Utvecklingen av det digitala folkbiblioteket - När visionerna liknar verkligheten
(2006)Division of ALM and Digital Cultures
- Abstract
- As the way of communicating and accessing information has changed radically over the
past decade so has the way the public libraries operate to reach the citizens. In these
times the demands of what a public library should be and offer the visitors have
changed. One should have the option to access the digital public library at any given
hour of the day, from anywhere in the world and at least have the same possibilities of
information as the visitors at the non-digital, "real" library.
In this Master's thesis we will analyze and discuss the condition of the Swedish digital
public library of today, 2006, and the forward thinking work with the issues of
development in this matter. In order to do this we set out to examine the... (More) - As the way of communicating and accessing information has changed radically over the
past decade so has the way the public libraries operate to reach the citizens. In these
times the demands of what a public library should be and offer the visitors have
changed. One should have the option to access the digital public library at any given
hour of the day, from anywhere in the world and at least have the same possibilities of
information as the visitors at the non-digital, "real" library.
In this Master's thesis we will analyze and discuss the condition of the Swedish digital
public library of today, 2006, and the forward thinking work with the issues of
development in this matter. In order to do this we set out to examine the attitude
towards the public digital library among the staff at a small number of Swedish public
libraries and their supporting institution, the county library. Moreover, the attitudes
defined have been compared to the actual status of the services and medias at the public
library websites.
In conclusion, we have detected a certain standardization of what the digital public
library consists of today. All libraries examined have an idea of what the digital public
library should be, which is in line with their visions and their mission statements for the
development. The visions are often very meager, and the issue is rather the absence of
visions than achieving the goals set up by the vision.
The absence of visions can be explained by various causes. The public library is very
much on their own in the development of their digital issues. There are very little
guidelines of what the digital public library should be. The supporting institution, the
county libraries, seems to suffer the same problem. There are however examples of
libraries with great visions and highly developed e-services as a result of competent
staff and good economic resources, but this is mainly concentrated to the larger cities. (Less)
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- author
- Carlsson, Maria and Hall, Erik
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2006
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- Det digitala folkbiblioteket, det digitala biblioteket, hybridbibliotek, audioteknik, visioner, MP3, e-tjänster, e-media, The Digital Public Library, The Digital Library, Hybrid Library, Audio Technology, Visions, e-services, Documentation, information, library science, archivistics, Arkiv- och bibliotekskunskap, dokumentation
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1329364
- date added to LUP
- 2006-09-27 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2014-04-11 14:16:52
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abstract = {{As the way of communicating and accessing information has changed radically over the
past decade so has the way the public libraries operate to reach the citizens. In these
times the demands of what a public library should be and offer the visitors have
changed. One should have the option to access the digital public library at any given
hour of the day, from anywhere in the world and at least have the same possibilities of
information as the visitors at the non-digital, "real" library.
In this Master's thesis we will analyze and discuss the condition of the Swedish digital
public library of today, 2006, and the forward thinking work with the issues of
development in this matter. In order to do this we set out to examine the attitude
towards the public digital library among the staff at a small number of Swedish public
libraries and their supporting institution, the county library. Moreover, the attitudes
defined have been compared to the actual status of the services and medias at the public
library websites.
In conclusion, we have detected a certain standardization of what the digital public
library consists of today. All libraries examined have an idea of what the digital public
library should be, which is in line with their visions and their mission statements for the
development. The visions are often very meager, and the issue is rather the absence of
visions than achieving the goals set up by the vision.
The absence of visions can be explained by various causes. The public library is very
much on their own in the development of their digital issues. There are very little
guidelines of what the digital public library should be. The supporting institution, the
county libraries, seems to suffer the same problem. There are however examples of
libraries with great visions and highly developed e-services as a result of competent
staff and good economic resources, but this is mainly concentrated to the larger cities.}},
author = {{Carlsson, Maria and Hall, Erik}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Utvecklingen av det digitala folkbiblioteket - När visionerna liknar verkligheten}},
year = {{2006}},
}