ICA SBA 17: Lars Ilshammar, National Library of Sweden

Lars Ilshammar from the National Library of Sweden on how digitization changes how library works and how it views itself.

Anders Sjöman

15 May. 2017

In this presentation from the ICA SBA 17 in Stockholm, Lars Ilshammar, Deputy National Librarian from the National Library of Sweden (Kungliga Biblioteket) talks about how digitization affects not just how the library works, but how it views itself.

Also, watch Lars participate in the panel "Sharing corporate stories with the public".

Photos from Lars's presentation:

Lars Ilshammar, vice riksbibliotikarie på Kungliga Biblioteket. Foto: Linus Sundahl-Djerf

Dagens andra panel, "Sharing corporate stories to the larger public", med paneldeltagarna (från höger), Deirdre McParland, arkivarie på Electricity Supply Board (ESB) Archives, Irland; Lars Ilshammar, vice riksbibliotikarie på Kungliga Biblioteket, Sverige; och Fredric Karén, chefredaktör på Svenska Dagbladet. Foto: Linus Sundahl-Djerf

About the ICA SBA conference
The ICA SBA conference is an annual conference for business archives, organized by the International Council on Archives’ (ICA) Section on Business Archives (SBA). The April 2017-edition was organized by the Centre for Business History in Stockholm.

See all films and presentations from the conference here.

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