Mau Reads är ett initiativ vid Malmö universitet som syftar till att främja rekreativt läsande bland studenter genom bokcirklar och författarsamtal. Initiativet, som genomförs av universitetsbiblioteket i samarbete med Kultursamverkan, erbjuder frivilliga och prestationsfria möten för diskussioner om litteratur. Det fokuserar på att stärka läsvanan hos studenter, och kopplar skönlitterärt läsande till akademisk framgång och känslan av tillhörighet. Genom bokcirklarna skapas sociala mötesplatser för studenter från olika utbildningar och discipliner. De bidrar på så sätt till att stärka bibliotekets roll som social infrastruktur på universitetet.

Den här jubileumsboken är skriven och formgiven av medarbetare på Malmö universitetsbibliotek. Här finns personliga betraktelser och tillbakablickar från bibliotekets 25-åriga historia. Den är en karta över var vi varit, vem vi är och vart vi vill.

På ett universitetsbibliotek pågår en mångfald av processer och arbetsflöden; vi katalogiserar, lånar ut, undervisar, stödjer forskare och studenter. Biblioteket skulle kunna jämföras med ett urverk där den lugna ytan, bibliotekets tillförlitliga rum och utbud, understöds av en myriad aktiviteter och processer. Parallellt med det löpande arbetet, pågår också utvecklingsarbeten av olika slag för att säkra kvalitet och relevans.

Bibliotek från olika sektorer – om det så är skol-, folk-, sjukhus- eller högskolebibliotek – vilar på en gemensam värdegrund där demokratisk kunskapsdelning och fri åsiktsbildning är centrala värden.Trots det sker det sällan kompetensöverföring och utbyte mellan personal i de olika sektorerna. Genom regionala kompetensutvecklingsmedel  har bibliotekarier från olika bibliotekssektorer haft möjlighet att lära känna varandras verksamheter och målgrupper. Projektet Möjligheternas bibliotek undersöker hur bibliotekarier genom ett ökat samarbete och en fördjupad kunskap om andra typer av bibliotek, kan underlätta medborgarnas tillgångtill bibliotek genom det livslånga lärandet.

Digital practices are intertwined in everything we do, although in a society where the citizens are faced with fake news and alternative facts in the media - social as well as traditional - demands are placed on new abilities to debunk myths and pseudoscience. Through the project The Researchers Gallery we, at Malmö University Library, explored the question of how we can address the ways digitalization is transforming behaviours in processing information and knowledge. The essence of the project was the development of a model to co-produce exhibitions with researchers at the University. The co-production was central in empowering librarians involved as well as visitors in their information literacies and understanding of knowledge and facts. In order to document the processes and disseminate the experiences and new knowledge to others, the project group developed a web-based five-step model for sustainable exhibition production. The project is now completed and the activities in The Researchers Gallery continue as part of Malmö University Library’s regular repertoire. In order to develop the Researchers Gallery, and in particular deepen the connection to information literacies needed in a digital setting, we are aiming at creating a digital representation of the exhibitions with interactive components. When it comes to professional development and new competencies discovered through the project, the next step is to start a network for Swedish libraries that want to explore the role of the librarian-curator and communicate research through exhibitions. This paper will present The Researchers Gallery further as well as the project that launched it.

In these times where news and facts are challenged and the discussion of knowledge resistance is highlighted, there is an increased need for strengthening the information literacy competencies among students as well as the public in general. At the same time, universities and their researchers have a need for making their research tangible and for communicating it to the surrounding community. In this project, we meet these demands by presenting research in the form of exhibitions in the most accessible place of the University – the library. University libraries in Sweden are used daily by researchers and students as well as the public and they are a possible link in the dissemination of knowledge to society. The foundation of the project is to bridge the boundary between the work of libraries in the area of formal scholarly communication and the activities of research or science communication, i.e. communication not targeting the academic society, but being part of public involvement. The aim is to create enhanced opportunities for research communication in the library space and to bring together the two strands of information literacy work and dissemination of research results performed by librarians. The library is a place for creation and use of academic knowledge as well as an informal learning environment. The focus is this physical setting and the library as a credible place where communication of research in an exhibition is developed in close collaboration between librarians and researchers and in a format that is interactive, attractive and accessible. The idea is to develop the visitors’ (students, researchers, staff, students from other universities and residents in the city etc.) information literacy and foster a critical stance to news and presentations of research findings. The exhibitions are created to encourage continued learning, for example by connecting the theme of the exhibited research to the library collections for further reading. The key to success is the teamwork that is developed with the researchers and the librarians. The collaboration is not only part of creating the exhibitions, but gives unique opportunities and has explicit synergies in terms of furthering other collaborations among the researchers themselves as well as with the library as a whole, facilitating collection development and fostering the librarians’ knowledge of current research at the university. One concrete result of the project is a model for designing sustainable exhibitions in which the possibilities of a new role for the librarian as a curator-librarian and the library as the credible place is explored. A web-based, five-step model is made available for other libraries - of any size and type - that wish to communicate science and research to their users. The five steps include: idea formation, planning, production, exhibition period, closing. Each step includes a description of the stage in the process, a specific checklist, the reflections on insights from the project and further reading. 

Utgångspunkten är en presentation av sex forskare, knutna till Centrum för sexologi och sexualitetsstudier, som berättar om sina respektive forskningsfält. Utställningen består också av en tidslinje med nedslag i den svenska sexualitetshistorien, ett tittskåp med kuriosa och en samling litteratur. I en brevlåda kan besökaren kommentera eller ställa frågor till forskarna, svaren projiceras på väggen. Två offentliga samtal arrangeras och filmas; Sex och makt och Tema erotisk litteratur. I samband med utställningen visas konstprojektet "Kyss" där prästen och konstnären Kent Wisti och författaren Maria Küchen i bild och text tolkat Höga visan.

The core of the exhibition is a presentation of six researchers, linked to the Center for Sexology and Sexual Studies, presenting their respective fields of research. The exhibition also consists of a timeline with stops in Swedish sexuality history, a curiosity cabinet and a collection of literature. The visitors can leave comments or ask questions to the researchers in a mailbox. The questions and the answers are then projected on the wall for everyone to see. Two public talks are held and filmed; “Sex and Power” and “Theme Erotic Literature”. The art project "Kiss" (an interpretation of the song of Songs) by the priest and artist Kent Wisti and the author Maria Küchen can also be seen in the exhibition.

Slutrapport från projektet "Högskolebibliotekets roll i en inkluderande lärandemiljö" vars syfte var att förtydliga vilken roll högskolebiblioteket spelar för breddad rekrytering och retention, samt att öka kunskapen och medvetenheten om detta bland bibliotekspersonalen. I rapporten ges exempel på arbetsformer för att utveckla bibliotekets bemötande och pedagogiska verksamhet gentemot en heterogen studentgrupp.