Library Channel

Reading tips and perspectives on libraries. Information and inspiration. Here you’ll find videos spoken in English or subtitled in English.

Library Channel presents

Nordic Libraries for Sustainability Vol 3 – WEEK17, 2025
See also:

Kara Orford: The Reader – Inspiring a lifelong love of reading among children and young people

Hanna Carlsson: Navigating Polarisation: Libraries in the Midst of the Culture War
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  • Tue 22.9.2026, 17–18 
    Lue näytelmä! event at Vuosaari Library
  • Mon 19.10.2026, 13–15
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Literature

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Author-dogs – Timo Parvela

Richard Russo at the Prosak Prose Club

Henning Mankell speaks about libraries

Library Issues

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Library Day – Kirjaston päivä – Bibliotekets dag

Tale of a Library (English narration)

The Street Librarian

Education

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Leea Lakka: Libraries in the Age of Polarized Reading

Ida Berge: The Library as an Arena for Learning Democracy

Åsmund Bertelsen, Sara Bindeballe and Peter Jørgensen: Libraries as Potential Bridge-Builders in a Polarized Society