Information innanför murarna- en studie av fängelsebibliotekariers uppfattningar om informationsförmedling till interner
(2008)Division of ALM and Digital Cultures
- Abstract
- The aim of this study is to investigate variations of conceptions among prison librarians, concerning mediation of information from an ethical perspective. We have performed interviews with nine librarians and used the phenomenographic approach when analyzing the material. Sixteen categories of conceptions were found, distributed on four aspects of the phenomenon, the act of mediating information to inmates. The results show a variety of conceptions among the librarians. The four aspects cover conceptions about the inmates as users of the library services in prisons, conceptions about the information need of the inmates, conceptions concerning policies, guidelines and laws and conceptions about information access in the prisons. Because of... (More)
- The aim of this study is to investigate variations of conceptions among prison librarians, concerning mediation of information from an ethical perspective. We have performed interviews with nine librarians and used the phenomenographic approach when analyzing the material. Sixteen categories of conceptions were found, distributed on four aspects of the phenomenon, the act of mediating information to inmates. The results show a variety of conceptions among the librarians. The four aspects cover conceptions about the inmates as users of the library services in prisons, conceptions about the information need of the inmates, conceptions concerning policies, guidelines and laws and conceptions about information access in the prisons. Because of the variety of conceptions, we come to the conclusions that the area concerning the act of mediating information to inmates from an ethical perspective is problematic. (Less)
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- author
- d' Aubigné, Katarina and Ehnevid, Katja
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2008
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- Fenomenografi, fängelsebibliotekarie, informationsförmedling, informationsfrihet, censur, yrkesetik, Documentation, information, library science, archivistics, Arkiv- och bibliotekskunskap, dokumentation
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1317864
- date added to LUP
- 2008-06-25 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2014-04-11 14:16:59
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abstract = {{The aim of this study is to investigate variations of conceptions among prison librarians, concerning mediation of information from an ethical perspective. We have performed interviews with nine librarians and used the phenomenographic approach when analyzing the material. Sixteen categories of conceptions were found, distributed on four aspects of the phenomenon, the act of mediating information to inmates. The results show a variety of conceptions among the librarians. The four aspects cover conceptions about the inmates as users of the library services in prisons, conceptions about the information need of the inmates, conceptions concerning policies, guidelines and laws and conceptions about information access in the prisons. Because of the variety of conceptions, we come to the conclusions that the area concerning the act of mediating information to inmates from an ethical perspective is problematic.}},
author = {{d' Aubigné, Katarina and Ehnevid, Katja}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Information innanför murarna- en studie av fängelsebibliotekariers uppfattningar om informationsförmedling till interner}},
year = {{2008}},
}