New Frontiers In Public Library Research

Pulls together research results from Scandinavian public library researchers on current public library issues, including how public libraries are facing and dealing with the various professional challenges of modern society. Contributors tackle topics as wide ranging as the challenges of serving a multi-cultural society, new library media and services, internet services and new trends in library management. This collection of articles also includes library history works focusing on the relationship between public library ideas and practices in the USA and the Scandinavian countries.

Introduction: Public Library Research in the Nordic Countries

1

(10)

Carl Gustav Johannsen and Leif Kajberg

Part I Digital Public Libraries

Librarians' Experiences of Introducing the Internet in the Public Library: A Study in Southern California

11

(14)

Ulla Arvidsson

Web-Based Community Information Services in Public Libraries

25

(18)

Marianne Hummelshaj

A Poem Lovely as a Tree? Virtual Reference Questions in Norwegian Public Libraries

43

(18)

Tord Høivik

Implications of the Concept "Samhällsinformation" for the Public Library Field in Sweden

61

(16)

Karen Nowé

Part II Library Management and Valuation

The Public Library, Networked Information Resources and the Concept of Learning Center

77

(20)

Trine Schreiber

Valuation of Public Libraries

97

(14)

Svanhild Aabø

Between New Public Management and Ethics: Library Management under Cross-Pressure

111

(16)

Carl Gustav Johannsen and Niels Ole Pors

Part III The Challenges of the Multicultural Society

Usability Studies and Focus Groups as Methods for Developing Digital Public Library Services in a Multiethnic Society

127

(16)

Ågot Berger

National Identity as Cultural Policy with Emphasis on the Library as an Institution

143

(12)

Andrew Cranfield

The Intercultural Encounter between Danish Public Libraries and Ethnic Minority Users

155

(16)

Hans Elbeshausen and Charlotte Werther

Classification of Religious Literature: Some Thoughts on the Dilemmas of Universalism

171

(14)

Kasper Graarup

Ethnic Diversity in Danish Public Libraries

185

(26)

Bo Christensen Skøtt

Part IV The Historical Dimension

Architecture and Design of Danish Public Libraries, 1909-1939: Between Tradition and Modernity

211

(18)

Nan Dahlkild

Foreign Influence on the Development of the Danish Public Libraries with Emphasis on the Association Denmark's Popular Book Collections, 1905-1919

229

(20)

Martin Dyrbye

Institution, Modernity and Discourse: Three Perspectives on Public Library History

249

(20)

Laura Henriette Christine Skouvig

Part V Professional Identity

The Meaning of the Public Library in People's Everyday Life: Some Preliminary Results from a Qualitative Study

269

(16)

Ellen-Merete Duvold

The Public Library as a Social Field

285

(22)

Henrik Jochuinsen and Casper Hvenegaard Rasmussen

Users' Library Discourses

307

(22)

Sanna Talja

Part VI Issues and Perspectives

The Heritage of Public Librarianship

329

(8)

Michael K. Buckland

Research Perspective

337

(4)

Sandra Parker

Summing Up: Practitioner's Perspective

341

(8)

Ruth Ørnholt

Index

349

(12)

About the Contributors

361

(6)

About the Editors

367

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