Ett steg längre. Folkbibliotek och högskolebibliotek i ny samverkan.
(2005)Division of ALM and Digital Cultures
- Abstract
- The aim of this Master's thesis is to discuss and analyse co-operation between public and academic libraries. The political changes that were initiated during 2004 have come to alter the conditions for Swedish libraries. The Swedish library law was changed at the 1st of January 2005 and co-operation between libraries is now statuary even if there is no description of how the new mission is to be executed. At the same time an extensive report about the Royal Library and its role as the Swedish National Library was presented. This report also recommended an increased co-operation between different types of libraries. Besides this the two ministries of culture and educations were merged bringing all library issues into one organisation. The... (More)
- The aim of this Master's thesis is to discuss and analyse co-operation between public and academic libraries. The political changes that were initiated during 2004 have come to alter the conditions for Swedish libraries. The Swedish library law was changed at the 1st of January 2005 and co-operation between libraries is now statuary even if there is no description of how the new mission is to be executed. At the same time an extensive report about the Royal Library and its role as the Swedish National Library was presented. This report also recommended an increased co-operation between different types of libraries. Besides this the two ministries of culture and educations were merged bringing all library issues into one organisation. The outspoken political will to bring the two types of libraries closer to each other is a result of a wish to give the citizens an equivalent library service in the whole country and at the same time find a more effective use of the economical resources. The first part of our Master's thesis deals with these recent changes and aims to explain why this is happening right now.
Alongside the developments on the national level there is another parallel development in progress within the regions. The government's initiatives with focus on life long learning that started ten years ago have forever changed the work and routines in all Swedish libraries. The increased number of students has forced public libraries and academic libraries to co-operate in order to meet the demands of the new user groups. The second half of this thesis focuses on the regional development and within a case-study presents Swedish as well as international examples of library co-operation.
The main focus lies on three successful Swedish projects where different kinds of libraries have found new ways to co-operate. In our view each of them in their own way has contributed to renew the picture of library co-operation. They are Sambiblioteket in Härnösand, a joint-use library where three different libraries co-exist in the same building, the library cooperation in north-eastern Skåne and Bibliotek Värmland. In the two last examples all the libraries in a region are working together to meet over the boundaries.
This thesis shows that library co-operation is best carried out within a geographically limited region, where all participants have something to win in co-operating with the surrounding world. In an area where the economical development is weak co-operation can be a way to survive. But co-operation demands time, experience and an involved guidance to succeed, and all staff also needs to be engaged in the process. A national framework is in our opinion essential to meet the demands of the new learning society and thereby maintain an equal and democratic access to library services in the whole country. (Less)
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- author
- Ekman, Nanna and Sjöberg, Hanna
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2005
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- Humanities, Joint-use libraries, Public libraries, Library co-operation, Academic libraries, Humaniora
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1330928
- date added to LUP
- 2005-06-08 00:00:00
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- 2014-04-11 14:16:53
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abstract = {{The aim of this Master's thesis is to discuss and analyse co-operation between public and academic libraries. The political changes that were initiated during 2004 have come to alter the conditions for Swedish libraries. The Swedish library law was changed at the 1st of January 2005 and co-operation between libraries is now statuary even if there is no description of how the new mission is to be executed. At the same time an extensive report about the Royal Library and its role as the Swedish National Library was presented. This report also recommended an increased co-operation between different types of libraries. Besides this the two ministries of culture and educations were merged bringing all library issues into one organisation. The outspoken political will to bring the two types of libraries closer to each other is a result of a wish to give the citizens an equivalent library service in the whole country and at the same time find a more effective use of the economical resources. The first part of our Master's thesis deals with these recent changes and aims to explain why this is happening right now.
Alongside the developments on the national level there is another parallel development in progress within the regions. The government's initiatives with focus on life long learning that started ten years ago have forever changed the work and routines in all Swedish libraries. The increased number of students has forced public libraries and academic libraries to co-operate in order to meet the demands of the new user groups. The second half of this thesis focuses on the regional development and within a case-study presents Swedish as well as international examples of library co-operation.
The main focus lies on three successful Swedish projects where different kinds of libraries have found new ways to co-operate. In our view each of them in their own way has contributed to renew the picture of library co-operation. They are Sambiblioteket in Härnösand, a joint-use library where three different libraries co-exist in the same building, the library cooperation in north-eastern Skåne and Bibliotek Värmland. In the two last examples all the libraries in a region are working together to meet over the boundaries.
This thesis shows that library co-operation is best carried out within a geographically limited region, where all participants have something to win in co-operating with the surrounding world. In an area where the economical development is weak co-operation can be a way to survive. But co-operation demands time, experience and an involved guidance to succeed, and all staff also needs to be engaged in the process. A national framework is in our opinion essential to meet the demands of the new learning society and thereby maintain an equal and democratic access to library services in the whole country.}},
author = {{Ekman, Nanna and Sjöberg, Hanna}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Ett steg längre. Folkbibliotek och högskolebibliotek i ny samverkan.}},
year = {{2005}},
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