We need sleep as Lisa Hardy is taking us on a library ride the next day and we still have to get the RV and find a place to camp.
After we get the RV I get us totally lost in Calgary as this country works a little different with the Tom Tom as I am used to, but we manage to find Lisa and she takes us to a beautiful RV Park where we park at the riverside. Then finally in Lisa’s car we set out for the first library. Fish Creek Library is the Library where Lisa works and it is definitely the first library that I have seen that is built in the shape of a piramid. It turns out to be a wonderful laid out library with different floors and different moods and functions everywhere you go. The marketing is very well done by Paul and there is a clearly a plan to manage this library in the best way possible. Jaap is a climer and when he sees the small steps he doubts not a second and he makes us go up to the top of the roof to do the interview there. Never done before and for a good reason. We take a good look around, talk to Maureen, who has organized a fibre arts event and see that this library is well used by many people.
After a good lunch we drive on to Shawnessy Public Library. It has started raining quite hard and it looks like there is snow in the air. This library has the same good atmosphere, but feels a little less open than Fish Creek. The great thing is that the library is in the same complex as a highschool and many sporting fascilities such as a swimmingpool. As many public libraries here and in the US they have a very cosy fireplace and I can see that the computers are well used. We like the coffee corner and the way the teens are invited as the teen books can be well spotted through the glass front on passing by.
We end up after lots of interviews and library shots in Lisa’s house to cook. Nancy and Kathleen join in for dinner and we talk for hours on libraries and on what we are doing in Delft. We decide to make Lisa the first person to play the cd sharing game with the marvelous cd by Jont. She is thrilled and immediately likes the concept. I am curous where the cd will go after Lisa. At the end of the evening Lisa takes us back to our RV through a blizzard. There is so much snow that we can hardly see the road and it is quite scary. I put my faith in Lisa and that she is used to driving through storms like this. After volcanic ashes there is snowstorms and far too few hours of sleep. Thanks Lisa you are a library jewel. This was a great day. I bet the libraries will fight to steal you away from Fish Creek as they see how bravely you did the interview in the top of your favourite library. Onwards it is to see our good friend Dean in Red Deer.
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