Step by step. 365 days in a library

The idea of the international project Step by step sprang up in the Russian State Library for Young Adults in 2010 during the first visit of Britt-Marie Ingden Ringselle and Kristiina Kolehmainen. It's aim is to create a day by day life story of Swedish and Russian libraries. So every day one photo of the particular day in a library will be posted on the Photoblog. We hope that in a year each of the participating libraries (PUNKTmedis, Serieteket, Russian State Library for Young Adults) will get a vivid image of their own and sister libraries. By the implementation of this project we hope to join IFLA Sister Libraries programme. We believe that this kind of project will help our librarians not only to establish good relations with foreign colleagues and exchange ideas and experience with them, but to be inspired to develop cultural and professional connections.

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The idea of the international project Step by step sprang up in the Russian State Library for Young Adults in 2010 during the first visit of Britt-Marie Ingden Ringselle and Kristiina Kolehmainen. It's aim is to create a day by day life story of Swedish and Russian libraries. So every day one photo of the particular day in a library will be posted on the Photoblog. We hope that in a year each of the participating libraries (PUNKTmedis, Serieteket, Russian State Library for Young Adults) will get a vivid image of their own and sister libraries. By the implementation of this project we hope to join IFLA Sister Libraries programme. We believe that this kind of project will help our librarians not only to establish good relations with foreign colleagues and exchange ideas and experience with them, but to be inspired to develop cultural and professional connections.

	Library for Young Adults Moscow, Russia	Serieteket Stockholm, Sweden	PUNKTmedis Stockholm, Sweden
30.4.2013 Library for Young Adults 365th! 29.4.2013 Library for Young Adults One day before the start. The 12th Moscow International Comics Festival "KomMissia" begins on May 1st. 28.4.2013 Library for Young Adults Wanted: two pairs of hands with music education. 27.4.2013 Library for Young Adults "The War in Comics: View from Japan, France and Russia". Joint meeting of the Comics Club and Hibari Club. 26.4.2013 Library for Young Adults The Internet gave a very interesting photo to us. That's how the place of our library looked like 60 years ago. 25.4.2013 Library for Young Adults A week in white. The upgrade continues. 24.4.2013 Library for Young Adults The 12th Moscow International Comics Festival "KomMissia" will take place at our library in May. We're getting ready, discussing, working and discussing again... 23.4.2013 Library for Young Adults Tuning of the Smart library. 22.4.2013 Library for Young Adults Alone with the Persepolis. 21.4.2013 Library for Young Adults Fresh wooden tulips straight from Amsterdam. The year of the Netherlands in Russia. 20.4.2013 Library for Young Adults Meeting at the Bardo Cinema Club. The film director Valeriy Zelenskiy is showing his shootings taken with the candid camera at the metro. 19.4.2013 Library for Young Adults Discussion on the topic "How to become an environmental inspector?" 18.4.2013 Library for Young Adults Serious and colorful work with a printed book. 17.4.2013 Library for Young Adults What is feminist art? - it is really a very complicated and topical issue. The historian and arts critic Nadia Plungian is starting her lection. 16.4.2013 Library for Young Adults Come to the library with your own book, e-book :) 15.4.2013 Library for Young Adults Before the readers are coming. 14.4.2013 Library for Young Adults Sometimes not only books are brought to the library, but building materials as well. 13.4.2013 Library for Young Adults New arrivals at the Comics Centre. We haven't even brought them when they are already beeing read. 12.4.2013 Library for Young Adults The autograph session. 11.4.2013 Library for Young Adults Lena De Winne's Diaries are ready for the autograph session. 10.4.2013 Library for Young Adults Emergency for the self-service station. 09.4.2013 Library for Young Adults The treasure of our Museum of Digital Book History: a wax plate with stylus. 08.4.2013 Library for Young Adults Spring is a time of changes. The navigation's update is in the safe hands. 07.4.2013 Library for Young Adults Total dictation. Everyone was able to write a dictation and to check his or her literacy level in our library. 06.4.2013 Library for Young Adults All the preparations are over. Today we have Total Dictation. 05.4.2013 Library for Young Adults Manga workshop. Feel yourself a true mangaka even if you're holding a pen for the first time. 04.4.2013 Library for Young Adults A part of the collection of our deputy director Irina, which was mentioned earlier. By the way, we’ve find out that in feng shui the spherical objects are a symbol of constancy and clarity of thought. As for Irina, we can hardly argue with that. 03.4.2013 Library for Young Adults Red Style. 02.4.2013 Library for Young Adults "Persepolis" of Marjane Satrapi is among us. Preparations for the new exhibition. 01.4.2013 Library for Young Adults No more photos. We've thrown all our cameras out. 31.3.2013 Library for Young Adults It's time to build paper castles. 30.3.2013 Library for Young Adults Now the drawings of illustrator and comics artist Askold Akishin are not only in the books on the Comics Center's shelfs, but also on the walls. 29.3.2013 Library for Young Adults “Pen-pushers on the yard!” or how to write and publish a book. Lection of the writer and publicist Alexander Biriykov. 28.3.2013 Library for Young Adults Internet projects department and Project management department. Upgrade. Beginning. 27.3.2013 Library for Young Adults The book market novelty — “Young Specialists of the Modern Library”. And its author — our deputy director Marina. 26.3.2013 Library for Young Adults March is a month of theatrical “kapustniks” (“skits”). “Cabbage as the crown of creation” – this is the opening speech of the head of all-cabbage science at our performance. 25.3.2013 Library for Young Adults Our deputy director Irina has a hobby – she collects different spherical objects (mainly of glass). There is something connected with feng shui, but we don't know for sure, what exactly. These ones seem to become a part of her collection. 24.3.2013 Library for Young Adults The library step-ladders: made in USSR, 1955 on the right; made in Sweden, present time on the left. 23.3.2013 Library for Young Adults That’s just how a real cosplay infantryman gun looks like. After the seminar “The Cosplay: what, where, how and why”. 22.3.2013 Library for Young Adults All the reasons and pattern of the French Revolution (1789-1794) have been discussed at the seminar of the Youth Association "Hogwarts". 21.3.2013 Library for Young Adults If you read aloud some passages from your favourite fantastic book to your friends in the very cold spring evening, the time will pass imperceptibly. 20.3.2013 Library for Young Adults A fashion designer always should be in trend. 19.3.2013 Library for Young Adults The help is coming! 18.3.2013 Library for Young Adults It’s hard to imagine that Lena Uzhinova – the comic artist, very serious person and our great friend– is telling how to turn the work with comics into impressive show. But it is so. 17.3.2013 Library for Young Adults Our reader Pavel Novokov has invited Lena De Winne to us. She has recently published the book “Astronaut Wife’s Diary” which will be presented in April at our library. By the way, Lena is really the wife of the Belgian astronaut Frank De Winne. 16.3.2013 Library for Young Adults Script writer and art director of the very popular cartoon “El’ka” Aleksey Lukyanchikov is sharing his experience of creating catching stories. 15.3.2013 Library for Young Adults The young dancing project "Cheeky Fruits" is preparing for taking their new music video. 14.3.2013 Library for Young Adults Are twins absolutely similar? The Elle Girl magazine has published the interviews with the twins and their photo shoot in our interiors. 13.3.2013 Library for Young Adults Even a bag should feel itself comfortable. 12.3.2013 Library for Young Adults “Australia” – this is a new poetry book of Elena Generozova which she has announced for young poets at the meeting of our Poetic Studio. 11.3.2013 Library for Young Adults You can tell our psychologist about your personal concerns. She will hear out and try to help you. 10.3.2013 Library for Young Adults The attentive audience. 09.3.2013 Library for Young Adults Our cat Semen knows who is the real boss here. 08.3.2013 Library for Young Adults Our retro artwork "A girl with a bird" is always touching and inimitable in its beauty. 07.3.2013 Library for Young Adults The caressing sun is stroking one's shoulders. 06.3.2013 Library for Young Adults Today’s meeting is dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the library’s founder and first director Irina Bakhmutskaya. 05.3.2013 Library for Young Adults A girl has done some work, left everything here and gone to have some rest. 04.3.2013 Library for Young Adults Our photo archive. It's the library's history from the end of the 1960s. 03.3.2013 Library for Young Adults The wrestler with the book dust. 02.3.2013 Library for Young Adults Traditional photo to remember. Japaneese mangaka Yuri Takagi after the meeting with readers. 01.3.2013 Library for Young Adults In Bardo Club the cognoscentes of the cinema have reflected upon the famous movie magician Terry Gilliam’s works, watching parts of his films and reading his interview in this book. 28.2.2013 Library for Young Adults Researcher of haiku, designer of the Russian programme RADIONET, blogger and author of science fiction novels Aleksey Andreev (Mercie Shelli) adores the old children game “String”. 27.2.2013 Library for Young Adults One complicated choice. Since February you can take home only 5 books at the same time. 26.2.2013 Library for Young Adults Problem of the ecovillages is in the spotlight of the Eco Club’s participants. What is it: escape from the civilization or a step into the future? 25.2.2013 Library for Young Adults The students of the Moscow universities have gathered for the youth scientific readings "First Report". 24.2.2013 Library for Young Adults The exhibits of the Computer Museum. The family of removable disks: now and in the past. 23.2.2013 Library for Young Adults The rock'n'roll life style. 22.2.2013 Library for Young Adults Opening of the Vinyl Russian Rock Albums exhibition from our collection. 21.2.2013 Library for Young Adults The readers haven't wait for the author of the teens novels Eduard Verkin. He hasn't come to us after the radio interview. It's a great pity. 20.2.2013 Library for Young Adults On the opened page – the map of Paris city centre Someone is exploring it... Someone is likely to go there soon... Someone is lucky... 19.2.2013 Library for Young Adults 10 minutes left after library’s opening. It’s cold for studies, but just right weather for reading manga at us! 18.2.2013 Library for Young Adults Come together! 17.2.2013 Library for Young Adults The new devices for the study room are fully ready. 16.2.2013 Library for Young Adults The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in war. 15.2.2013 Library for Young Adults Spring is coming very soon. 14.2.2013 Library for Young Adults Happy Sweetheart's Day from our colleague Max. 13.2.2013 Library for Young Adults Anisa, the reporter of the 24h TV channel Russia Today, is making a reportage about our library for the Arab editorial office. 12.2.2013 Library for Young Adults Poetic Studio "Début". Here young poets are discussing their works with the pro literary man Alexey Kubrik. 11.2.2013 Library for Young Adults We’ve discussed the issues of collaboration with Anna Samsonova, the representative of the well-known Artemy Lebedev Design Studio. 10.2.2013 Library for Young Adults It’s a pity that the photo can’t reproduce the famous “fleur de orange” fragrance of the modest tangerine tree flowers which was mentioned in the Chekhov’s novels many times. May be therefore this tree has appeared at our library. 09.2.2013 Library for Young Adults The founders of the new youth publishing house “42” Ivan Polyakov and Valentin Zavrzin have told our readers about their grand plans and answered a lot of questions. 08.2.2013 Library for Young Adults Anastasia is a member of the Eastern Culture and Comics Club. Being a future comics artist, she gains new drawing and storytelling skills at the Club’s meetings. 07.2.2013 Library for Young Adults Chief of the Projects’ Management Department Anton Purnik has told our leading specialists about the innovative projects which will be accomplished in the library in 2013. 06.2.2013 Library for Young Adults There are always many readers at the Fiction Literature Hall, especially in the afternoon. 05.2.2013 Library for Young Adults This winter in Moscow the snowfalls have exceeded the indicators for many years. Today it is snowing the whole day. 04.2.2013 Library for Young Adults The main entrance hall is the favourite place for the photo shoot of our visitors. 03.2.2013 Library for Young Adults Our colourful signs help perfectly to gain the object quickly. 02.2.2013 Library for Young Adults Books and old records are a source of knowledge as well as a source of inspiration for a young painter in creating a library still-life. 01.2.2013 Library for Young Adults Colleagues from 17 small and big Russian towns have visited our library. 31.1.2013 Library for Young Adults A brochure-catalogue as the memory of the exhibition of Dima Shirokov and Natta Konysheva. You can put on the table and have a look at the artists’ works for a long time more. 30.1.2013 Library for Young Adults In 2012 famous science-fiction writer Vadim Panov published the book “Vertigo”. In 2013 its interactive version will appear. What is it? This and other details Vadim’s fans have learned right from the author at our meeting. 29.1.2013 Library for Young Adults The students have just received an sms with a group task. After a short discussion they will start fulfilling it. 28.1.2013 Library for Young Adults The main event of the project “Synthesis of Eisenstein”. Participants of the Cinema Club are discussing the system of creating visual images by the theory of Sergey Eisenstein. 27.1.2013 Library for Young Adults Until January, 31st on the website of the Transport Department Moscovites are voting for the new design of the metro scheme. Our library is the place where everyone can see printed versions of the future metro map. 26.1.2013 Library for Young Adults The exhibition of extraordinary artist Natta Konysheva and artist-ceramist Dima Shirokov will be open at the library till the end of February. 25.1.2013 Library for Young Adults Our guest Irina has told and shown the traditions and rules of wearing Japaneese kimono to the fans of Eastern culture. 24.1.2013 Library for Young Adults Now everyone can see the actual information about library events on the screenes. 23.1.2013 Library for Young Adults The sun is our first visitor. 22.1.2013 Library for Young Adults The famous naive artist Natta Konysheva is examining her works before the exhibition's opening. 21.1.2013 Library for Young Adults A beginner animator is rehearsing his/her first performance for children. 20.1.2013 Library for Young Adults A unique parachute silk book of 1935 made in the silk-screening technique. It was donated to the library by our readers and describes the heroic flight of the Soviet pilots en-route Moscow – North Pole – San Francisco. 19.1.2013 Library for Young Adults The artist and his work. Our friend Vladimir Ponamorev (Plemiash), artist and chief director of the animation studio, is our guest today. 18.1.2013 Library for Young Adults “Synthesis of Eisenstein” – the new library project about works of the well-known master. 17.1.2013 Library for Young Adults Our small pets always attract everyone’s attention and mostly arouse only pleasant emotions. Like this small but such a nice doggie. 16.1.2013 Library for Young Adults Russian TV channel NTV is making a reportage about using e-books among young adults at our library. 15.1.2013 Library for Young Adults The main Soviet newspapers of 1930-40s which were donated by our readers. 14.1.2013 Library for Young Adults The time of exams has begun. 13.1.2013 Library for Young Adults The exhibition of works of the book illustrator Boris Diodorov for the Scandinavian literature is open at our library. 12.1.2013 Library for Young Adults A short user inquiry in the beginning of the year. The goal is to find out their reason for visiting the library. 11.1.2013 Library for Young Adults The Tree of Knowledge... 10.1.2013 Library for Young Adults The first meeting of the Manga Club in the new year. 09.1.2013 Library for Young Adults Artist Dmitry Shirokov at work. The new exhibition will be open soon. 08.1.2013 Library for Young Adults New Year’s holidays are coming to an end. The work is waiting for us! 07.1.2013 Library for Young Adults Merry Christmas! 06.1.2013 Library for Young Adults Our Christmastide. 05.1.2013 Library for Young Adults Winter fun means snowballs, skates, sledges, skis… and calm games with friends. 04.1.2013 Library for Young Adults Our little spring. 03.1.2013 Library for Young Adults This photo is a part of our project "Library wishes Happy New Year". 02.1.2013 Library for Young Adults The New Year is already striding along the library. 01.1.2013 Library for Young Adults Happy New Year! 31.12.2012 Library for Young Adults Our Christmas tree is welcoming the New Year 2013! 30.12.2012 Library for Young Adults Tea & bread-rings, autographs & reading – this is the New Year’s presentation of the Hibari book. 29.12.2012 Library for Young Adults First book of our Hibari Manga Studio – perfect result of the year! 28.12.2012 Library for Young Adults Participants of the Eco Club are making New Year's paper decorations. They won't cause damage to the environment. 27.12.2012 Library for Young Adults Editor-in-chief of the publishing house “Snezhny Komm” and science-fiction writer Yaroslav Verov has told our fantasy fans not only about his works, but about popular fantasy fest Galaxy of Ayu-Dag. 26.12.2012 Library for Young Adults Hero of the puppet show “Funny Carnival” ninny Wolf has sung a humorous New Year’s song to our little audience. 25.12.2012 Library for Young Adults In skilful hands a snow-white thread has turned into fantastic New Year’s decoration. 24.12.2012 Library for Young Adults Thread of Ariadne, connecting thread, thread of Arachne… What will be weaved with this thread? 23.12.2012 Library for Young Adults New Year's comics party. The topic is the new time of birds. One of the birds is undergoing a funny trial at the party guillotine. 22.12.2012 Library for Young Adults Unforgettable Woody Woodpecker has come back to us; and not only he. We are waiting for the whole flock of the wonderful and magical birds. 21.12.2012 Library for Young Adults Works of Huijao Miyazaki, Japanese artist, animator, writer-director are in the focus of attention of the members of Manga club Hibari. 20.12.2012 Library for Young Adults Everything is ready for the new meeting of the horror fans. After seeing parts of the film “Wolf’s Hole” they will try to answer a question: How much is human in a human? 19.12.2012 Library for Young Adults A book as an example. Focusing on the works of true masters our regular visitors are creating handmade New Year’s cards. 18.12.2012 Library for Young Adults The main library Christmas tree is being decorated. 17.12.2012 Library for Young Adults Is it possible to take a book from the library and not to return it? Yes, now there is a shelf for book exchange among the readers at the Coffee and Newspapers Hall. 16.12.2012 Library for Young Adults Orange mood: art albums, pillows like the paintings of Mark Rothko… A cup of flavoured coffee would be nice. 15.12.2012 Library for Young Adults That’s how to travel in winter and not feel cold. Ticket to Ride - one of the most popular board games. 14.12.2012 Library for Young Adults First discussions and first drafts of the photo blog Step by Step two years ago. Today our project is real. 13.12.2012 Library for Young Adults New year stories: 1969. Father Frost, Snowmaiden, Christmas tree, presents - true holiday's symbols. 12.12.2012 Library for Young Adults Preparations for the New Year. Small favors of holiday's waiting. 11.12.2012 Library for Young Adults Welcome, or No Trespassing. 10.12.2012 Library for Young Adults Winter opening performance in our theatre studio "Metaphor". It will be "Little nothings of life" based on Anton Chekhov short stories. One hour prior to the begining and actors are playing the full. 09.12.2012 Library for Young Adults Popular city magazine “Bolshoy Gorod” has made a guidebook of the best places for children and their parents in Moscow. Find us on page 28. 08.12.2012 Library for Young Adults It’s always comfy to chat online in a secluded corner. 07.12.2012 Library for Young Adults This is one of the most favourite places among our users – the corner with handmade pillows. Always cosy, warm and beautiful. 06.12.2012 Library for Young Adults Personal choice, personal listening, personal perception of the literature on vinyl recordings. 05.12.2012 Library for Young Adults Our specialist Boris is looking carefully through the documents for the new arrivals of the educational DVDs. 04.12.2012 Library for Young Adults Author of the novel "Nattfak" (Dagger International-2010) Johan Theorin has told our readers not only about his books, but about the island Oland. He never stops wearing his cap because once he heard that a hat keeps ideas. 03.12.2012 Library for Young Adults Our electronic loupe will help to examine everything in the smallest details. 02.12.2012 Library for Young Adults The topic of today’s meeting in the Ecological Club: Ecotourism in Russia – developing type of youth recreation. 01.12.2012 Library for Young Adults Journalist and writer Valery Bondarenko and participants of the Bardot Cinema Club have discussed different screenings of the Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment”. 30.11.2012 Library for Young Adults Director of the Douglas County Library System (Colorado, USA) James LaRue has told us about the problems of working with e-books in libraries and the ways of solving them. 29.11.2012 Library for Young Adults Christmas preparations begin. The rehearsal of the December performance “Little Nothings of Life” in the Metaphor Studio based on Anton Chekhov’s novels. 28.11.2012 Library for Young Adults Alexander Podolsky is scaring us every month on the pages of the online horror magazine “Darker”. 27.11.2012 Library for Young Adults Tete-a-tete with everybody. 26.11.2012 Library for Young Adults The last day of the debates. The winners - the students' team of the Moscow Physicotechnical University. 25.11.2012 Library for Young Adults Weekend of debates. Students from main Russian universities have started a competition in parliamentary debates on the most burning social and political issues. It's important to be able to persist your opinion. 24.11.2012 Library for Young Adults Our collection consists of some 400 titles of the youth magazines from poetic to cookery, from educational to technical. 23.11.2012 Library for Young Adults The regular participants of the Comics Club Natalia and Andrey Snegirevi are presenting their new book to the readers. 22.11.2012 Library for Young Adults We never forget you. 21.11.2012 Library for Young Adults Boris Strugatsky has passed away. Hard to Be a God. 20.11.2012 Library for Young Adults Sh-sh-h-h-h... The library in process. 19.11.2012 Library for Young Adults Sh-sh-h-h-h...The library is having a rest. 18.11.2012 Library for Young Adults That’s what the artist Akishin has written in our autograph book. “A library?” – “Yes. When people are reading, guns are silent.” 17.11.2012 Library for Young Adults Presentation of the poetry anthology “Literaturrentgen”. Young poets – winners of the Russian Literature Award for last 10 years. 16.11.2012 Library for Young Adults French artist Mathieu Bonhomme has told the audience about all fine points of being illustrator and creator of graphic novels. 15.11.2012 Library for Young Adults Our guests – Christiane Raabe, director of the International Youth Library and Book Castle in Munich, and Jutta Reusch, specialist of the German writer Michael Ende. 14.11.2012 Library for Young Adults “Drawings from the darkness” is the exhibition and the theme of the new meeting at the Fantasy and Horror Club. The participants are discussing the works of the Ukranian artist Sergey Krikun who is inspired by his favourite writers. 13.11.2012 Library for Young Adults We are preparing a new exposition dedicated to the works of German classical children writer Michael Ende (1929-1995). Materials for the exposition are afforded by the German Culture Centre in Moscow and the International Youth Library in Munich. 12.11.2012 Library for Young Adults Digital technologies in action: the manual for the piano is on the tablet, the electronic instrument is under the fingers, the electronic music is in the headphones. 11.11.2012 Library for Young Adults Our pouffes are checked up: washing and grooming. 10.11.2012 Library for Young Adults Double benefit: it’s good for you to read much and to move much. 09.11.2012 Library for Young Adults At our Computer library you can read manuals and check how it works, use e-readers, surf the Internet or just read paper books and learn more about the latest gadgets... On the whole, read, learn and get pleasure! 08.11.2012 Library for Young Adults A library card queue. Neither bad weather nor tiredness after a hard day prevents people from coming to us. 07.11.2012 Library for Young Adults The entertaining TV channel TNT is shooting the popular youth show “Durnushek.NET” at our library. The clapper is ready to clap and the work will start. 06.11.2012 Library for Young Adults This nice dog at the Natural and Technical Sciences Hall is a synthesis of natural and artificial. 05.11.2012 Library for Young Adults The main stack. The day off. 04.11.2012 Library for Young Adults Classical cinema images always present at the Comics and Visual Culture Hall. 03.11.2012 Library for Young Adults The Head of the Moscow’s Eastern District Nikolay Viktorovich Lomakin has donated the largest Russian encyclopedia “Granat” to our library. 02.11.2012 Library for Young Adults "Coffee and newspapers" is the most popular hall among our visitors. It never stands empty. 01.11.2012 Library for Young Adults Today our project Step by Step celebrates its half-year. We’re happy to be with you! 31.10.2012 Library for Young Adults Phantom of the library. Happy Halloween! 30.10.2012 Library for Young Adults Methodological Department’s specialist Maria is telling the students, studying book culture, about the structure and services of our library. 29.10.2012 Library for Young Adults Olesia is an editor of our blog Unicode. She is looking through all the posts. 28.10.2012 Library for Young Adults Everyone is having fun at our meetings. 27.10.2012 Library for Young Adults Visiting the exhibition is not just seeing presented works. On these yellow sheets everyone can write down what the images are speaking about while nobody is watching them. 26.10.2012 Library for Young Adults Basic training: our IT specialists are getting to know the new equipment. 25.10.2012 Library for Young Adults That’s how quickly our visitors get to know new services. Just two days left since the new device for individual audiobook listening has been installed, and it already has a constant user. 24.10.2012 Library for Young Adults Reconstruction of the book collection is going on at our branch library. High density of holding knowledge and discovery, success and disappointment, feelings and thoughts… 23.10.2012 Library for Young Adults New books are an excellent reason for visiting library. 22.10.2012 Library for Young Adults A candid photography: this is an ordinary beginning of the workweek for our Anton. 21.10.2012 Library for Young Adults Social Sciences and Humanities Hall. Librarian’s working place. He is not here now, so it means he might be everywhere: in the hall, in the stacks or with the readers… 20.10.2012 Library for Young Adults Our guest – French artist Jean-Christophe Chauzy has left us a funny sketch to remind. 19.10.2012 Library for Young Adults Nadezhda Alekseevna Makarova is a chief librarian. In October she celebrates the 40th anniversary of her uninterrupted work for our library. 18.10.2012 Library for Young Adults A new meeting of Hibari Manga Club: cats in the Eastern culture. 17.10.2012 Library for Young Adults Presenter of the Speaking Club Alex has sat down to speak about advantages and disadvantages of globalisation. 16.10.2012 Library for Young Adults “Magical Tea” made by Elena for all patrons stimulates creativity and inspiration, flight of fancy and improvisation abilities. 15.10.2012 Library for Young Adults “Kristiina from Kotka” is a very warm-hearted gift for us. 14.10.2012 Library for Young Adults Alim Velitov’s exhibition “Images from subconsciousness” opens today at 16:00 Moscow time. “My investigations have just started…”, says Alim. 13.10.2012 Library for Young Adults The 2nd Russian Convention for Young Librarians has come to an end. 150 participants have taken new ideas, knowledge and just impressions with them. And we have started preparing for the next one… 12.10.2012 Library for Young Adults Yaroslav Ivanov, stage director runs the workshop “Acting technique and interaction with library customers” for the Conference participants. 11.10.2012 Library for Young Adults American colleagues Christian Zabriskie (Queens Library) and Chris Shoemaker (New York Public Library) - special guests of 2nd All-Russian Convent for Young Librarians. 10.10.2012 Library for Young Adults Presentation of the project "Step by step" on 2nd All-Russian Convent for Young Librarians. 09.10.2012 Library for Young Adults 2nd All-Russian Convent for Young Librarians will be open on 9th October. Final preparations in progress. 08.10.2012 Library for Young Adults While their parents are at the reading halls, boys are having a good time at our playroom. Kirill has just read a book about animals, and Seva has settled comfortably in a new chair. And now both of them are watching cartoons with great interest. 07.10.2012 Library for Young Adults Our “smallest” collection. Unusual and very attractive format of these tiny books always impresses our readers, but for some reasons many of them think that it’s souvenirs. 06.10.2012 Library for Young Adults The new exposition is preparing. 05.10.2012 Library for Young Adults Guest of the Manga Studio “Hibari” – Tatyana Larina, a young, but already very successful script writer for Russian comics. 04.10.2012 Library for Young Adults Today one of the Moscow TV channels has arranged at our library a live coverage of the meeting with the head of the Eastern Administrative City District. Readers had an opportunity to talk with him in a real time mode and ask any important questions. 03.10.2012 Library for Young Adults Writer Shamil Idiatullin, author of the very very scary novel "Ubyr"(Убыр) (horror based on tatar folklore) and his young reader Daniil. Autograph-session after meeting of science-fiction and horror literary club. 02.10.2012 Library for Young Adults Theatrical studio Metaphor is preparing a new performance based on the Anton Chekhov’s play. The female part of the studio together with Yaroslav is reading aloud dialogs from the play. 01.10.2012 Library for Young Adults Our collegue Katya's discussing with readers the translation difficuties from Classical Greek. 30.9.2012 Library for Young Adults Nothing new under the Moon. Filmstrips are back in fashion. Our collection numbers more than 30 000 copies. 29.9.2012 Library for Young Adults Vasily, 3y.o. Uses hall of fiction for his own purposes. His special guests Francesco Bernoulli, Finn McMissile and Acer from Disney movie "Cars 2". 28.9.2012 Library for Young Adults One hobby in her hands another one at the feets. 27.9.2012 Library for Young Adults Manga-club "Hibari" investigate influence of japanese folklore on popular culture. E.g. "My Neighbor Totoro". 26.9.2012 Library for Young Adults Emmanuel Lepage, the Breton artist and Comic creator meets his readers. 25.9.2012 Library for Young Adults Speaking Club – young people trying to speak just English for 60 minutes. 24.9.2012 Library for Young Adults Leisure in the form of the game. 23.9.2012 Library for Young Adults A gift from our readers:collection of Olympic pins from 1980. 22.9.2012 Library for Young Adults Library staff Angelina is also a leader of the Youth Library's Council. 21.9.2012 Library for Young Adults Editor of the "Istary Comics" Publishing house introduces new books to the readers. 20.9.2012 Library for Young Adults Poster "This is the end?!" First meeting of science-fiction and horror literary club was dedicated to writers of post -apocalyptic fiction. 19.9.2012 Library for Young Adults Young librarians from Siberia have the practical training in our library. 18.9.2012 Library for Young Adults Young author Boris Koutenkov introduces readers with his poems. 17.9.2012 Library for Young Adults There're no too high shelves for real researcher. 16.9.2012 Library for Young Adults The right method of approach to painting is to study carefully properties of paints and pigments. 15.9.2012 Library for Young Adults The Guinness World Records has listed Sherlock Holmes as the "most portrayed movie character" with 75 actors playing the part in over 211 films (via Wiki). The last meeting of our film society was dedicated to the mr. Holmes as archetype. 14.9.2012 Library for Young Adults Hard way to working hardware. 13.9.2012 Library for Young Adults Preparing for intergovernmental forum on health matters. 12.9.2012 Library for Young Adults Some like it terrible. Оur fearless guard is fond of horror by Stephen King. 11.9.2012 Library for Young Adults The Reading Hall of the library (early 80s). 10.9.2012 Library for Young Adults We offer our patrons a possibility to order printed copies of old or rare books. 09.9.2012 Library for Young Adults A little upgrade of the office for the Fiction Department staff - well done. 08.9.2012 Library for Young Adults The joint reading. Number two version. 07.9.2012 Library for Young Adults New season in comics club. Our today guest is a french artist Andre Juillart. 06.9.2012 Library for Young Adults Time to time our patrons bring us amazing liberal gift. Today for example our Center of comics have got "The Golden Age of DC Comics: 365 days". 05.9.2012 Library for Young Adults Rainy autumn in Moscow. It's time for library! You can sit in the comfortable armchair with a good books and show your pretty boots :) 04.9.2012 Library for Young Adults A warm evening in the library. Watching movie and drinking tea, made according to the tea ceremony rules. 03.9.2012 Library for Young Adults Scientia est lux... 02.9.2012 Library for Young Adults A little upgrade of the office for the Fiction Department staff. 01.9.2012 Library for Young Adults “Read, read & read again, guys,” advise our Lithuanian colleagues. 31.8.2012 Library for Young Adults The Last Day of Summer. 30.8.2012 Library for Young Adults Today our director Irina Mikhnova celebrates her birthday. And this is the most delicious present. 29.8.2012 Library for Young Adults The rain season has started in Moscow. 28.8.2012 Library for Young Adults The treasure of the Rare Books Hall. The gramophone records collection of the 1920-30s in the antique case. 27.8.2012 Library for Young Adults Comics center at boo!fest book-market with special lection. "Comics vs Comix. How underground hit the balls of mainstream". Will begin in few seconds. 26.8.2012 Library for Young Adults «1 square meter of nature» 25.8.2012 Library for Young Adults Round the world without leaving the library. 24.8.2012 Library for Young Adults If you need something, take it, if you don’t – leave it here. The shelf for book exchange. 23.8.2012 Library for Young Adults An offhand Jenga Championship at the Comics Centre. 22.8.2012 Library for Young Adults Our guest from England Tanja Alisova is speaking about interactive images in applications for iPads and smartphones as a new step in book illustration and comics’ development. 21.8.2012 Library for Young Adults In spite of being a library for young adults, our doors are open for everybody. 20.8.2012 Library for Young Adults Art needs knowledge. – Bertolt Brecht At Fiction Literature Hall you can find a great variety of helpful books and albums for enriching not only theoretical, but practical knowledge in such a complicated question. 19.8.2012 Library for Young Adults The last non-working Sunday this year. Everything is ready for work. 18.8.2012 Library for Young Adults One of the stacks at the Foreign Literature Hall. 17.8.2012 Library for Young Adults This is the “last wave” of the entrance exams. All university entrants are trying to prepare as better as possible. 16.8.2012 Library for Young Adults Young painters are guests in our mansion of the merchant V.D. Nosov (the branch of the library) for undergoing practical training there. And very soon we’ll see their works on our walls. 15.8.2012 Library for Young Adults Swedish self-taughts and dictionaries. A student might have left for having a rest after long studies or for finding a sparring partner. 14.8.2012 Library for Young Adults The best friends are not those with whom you talk without a stop, but those with whom you read books and keep silent for hours. 13.8.2012 Library for Young Adults It’s difficult to be on friendly terms with everyone in a big team. But it’s better to weave bracelets than to weave intrigues. 12.8.2012 Library for Young Adults The beauty of roses entitles them to have thorns. Antoine de Saint-Exupery 11.8.2012 Library for Young Adults Such different globes don’t let you to forget that each language is a unique world. 10.8.2012 Library for Young Adults Friday at the library. Work done, have your fun. 09.8.2012 Library for Young Adults Knitting is such an amazing thing, like a riddle in a detective story which should be solved by an experienced reader together with a detective. 08.8.2012 Library for Young Adults New series of Alim Velitov’s workshop “Creating Comics” have begun. 07.8.2012 Library for Young Adults Our smallest reader. 06.8.2012 Library for Young Adults Russian Style Manga is not only big eyes, but 6 hours of drawing a still-life. 05.8.2012 Library for Young Adults Moscow, 4 a.m. For someone Sunday is not a day off. Hello, work! 04.8.2012 Library for Young Adults The murmurs ebb; onto the stage I enter. I am trying, standing in the door, To discover in the distant echoes What the coming years may hold in store. ... Boris Pasternak, Hamlet 03.8.2012 Library for Young Adults Decision that was taken on the first family council - join a library 02.8.2012 Library for Young Adults Son of our library snake celebrates his birthday. All guests are assembled. 01.8.2012 Library for Young Adults Dear friends, close the door, please, the air-conditioner is working. Weather forecasters note that these are the hottest days of the year. 31.7.2012 Library for Young Adults Wood nymph. 30.7.2012 Library for Young Adults Reloading. 29.7.2012 Library for Young Adults A stamp is a piece of art. You can make such a conclusion if you see our philatelic collection of 1960-80s. 28.7.2012 Library for Young Adults Student Service Department during 1970-80s. 27.7.2012 Library for Young Adults The portal to the streets of the current Olympic Games host city. 26.7.2012 Library for Young Adults The actor and anchorman of the main Russian TV channel Alexander Makogon is taking lessons of our Lida. 25.7.2012 Library for Young Adults You can not only listen to the music with pleasure, but know about creative work of your idols. 24.7.2012 Library for Young Adults Specialist of the Music Department Maria is on a visit to us. As usually, we are treating her with "sushki" (crisp bread rings). 23.7.2012 Library for Young Adults Table games are always an interesting leisure and a perfect way of communication. 22.7.2012 Library for Young Adults Transport of our IT specialists. 21.7.2012 Library for Young Adults Today is the birthday of the Nobelist Ernest Hemingway. 20.7.2012 Library for Young Adults A doll takes first place among toys. People buy, collect, admire them and decorate interior with them. The best doll is made by yourself. 19.7.2012 Library for Young Adults Difficult choice. 18.7.2012 Library for Young Adults Silence. Coolness. Sleep. 17.7.2012 Library for Young Adults Monday is a hard day. 16.7.2012 Library for Young Adults The entrant of the Printing University is preparing for the competition of creative projects in book design. 15.7.2012 Library for Young Adults Advices and news, facts and stories, investigations and interviews come to us every day in the latest magazines. 14.7.2012 Library for Young Adults The famous actor and anchorman Vadim Demchog is the guest of the Cinema Club "Bardot". 13.7.2012 Library for Young Adults Dasha, the correspondent of one Moscow news channel, is preparing for making a reporting about the Manga Summer School. 12.7.2012 Library for Young Adults Sergey is holding the on-line tour around the library for his family. 11.7.2012 Library for Young Adults The joint reading. 10.7.2012 Library for Young Adults The rainbow has dropped in at the library. 09.7.2012 Library for Young Adults "Orange girl" every day at same place. 08.7.2012 Library for Young Adults Our antique pathephone reproduces old records till now. 07.7.2012 Library for Young Adults Our little garden on pavement meets Midsummer. 06.7.2012 Library for Young Adults Everybody knows that in summer library's attendance reduced low. We have seen that desire to create doesn't depend on seasons. 05.7.2012 Library for Young Adults It's hot in Moscow. Oleg sets air conditioning in four offices of library. 04.7.2012 Library for Young Adults Veronica has just returned from vacation. She is ready to explain to young readers why bicycle is the most ecofriendly vehicle. 03.7.2012 Library for Young Adults Custodian of comics center Theoctist looks very brutally. But he is a really a kind-hearted guy. 02.7.2012 Library for Young Adults Our translator Maria is on honeymoon! 01.7.2012 Library for Young Adults You can find not only treasure of knowledge in the library but another lost means there… 30.6.2012 Library for Young Adults There are active preparations for the swimming season at our gym. 29.6.2012 Library for Young Adults Lida and Alexander arrange our exhibitions by themselves. This time they are acting as visitors at the Moscow House of Photography. 30.4.2013 Serieteket 365th!! 29.4.2013 Serieteket We had an amazing festival this weekend. Here - picture from Saturday's guest mingle in Serieteket. Photo by Rolf Lindby. 28.4.2013 Serieteket Vernissage for the exhibition "The Occult City of Ola Skogäng" at the Stockholm International Comics Festival 2013. 27.4.2013 Serieteket Swedish Television covering the Stockholm International Comics Festival. 26.4.2013 Serieteket Seminar about Swedish comics being exported to other countrys and languages. With Latino Imparato, Joanna Hellgren, Fredrik Strömberg, Josefin Svenske and Johannes Klenell. 25.4.2013 Serieteket The hanging of Ola Skogäng's exhibition "The Occult City of Ola Skogäng" at Library Plattan. Anticipating the Stockholm International Comics Festival. 24.4.2013 Serieteket French comics artist Nancy Peña being interviewed by Swedish television show Kulturnyheterna in Serieteket, before the Stockholm International Comics Festival. 23.4.2013 Serieteket Our seminar about art, satire, distribution and Lars Hillersberg. With Andreas Berg, Rolf Classon, Berit Viklund, Christer Themptander and Bitte Andersson. 22.4.2013 Serieteket Galago's podcast "Flumskolan" is recorded, this time about Tolkien bashing. 21.4.2013 Serieteket Since the upcoming Stockholm International Comics Festival is the fifteenth anniversary edition of our festival, we have made some merchandise. Linda and Anders modelling in our brand-new festival T-shirts. 20.4.2013 Serieteket The exhibition in the Old Town Library is up in time for the upcoming Stockholm International Comics Festival. 19.4.2013 Serieteket Patrick hanging an exhibition in our neighbouring Old Town Library as part of the upcoming Stockholm International Comics Festival. 18.4.2013 Serieteket Program folders and maps for the upcoming Stockholm International Comics Festival. 17.4.2013 Serieteket Architect exhibition at Library Plattan. 16.4.2013 Serieteket The Culture House promoting the Stockholm International Comics Festival 2013. 15.4.2013 Serieteket Yesterday we paid a visit to the neighbouring city of Uppsala and their festival Uppsala Comix. Our colleague Anders(& friends)participated with the podcast Hög av serier, as you can see in the upper right corner. We also saw Uppsala cathedral. 14.4.2013 Serieteket Cartoonist couple Jan and Maria Berglin has been awarded one of Sweden's most prominent Culture Prize. Congratulations! 13.4.2013 Serieteket Many kids in Da House today. 12.4.2013 Serieteket Wonderful to see the library being frequented mostly by comic readers for once, and not only the usual gang of sleepers, Internet users and hangarounds. 11.4.2013 Serieteket And here is some electronic promotion of our upcoming exhibition in the Plattan Gallery: "The Occult City of Ola Skogäng". 10.4.2013 Serieteket The suburban library of Hagsätra is promoting our upcoming International Comics Festival in their street window. 09.4.2013 Serieteket Preparations for the comics festival: Ola's fixing the schedule. Post-it ftw! 08.4.2013 Serieteket A rare sight this Monday evening: All the "bubblechairs" are empty and we haven't even closed yet. 07.4.2013 Serieteket Note to Self: Buy a new copy of Classic Star Wars - The Early Adventures, for the library. 06.4.2013 Serieteket To make sure I always have a mug for coffee at work, I brought my own. It doesn't have my name on it but it has a picture of yours truly as a manga figure. /Linda 05.4.2013 Serieteket Representing Serieteket on yesterday's exhibition vernissage at Rönnells. Exhibition with Kerstin Abram-Nilsson art, curated by Valdemar Gerdin. 04.4.2013 Serieteket Animated goodies. 03.4.2013 Serieteket They are HEEEEEREE! New festival program folders for the Stockholm International Comics Festival. 02.4.2013 Serieteket Spring is here and the coordinator is proud of his new Spring moustache. 01.4.2013 Serieteket After close to five months of winter the sun has finally returned to Kristallvertikalaccent! 31.3.2013 Serieteket Yes it's one of THOSE Sundays in our library. Only X-ian country works... 30.3.2013 Serieteket The bosses at Kulturhuset don't work during Easter holidays. To sprinkle some salt in the wounds of the staff compelled to keep the ship running they forgot to give us the traditional candy filled egg. Thanks to Kent for this bag of treats! 29.3.2013 Serieteket An ad hoc poetry reading by the gentleman pictured and one of his colleagues was one of the many surprizes in the library this Good Friday. 28.3.2013 Serieteket Serieteket and the Film&Music Library share space in the Culture House. As of today, we also share a common library shelf with animated film DVDs and books about animation. 27.3.2013 Serieteket It has already been one year since Serieteket founder, and our colleague, mentor and good friend, Kristiina Kolehmainen passed away. Hard to believe. We miss you, Kristiina. 26.3.2013 Serieteket The Culture House as an organization is going to merge with the City Theatre. Today is the first big house meeting between the two organizations. 350 staffers in the audience. 25.3.2013 Serieteket A local restaurant, the name of which currently escapes me, has reopened after a few months. 24.3.2013 Serieteket Art project. 23.3.2013 Serieteket The Stockholm International Comics Festival 2013 is beginning to shape up. Be there in the last weekend of April. 22.3.2013 Serieteket Some great new titles this Friday, including my best book of last year "Fatale: The Devil's Business"!/Anders. 21.3.2013 Serieteket With about a month to go before show time, we're pushing The Stockholm International Comics Festival through all available channels. This is some local advertising being projected on the wall of the Film & Music Library. 20.3.2013 Serieteket New session of Galago's podcast Flumskolan, recorded on our stage. Ola Söderholm, Nanna Johansson and Johannes Klenell discussing and dissecting the book "Ankdammen" by Ian Wachtmeister. 19.3.2013 Serieteket Nomnomnom! Wonderful new comics delicacy by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill! "Nemo - Heart of Ice"! 18.3.2013 Serieteket New mini-exhibition in our display cases: "Who are you, Stockholmers?" by Jonna Wäreby and Sara Wennerhed. 17.3.2013 Serieteket Lunch for a comics librarian, when working weekends. 16.3.2013 Serieteket It's still very cold in Stockholm, at night around -14 C. But a sure sign that spring is around the corner: the skaters are busy. 15.3.2013 Serieteket Some great new art books for weekend reading! 14.3.2013 Serieteket Planning day with Team Serieteket. 13.3.2013 Serieteket Preparing our new shelf with books about animation. 12.3.2013 Serieteket Currently: the libraries' old magazines on sale. 11.3.2013 Serieteket One of the more popular (and permanent) exhibitions in the Culture House - The Stockholm Model, about our city, and what it will become. 10.3.2013 Serieteket Author Bengt Rahm talking about the Swedish synth and electronica scene in front of a captive audience. 09.3.2013 Serieteket New escapist-themed comics on our shelves this weekend. 08.3.2013 Serieteket International Women's Day 2013 – Serieteket displaying comics and art books by female creators and/or with feminist content. 07.3.2013 Serieteket Detail from a possible upcoming "mini-exhibition" in the Serieteket: "Stockholm is Hell!" 06.3.2013 Serieteket The Culture House will keep open every day this year, even on the Holidays. A popular decision among some visitors, at least. 05.3.2013 Serieteket Not a very flattering picture, but still two wonderful and beautiful people in their own right: David Nessle and Ahrvid Engholm! 04.3.2013 Serieteket Ola's daughter Melinda joined us at work again - selling books at the Sunday David Nessle performance. 03.3.2013 Serieteket Sunday: Serieteket presents cartoonist, artist, author and popcultural expert David Nessle. A nice afternoon at Library Plattan. 02.3.2013 Serieteket Happy new weekend! Happy new comics! 01.3.2013 Serieteket Leftie superstars Kawa Zolfagary, Sara Graner and Johannes Klenell during the recording session of their book podcast "Flumskolan", in front of a live studio audience. A cooperation between Galago, Aftonbladet, Library Plattan and Serieteket. 28.2.2013 Serieteket We're proud to announce that Erik Kriek from the Netherlands is one of the guests at The Stockholm International Comics Festival in April (26 - 28). This shot was taken when me and Ola visited Kriek in his Amsterdam studio in May./Anders. 27.2.2013 Serieteket After buying lunch the other day I met these cool cats handing out pamphlets on Sergel's torg like it was nobody's business. Go figure!/Anders L. 26.2.2013 Serieteket Ola the Librarian - all scarves today - presenting Serieteket to an audience consisting of school library staff from all around Stockholm. Photo: Charlotte Goobar Hansen 25.2.2013 Serieteket Today's quest: genre classification for the new comic books! 24.2.2013 Serieteket Serieteket's visitors are apparently craving for Arnold! We're all out of tickets for Conan the librarian! We show the film in the cinema Klarabiografen next to Serieteket on February 28. 23.2.2013 Serieteket Ola's daughter Melinda got ill and joined us at work for a few hours. She didn't seem to mind. 22.2.2013 Serieteket Photoshop sketch presenting an upcoming exhibition by Ola Skogäng. 21.2.2013 Serieteket Sketet klet i allmänhet. Exhibited art by Tyra Blomster. 20.2.2013 Serieteket Today's issue of the Stockholm edition of the Metro newspaper features the program catalogue of the Culture House. Above: the Spring program of Serieteket - The Stockholm International Comics Festival, the Serieteket Film Club, exhibitions, and more. 19.2.2013 Serieteket Gonzalo with the zombie eyes. 18.2.2013 Serieteket Weekend and new books. 17.2.2013 Serieteket Comics in Concert: Young promising artist Tyra Blomster live-drawing to music. 16.2.2013 Serieteket Our great colleagues at our "sister Library" Plattan arranged a club in the Culture House last night. Library DJ Jenny Lindh on stage. 15.2.2013 Serieteket Anders and Ola of Serieteket spent Valentine's Day at the Romanian Cultural Institute of Stockholm, where we held a speech about superheroes, our True Love in life. Photo: Stefan Eriksson. 14.2.2013 Serieteket Anders preparing the speech about superheroes at the Romanian Cultural Institute of Stockholm. 13.2.2013 Serieteket The Stockholms International Comics Festival 2013 is quickly approaching. Above: the festival program folders of the last nine years. 12.2.2013 Serieteket Last Sunday, Serieteket got a visit from Swiss artist Tobias Gutmann and his Face-o-mat. For a fee, the machine draws your portrait in three minutes. 11.2.2013 Serieteket More Angoulême goodies: These shadows were cast on a wall in the Disney exhibit. The Serieteket team were happy when come Sunday night we could just slip into this popular venue that had sported a 40 plus minutes line all through the festival. 10.2.2013 Serieteket Antoher shot from Angoulême: All over town there are great murals of well known comic book characters. This one of Natacha and friend on a corner by the main square is one of the smaller examples but looks good anyway. 09.2.2013 Serieteket Coming back from the grocery store I saw these cool cats distributing something from baskets on Sergel's torg. It's been quite some time now since anything that happened on that square surprized me to any greater degree. /Anders L. 08.2.2013 Serieteket This week, February 5th to be exact, we celebrated two years together with The Film & Music Library. It's been mostly fun and we look forward to many more! Johannes Mayer took the excellent picture. 07.2.2013 Serieteket Anders displaying the mortal sin of envy during our visit to the Angoulême Comics Library. 06.2.2013 Serieteket Visiting the Comics Library of Angoulême. While we're obviously proud of Serieteket, this is the mother of all Comic Book Libraries and a source of inspiration for us. So envious, still glad to be here. Linda quickly found some graphic treats. 05.2.2013 Serieteket The comics festival of Angouleme: Nordic creators Karstein Volle (Norway/Finland) and Knut Larsson (Sweden), both geniuses in their own right. 04.2.2013 Serieteket Serieteket's staff travelled to the comics festival in Angouleme, France, for four days. On pic: Anders Lundgren and Linda Gustafsson. (And glimpsed between the seats Finnish comics superstar Marko Turunen!) 03.2.2013 Serieteket Gonzalo (with the strange eyes) at the 1013 library. 02.2.2013 Serieteket Our colleague Leo at Library Plattan. Working with "real" literature. 01.2.2013 Serieteket We are not the only library with comics in this building. Behold: The new comic shelf of our neighbouring youth library 1013. 31.1.2013 Serieteket We're going to the comic festival in Angoulême. À bientôt! 30.1.2013 Serieteket A priceless item in our collection: the jacket illustrated by dozens of prominent Swedish comics artists (and others) during Serieteket's tenth anniversary. 29.1.2013 Serieteket Who can be sad with a balloon? Not our colleague, Markus, at least! 28.1.2013 Serieteket Now official: The poster art for the 15th Stockholm International Comics Festival, scheduled for April 26th-28th. The Festival theme for this year is "escapism". 27.1.2013 Serieteket It's time to prepare Tyra Blomster's images for display. Making her debut in the pages of Galago when 13 years old, she's the youngest cartoonist to have her work published in this legendary Swedish alternative comics magazine. 26.1.2013 Serieteket New weekend. New escapist comics in the library. 25.1.2013 Serieteket Young comic artist Tyra Blomster was here to leave some artwork. We will feature a mini-exhibition in our display cases for the following weeks. 24.1.2013 Serieteket Last pic from Sunday's Strindberg event. A reading on stage in the Plattan Library. 23.1.2013 Serieteket Sunday's Strindberg event. Pianist Eva Sidén playing classical music in the Film&Music Library. 22.1.2013 Serieteket More from Sunday's big Strindberg event in the Culture House - a team of master chefs preparing some of the author's favourite dishes. 21.1.2013 Serieteket Yesterday, the Culture House celebrated a late ending of the "Strindberg Year" 2012. The kids at the 1013 library redesigned Strindberg portraits in a Warhol-esque way. 20.1.2013 Serieteket The other day we found this Disney and Arne Anka inspired strip, a framed original, lying on our desk in the library. Dated 1994 and signed Magnus Brokvist. We're confused and recall the Chinese proverb/curse "May you live in interesting times". 19.1.2013 Serieteket Somebody took quite a chunk out of our monster mag Rue Morgue when it was in transit. Guess we'll have to contact the subscription department for a replacement. I'll scour the old issues for unread articles to tide me over in the meantime./Anders. 18.1.2013 Serieteket Our movie season starts next week so the race is on for tickets. Please note that the tickets on the left were released far ahead of the ones on the right... 17.1.2013 Serieteket Would you accept a receipt from this guy? 16.1.2013 Serieteket Some desktop shenanigans. In the background Sveavagen, Stockholm's own Nevskij Prospekt. 15.1.2013 Serieteket Our year of Escapism has begun. 14.1.2013 Serieteket And now almost all our new books have been borrowed. 13.1.2013 Serieteket Xmas lights are still glowing outside our windows. They are past their sell by date for sure, but at least the night falls a little less hard over Sergel's Torg. 12.1.2013 Serieteket Kicking off Serieteket's year of escapism in grand style, Ola has put together this smorgasbord of great titles for our patrons to choose from. 11.1.2013 Serieteket During the monochrome winter months "Branford the Best Bee in the World" by Chris Ware adds a touch of color. 10.1.2013 Serieteket Grey skies over Stockholm landmark Kristallvertikalaccent while we're busy planning events four months into the future: The Stockholm International Comics Festival in late April. 09.1.2013 Serieteket Serieteket on the Culture House "history" expo. 08.1.2013 Serieteket Sorry for the late updates. We are a bit understaffed right now. Above: a flashback to the December signing with Nina Hemmingsson. 07.1.2013 Serieteket New books of the weekend. 06.1.2013 Serieteket Check out our news! 05.1.2013 Serieteket Still a bit empty. But we expect quite a rush of visitors today. 04.1.2013 Serieteket Our pal Theo. 03.1.2013 Serieteket New art books and non-fiction. 02.1.2013 Serieteket Back in business. 01.1.2013 Serieteket Happy New Year! 31.12.2012 Serieteket 30.12.2012 Serieteket Comics are serious business. 29.12.2012 Serieteket Some books spitefully defy our library genre system. On what shelf should we put this wine manga? 28.12.2012 Serieteket Gaston watching out on a wintery Stockholm. 27.12.2012 Serieteket The Yuletide tree of our sister library, TioTretton. Consisting entirely of books. 26.12.2012 Serieteket And a Good Will. 25.12.2012 Serieteket Happy Holidays. 24.12.2012 Serieteket Happy Yuletide. From all of us. To all of you. 23.12.2012 Serieteket Exhibition continues. 22.12.2012 Serieteket More new books, soon to arrive on our shelves. 21.12.2012 Serieteket A daytime view. 20.12.2012 Serieteket Tonight's feature at the Serieteket film club: "Gremlins". 19.12.2012 Serieteket Our view during Yuletide. 18.12.2012 Serieteket Old poster from the first (?) comics exhibition in the Stockholm Culture House, the SERIER! exhibition of 1986. Long before Serieteket was founded. 17.12.2012 Serieteket Serieteket's last big event this year: Popular comics artist Nina Hemmingsson in public conversation with writer Ida Säll. 16.12.2012 Serieteket Public discussion in the Film & Music Library. Punk legends Ann Carlberger, Peter Kagerland and Johan Johansson talk about the Swedish punk and New Wave scene of the 1980s. 15.12.2012 Serieteket New weekend. New comics. 14.12.2012 Serieteket Rare, obscure comics stuff shown during our current exhibition. 13.12.2012 Serieteket Yesterday's opening of David Liljemark's zine exhibition. Blurry picture, small crowd. But nice evening. 12.12.2012 Serieteket Hanging our new mini-exhibition featuring early comic-zines by David Liljemark and Ulf Johansson. Featured above: David Liljemark. 11.12.2012 Serieteket What passes for the comic book shelf in Swedish supermarkets these days. Thank God we have a comic book library for quality's sake. 10.12.2012 Serieteket Last day for this exhibition. 09.12.2012 Serieteket Serieteket's own Christmas/Advent Calendar can be found on our blog. 08.12.2012 Serieteket New weekend means new books. 07.12.2012 Serieteket New issue of the leftist political comic magazine Galago. Nice cover. Soon on our shelf. 06.12.2012 Serieteket The Alien Frog. One of our long-time friends. 05.12.2012 Serieteket This is how the Serieteket staff looked one year ago. 04.12.2012 Serieteket Word sculpture by Harri Anttila in the Plattan library. 03.12.2012 Serieteket New exhibition in our sister library Plattan, by Harri Anttila (sculptures) and Maj Anttila Ringman (paintings and screen prints). 02.12.2012 Serieteket In two weeks, popular and extremely talented artist/poet/cartoonist Nina Hemmingsson will visit Serieteket. 01.12.2012 Serieteket One more great picture featuring the amazing Sofia Falkenhem and Elin Fahlstedt. 30.11.2012 Serieteket Our friend Martin - selling tickets and handing out information from the "Kultur direkt" booth. 29.11.2012 Serieteket Lars and Leo the Lovely and Lovable Librarians. 28.11.2012 Serieteket "Comiquiz" is the Nordic Mastership in comic knowledge, this year coordinated from Serieteket, with participants from Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark calling in their answers. Here the Stockholm gang appoint this year's winner - team Scania! 27.11.2012 Serieteket Comics in Concert: Sofia Falkenhem. 26.11.2012 Serieteket Comics in Concert: Elin Fahlstedt. 25.11.2012 Serieteket "Comics in Concert". Artists Sofia Falkenhem and Elin Fahlstedt live drawing to music. 24.11.2012 Serieteket Friends of Kristiina getting their books. 23.11.2012 Serieteket More from Wednesday's release. Elisabet and the art project's initiator, Sara Olausson. 22.11.2012 Serieteket Yesterday's book release and exhibition vernissage - "Kristiina fran Kotka" - honouring Serieteket founder Kristiina Kolehmainen. 21.11.2012 Serieteket Elisabet, Elin and Linda taking care of the information desk at the Plattan Library. 20.11.2012 Serieteket Tomorrow will mark the official release for the book "Kristiina från Kotka", the book produced in honor of Serieteket founder Kristiina Kolehmainen, who tragically passed away earlier this year. We miss her more than words can tell. 19.11.2012 Serieteket Librarian in the house of steel, concrete and culture. 18.11.2012 Serieteket One of our best friend and associates, manga-esque artist and our former library assistant Tomas Antila, still a part of the Serieteket "family". Photo: Bror Hellman. 17.11.2012 Serieteket OMG! 16.11.2012 Serieteket Continuing our exhibition theme "Comics and film". 15.11.2012 Serieteket Aaaah. How refreshing to relax in a colorful environment during the dark season. Like light therapy, but better. 'Cause we have the funny pages as well. 14.11.2012 Serieteket Even Chris Ware's "Building Stories" finally found its way to our shelves. Not for borrowing home, though. 13.11.2012 Serieteket New stuff on our shelves. 12.11.2012 Serieteket For the first time a comic has been nominated to the prestigious literary August Award. Sofia Malmberg's delightful and disturbing book "Elin under havet" is a sensitive story about child abuse. We wish Sofia all the best and hope she wins the prize. 11.11.2012 Serieteket We have rearranged the shelves a bit. 10.11.2012 Serieteket Have a nice weekend. Read lots of comics! 09.11.2012 Serieteket One picture says more than a thousand words. 08.11.2012 Serieteket Our homepage (www.kulturhuset.se/serieteket). You can see that our "event horizon" is shaping up. This Autumn is filled with programs such as book releases, live drawing concerts, movie screenings, artist conversations, and exhibitions. 07.11.2012 Serieteket We have quite a few "controversial" comic books in our collection, works by Mike Diana, Lars Hillersberg, Willem, titles like Lost Girls by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie or even Tintin in Congo. Takashi Nemoto is right up (or down) there as well. 06.11.2012 Serieteket More new graphic novels and art books on our shelves. 05.11.2012 Serieteket Decorative and informative "Serieteket" cloth, designed by the Swedish comic artist Ola Skogäng a couple of years ago. 04.11.2012 Serieteket The CD compartment in the Film&Music Library. About 35.000 albums. 03.11.2012 Serieteket More from Thursday's "Seriebaluns": Cartoonist Sara Olausson signing and drawing the character "Loranga" for the kids. 02.11.2012 Serieteket View from yesterday's "Seriebaluns" (comics party for children) in Kulturhuset. A drawing workshop going on. 01.11.2012 Serieteket On the schedule today: A comic show for children. 31.10.2012 Serieteket Once more: Happy Halloween, kids! 30.10.2012 Serieteket Serieteket's Anders Lundgren has travelled to Hong Kong, where he will spend the next two weeks. 29.10.2012 Serieteket Seminar held at the Museum of Architecture: Fabian Göranson, Åsa Grennvall, Joanna Hellgren (comic artists), and Magnus Ericson (Senior Museum Advisor). Joanna has an amazing exhibition at the Museum. with comics on lamp shades, among other stuf 28.10.2012 Serieteket This is Halloween, everybody make a scene... 27.10.2012 Serieteket Rodrigo Obon's wonderful little exhibition is up in time for Halloween. 26.10.2012 Serieteket Our friend and associate, Anton Bjurvald, on a visit to Serieteket. Anton and our own Anders Lundgren are two of the main brains behind the popular comic podcast "Hog av serier". 25.10.2012 Serieteket We got a nice donation from our friend Johan Blixt. A heap of academic books about comics. 24.10.2012 Serieteket Fire drill in the Culture House. 23.10.2012 Serieteket Nostalgia again. This must be about four years ago; Ola, Berit and Clarisa in the old Serieteket and the old UFO desk. The UFO was later relocated to the library in Sodertalje, but rumour tells us that it is searching for a new home once more. 22.10.2012 Serieteket Our new intern Elin doing the library thing. 21.10.2012 Serieteket Weekend literature. With pictures. 20.10.2012 Serieteket Weekend and that means new books on our shelves! 19.10.2012 Serieteket Chris Ware's "Building Stories" arrived at our library. 16 loose parts in a box. Wonder how we are gonna lend it out to our visitors? 18.10.2012 Serieteket Currently on display in Serieteket: Books, comics and DVDs about "comics & cinema". 17.10.2012 Serieteket Not only superheroes (but we got them, too). 16.10.2012 Serieteket One last picture from last week's H.P. Lovecraft Festival: Le Grand Finale featuring Mike Dalager and friends presenting their upcoming Lovecraftian rock opera. 15.10.2012 Serieteket Last day of the Stockholm H.P. Lovecraft Festival: the book market called "Bazaar of the Bizarre". 14.10.2012 Serieteket The Stockholm H.P. Lovecraft Festival going strong on its fourth day: Horror author Anders Fager doing a public reading from his new novel. Carismatic, both on stage and on screen. 13.10.2012 Serieteket The Stockholm H.P. Lovecraft Festival continues. Above: Horrific exhibition with Rodrigo Obon at Serieteket. 12.10.2012 Serieteket Yesterday: Waiting for this year's Literature Nobel Prize Winner to be announced. Congratulations, Mo Yan! 11.10.2012 Serieteket The Stockholm H.P. Lovecraft Festival began yesterday. Here is the Festival General Anders, happy with the success of the first program. 10.10.2012 Serieteket "The Culture House - a second home!" 09.10.2012 Serieteket New graphic poster exhibition in the Plattan library. 08.10.2012 Serieteket In-joke for Swedish comic librarians. And an obscene in-joke at that. Hurm, sorry. 07.10.2012 Serieteket Some days telling our visitors "Shhh, this is a library" is just not enough. 06.10.2012 Serieteket Lucky weekend! More new books on our shelves! 05.10.2012 Serieteket There is a strict non-alcoholic policy in our libraries. But that did not stop one of our visitors to consume four bottles of Estrella in the CD-listening compartment without us noticing. We got to take care of the leftover rubbish. 04.10.2012 Serieteket Cinnamon Bun Day in the Culture House libraries. Yum! 03.10.2012 Serieteket More new stuff. Art books and poetry. 02.10.2012 Serieteket Elisabet laminating our new books with plastic film. Richard Corben needs protection. 01.10.2012 Serieteket The Gothenburg Book Fair: Bartender Anders mixing one hundred drinks in the ICORN monter during a Culture House event. Cheers! 30.9.2012 Serieteket The Gothenburg Book Fair and the Comics Stage: Joanna Hellgren and Mats Jonsson discussing Joanna's latest book, "Frances 3". 29.9.2012 Serieteket Anders and Ola went to the Gothenburg Book Fair, Sweden's biggest literary event. We participated in panels, went to see other panels, and met lots of people. Here we are at the "Comics Stage", presenting Serieteket and the book about Kristiina. 28.9.2012 Serieteket The books have now been returned to the youth library. (And Serieteket was never gonna get rid of our Tintin collection a all.) Hopefully, the haters from both sides will cool down. And then we can restart the important discussion about racism. 27.9.2012 Serieteket While we firmly criticized the decision to put away Tintin books, and we don't agree that most of the books are racist (though a few of them are), we think that the debate got blown out of proportions fast. So much hate! Prejudice! Angry White Men! 26.9.2012 Serieteket Strange days at the Culture House. An ill-conceived decision to take away "Tintin" books from a youth library (due to "racist content") ignited an national debate about censorship. Serieteket was not involved in the decision but still got blamed. 25.9.2012 Serieteket I received a wonderful gift from Russia. :-) We actually had Cheburashka on Swedish television when I was a kid in the 70s, albeit with a different name ("Drutten"), and with new stories, performed with puppets instead of animation. /ola 24.9.2012 Serieteket We're on a roll, baby! 23.9.2012 Serieteket Ola hard at work preparing half a ton of goodies for our patrons this Saturday. 22.9.2012 Serieteket Badges for the upcoming Lovecraft Festival in October. 21.9.2012 Serieteket Ad for the Serieteket Movie Screenings. For 5 years, we have shown selected movies in the Culture House cinema - always with free admission. Due to new house rules, we haven't been able to show film for some months. Next week we return in full grace. 20.9.2012 Serieteket French photographer Julien Bourgeois visited the Film&Music Library yesterday, to talk about his new book, ”Swedish Music Landscape”, portraying Swedish indie music bands and artists such as First Aid Kit, Jens Lekman, and Ane Brun. 19.9.2012 Serieteket Our very own Mister Terrific, Anders Lundgren, on duty. 18.9.2012 Serieteket Music librarian Daniel "Tatti" Persson. Stern as always. 17.9.2012 Serieteket More portraits from the amazing little book honouring the deceased Serieteket founder Kristiina Kolehmainen. 16.9.2012 Serieteket Portraits from the book honouring Serieteket founder Kristiina Kolehmainen. 15.9.2012 Serieteket Serieteket founder Kristiina Kolehmainen tragically died in March. 65 comic artist from all over the world made portraits in her honour. Those have now been collected in a small book - "Kristiina of Kotka". An amazing project that moves us to tears. 14.9.2012 Serieteket With just weeks to go before The Stockholm H.P. Lovecraft Festival II, this gentleman occupies my mind even more than usual./Anders L. 13.9.2012 Serieteket Our "new" storage room in the basement of the Culture House. Confined, dark, dusty, scary? At any rate, we will have no problem filling the space with our stuff. 12.9.2012 Serieteket Sorting books is a working moment that wiil never be finished. And it never goes out of style. 11.9.2012 Serieteket Order above all. 10.9.2012 Serieteket And this is Serieteket today. 09.9.2012 Serieteket The historical exhibition continues: This is how Serieteket looked circa five years later - around the turn of the millennium and after the move to the Stockholm Culture House. 08.9.2012 Serieteket Time to get historical again: This is how Serieteket in the original premises - circa 1996. 07.9.2012 Serieteket The stars are right over Stockholm! I'm working on the upcoming H.P. Lovecraft festival pretty much 24/7 these days, so imagine my delight when I found this message at a speak easy in Old Town this past weekend./Anders L. 06.9.2012 Serieteket Speaking of donations: yesterday we got a few bags of manga from one of our patrons. Thanks! Most of it we will probably pay forward to sister library TioTretton. 05.9.2012 Serieteket Many do not know that we own a big collection of art books - not only about comics, but also covering the areas of line art, illustration, graphic design, and more. This month we put those books on display, hopefully helping visitors discover them. 04.9.2012 Serieteket Happy days at the Film & Music Library. 03.9.2012 Serieteket Henrik Bylund, team leader of our neighbouring youth library, "1013", is leaving us to take over the duties as library chief of Upplands Vasby. We will miss him, of course. But for now, we are happy to get cake. 02.9.2012 Serieteket Lots of odd stuff can be found in our office. 01.9.2012 Serieteket Doing our work. In a metafictious sort of way. 31.8.2012 Serieteket Staff meeting at Serieteket. Elisabet and Anders making plans for the future. 30.8.2012 Serieteket One of our neighoburing libraries is the youth library "1013", solely aimed at kids ten to thirteen years old. This guy must have used a fake ID to get in. 29.8.2012 Serieteket Keep it real. 28.8.2012 Serieteket Two new masterpieces to borrow home: "Locke & Key: Clockworks" by Joe Hill and "Wizzywig" by Ed Piskor. Both highly recommended. 27.8.2012 Serieteket A panel from staff member Anders Lundgren's favourite comic at the moment: Omac by Jack "The King" Kirby. 26.8.2012 Serieteket This week has marked the beginning of the preparations for The Stockholm H.P. Lovecraft Festival in October. Great Cthulhu has been keeping a (trilobed burning?) eye on the proceedings. Sculpture by: Mikael Holmbom 25.8.2012 Serieteket Johannes at work. 24.8.2012 Serieteket Feelings. Nothing more than feelings. 23.8.2012 Serieteket How could I? 22.8.2012 Serieteket Yesterday's conference about libraries and social media, held in the Sodertorn University Library. 21.8.2012 Serieteket Artists Alice Engstrom and Tomas Antila sold their own manga-inspired comics at Sunday's "Comic Street". 20.8.2012 Serieteket More from Sunday's Comic Street. Serieteket sold out heap after heap of old library books, mostly comics and art books. Many buyers made many a find among the more questionable stuff. 19.8.2012 Serieteket All set for our traditional annual "Comic Street" ("Seriegatan"), part of the World's Biggest Book Table in August. 18.8.2012 Serieteket Leisure. 17.8.2012 Serieteket Everyone is welcome to Serieteket. Which might not be obvious from this picture. 16.8.2012 Serieteket Every year in August, the Stockholm Culture Festival arranges "the World's Biggest Book Table", a huge flea market selling books in the streets of central Stockholm. Serieteket participates with our own section, "The Comic Street", on Sunday. 15.8.2012 Serieteket Hugo Pratt's vagabond hero Corto Maltese is a huge favourite of our library and the staff. This little figurine was made by one of our former employees, Odd Ahlgren, almost fifteen years ago. It has been our "mascot" since then. 14.8.2012 Serieteket Legendary comics artist Joe Kubert passed off from cancer on Monday. Serieteket humbly and modestly honours him by displaying his works. 13.8.2012 Serieteket ...and they always seem to have more fun than the rest of us. 12.8.2012 Serieteket Generally, our comic library is aimed at an adult audience - "teenagers and above". But we get quite a few younger visitors as well. 11.8.2012 Serieteket 12,000 titles and something for everybody. 10.8.2012 Serieteket A somewhat phallic representation of our city view? No, it's all in your mind. 09.8.2012 Serieteket Except Black Jack. 08.8.2012 Serieteket Nice office. Nice view. But nobody here. 07.8.2012 Serieteket Vacation is over, the librarian is back at work. And so happy about it. 06.8.2012 Serieteket Another of our latest purchases: "The Furry Trap" by Josh Simmons. Deeply disturbing horror stories from Fantagraphics. 05.8.2012 Serieteket So, what do you think about our progress so far? Will this become an inviting and cosy reading room before Fall? 04.8.2012 Serieteket The third and last installment of Swedish artist Joanna Hellgren's amazing comic trilogy "Frances", now on our shelves. Also available in French. 03.8.2012 Serieteket More from Wednesday's seminar on queer comics as part of the Stockholm Pride Festival. Patrik Schylstrom (middle) interviewing Bitte Andersson (left), who is presenting the works of Alison Bechdel. Also on stage: Marcus Linda Lindmark (right). 02.8.2012 Serieteket The Stockholms Pride Festival has begun and Serieteket is joining in. On stage yesterday: multi-artist Bitte Andersson, librarian Patrik Schylström, and artist and editor Marcus Linda Benzien Lindmark, presenting the subject of "queer comics". 01.8.2012 Serieteket I've been on vacation for weeks. Among other places, I've visited the town on Halmstad on the West Coast of Sweden. Here, you can find a statue of one of Sweden's most famous comic characters - "91 Karlsson", created in 1932 by Rudolf Petersson. /Ola 31.7.2012 Serieteket Strange weather in Stockholm today, ranging from thunder and rain and hailstorms to blazing hot sunshine. The visitors come and go as the sky changes. 30.7.2012 Serieteket Today Stockholm Pride Festival kicks off. This is the view from inside Pride House. 29.7.2012 Serieteket Ida reading Ed Brubaker and Sean Philips' brilliant pulp story "Incognito". Notice the angelic glow surrounding her despite the harsh nature of the reading material. And yes Batmania week continues through the symbol on Ida's shirt. 28.7.2012 Serieteket One of our more colourful pieces of furniture. 27.7.2012 Serieteket We finish off our Batmania week with a shot of this massive poster adorning multiplex theatre Filmstaden Sergel. Have you had a chance to see it yet? If not then go! 26.7.2012 Serieteket The winners in our Batquiz (a tie with both guys getting 8/10 questions right): Daniel Lof and Michael Arvallius. 25.7.2012 Serieteket One of the goodies that visitors to our Batmania Rises event this afternoon have the chance of taking home. This nice shirt courtesy of our friends in the movie business is one of the prizes in our quiz challenge. 24.7.2012 Serieteket This bizarre cover at least approximates the situation faced by our Dark Knight at the end of Nolan's previous Batman film: shunned and hated by the city he's sworn to protect. But the real stinger is Robin's hateful remarks. 23.7.2012 Serieteket Damian Wayne he's not, but the freckle faced youngster up front claims that Batman is his "Pop". 22.7.2012 Serieteket Look out Robin! That guy is getting away. Through the wall... 21.7.2012 Serieteket Many people are now gearing up for the highly anticipated, and by the looks of it pretty bleak,finale of Christopher Nolans Batman trilogy. In light of this I thought it could be fun to look back at some crazy covers from a not so angstridden time. 20.7.2012 Serieteket Once again we've filled up the wagon with great titles. Hope somebody comes in to borrow them. 19.7.2012 Serieteket The books we got in the mail are now ready for public consumption. From my firm grip to the eager readers. 18.7.2012 Serieteket One of my tasks this week is going through comics that a collector donated, deciding what to keep and putting them in boxes. And I'm getting paid!/Anders L. 17.7.2012 Serieteket Some nice stuff in the mail today. 16.7.2012 Serieteket Next week these turntables will serve us well during our Batmania night coinciding with the premiere of "The Dark Knight Rises". Batmusic, quiz, prizes - a good time will be had by all. 15.7.2012 Serieteket Ay Caramba! You can finally get your mitts on a bona fide classic. The third volume of Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse comics is lovingly reprinted with lots of extra stuff in these books from Fantagraphics. 14.7.2012 Serieteket The kids are alright: Lava's (the youth activity center in Kulturhuset)screen printing work shops have produced some shirts with an inspirational message. I want one!/Anders L. 13.7.2012 Serieteket Where is everybody? Yellow means vacation, so as you can see we're a skeleton crew keeping the ship, and our morale, going through July. 12.7.2012 Serieteket Summer time means cleaning: this machine is used to give our furniture a fresh and polished look. You can trust the Nilfisk. One of their older models was named "Vampyr", no joke. 11.7.2012 Serieteket Xmas in July: Tatti Persson and Johannes Mayer of Bibliotek Film & Musik enjoy unpacking boxes with cool stuff for our collections. 10.7.2012 Serieteket Finally - some Russian books on our shelves! 09.7.2012 Serieteket Wait! What is missing? 08.7.2012 Serieteket There is currently an exhibition in the Culture House featuring the works of famous Finnish queer artist "Tom of Finland". The exhibition is not arranged by Serieteket, but of interest to all fans of comics. Very graphic, in every sense of the word. 07.7.2012 Serieteket Listening to music in the library. 06.7.2012 Serieteket Linda Gustafsson, comic fan and freshly baked librarian, taking care of business in a flash. 05.7.2012 Serieteket How do you like your egg chairs in the morning? Popular among our visitors, but the staff are holding their breath for the day when somebody finally crashes one of the windows through excessive swinging. 04.7.2012 Serieteket The other day our floors were due to get polished so we had to move all the furniture. Johannes Mayer of Bibliotek Film & Musik took this opportunity for some peek-a-boo among the shelves. 03.7.2012 Serieteket Some of our newest purchases. Floyd Gottfredson and Alan Moore - comic pros par excellence. 02.7.2012 Serieteket More from our proud manga section, including some of our own favourites: "Bat-Manga" by Jiro Kuwata, "Not Love But Delicious Foods" by Fumi Yoshinaga, and "Red Snow" by Susumu Katsumata. 01.7.2012 Serieteket Our manga section got a well-deserved update this Spring. We dare any library in Sweden to show up a finer selection of Japanese comics than ours. 30.6.2012 Serieteket Who ya gonna call? "Dial H for Hero" is a semi-classic American superhero comic that recently got a revival. Will it find its way to our shelves? 29.6.2012 Serieteket The weekend is almost upon us and it's time to get some new stuff up on the shelves. Pictured is a classic collection of Dave Friedman's stippled comics and illustrations showing off his obsessions with obscure tv and Hollywood personalities. 30.4.2013 PUNKTmedis 29.4.2013 PUNKTmedis And after more than 5 hours of hard work we could see the result of the comic workshop - the Fanzine "Unicorn Captain". And each particapant of course got their own copy and so did PUNKTmedis and Serieteket:-) 28.4.2013 PUNKTmedis Our comic workshop is in progress:-) 27.4.2013 PUNKTmedis Tired rabbit reading about parrots! 26.4.2013 PUNKTmedis Myopic books - bookstore in chicago, too much books! 25.4.2013 PUNKTmedis More inspiration from chicago! An idea we till with us. Use an ordinary whiteboard and see what happens every day! 24.4.2013 PUNKTmedis Right now we are planning for Young08 in 13-17th of August and a show tent for the Fast Money Scholarship. In 2009 Amanda and Maja showed their wonderful knittings:-) 23.4.2013 PUNKTmedis One of our regular visitors took a photo of the forthcoming comic workshop banner to surely not miss it:-) 22.4.2013 PUNKTmedis Fredrik got the scholarship "Fast money" and prepares his exhibition about working conditions for the security guards. 21.4.2013 PUNKTmedis Yesterday it was Stockholm culture night and we arranged a seminar. And it was totally packed! As you can see, the photographer didn't get very close. The seminar was about sex in literature. 20.4.2013 PUNKTmedis More inspiration from Chicago, the lovely Library - The Loft! 19.4.2013 PUNKTmedis More from Chicago! Youmedia for teenagers, very large facilites and lost of workshops for teenagers, very inspiring! 18.4.2013 PUNKTmedis I was in Chicago recently, and visited Youth-libraries. This was my favorite- The Loft at Evanston Public Library! 17.4.2013 PUNKTmedis Lea and Gigi painted a beautiful manga picture in our window. They are also creating their own manga book and hopefully they get the Fast Money Scholarship to show it in the library:-) 16.4.2013 PUNKTmedis Sonen new books waiting to get registered and put in the system for you to lend! 15.4.2013 PUNKTmedis Today our event for Cultural night Stockholm went up on the website. We've invited three writers to talk about sex in literature. Gonna be fun! 14.4.2013 PUNKTmedis Finding book reviews in some of our books! 13.4.2013 PUNKTmedis Today the children's library had author Åsa Karsin visiting. Looks real cosy, right! 12.4.2013 PUNKTmedis A picture from Tuesdays event Stockholms pearls acoustic. The played saxophone and all! 11.4.2013 PUNKTmedis We opened our newest exhibiton. Six seniors at the Globala Gymnasiet has been to Uganda and now you can see there findings in the library. The grand opening was very well visited and the exhibiton was loved. Come see it! 10.4.2013 PUNKTmedis Yesterday we had Stockholms pearls - acoustic at PUNKT. First on stage was the lovely band Marty and Gus who played music inspired by Kings of Convenience. 09.4.2013 PUNKTmedis She just finished her lovely green scarf! 08.4.2013 PUNKTmedis You can also see Hannas exhibition from the outside as bypassers appreciate:-) 07.4.2013 PUNKTmedis One of the models visited Hannas exhibition today(the one with many eyes)Do you recognize her? 06.4.2013 PUNKTmedis Today Ola from Serieket delivered the wonderful Comic festival poster to PUNKTmedis. Anton is pointing at it and tells us he will work as a volonteer during the festival - as usually:-) 05.4.2013 PUNKTmedis Today our book trailer work shop started and we look forward to see the results tomorrow afternoon:-) 04.4.2013 PUNKTmedis After our visitors have gotten their salary we always get a lot of money from them, isn´t it strange:-) 03.4.2013 PUNKTmedis Suddenly it happens - one of our visitors simply do not see our wall of glass and tries to go through it. Luckily nobody was hurt and now we are waiting for the repair man. 02.4.2013 PUNKTmedis Hanna has just arranged her exhibition "Wild one". 01.4.2013 PUNKTmedis More nostalgia for Malin´s marvellous cakes:-) 31.3.2013 PUNKTmedis The book-tip-tree is growing, we rejoice! 30.3.2013 PUNKTmedis Spring enters the library, finally! 29.3.2013 PUNKTmedis Returned Today:) 28.3.2013 PUNKTmedis Next week we will have a new book trailer workshop:-) 27.3.2013 PUNKTmedis Today we think of Kristiina Kolehmainen - it is a year since she left us with Corto Maltese and we miss her so much and want her to come back. The text says: 27th of March in the afternoon. Are you ready, we will leave now. Ab-so-lutely. 26.3.2013 PUNKTmedis Reading-girls in the Library on a Saturday afternon! 25.3.2013 PUNKTmedis Now you can listen to Mickys own music at PUNKTmedis. Micky got the Fast Money scholarship, "En snabb slant". 24.3.2013 PUNKTmedis Garbo in the night-light! We are so proud of our Garbo-exhibition! 23.3.2013 PUNKTmedis Light and lovely light, from the museum of modern art - Louisiana! 22.3.2013 PUNKTmedis Will this lovely little shoe ever find its right owner? 21.3.2013 PUNKTmedis Some rests from yesterdays releaseparty for our magazine ponton. 20.3.2013 PUNKTmedis 2 years ago our role players celebrated 5 years of playing at PUNKTmedis and we want them to never stop. But where is the cake master Malin? 19.3.2013 PUNKTmedis Our childrens library has already prepared for the forthcoming Easter! 18.3.2013 PUNKTmedis We got wonderful fanzines from the SF- and Fantasybookshop on the theme Steampunk - so now PUNKTmedis goes Steampunkt:-) 17.3.2013 PUNKTmedis Our young storytellers are well prepared and waiting for the kids and their parents to come and listen to Saturday afternoons stories. 16.3.2013 PUNKTmedis Our colleague Sara is preparing the next exhibition upstairs - about Greta Garbo. We were fortunated to borrow some good stuff from the theatre as you can see. 15.3.2013 PUNKTmedis Right now it is too little space in the library, but if you are young it is always possible to find solutions:-) 14.3.2013 PUNKTmedis Yesterday evening we had a program with www.afs.se about becoming an exchange student to Argentina, Japan, Chile or Indonesia (or becoming the host family for students from other countries) and it was very interesting to hear the experiences so far. 13.3.2013 PUNKTmedis Last night we had Wordpress kafé visiting. PUNKT was completely crowded by people wanting to learn more about blogging. 12.3.2013 PUNKTmedis Astons presenter is the book of the day. Little doggie falls asleep while mummy reads his favourite bedtime story. 11.3.2013 PUNKTmedis Look who I found in our basement! Mr Bear! He scared the life out of me. But it turned out that he was only out of blueberries. 10.3.2013 PUNKTmedis Look what I found! An old poster in one of our quiet study rooms. Check out who's the opening act! 09.3.2013 PUNKTmedis Went to a café in a different part of town and what did I find? A poster for a release at PUNKT! We're everywhere! 08.3.2013 PUNKTmedis Yesterday 3 students in Stockholm Art & Crafts highschool made a presentation after visiting our knitting café:-) And today we wish you a joyful International Women's Day! 07.3.2013 PUNKTmedis Milky paws played at Stockholms pearls. Wow, they really have the future ahead! So talented! You can hear and see them on You tube of course:-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_8p7Ko-BVc 06.3.2013 PUNKTmedis Music and Stockholms parlor at PUNKTmedis! Fabulous Sven Rickstrom on stage! 05.3.2013 PUNKTmedis Our redecorated window, we like it! 04.3.2013 PUNKTmedis Something to think about! 03.3.2013 PUNKTmedis The girls from yesterday found a lot of good new books to read! 02.3.2013 PUNKTmedis Some girls from Rinkeby (northwest of the city center) visited us today. Emily had a book-talk about her favorites in the genres urban fantasy and science fiction. Here they redecorate our windows! 01.3.2013 PUNKTmedis When you work late night, you might need this! 28.2.2013 PUNKTmedis This week is winterbreak for schoolchildren/teens in Stockholm. If you have this wonderful membershipcard, you can watch movies on the theme dance every night at PUNKTmedis! Tonight - the classical dancemovie "Flashdance"! 27.2.2013 PUNKTmedis This week the teens are free from school and we are happy to welcome a new group playing our board games. And they quickly discovered that our table is too small, so we better try to find a bigger one:-) 26.2.2013 PUNKTmedis Our neighbour The Theater has a very nice decoration in the back entrance - we would like to have one too! 25.2.2013 PUNKTmedis It is always fascinating to see how different we all read books. Every individual seems to have their own reading position:-) 24.2.2013 PUNKTmedis Sometimes it happens - the comic books are dating on the library shelves:-) 23.2.2013 PUNKTmedis Right now we suffer from massive attack of pickpockets. Their target group is young women with iphones. As you see we do our best to give the target group a warning and scare away the pickpockets. Wish us luck! 22.2.2013 PUNKTmedis Today is my day off. I think I'll spend it just watching these cute guys! 21.2.2013 PUNKTmedis Today's book recommendation. Every day (jag, En in Swedish) by David Levithan. Made this recommendation on one of our staff meetings today and thought - why not also on the blog? A book about a person who wakes up as a different person every day. 20.2.2013 PUNKTmedis "Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted" philosopher Bertrand Russell teaches us today. So let's keep that in mind today! 19.2.2013 PUNKTmedis Look! We found a book recommendation in one of our books. Lovely. 18.2.2013 PUNKTmedis A picture from the book meet we had Saturday. Frida and her friends had arranged for all guests to bring and exchange books with each other. The books that nobody took will be donated to a children's hospital. Nice right! 17.2.2013 PUNKTmedis We had a super crowded day! A book meet arranged by Frida and her friends arranged this day which was a total success! 16.2.2013 PUNKTmedis Enjoying a stirdy breakfast in preparation for todays blogevent at Punkt. 15.2.2013 PUNKTmedis "All my important stuff I must remember not to forget!" In this little notebook some of all our ideas are noted. 14.2.2013 PUNKTmedis Today it's some kind of special day and here at Punkt we're celebrationg it by fixing our whiteboard. I meen - look at that handy man! Lovely. 13.2.2013 PUNKTmedis Today we were at a seminar discussing "The myth of the good literature or The good book and the last reader". Interesting! 12.2.2013 PUNKTmedis When this record came on a bunch of different kids came up to us and asked what band and record we were playing. We obviusly have a good taste in music here! 11.2.2013 PUNKTmedis Today we had visitors from an artschool called Konstfack. They wanted to meet some of the kids who comes to our "Stick-Café" (knit-café, roughly translated). I guess they needed inspiration and they sure came to the right place for that! 10.2.2013 PUNKTmedis This Tuesday it was time for "Stockholms Parlor" a cooperation with Studieframjandet. This evening the lovely popband Randiga Rut played at PUNKTmedis! 09.2.2013 PUNKTmedis Some close-ups from our exhibition, everyday life i L.A 08.2.2013 PUNKTmedis I got inspired by this wonderful book "Sma och stora broderier" by Karin Holmberg, embroidery was not my thing in school, but maybe I should give it a try once more? 07.2.2013 PUNKTmedis We have a new exhibition at PUNKTmedis. Lisa Pyk Wirstrom went to Los Angeles to make a record with her band, but also ended up taking this lovely pictures! 06.2.2013 PUNKTmedis I have a bad, bad cold, but a lot a of tea and a lovely book by my side, "When God Was a Rabbit" by Sarah Winman. See you soon PUNKTmedis! 05.2.2013 PUNKTmedis Had the great honor to have a tour with the childrens bookbus the eihter day. Stockholm Public librarys bookbus drives to 146 preschools! I thought it would be nice to have some more colorful clothing than my normal black! 04.2.2013 PUNKTmedis Room with a view! A beautiful winterday in Stockholm! 03.2.2013 PUNKTmedis The updated female Librarian-look? You sometimes hear that we look dull and grey, so why not this colorful look? From the magazine www.nylonmag.com 02.2.2013 PUNKTmedis My colleauges were a little bit sceptic about this book, cooking for beginners. I say finally a inspiring book about cooking for teenagers! 01.2.2013 PUNKTmedis Now it is time again for PUNKTmedis workshop where you can learn to do your own digtial bookmovie, success last year, with fantastic films! You can see them at our facebook-page www.facebook.com/punktmedis 31.1.2013 PUNKTmedis Soon in the Library! This spring are going to do small exhibitions about celebrites born at Sodermalm in Stockholm. Greta Garbo is one of them. We have noticed that her apartment in New york was decorated in pink. So maybe we can use the pink rose. 30.1.2013 PUNKTmedis Visitors to PUNKTmedis from Piteå in the North of Sweden. They are planning for their own youth library in the near future. So we hope to visit them when they open:-) 29.1.2013 PUNKTmedis Thanks heaven we can also put posters in the elevator:-) 28.1.2013 PUNKTmedis Farewell party for our colleague Frida, who will contiunue her studies. But it is only water in the "Absolut vodka" bottle:-) 27.1.2013 PUNKTmedis The majority of team PUNKTmedis: Anne, Alle (our newest colleague) and Johanna. The picture is taken after a long meeting planning 2013:) 26.1.2013 PUNKTmedis Here you can see the inside of the return station - it is bright new and even smells new:-) 25.1.2013 PUNKTmedis We proudly presents display of the new return station at our main library. We cannot wait until our own return station is delivered to our library at Medborgarplatsen:-) 24.1.2013 PUNKTmedis One more picture form our archive - Jasmine showed her wonderful photos in October 2007. We would like to know what she is doing right now:-) 23.1.2013 PUNKTmedis From this Saturday and the event "Coming out" Emma, Marcus and Hans, Peter on the right was moderator. They talked about their books and their process - coming out of the closet. 22.1.2013 PUNKTmedis We have new mousepads in the Library (hope it is the correct English word!)Like them I lot! 21.1.2013 PUNKTmedis Hrm! We have a small problem with our shelf, but together we will fix it! 20.1.2013 PUNKTmedis Yesterday at PUNKTmedis! Marcus and Emma applied for the scholarship "Kulturstod for unga"! Young people in Stockholm can apply and get money to create a project. They got the money, and invited authors to talk about being young and homosexual. 19.1.2013 PUNKTmedis Maybe you remember our Chrstmas calendar? Here maybe you can see the right answers,the winners will get a nice book-packet! 18.1.2013 PUNKTmedis Now it is here!!!! Now you can see what we are planning for Spring 2013. We call the folder - "Gulleplutten" = in English something like sweetheart. 17.1.2013 PUNKTmedis We are waiting for PUNKTmedis the printed program for this Spring, soon at PUNKTmedis. But the program is planned, on Tuesdays we will have this! If you sing in a band or alone and are between 13-25 years, you can come and play at PUNKTmedis! 16.1.2013 PUNKTmedis Time to buy new book for PUNKTmedis, always fun! 15.1.2013 PUNKTmedis This flower has been standing for quite some time now, maybe it is soon time to throw it away? But still beautiful I think... 14.1.2013 PUNKTmedis Our favorite-wall at the Library. People can forget almost everything in returned books. We put it on the wall, and maybe it will find its right owner some day! 13.1.2013 PUNKTmedis In action - digital book-talk at PUNKTmedis. We have a project with a small high school, and they have made a digital bookmovie together around some books they have red. It is a great movie! 12.1.2013 PUNKTmedis Having a book-talk for girls in high school this Monday on the theme - "true stories". I think a might cry a little bit... 11.1.2013 PUNKTmedis Now the English Fiction-section is in great order again, thanks to Britt-Marie! 10.1.2013 PUNKTmedis It is almost time to clean out Christmas for this time, but it is so nice with all the light! 09.1.2013 PUNKTmedis One more picture from before - the Japanese creative collective Nou Nou Hau visited us 28th of April 2008 - during the comic festival. It was so nice to meet them:-) 08.1.2013 PUNKTmedis Today 5 young men found our newest board game and played it for several hours:-) 07.1.2013 PUNKTmedis It is Monday and we long for Malin to return and join us in our knitting café and bring her lovely Hufflepuff cake like she did two years ago - it was so nice:-) 06.1.2013 PUNKTmedis The Thai restaurant beside our library tries to get rid of the ice with the help of hot water. It will sure be very dangerous for bypassers after a couple of hours. So we better tell them to try another method:-) 05.1.2013 PUNKTmedis We and our visitors long for Merja to come back to PUNKTmedis! This is a picture from one of her amigurmiworkshops two years ago. 04.1.2013 PUNKTmedis Our colleague Sara checks out from work on our most used computer - the computer that keeps track of our coming to and going from work. Thanks to this computer we always now how many hours we have spent on working during a month. 03.1.2013 PUNKTmedis Our newest board game - it is great fun - you are so welcome to pop in and try it:-) 02.1.2013 PUNKTmedis A bright new year and we start it with looking back to summer 2009 when two of our teens had a nice exhibition in Kings garden during UNG08 and inspired a lot of other teens to start knitting:-) 01.1.2013 PUNKTmedis We got the most lovely gift from Olle when he returned from Moscow, so now we also can join you in "Happy New Year" and we will surely know to keep track of the days during 2013:-) 31.12.2012 PUNKTmedis The library is closed but anyway ready to be at service after New Years day:-) 30.12.2012 PUNKTmedis Now it is the right time to order books - and of course we invite our visitors to participate:-) 29.12.2012 PUNKTmedis More snow outside the library - will it never stop snowing? 28.12.2012 PUNKTmedis Lot of snow right outside the library:-) 27.12.2012 PUNKTmedis Our library is open again during four days before New Year and the day after. 26.12.2012 PUNKTmedis Our library snake is protecting PUNKTmedis until we open again tomorrow:-) 25.12.2012 PUNKTmedis The Library Christmas tree waits for us and our visitors to return:-) 24.12.2012 PUNKTmedis Now the alarm is set so the whole library can rest in three whole days during Christmas:-) 23.12.2012 PUNKTmedis Two girls came and asked if they could put up a note and find members to their band - and of course they could. Now we wait for them to perform on PUNKTmedis during next spring:-) 22.12.2012 PUNKTmedis Two guys came along and asked if they also could write on our windows, and of course they could:-) 21.12.2012 PUNKTmedis Our Christmas calender, door 21 is open: A Swedish author who has written books for children and young adults. She was also a great artist! This year her grand-daughter Ida Pyk released her first novel for young adults "Paris cherie" Who is she? 20.12.2012 PUNKTmedis Now it is here! Our dear colleauge Karin makes this wonderful Christmas wreath every year, filled with candy, if you carefully take out a candy the wreath maintains even more beautiful! 19.12.2012 PUNKTmedis PUNKTmedis have a new exhibition! Joanna Huttner Lemoine has taken picture of young people in Stockholm - beautiful pictures! Her exhibition is called Stakkolmare. 18.12.2012 PUNKTmedis A wonderful picture behind the scenes! The other week, on the 13th of December we celebrated Lucia at the library. Our superb colleauges sang to all our visitors, wonderful! 17.12.2012 PUNKTmedis The last organized book-talk for this year! A wonderful class from Klara gymnasium. The students are going to make a podradio - read one novel of our time and talk about it. Very inspiring group of students, the gave me a lot of book recommendations! 16.12.2012 PUNKTmedis Maybe you have seen our Christmas Calender? This is todays box and the hint of the day! This is a famous footballplayer for the team Hammarby. We are looking for the title of the song that all the fans are singing just before the game begins! 15.12.2012 PUNKTmedis Our favorite band "Randiga Rut" performed also:-) 14.12.2012 PUNKTmedis The audience participated. 13.12.2012 PUNKTmedis Maja invites everyone to the release of the magazine "Kollektiv" number 2, which is dedicated to women of all kinds and ages and sex. 12.12.2012 PUNKTmedis One of Mortens very nice pictures he showed during his "Fast money"-exhibition at PUNKTmedis in April 2008. Now he is a student at a famous art school in Stockholm and we expect to see more of his art in the near future. 11.12.2012 PUNKTmedis During 2007 we had a lot of "Manga Special" and a lot of talented teens participated. 10.12.2012 PUNKTmedis A picture from Sannas "Fast money"-exhibition in 2007, and it looks like an illustration of Ronia the Robber's Daughter by Astrid Lindgren and just like the winter in Stockholm right now. 09.12.2012 PUNKTmedis In December 2006 we had a Xmas tree with angels in it. But this year the library upstairs borrowed it, and they are so welcome:-) 08.12.2012 PUNKTmedis Elliot came to collect his exhibition. We and our visitors will miss it and hope he and/or his little sister will turn up soon with new ideas for their next exhibition:-) 07.12.2012 PUNKTmedis Our trainee Jimmy has organized our roleplaying books neatly - now everyone will find what they are looking for:-) 06.12.2012 PUNKTmedis A new group of teens has found their way to our fantasy room and plays "Nightmare before X-mas Monopoly" - they are so welcome:-) 05.12.2012 PUNKTmedis Jana (to the left) instructs the guest what will happen during the Harry Potter event. 04.12.2012 PUNKTmedis Harry Potter himself is of course invited:-) 03.12.2012 PUNKTmedis Preparations for a Harry Potter event on the initiative from our teens - the party table is ready and waiting for the guests to arrive. 02.12.2012 PUNKTmedis Our staff member Sara proudly presents "The Medis Christmas calender" It is a competition for all our visitors from maybe 13 years up til... And the winner will get marvelous book prizes:-) 01.12.2012 PUNKTmedis Our old colleague Cecilia is back with us again - but most of all she will continue working as a stand up comedian:-) 30.11.2012 PUNKTmedis And suddenly it happens - love poetry on our white board:-) 29.11.2012 PUNKTmedis 14 colleagues from Åbo (Turkko) Finland visits us. They want inspiration in their work with children and young adults. And we hope they got it:-) 28.11.2012 PUNKTmedis This is the banner for a Fast money project "Kollektiv Donna" which will take place on Wednesday the 12th of December. Link to the event http://www.facebook.com/events/489110124467797/?notif_t=plan_user_joined 27.11.2012 PUNKTmedis November is so dark and rainy so we decided it was the right time to put Xmas stars in our windows:-) 26.11.2012 PUNKTmedis Ransom Riggs, author of "Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children" meet his audience and signs his book. 25.11.2012 PUNKTmedis Ransom Riggs, author of "Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children" is interviewed by our colleague Patrik later the same evening Tahereh Mafi visited PUNKTmedis. Sometimes we are blessed twice:-) 24.11.2012 PUNKTmedis Tahereh Mafi answers questions from the audience and signs her book. 23.11.2012 PUNKTmedis Tahereh Mafi, the author of "Shatter me" visited us yesterday and signed a copy for PUNKTmedis:-) 22.11.2012 PUNKTmedis All staff members had an education in loading "audio books" so everybody now knows how to show our visitors with difficulties to read. And our boss Martin also participated, of course:-) 21.11.2012 PUNKTmedis Today Kristiina should have celebrated her 56th birthday. Serieteket will organize a memorial evening and we celebrate her memory with the wonderful book dedicated to her and her heroic work. 20.11.2012 PUNKTmedis Our "guarding angel" Daniel helps us close the library and he also appears when we are in trouble because of the "wrong" visitors. We would like Daniel to stay with us all opening ours :-) 19.11.2012 PUNKTmedis This Saturday Niklas Krog and Lina Forss visited the library, they have both written books for teenagers and young adults before, but now they have written a book together - Turk and Timotej! 18.11.2012 PUNKTmedis Here is a picture from Martinas vernissage, this Thursday evening! 17.11.2012 PUNKTmedis We have a new beautiful exhibition at PUNKTmedis! The exhibition is called "Stories from Belgrad" and the pictures are made by Martina Ullinder. You can see more of Martinas pictures here: http://martinasimone.tumblr.com 16.11.2012 PUNKTmedis A colleauge recently went to China on a study-tour, and took those pictures, from the Youth Library in Shanghai, inspiration! 15.11.2012 PUNKTmedis Maybe I have to do something about my cabinet at work? On the top you may see some pictures from a Libray for teenagers in Shangai, I am soon going to show them for my colleauges... 14.11.2012 PUNKTmedis Have you seen one of these before? We have some nice Retro-stuff in our basement. We are soon going to use it as "The Medis Christmas calender" It will be a competition for all our visitors from maybe 13 years up til... 13.11.2012 PUNKTmedis This Saturday it was not only The Nordic Game Day, we also had a Twilight-event in the library, here you can see the preparations! 12.11.2012 PUNKTmedis Todays Librarian-outfit! I am trying to imitate the divine- Greta Garbo. Thank you Sara, again for taking the wonderful picture! 11.11.2012 PUNKTmedis Book-tip for Sunday, in Sweden it is Fathers day- give him this book, or maybe not... We just recieved the new edition of Welsh- Trainspotting, read it, see the movie, listen to the wonderful soundtrack. But I do not like the new cover... 10.11.2012 PUNKTmedis Today is the Nordic gameday and we are involved. We hope that a lot teenagers will step by PUNKTmedis to play! 09.11.2012 PUNKTmedis Todays librarian-outfit! Thank you my dear colleauge Sara for taking the picture./Anne 08.11.2012 PUNKTmedis My favourite youth-authors! Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, if you like realistic books with a sense of humor, read now! 07.11.2012 PUNKTmedis Today PUNKTmedis and the chldrens library had a redecorating meeting! Big plans for PUNKTmedis, we hope all our dreams come true... 06.11.2012 PUNKTmedis PUNKTmedis now has its own bracelet! 05.11.2012 PUNKTmedis Rebecka shows her exhibition for her boyfriend and small world – meets her childhood friend Hanna, who is doing her training at PUNKTmedis before she will graduate as librarian:-) 04.11.2012 PUNKTmedis Someone tried to get into the library the wrong way:-( 03.11.2012 PUNKTmedis Our short and intensive film workshop is over for this time - you can see the results on our Facebook http://www.facebook.com/PUNKTmedis?ref=hl we will publish one film everyday. All together it is 8 film:-) 02.11.2012 PUNKTmedis We don´t really celebrate halloween at PUNKTmedis, but we show one of our favorit films "A Nightmare before Christmas". 01.11.2012 PUNKTmedis Our staff member Johanna tries our latest "toy" - an ipod, which we will use for letting our teenage visitors film their own boktips. The best film will be rewarded each day:-) 31.10.2012 PUNKTmedis Some of our "old" roleplayer came and visited us today:-) 30.10.2012 PUNKTmedis Autumn holidays and our film work shop just started:-) 29.10.2012 PUNKTmedis Our knitting cafe is gathering for the evening 28.10.2012 PUNKTmedis Our serious visitors from Tbilisi are at PUNKTmedis to be inspired to develop their Youth Palace. And maybe we can visit them in the near future:-) 27.10.2012 PUNKTmedis Anne tells all about PUNKTmedis for a group of visitors from Tbilisi, Georgia. 26.10.2012 PUNKTmedis Alice proudly presents the new volyme of Young poetry. 25.10.2012 PUNKTmedis Our library pedagog Johanna tells teenagers from a school in the neighbourhood about PUNKTmedis and all our programs and activities. 24.10.2012 PUNKTmedis One of our knitting café members, Lovisa, shows us her new Harry Potter matrjosjkadoll - isn´t it cute?! 23.10.2012 PUNKTmedis Our knitting café is organized as a study circle and today we got the new form to fill in each time - and it turned out to be in the same color as the yarn:-) 22.10.2012 PUNKTmedis We have books for everyone! 21.10.2012 PUNKTmedis During Saturdays and Sundays it can be quite quietly in the library. 20.10.2012 PUNKTmedis Even zombies play "Monopoly":-) Two young participants in Our theatre´s Ghost walk take a break in our Fantasy room. 19.10.2012 PUNKTmedis With the help of some friends Elliot moved his exhition to another place in PUNKTmedis, so now we can keep it some weeks more even when we have other exhibitions in our windows:-) 18.10.2012 PUNKTmedis Our nearest neighbour "Our theatre" celebrated their 70th anniversary with us in the library and they gave us these lovely flowers :-) 17.10.2012 PUNKTmedis Rebecka Ellnemar shows her photos of street art in Reykjavik/Iceland. She got the fast money scholarship and tomorrow we will have a seminar with colleagues from other libraries and inform them so they also will be coaches for this scholarship:-) 16.10.2012 PUNKTmedis The sisters Algeborgs exhibition is over and waiting for them to come and collect their nice photos. Tomorrow we welcome the next exhibition:-) 15.10.2012 PUNKTmedis We long to have our Japan rockers visiting us again. They are so good at singing karaoke with anime movies - and everyone can sing along all night long:-) 14.10.2012 PUNKTmedis The Popcenter in Oslo once more! I would like a window like this at PUNKTmedis. The world outside looks so much more funny! 13.10.2012 PUNKTmedis Maybe you like Agatha Christie? Maybe you would like Maria Lang! Yesterday we completed our exibithion about Maria Lang our Dagmar Lange, which was her real name. 12.10.2012 PUNKTmedis Tomorrow its The Great Readers Day in Stockholm. All my colleaugues has recommended a lot of books! And if youre in Stockholm. dont miss Emily´s bookspeed-dejting at PUNKTmedis, she will talk about her favorits in Urban Fanatsy etc 11.10.2012 PUNKTmedis More from Norway, The Popcenter in Oslo. In this room you press a button and by magic the room changed from the sixties til the eighties. The music, the carpets, the wiev outside the window, and more. I want a Popcenter in Stockholm now! 10.10.2012 PUNKTmedis A week ago I went to Norway for the Nordic Camp 2012. I visited Serieteket at Grunerlooka Library (not yet opened when I was there) You cant see it in the photo, but they have a café which is going to be run by teenagers. /Anne 09.10.2012 PUNKTmedis Now is the best season for watching movies. Every friday at 6 o´clock we show a film. This friday it was a documentary about Justin Bieber. 08.10.2012 PUNKTmedis Now we have "Tintin in Kongo" at last, so all our readers who got curious after the hot discussion about political correctness can read it and make their own opinion. 07.10.2012 PUNKTmedis A good example of how you "park" your shoes while reading manga:-) 06.10.2012 PUNKTmedis Librarian lunch! And sometimes breakfast, dinner and late night snacks, all can be find in our lovely refrigerator. 05.10.2012 PUNKTmedis Drawings for the new entrance at our library. We expect it to be GRAND! 04.10.2012 PUNKTmedis Mini books by Novellix Publishers. Not much bigger than a calculator as you can see. 03.10.2012 PUNKTmedis Who will win the Nobel prize this year? You can guess at the library and recieve a prize as well, but not the Nobel prize of course:-) 02.10.2012 PUNKTmedis The sisters Amy and Mandy Algeborg received the scholarship "Fast money" and made a photo exhibition. Today they had their vernissage together and invited family and friends:-) 01.10.2012 PUNKTmedis Our dishwasher refuses to wash properly and now we all ímpatiently wait for it to be repaired, but first some important parts must be delivered. And it takes too long! 30.9.2012 PUNKTmedis And after the presentations we had a panel discussion between the publishers, the arrangers and the audience. And as you can see it was great fun:-) 29.9.2012 PUNKTmedis Next publisher was Catharina Wraak from Mix. They have a lot of digital stories to download and read on your mobile. http://www.mixforlag.se/ 28.9.2012 PUNKTmedis This autumn we invited publishers of youth literature to come and tell us and our colleagues what´s new. First out was Ada Wester from "Like boooks". She talked about "Hot", erotic stories for young people. http://gillabocker.se/forlaget.html 27.9.2012 PUNKTmedis Serious listeners to Randiga Rut om tuesday night! 26.9.2012 PUNKTmedis Randiga Rut playing at PUNKTmedis! What a great band! PUNKTmedis' and Sweden's new favourite band! 25.9.2012 PUNKTmedis Young people from The Culture School painted 3 of our windows during "The Neighbourhood Day" on Saturday. 24.9.2012 PUNKTmedis Some of all the new books which we are about to put on the shelves! 23.9.2012 PUNKTmedis Hmm... Which comic will it be today? 22.9.2012 PUNKTmedis On tuesday there will be a concert at PUNKTmedis! Together with Studiefrämjandet we are starting "Stockholms pärlor - akustiskt", a series of acoustic concerts with many of Stockholm's most talented bands and artists! 21.9.2012 PUNKTmedis One of our most popular new books! 20.9.2012 PUNKTmedis Lots of people and many reading tips at PUNKTmedis! 19.9.2012 PUNKTmedis At the children's library we have something called "Bokfika" where we have some lemonade and cookies, talking about all the great books we've read! 18.9.2012 PUNKTmedis The Swedish author Johan Unenge visited PUNKTmedis and made a short film to inspire young people visiting libraries. We asked him to sign his own books for our library and he wrote short introductions in each of them - nice! 17.9.2012 PUNKTmedis We presented our sister library project during IFLA congress in Helsinki:-) 16.9.2012 PUNKTmedis Sometimes we get the chance to vote at our staff meetings - with the help of small red dots. A very effective way to give your opionon without being forced to say it loud in front of everyone. 15.9.2012 PUNKTmedis Once a month we have special staff meetings where we can discuss how we want to participate in developing the library in a staff friendly way ;-) 14.9.2012 PUNKTmedis Our knitting café has recruited more members this autumn, so hopefully the library snake will continue to grow :-) 13.9.2012 PUNKTmedis One of our former youth ambassadours, Hilda, visited us with her friends and played one of our board games. 12.9.2012 PUNKTmedis At last our floors are polished:-) 11.9.2012 PUNKTmedis Now you can like our home work helpers on Facebook:-) 10.9.2012 PUNKTmedis On this whiteboard in the reception desk we write all that needs mending immediately 09.9.2012 PUNKTmedis The board game was incomplete,but you can always find counters from other board games and play anyhow:-) 08.9.2012 PUNKTmedis Elliot proudly presents his project. It is an very old handycraft and a smart way of keeping drinks cold with the help of rope, water and wind during long journeys on the sea. Outside is Elliots grandmother reading his text on the subject:-) 07.9.2012 PUNKTmedis Shuan from our IT support mends one of the check out stations 06.9.2012 PUNKTmedis Our staff member Gustav proudly presents the new programme sheet for September and October for the whole library 05.9.2012 PUNKTmedis A bunch of new books arrived, most of them on suggestions from our visitors a week or two ago:-) 04.9.2012 PUNKTmedis School has started and so has our help with homework. 03.9.2012 PUNKTmedis September and autumn is here, its getting darker outside, maybe you need a lamp like this :-). Inspiration from a library in Copenhagen. 02.9.2012 PUNKTmedis Do you want get inside a librarians brain? Read this! Or maybe not. Its a dark story, but with humor. I dont recognize myself, maybe its because i work with teenagers, and have more fun! I dont know the English title, but in french "La Cote 400" 01.9.2012 PUNKTmedis Storytelling time at the library! Today its time again, after the summerbreak. Teenagers tell stories for children. 31.8.2012 PUNKTmedis PUNKTmedis book-tiptree :-)! A lot of our teenagers wants to share book-tips och read other teenagers book-tips. 30.8.2012 PUNKTmedis Time to decide some books we should buy to the library this autumn :-)! 29.8.2012 PUNKTmedis Remember to smile every day :-), but if you have a bad day, use this ;-) 28.8.2012 PUNKTmedis End of Zombie week on PUNKTmedis. Everyone could have a picture of themself as zombie. Guess who this is? 27.8.2012 PUNKTmedis Last blood picture, promise. Two very happy girls, excited over the blood samples they got to take home and play with. They were going to get themself bloody and scary and take zombie pictures. 26.8.2012 PUNKTmedis We still can not stop posting pictures from our zombienight. This is Patrik, our zombiehost, and a most appreciated colleague. 25.8.2012 PUNKTmedis More pics from our zombie night. This is David, one of the "blood chefs", an expert on boiling blood. 24.8.2012 PUNKTmedis Blood boiled at the library. That must be a first! 23.8.2012 PUNKTmedis Swedish television doing a feature for the news, rapporting about our zombie invasion. 22.8.2012 PUNKTmedis Ingredients needed to boil blood. This and beetroots. 21.8.2012 PUNKTmedis Our programme for autumn 2012 just came from the printing:-) 20.8.2012 PUNKTmedis On wednesday night we will be boiling blood here at PUNKT and learn how to survive a zombie invation, before saturdays Zombie Walk in Stockholm. Putting some zombie litteratur on display until then. 19.8.2012 PUNKTmedis Soon zombies will invade not only Stockholm but also us at Punktmedis. Beware! 18.8.2012 PUNKTmedis Men at work! 17.8.2012 PUNKTmedis We only have two of this, our popular grouprooms. Wish we had moore of them, for people to meet, schem and make gloriuos plans for the future. 16.8.2012 PUNKTmedis Skategirl! 15.8.2012 PUNKTmedis Proud of our talented, swedish cartoonist! 14.8.2012 PUNKTmedis Mondaynight knitting session! 13.8.2012 PUNKTmedis Things that people have forgotten in their books over the years. 12.8.2012 PUNKTmedis Maintenance of childrens books. Jamie is doing a superhero job! 11.8.2012 PUNKTmedis It's amazing what you can find in the basement, after seeing this monster I certainly don't need coffee anymore. 10.8.2012 PUNKTmedis The boardgames in the fantasy room are huge! 09.8.2012 PUNKTmedis Sorting books that are going to the other libraries. 08.8.2012 PUNKTmedis There is always music playing at Punkt! 07.8.2012 PUNKTmedis Here at Punkt we make sure that you get a kick!out of reading 06.8.2012 PUNKTmedis Fighting dragons in the fantasy room is a daily monday routine here at Punkt 05.8.2012 PUNKTmedis internet drop in - for our younger visitors (age 13-19) 04.8.2012 PUNKTmedis During the pride week we exebithioned some handpicked books regarding lgbt relationships and/or issues. 03.8.2012 PUNKTmedis a whole lot of cd's. and a man is lookin' for the best 02.8.2012 PUNKTmedis here, you can recomend books in a recording of yourself. 01.8.2012 PUNKTmedis old men (+ womans) chillin' reading todays paper among other things. 31.7.2012 PUNKTmedis One of our visitors is studying 30.7.2012 PUNKTmedis лето. девушка, которая участвует в нашей щедрой хранения серия 29.7.2012 PUNKTmedis Art is something that also finds it's way into the library. This pearl-painting of a horse is high up on our walls 28.7.2012 PUNKTmedis some really nice looking swedish gooseberrys 27.7.2012 PUNKTmedis The recycable book bin. our personal way of saving the enviroment and providing good books from readers to readers. 26.7.2012 PUNKTmedis zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZ says the cute snake who watches over the readers. 25.7.2012 PUNKTmedis This is Tor. Our personal superhero and savior, in our time of need. 24.7.2012 PUNKTmedis Punkt Medis bulletin board gives the visitors a chance to express themselfs by putting together short meaningfull sentences. Making the first step from reading to writing. 23.7.2012 PUNKTmedis Gloomy day on the square outside the library. 22.7.2012 PUNKTmedis In the mail! Updating our Sandman collection while waiting for the new book next year. 21.7.2012 PUNKTmedis Our digital first aid is still popular. 20.7.2012 PUNKTmedis Hail outside our kitchen window. The streets were flooded and forced people to stay inside the library. A good day! 19.7.2012 PUNKTmedis Untangling our yarn basket took some time. 18.7.2012 PUNKTmedis We dusted on top of our bookselfs. Has not been done for some time we guess. 17.7.2012 PUNKTmedis This is the result, we are very pleased! Summer is a great time to make some changes in the library! 16.7.2012 PUNKTmedis We are fixing up our magazine corner, making it magical black and more organized! 15.7.2012 PUNKTmedis Sometimes our CD-covers disapper. Agnes, our summerworker, has made her own for those that without. 14.7.2012 PUNKTmedis Father and son reading our magazines! 13.7.2012 PUNKTmedis One of our most popular selfs "Urban fantasy". Perfect if you want some spooky summer reading. 12.7.2012 PUNKTmedis This is our "tree of book recommendations"! 11.7.2012 PUNKTmedis Our knitted worm keeps getting longer and longer! 10.7.2012 PUNKTmedis "Nya böcker" means new books in swedish! 09.7.2012 PUNKTmedis What a lovely weather today! Come and sit in one of our comfy chairs and read a book at Medborgarplatsen! 08.7.2012 PUNKTmedis Deciding which book to read isn't always easy. And that is why the library is such a great concept: borrow some books, start reading one and if it doesn't suit you, grab another one! 07.7.2012 PUNKTmedis Here's a picture of the first day of "Bibblan på torget". PUNKTmedis is now also on the actual square - Medborgarplatsen. Here you can borrow some summer paperback, get free issues of the magazine Ponton and talk literature! 06.7.2012 PUNKTmedis Our new summer workers Agnes and Tim getting ready for moving the library outside! Borrow a book, sit down on Medborgarplatsen and enjoy the summer! 05.7.2012 PUNKTmedis The very sought after RPG for Svavelvinter is here! Another kind of role playing you'll find in Lisa Bjärbo's latest novel. 04.7.2012 PUNKTmedis Our summer worker Nelly shares her summer favorites! 03.7.2012 PUNKTmedis Our newest librarian showing a visitor where the fantasy room and the computers are. 02.7.2012 PUNKTmedis PUNKTmedis is a free zone in the RPG Deathgame. 01.7.2012 PUNKTmedis PUNKTmedis has music in many genres. Why don't you surprise yourself by borrowing a CD with music you've never heard before? 30.6.2012 PUNKTmedis When it's raining cats and dogs outside, the library is the perfect place for hanging out! 29.6.2012 PUNKTmedis Wondering how many books that have the word summer/sommar in the title? We found quite a few on our shelves!
28 Jun	28.6.2012 Library for Young Adults Our collection of rare books has increased today. Kluev’s family has donated the file of the well-known Russian weekly magazine “Niva” for the year 1901 to our library. Our collection of rare books has increased today. Kluev’s family has donated the file of the well-known Russian weekly magazine “Niva” for the year 1901 to our library. Link & Comments	28.6.2012 Serieteket An image that we commissioned from artist Mats Kallblad some years ago. It used to hang in our library, now it inspires us in the office. An image that we commissioned from artist Mats Kallblad some years ago. It used to hang in our library, now it inspires us in the office. Link & Comments	28.6.2012 PUNKTmedis Is the rain pouring down? PUNKTmedis has computers with Internet access for those between 13 and 19 years old! So if you can't surf the waves, come and surf the Internet! Is the rain pouring down? PUNKTmedis has computers with Internet access for those between 13 and 19 years old! So if you can't surf the waves, come and surf the Internet! Link & Comments
27 Jun	27.6.2012 Library for Young Adults Our new colleague Sergey. This is his first day at work. See how glad he is! He doesn’t know what is in store for him... ;) Our new colleague Sergey. This is his first day at work. See how glad he is! He doesn’t know what is in store for him... ;) Link & Comments	27.6.2012 Serieteket Still a rainy Summer. Good for "business". Still a rainy Summer. Good for "business". Link & Comments	27.6.2012 PUNKTmedis PUNKTmedis has many magazines. This is Sandro reading "Nemi". PUNKTmedis has many magazines. This is Sandro reading "Nemi". Link & Comments

26.6.2012 Library for Young Adults The Musical Department of the library (early 1970s). 25.6.2012 Library for Young Adults An unfinished piece for digital piano. 24.6.2012 Library for Young Adults If you don’t want to walk our long corridors but need to specify something, you can speak on this telephone with any department, ask about everything or just chat a little with a librarian. 23.6.2012 Library for Young Adults New books with the smell of printery have arrived to our readers by car, by elevator and on a trolley! 22.6.2012 Library for Young Adults The Musical Department is currently being updated. The collection’s structure and services for users are changing. About 70000 vinyl records, 40000 published music and 50000 books are stocking here. So it’s a very hard work. 21.6.2012 Library for Young Adults Our “Bookworm” Alexander (inspired by Carl Spitzweg’s painting). 20.6.2012 Library for Young Adults The lection "Citizens for citizens: how to direct citizens' initiative in a proper way" has taken place at our library as a part of marathon "Let's Do It!". It is easy to make life in the city better for yourself and the others, just want to do it. 19.6.2012 Library for Young Adults Firstly, serious scientific conversations, then flowers, smiles... Our colleague Marina Zakharenko has defended the Candidate's thesis. 18.6.2012 Library for Young Adults Today our main photographer Dmitry celebrates his Birthday. 17.6.2012 Library for Young Adults The invisible man is wanted. He was here a moment ago and has disappeared at once! 16.6.2012 Library for Young Adults This is the favourite place of our librarian Katya But. There you always can find something interesting. 15.6.2012 Library for Young Adults Our specialists from the Collection Formation and Cataloging Department always have much work to do. This is where each book, CD, poster, map and everything starts its way to our readers. 14.6.2012 Library for Young Adults The wish for travelling is literally hanging in the air. 13.6.2012 Library for Young Adults The holidays have passed and the work starts… Off we go! 12.6.2012 Library for Young Adults Today is Russian National Day. Let it be fun, joy and ~~books~~ music. 11.6.2012 Library for Young Adults The 3rd Annual Open Air Festival «Multicoloured Jazz» at the cultural centre «Mansion of merchant Nosov». Real holiday with real music. 10.6.2012 Library for Young Adults Meeting with the artist and illustrator Olivier Tallek. His bright and light drawing style and fine sense of humour are much appreciated worldwide. 09.6.2012 Library for Young Adults Vinary, our volonteer, is waiting for the day photo subject. Coming soon… 08.6.2012 Library for Young Adults It's summer – time for vacations. However, the Literary Improvisations Theatre is continuing to hold its meetings. The leader of the theatre Sasha Grosheva and her friends-actors are working on the decorations of the next performance. 07.6.2012 Library for Young Adults Someone is reading, someone is listening to music. Someone is taking photos) Everyone has his own space. Fiction and Art Hall. 06.6.2012 Library for Young Adults Today is the birthday of the Russian poet and writer Alexander Pushkin. What's in my name? It's soulless, It shall expire, like the dismal roar Of waves that hit the distant shore, — Like nighttime noises in the forest! 05.6.2012 Library for Young Adults The masterclass «Creating Comics» (its presenter is Alim Velitov – the artist and the leader of the Comics Club). His self-portrait you can see at the laptop’s screen:) And he is also the author of this photo. 04.6.2012 Library for Young Adults Preparation for exams... Or maybe it’s a date, who knows. 03.6.2012 Library for Young Adults Dr. House, goodbye! The magazine number one among our users this week (and among librarians, too). 02.6.2012 Library for Young Adults The final of the season in our Comics Club. One of this evening’s topics is the preview of the new Pascal Rabate’s work «Holidays by the Sea». 01.6.2012 Library for Young Adults In our Children's room. Three sisters. Created not by Chekhov, but by Maria, the head of library's Centre of International Programs. Dedicated to International Children's day:) 31.5.2012 Library for Young Adults Those hours, that with gentle work did frame, The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell… 30.5.2012 Library for Young Adults At the opening of the photo exhibition «Let's bike it». Main theme is a cycling in the city. 29.5.2012 Library for Young Adults Russian classical author Ivan Goncharov is meeting the visitors at the exhibition dedicated to his creative work, which is set up at the mansion of the merchant Nosov (our branch). 28.5.2012 Library for Young Adults You never know what might happen if you fall asleep over a book and literary characters are going beyond the scopes of it. The performance "Book Dreams". 27.5.2012 Library for Young Adults The 27th of May is the Russian Library Day. Greetings from the past! We’ve found a handmade poster of many years prescription in our archives. 26.5.2012 Library for Young Adults From time to time we have to use not only our brain but our hands as well... 25.5.2012 Library for Young Adults This meeting of the Cinema Fans Club “Bardo” is covering films of the most well-known British director Guy Ritchie. And everybody delights in sweet strawberry. 24.5.2012 Library for Young Adults Students of one of the local schools are visiting the library. Our staff member Anton is telling the future users about the library and its services. 23.5.2012 Library for Young Adults Comfortable reading. 22.5.2012 Library for Young Adults Ideas and arguments, plans and goals, thoughts and discussions. The meeting of the library specialists. 21.5.2012 Library for Young Adults It is possible to prepare for exams not only by studying textbooks, but by improving the rendering of some complex musical compositions. 20.5.2012 Library for Young Adults When feelings are filling the hearts… 19.5.2012 Library for Young Adults The eco club “Space”. Participants of the movement “The Locals” are presenting the Eco Patrol as an example of the positive social action in the sphere of nature preservation. 18.5.2012 Library for Young Adults The 17th Annual Conference of the Russian Library Association in Perm City. The speech of our director Irina Mikhnova as a new vice-president of professional association. 17.5.2012 Library for Young Adults Social and Humanity Sciences Hall. Here you can not only work with books on economics, law, history, pedagogics, psychology, but read an article from periodicals and have an access to the remote data bases of these fields of knowledge. 16.5.2012 Library for Young Adults The birth of the performance. Literary Improvisations Theatre. 15.5.2012 Library for Young Adults Exams are on one’s doorstep. 14.5.2012 Library for Young Adults The new production of the Metaphor theatrical studio based on the play “Shadow” by Evgeny Shvarts. 13.5.2012 Library for Young Adults A birdhouse in the yard of our branch - the mansion of merchant Nosov. We have been hopefully looking at it since the warm days had come. Here is a new resident! 12.5.2012 Library for Young Adults Our patrons can return books 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. 11.5.2012 Library for Young Adults Ideas & offers mail. 10.5.2012 Library for Young Adults "Creation of Comics" master-class team has just published their own book "The hour has struck". It’s a result of work within several months in the library. 09.5.2012 Library for Young Adults "Photo Panorama of Nikolay Rakhmanov" - exhibition of the well-known Russian photographer. 08.5.2012 Library for Young Adults Rain & magic music. Open Air - Indian Ethnic Music Festival at the mansion of the merchant V.D. Nosov (the branch of the library). 07.5.2012 Library for Young Adults Preparations for the performance "Shadow" based on the play of Evgeny Shvarts. 06.5.2012 Library for Young Adults Mafia doesn't sleep! Popular game "Mafia". 05.5.2012 Library for Young Adults The meeting in the series "French Comics Stars". Master class and autograph session of the Belarusian-French artist Andrey Arinushkin. 04.5.2012 Library for Young Adults The head of the manga workshop “Hibari” Lidia Babintseva is having the last meeting with her audience in this season. 03.5.2012 Library for Young Adults Rare Books Collection: books in miniature. 02.5.2012 Library for Young Adults Halls of the Library: Foreign Languages Hall, Natural and Technical Sciences Hall and Social Sciences Hall. 01.5.2012 Library for Young Adults Notice board of the Library for Young Adults. Announcements for the events in May. 26.6.2012 PUNKTmedis The soundtrack of today! At PUNKTmedis we always listen to good music! 25.6.2012 PUNKTmedis Our staff members Therese and Johanna are preparing for our visitors to film their own boktip and publish them on You tube. 24.6.2012 PUNKTmedis Our summer workers (here you see Sandro and Nelly) help elderly people with digital first aid every Tuesday afternoon this summer. They do it so well and the people coming are so pleased, so we hope we can continue even after summer. 23.6.2012 PUNKTmedis Our summer worker Sandro is labeling our pocket books with an ink stamp so it will be easier shelfing them properly. 22.6.2012 PUNKTmedis Our red stair is being repaired. At first they did a lousy job and had to come back and fix it, so now we hope it will be all right. Please come in and check it:-) 21.6.2012 PUNKTmedis One of our summerworkers, Sandro, is cleaning our dusty shelves and it smells good in the library again:-) 20.6.2012 PUNKTmedis One of our regular visitors, Malin, shows her latest creations. She is really the master of cakes. Now she will build her own kitchen and start her own cake company. We wish her the best of luck and will of course order some cakes to the library:-) 19.6.2012 PUNKTmedis This is our jukebox for e-media. Here you can download films, talking books, language courses, travel guides and games directly to your mobile phone or on a usb-stick and transport it to your computer at home. 18.6.2012 PUNKTmedis Today arrived the catalogue with all new books for autumn - now we have to read it carefully, discuss with our visitors and among ourselfes which books we shall buy and then buy them and wait for them to arrive:-) 17.6.2012 PUNKTmedis Signe from a library in Nynäshamn came and borrowed a suitcase full of role playing books. In Nynäshamn they will have a summer filled of role playing activities and we are happy to share our books:-) 16.6.2012 PUNKTmedis Our house from above,from the South tower, 86 meeter high. We met where to discuss how we can make our neighbourhood safer, and specially for the children and young adults. On the 22th of September we plan the Day of Södermalm in our area. 15.6.2012 PUNKTmedis We play music all the time at our library. And the music is chosen by the staff member working in the information desk. Right now we play "Magical Mystery Tour" by the Beatles. 14.6.2012 PUNKTmedis Our knitting café is mending our library snake so it will stay in shape:-) 13.6.2012 PUNKTmedis Some of our new books! Come and grab! 12.6.2012 PUNKTmedis Their first day of their long summer vacation:-) 11.6.2012 PUNKTmedis Come and play our board games - we have lots of them. For example Ticket to Ride. 10.6.2012 PUNKTmedis The wellknow Science Fiction writer Ray Bradbury died 5th of June almost 92 years old. We put all his books at display and today only 3 remained. 09.6.2012 PUNKTmedis Our newest sitting place in the window is occupied:-) 08.6.2012 PUNKTmedis Looking for books. Sometimes it is easier to go to the opac first, but sometimes you find books you didn´t know while you browse the shelves. 07.6.2012 PUNKTmedis Two friends are arranging a surprice for another friend, who will be 18 years - so you see it is possible to do almost everything in our libary;-) 06.6.2012 PUNKTmedis Our staff member Elias is visiting with his daughter Elsie, who found something of interest:-) 05.6.2012 PUNKTmedis We often have teens practice at our library. This is Leo helping us to clean our dusty shelves and rearrange the newly arrived books. 04.6.2012 PUNKTmedis Our library during the teens lunchhour. It is so nice that they come regurarly, but soon their vacation begins and they will go to the beach instead:-) 03.6.2012 PUNKTmedis This year is the year of August Strindberg, a wellknown swedish writer. It is nice you also can read Strindberg in comics and if you are in inferno or in a hurry:-) 02.6.2012 PUNKTmedis The library at 8 o´clock in the evening. We are open to 9 o´clock, but now it is summer and people do a lot of other things, so we should better close earlier. And we will but only from the 11th of June, and when we will close at 7 o´clock. 01.6.2012 PUNKTmedis Sometimes we can borrow the theater beside our library and show film. This time it is documentary films students in Stockholm have made in South Africa. They will show two films "Rio Rita" and "Longs Street Kids" about ordinary peoples way of life. 31.5.2012 PUNKTmedis Lazy afternoon in the library. Newly arrived books to make ready for the readers and girls playing one of our most popular board games:-) 30.5.2012 PUNKTmedis Our role play books are most popular. And you can always take a photo and send to your friends and invite them to the library and for example play "Doctor Who":-) 29.5.2012 PUNKTmedis At the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award evening, when Guus Kuijer got the price, "First Aid Kit" played. They played for the very first time in our library before they became world famous :-) Listen to them http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxp6sdHJ8kA 28.5.2012 PUNKTmedis On the stairs outside the library children and parents are celebrating The Day of Pre School. 27.5.2012 PUNKTmedis Meeting outside the library (on a nice farm in the middle of Södermalm in Stockholm) During 3 hours we almost succeded in planning for the autumn:-) 26.5.2012 PUNKTmedis A meeting on the square outside the library. This time one of four meetings on four different places in Sweden at the same time - a protest against the honor-related violence of women. 25.5.2012 PUNKTmedis The audience enter the theater for one of the last performances this spring. The library and the Culture school share the same entrance and sometimes it can be very noisy when 90 persons queue to enter. 24.5.2012 PUNKTmedis A group of 34 colleagues from different meeting places for children and young adults in Tallin, Estonia, visits PUNKTmedis and Anne tells all about how the youth library started and how we work today. It is always nice to share experiences:-) 23.5.2012 PUNKTmedis Emily gives an interview to the magazine "Fokus" about trends within the genrers fantasy and urban fantasy, while the photographer takes pictures of some of the trendiest books right now. 22.5.2012 PUNKTmedis Knitting café every Monday 17-21. Frida teaches Aimen how to knit our library snake. 21.5.2012 PUNKTmedis We have a lot of board games, and as you see they are frequently used. We look forward to the summer time when we will have teens working in the library and help us keeping order among our games:-) 20.5.2012 PUNKTmedis Our non-fiction section is not very big, but we have a library for grown ups and children just up the stairs, and they have a lot of non-fiction. 19.5.2012 PUNKTmedis Our visitors can suggest media they want us to buy to the youth library. If they want to order the book they write their card number. We in the staff answer them and order the books as soon as possible. And send a message when the books arrive. 18.5.2012 PUNKTmedis Tor is the name of our library robot. He has been working almost every day since 26th of February 2005. In October he will be replaced by a new and bigger robot. 17.5.2012 PUNKTmedis Hanna and Ea show their exhibition for a visitor in Lava in the Culture house. Both of them had their first exhibition in PUNKTmedis a year ago and this year they wanted to try a new place and we wish them good luck, of course:-) 16.5.2012 PUNKTmedis An exhibition made by young people in Stockholm about empowerment among young people in Malawi. The exhibition started today and a lot of relatives and friends came and shared the message of empowerment. 15.5.2012 PUNKTmedis Four girls got the scholarship "Fast money" and arranged a Twilight evening and invited other young girls. They showed "Breaking dawn 1", discussed the film and had a real good time:-) 14.5.2012 PUNKTmedis You can reach our library on many different ways. This is the most beautiful right now, through the park with cherry trees. 13.5.2012 PUNKTmedis You can get help with your homework at PUNKTmedis on Mondays and Thirsdays between 16-19 o'clock. 12.5.2012 PUNKTmedis For a little while we hope that both we and our visitors can find the manga they want:-) 11.5.2012 PUNKTmedis The Youth department 69 years ago - in June 1943. 10.5.2012 PUNKTmedis Måns arranges his comic exhibition. First in black and white and soon in colours and with the end of the story - so it is really a work in progress. 09.5.2012 PUNKTmedis Our roleplay leader Mikael has finally recieved the role play book he has longed for :-) 08.5.2012 PUNKTmedis The role play group relaxes and plays "Monopoly":-) 07.5.2012 PUNKTmedis The old entrance (1939-2005) to the left and the new entrance (2005-) to the right - and in October it will be the old entrance again:-) 06.5.2012 PUNKTmedis Release of the new book "Fire" about teenage witches in a small city in Sweden. The second book of three and already a success among Swedish teens 05.5.2012 PUNKTmedis Do you like to join a group and discuss books? 04.5.2012 PUNKTmedis Preparations for a comic exhibition next week. 03.5.2012 PUNKTmedis It is not easy to choose a book. 02.5.2012 PUNKTmedis PUNKTmedis is a meeting-place for the teens of Stockholm. It is open 64 hours a week (Monday - Thursday 10 - 21, Friday 10 - 22, Saturday and Sunday 12 - 16). 01.5.2012 PUNKTmedis My booktip: "The Recruit" by Robert Muchamore and "A Faraway Island" by Annika Thor. 26.6.2012 Serieteket Working with our storage room. Spider-Man and Marsupilami look skeptical. 25.6.2012 Serieteket Closed on Monday. 24.6.2012 Serieteket There is a huge street art exhibition in the Stockholm Culture House this Summer. This is the afterbirth of a street art performance on the bottom floor. 23.6.2012 Serieteket Look Bruce, it's the Bat signal! The day after Midsummer many Swedes will wish they had Batman at their side. 22.6.2012 Serieteket In Sweden we are celebrating Midsummer today and the library is closed for once! Weather permitting I will spend the day by this tree. /Anders L. 21.6.2012 Serieteket Take a walk on the wild side! There's nothing better than leaving a library with a stack of comics, art books, movie dvds and music cds. 20.6.2012 Serieteket On stage yesterday night: Anders Lundgren (Serieteket) interviewing one of Sweden's most popular comic creators - Charlie Christensen, creator of "Arnie Duck". Photo: Stefan Eriksson. 19.6.2012 Serieteket We're making progress with our old storage place, cleaning out more of our old stuff every day. At the end of the Summer, it will have transformed into a nice reading room where the public can get access to our reference books and rarities. We hope. 18.6.2012 Serieteket Time to get historical and nostalgic: This is how Serieteket looked about five years ago. The UFO desk is now relocated to the library in Sodertalje. 17.6.2012 Serieteket Time for a fine art experience. 16.6.2012 Serieteket Serieteket is also a book publisher, albeit in small scale. Our only book so far is the Swedish translation of the comic album "Bullefaltet" (="The Bun Field") by the Finnish artist Amanda Vahamaki, published in 2007. 15.6.2012 Serieteket Not everyone in the Swedish comics society is named Ola, but three of us are. Above: Ola Hammarlund (Swedish Comics Association), Ola Skogang (comics artist), and Ola Hellsten (Serieteket). Pic taken at a Culture House mingle meeting this Wednesday. 14.6.2012 Serieteket We got a visit from some of the people behind the Italian Comics Festival Bilbolbul. Seated: Giordana Piccinini and Ilaria Tontardini. Sort of standing behind them: Emilio Varra. Ideas were tossed around and great plans were made. 13.6.2012 Serieteket Summertime. Casual Wednesday at Serieteket. 12.6.2012 Serieteket A Lovecraft inspired piece of art, donated to our collections. 11.6.2012 Serieteket Serieteket is placed in the Culture House right in the center of Stockholm. Photo: Makan E-Rahmati. 10.6.2012 Serieteket Relaxing at Serieteket. Photo: Makan E-Rahmati. 09.6.2012 Serieteket Summer has returned to us, at least for the moment. Yesterday, the librarians at our "sister library" Plattan arranged a Librarian's Club on the roof of the Culture House. Foods, drinks, music, interactive art projects, and a literary quiz. All fun. 08.6.2012 Serieteket Some of today's returned graphic novels. 07.6.2012 Serieteket We continously display our graphic novels by genre. This week, we focus on our erotic comics. Kenny (from "South Park") looks amazed. 06.6.2012 Serieteket During a rainy Summer, a comic book library can be your lifeboat. 05.6.2012 Serieteket A rainy day in Stockholm. Our "mascot", Gaston Lagaffe (André Franquin's famous cartoon character) is looking out above a wet Sergel Plaza. 04.6.2012 Serieteket Our place as seen from behind the turntables and cd players that have accompanied many a pivotal event of our recent history. Not to mention the many book sorting sessions enlivened by music from our PA. 03.6.2012 Serieteket Hey what happened to summer? The sweltering heat of the previous weekend has been replaced by a steady October drizzle and steel grey skies. Well, there's always comics... 02.6.2012 Serieteket Our intern Elliot Aunola, previously seen in these pages, has just opened his first exhibiton of film inspired illustrations at our place. We hope that many will stop by and admire his images. 01.6.2012 Serieteket Generation T - a "fan club" for the Belgian comic Tintin, recently celebrated their 5th anniversary. Serieteket received an honorary membership for our support. Above: Bjorn Wahlberg, Generation T, and Anders Lundgren, Serieteket. Picture: Kalle Alm. 31.5.2012 Serieteket Author and cartoonist David "Dayw" Liljemark from yesterday's signing session, drawing a doodle in a copy of his short story collection "Da ha satt saj pa hovve". 30.5.2012 Serieteket Finale of the spring season in our series of seminars called "Serieteket presents". On stage: publisher Mats Jonsson, writer and cartoonist David Liljemark (author of the short story collection "Da ha satt saj pa hovve"), and publisher Bengt Berg. 29.5.2012 Serieteket Conan the Librarian. 28.5.2012 Serieteket Today we started with one of our major projects this year; to clean out our storage room and make it a cosy place where visitors can take part of our collection of raritites and valuable publications. We'll be ready at the end of the Summer. We hope. 27.5.2012 Serieteket It's super hot in Stockholm for this time of year. Comics fans seek solace at our place where cool reading material is always to be found. 26.5.2012 Serieteket One of our biggest challenges this summer is to turn this storage space into a charming room where we can invite people to look at our rarities. Wish us luck! 25.5.2012 Serieteket Today the people of Stockholm gather at Kulturhuset to trade books. Our table got cleared the minute we opened. What happened to "take one, leave one"? 24.5.2012 Serieteket We are in the process of making our fine collection of French comics even better. Elliot Aunola is here seen putting protective plastic film on some choice volumes. The next step is our favourite though: buying more new books! 23.5.2012 Serieteket Serieteket shares its space with the Film and Music Library of the Stockholm Culture House. Linda is taking care of the information desk at the same time as she is reading Reinhard Kleist's latest graphic novel about Johnny Cash. 22.5.2012 Serieteket The "Auto-mat" at our sister library, Library Plattan. A combined vending machine and art project. 21.5.2012 Serieteket Electronic screens show our latest purchases to the library. 20.5.2012 Serieteket Our section of comics classics is a popular choice for many visitors. Here, you can find everything from Herge ("Tintin") to Carl Barks ("Donald Duck"), from Alex Toth ("Zorro") to Winsor McCay ("Little Nemo"). 19.5.2012 Serieteket Librarians Linda and Kent minding both the comics library (Serieteket) and the film/music library (Film&Musik). 18.5.2012 Serieteket We recently visited the Cultural Institute of Romania in Stockholm. Hopefully, this will lead to future collaborations. Serieteket's Anders Lundgren shows some of the Romanian comic publications we received at the Institute. 17.5.2012 Serieteket More from after closing. Sunset time. Strangely, even a library without visitors feels alive, somehow. 16.5.2012 Serieteket When the library has closed and the sun sets. 15.5.2012 Serieteket Yesterday, it was exactly 100 years since Swedish author August Strindberg died. On our website, we have published Per Demervall's comic version of Strindberg's "The Red Room". http://kulturhuset.stockholm.se/-/Kalender/20111/Serieteket/Roda-rummet/ 14.5.2012 Serieteket Our latest purchase, Simon Gardenfors' graphic novel "Dod kompis" ("=Dead pal") - a graphic explosion! 13.5.2012 Serieteket We display our new books by projecting a slideshow on our concrete wall. Above: the cover of Simon Gardenfors' latest graphic novel "Dod kompis" (="Dead pal"). 12.5.2012 Serieteket More from our working trip to Amsterdam this week. Not only business, but pleasure as well. This pic shows staff from the libraries Serieteket (comics), Film&Musik (film and music) and Plattan (fiction and art books) of the Stockholm Culture House. 11.5.2012 Serieteket The staff of Serieteket has been on a working trip to Amsterdam this week. Yesterday, we had the pleasure to visit the masterful Dutch artist Erik Kriek in his studio. Left: Serieteket staffer Anders Lundgren. Right: Erik Kriek. 10.5.2012 Serieteket These dome-shaped armchairs are very popular among our visitors and you seldom see them unoccupied. 09.5.2012 Serieteket Our intern Elliot took a photo of his favourite spot in Serieteket, the manga section! 08.5.2012 Serieteket Artist in action. 07.5.2012 Serieteket Serieteket founder and leading librarian Kristiina Kolehmainen tragically passed away from cancer in March. We miss her immensely, and so do many others. Here is an article about her from the latest issue of Swedish library journal Biblioteksnytt. 06.5.2012 Serieteket Not only comics, but also several shelves of reference literature ABOUT comics and other graphic artforms. 05.5.2012 Serieteket Serieteket's library assistant Elisabet Andersson, studying new books. Elisabet has been with Serieteket since it started more than fifteen years ago. 04.5.2012 Serieteket Serieteket presents: Swedish author and poet Lennart Hellsing visiting Kulturhuset and reading aloud from his new illustrated poetry book. 03.5.2012 Serieteket 02.5.2012 Serieteket Serieteket, the library for comics and graphic literature in Stockholm's Kulturhuset ("The Culture House"), is still unique among Swedish libraries. During our first fifteen years we have constantly strived to broaden our own and the reading public’s conc 01.5.2012 Serieteket