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 Hell Writer, 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 authors Two 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

Examples of how libraries and museums reach out through digitisation One example of early regional initiatives: The project Vestro Gothia, a portal with material tailored for teaching and learning, started around Museums, archives and the regional management of culture, Culture in the West provide interesting resources, which are otherwise difficult to access like photo archives, artifacts and a library of fragile books

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 20 th 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: 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 Course (Swedish) about teaching cultural heritage Barnens bibliotek (The Children's Library) Vestro Gothia Tidsjakten Medioteket/Stockholmskällan – Strindberg Project: Kulturen, Lund Stockholmskällan (The Stockholm Source) Hell, Maud Författarbesök i skolan. BTJ Links to Swedish resources about author collaboration in schools: