The day dawned cold and rainy. Christina picked me up at 8.30 and I went to work with her for a while. Then we went for a drive to the seaside (in blustery conditions) before I caught the 1p.m. train back to Stockholm.
Had an appointment with Inga Lunden, the head of the Stockholm public library who had been a keynote speaker at the ALIA Conference in Alice Springs, at 3p.m. However, I got a bit lost when I got out of the underground and was a little late. Luckily I stumbled across Inga and the two Latvian librarians who I had met in Gavle , heading for the coffee shop.we chatted there forabout an hour, and then Larry , the head of the International Library, which caters for other languages and is beside the Central Library showed us around its three floors.
I then went in to the Central Library and looked around myself. It is an interesting round traditional building with non-fiction books all around a central rotunda area where librarians answer questions and people check out their items. Has rooms going off the side of the rotunda containing all different types of material, a children's area, downstairs etc. the building was designed by a famous Swedish architect and new plans for extending and building new wings are in progress.
I had a cheap meal at a kebab place nearby before setting off back to Christel and Lennart's house. Christel was visiting her grandchildren, so was not home until later. I had another early night as Friday was promising to be big, with Christel taking me to visit her library in Solna and we had to make an early start.
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