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The article points out that the rise on borrowing and visiting libraries in Denmark is an anomaly in Europe*, which is a pity. It also rightly identified that the number of events, reading groups and a good selection of books are key to get people into libraries. IMHO, the other important factor is the digital side. It's extremely easy to see what books are available and to order from libraries across the whole country on the bibliotek.dk website.
And once you're in the library to collect one thing, it's easy to pick up a few more...
*Citation needed
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/114946331036135197
Ruth_Mottram - Last year Danes borrowed 23.6 million paper books from public libraries, plus music, film, games digital loans, with 32.5 million in person library visits. It's increasing annually too.
I'm not surprised, Danish libraries are wonderful, everyone should have this.
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/bibliotekernes-udlaan-stiger-tredje-aar-i-traek-vi-elsker-laese-papirboeger

"Why Libraries Should Invest in Visual Design" @ Katina Magazine: https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/future-of-work/2025/why-librarians-should-invest-in-visual-design
"As libraries face f…

A few days back I tweeted and blogged about the brand-new RFC 9839, and also published the first draft of tiny Go library to help enforce the subsets defined in the RFC. Got lots of useful input on the library and have progressed it enough to do a v0.8.0 release: https://github.com/timbray/rfc9839…

GitHub - timbray/rfc9839: Go-language library to check for problematic Unicode code points
Go-language library to check for problematic Unicode code points - timbray/rfc9839

The ArborX library: version 2.0
Andrey Prokopenko, Daniel Arndt, Damien Lebrun-Grandi\'e, Bruno Turcksin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23700 https://arxiv…

The ArborX library: version 2.0
This paper provides an overview of the 2.0 release of the ArborX library, a performance portable geometric search library based on Kokkos. We describe the major changes in ArborX 2.0 including a new interface for the library to support a wider range of user problems, new search data structures (brute force, distributed), support for user functions to be executed on the results (callbacks), and an expanded set of the supported algorithms (ray tracing, clustering).

Full on autumn weather & mood today, so went to the library, followed by a short hike in the rain...
(St. Mang monastery, Füssen)
#Photography #Library #StMang

Last year Danes borrowed 23.6 million paper books from public libraries, plus music, film, games digital loans, with 32.5 million in person library visits. It's increasing annually too.
I'm not surprised, Danish libraries are wonderful, everyone should have this.
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/bibliotekernes-udlaan-stiger-tredje-aar-i-traek-vi-elsker-laese-papirboeger

Audio library - Some sounds are just too cool not to share
#MusicianTips #Sounds4MusicMaking
https://…

Audio library - Some sounds are just too cool not to share
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Literally one of the best use cases for the Switch 2 mouse. https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2025/07/nintendo-expands-switch-onlines-snes-library-with-a-mouse-game

"The AI powered Library Search That Refused to Search"
https://aarontay.substack.com/p/the-ai-powered-library-search-that