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In The Shadow of The Sun: Libraries & COVID-19 Interview with Martin Kristoffer Bråthen

March 30, 2020March 31, 2020Mechanical Dolphin

This week, I caught up with Martin Kristoffer Bråthen. Martin’s head of innovation at Biblioteksentralen, the cooperative business which supplies libraries across Norway with collection materials, equipment, and services.

Martin was a participant in the recent scenarios for the future of Norwegian schools project, and previously talked about ‘the Future Sound of Libraries’ on this site in 2018.

This time, we got together to talk about physical versus digital library services; curation, content, and filter bubbles in the age of Netflix; and, inevitably, the pandemic.

In fact, that’s where we started. I asked him how things were over in Oslo. Read more →

The Future Sound of Libraries, Revisited: Interview with Martin Kristoffer Bråthen

November 12, 2018November 12, 2018Mechanical Dolphin

Today I’m joined by Norway’s Martin Kristoffer Bråthen. Martin is head of innovation and product development at Biblioteksentralen, the cooperative business which supplies libraries across Norway with collection materials, equipment and services.

Prior to that, Martin worked at Deichman Bibliotek, the Oslo Public Library, in a range of project roles. During that time, he wrote a robust defence of public libraries in the age of the e-book in response to a comment by a senior Norwegian arts editor that “digitisation leaves public libraries on the scrapheap of history.”