This study aims to understand the selection of media that shapes the classics sections of Stockholms public libraries. Using a hermeneutic approach and texts by Sainte-Beuve, Eliot and Coetzee, the study interrogates a list of all media placed in the classics section from angles pertaining to genre, language and time. The study also compares the se...
Previous studies have shown that social workers in public libraries in the United States are beneficial for improving the work environment of the library staff, referring patrons to social service agencies, or assisting patrons in crisis. In 2021, the first library social worker was employed at a Swedish public library, Stockholms City Library. In ...
This study aims to uncover the effects that the implementation of the media management system IMMS, a floating collection and centralised acquisitions has had on the professional identity of the librarians at Biblioteken i Malmö (BiM). The data collection method used is semi structured qualitative interviews with librarians and the data has been an...
This master’s thesis is a case study investigating the career and ideology of Virginia Carini Dainotti, a librarian working in twentieth-century Italy who played a significant role in Italian librarianship. This study has been carried out through textual analysis and is primarily based on the material written by Carini Dainotti herself, including b...
Sweden has a growing population of individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds, many of whom belong to minority groups. Public libraries serve the mission of being accessible to everyone, regardless of background, origin, or identity. Amongst Swedish library institutions, there is an evident desire and goal to become more relevant to the diverse ...
Med färre platsbaserade kontor att ta sina frågor till kommer allt fler besökare till folkbiblioteken för att få stöd och assistans. Enligt tidigare forskning agerar folkbiblioteken som medborgarkontor, där de hanterar ärenden utanför deras uppdrag och deras kompetens. Forskning har även visat en koppling mellan denna typ av arbete och emotional la...
This master thesis investigates how the Swedish regional libraries are perceived as support for public libraries in their work with competence development and the libraries' ability to utilise this support. It focuses on the strategies, and obstacles involved in implementing new knowledge following the activities. The thesis uses mixed methods, in...
The aim of this thesis is to examine how librarians at Swedish public libraries view the seed library in the context of the public library's contemporary role in society. In order to gain a broader understanding of what is meant by contemporary public libraries I start from the concept of Library 2.0. By interviewing staff who work with the seed li...
Introduction: The first aim of this study is to gain more knowledge about why public libraries choose to organize reading groups for adults. The second aim is to shed light on the possible transformative potential of public libraries’reading groups for adults. Method: Semi-structured interviews with six librarians at Bibliotek Uppsala were conducte...
