Sekvenskonst eller skräp? Bibliotekariers inställning till tecknade serier för vuxna på Malmös och Lunds stadsbibliotek.
(2002)Division of ALM and Digital Cultures
- Abstract
- The purpose of the following thesis has been to study librarians' attitudes towards comics for grown up people. I have compared the attitudes among the staff in two public libraries in Sweden, Malmö public library and Lund public library. I have conducted five interviews with librarians and observed how the comics are handled in each library. I have also carried out a literary study of the history and theories of comics. Initially a definition of comics is presented, and then an overview of the development of comics and of some theories regarding them is offered. This is followed by a brief review of comics in Swedish public libraries. In the concluding discussion I present an explanation of how librarians attitudes towards comics are... (More)
- The purpose of the following thesis has been to study librarians' attitudes towards comics for grown up people. I have compared the attitudes among the staff in two public libraries in Sweden, Malmö public library and Lund public library. I have conducted five interviews with librarians and observed how the comics are handled in each library. I have also carried out a literary study of the history and theories of comics. Initially a definition of comics is presented, and then an overview of the development of comics and of some theories regarding them is offered. This is followed by a brief review of comics in Swedish public libraries. In the concluding discussion I present an explanation of how librarians attitudes towards comics are reflected in each of the two libraries in the exposure, budget and acquisition of comics. Furthermore, I question the extent of the knowledge about literary theories concerning comics which librarians posses. The conclusion is that the librarians in Malmö and Lund have a positive attitude towards comics for adults, but there is, especially in Lund, a lack a profounder knowledge about them and the literary theories connected to them. I recommend that if libraries want to see departments for comics that are functioning well, it is necessary to engage librarians with a special interest in comics. (Less)
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- author
- Svanbrink, Lina
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2002
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- tecknade serier, attityder, folkbibliotek, Documentation, information, library science, archivistics, Arkiv- och bibliotekskunskap, dokumentation
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1333955
- date added to LUP
- 2002-01-19 00:00:00
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- 2014-04-11 14:17:08
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abstract = {{The purpose of the following thesis has been to study librarians' attitudes towards comics for grown up people. I have compared the attitudes among the staff in two public libraries in Sweden, Malmö public library and Lund public library. I have conducted five interviews with librarians and observed how the comics are handled in each library. I have also carried out a literary study of the history and theories of comics. Initially a definition of comics is presented, and then an overview of the development of comics and of some theories regarding them is offered. This is followed by a brief review of comics in Swedish public libraries. In the concluding discussion I present an explanation of how librarians attitudes towards comics are reflected in each of the two libraries in the exposure, budget and acquisition of comics. Furthermore, I question the extent of the knowledge about literary theories concerning comics which librarians posses. The conclusion is that the librarians in Malmö and Lund have a positive attitude towards comics for adults, but there is, especially in Lund, a lack a profounder knowledge about them and the literary theories connected to them. I recommend that if libraries want to see departments for comics that are functioning well, it is necessary to engage librarians with a special interest in comics.}},
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language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Sekvenskonst eller skräp? Bibliotekariers inställning till tecknade serier för vuxna på Malmös och Lunds stadsbibliotek.}},
year = {{2002}},
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