Biblioteken i Århus gör det igen!
“Would you like to watch a good film, listen to a CD or read a new book – without regard to time and place? Legally and free of charge, Aarhus Public Libraries now offers access to a broad range of feature films. As is the case with music and literature, you can download films to your computer for your immediate pleasure – without first having to visit the library.
Citizens in the City of Aarhus, who have a library card with a pin code, now have fast and easy-to-use access to Net Music, Net Films, Net Audio Books, Net Books and a broad range of Net Databases through the Internet. It is legitimate. It is free. And it’s open 24/7. www.aakb.dk/netmedier provides easy access to the many offers.
‘Aarhus Public Libraries are known around the world for their innovative initiatives. This is yet another example of the seriousness with which the libraries of Aarhus treat their role as information mediators.
They gladly break new ground to benefit their users’, says Alderman for Culture and Citizens’ Services Jacob Bundsgaard Johansen.
Many new features
As a new service, the libraries now offer access to 150 feature films and 60 short films and documentaries on www.filmstriben.dk. Users can borrow up to 10 films per month – for free. At the same time, the libraries have strengthened a range of other Net Media: e.g. the Libraries’ Net Music, which now has 2.2 million music tracks (or about 190,000 albums) available. This is an increase of almost 40 % since April.
Almost 2,000 new net books are available and the selection of net audio books has been dramatically increased with new titles from two major publishers. Furthermore, new net databases have been added, including Student Resource Center with more than one million articles from various periodicals, magazines and news papers plus biographies, analyses and selected source material. The database covers, among other subjects, history, literature, science, and geography.
Almost 1,000 of the world’s news papers are now available via Library PressDisplay – searchable and in their original layout – and including a 90-day archive. Just to mention the most significant.
Through the libraries’ website, users can thus use all the digital materials when it suits them – they are not limited by the opening hours of the library. Users have access to the latest music, to new and classical quality films – 24 hours a day. They can downloan net audio books and net books: fictional, non-fictional or children’s books.
Users can also use the wide range of net databases provided for free by the library: digital periodicals, news papers and encyclopaedia from all over the world – which is especially suited for those seeking a specific knowledge, here and now.
Apart from the digital net databases available to users through their computers at home, Aarhus Public Libraries provides access to a range of other databases, which users can use through the libraries’ more than 300 public PCs.”
