EAHIL Conference 2006

Lars is a remarkable person. Reference librarian, project manager, early blogger, journalist, freelancer, father of three children, and always engaged and curious. He resides at Umea University, 649 km north to Stockholm. He started a swedish blog back in 2001 keeping up to date with internet course instructions. His English language blog "Nowhere North" got major public reputation by blogging notes from this EAHIL conference. As always, this was more accidentally than planned... He just wanted to keep notes from the conference to deliver them afterwards to his colleagues instead of writing a boring report.
"I need to know, what it is, what promises the software or resource hold and which not", he stated when asked why using blog software. "We have to be like the google people: Always be curious, open-minded, and try everything. Actually we're better than them (except the salaries) because we're structured and they're not." And he concludes: "Librarians should be geeky - much like the computer nerds, but in a positive way: We talked to each other."