Barnbibliotek på Internet en granskning av fyra barnbibliotek på Internet i Sverige och USA

Abstract

Barnens bibliotek, a Swedish Childrens Library on the Internet with a nationwide assignment is compared to three Childrens Library in the USA with local assignments. All four Childrens Libraries on the Internet are compared in terms of content, form, purpose and if they stimulate childrens intelligences according to Howard Gardners theory about multiple intelligences. Three different instruments are used to review the websites. The instruments are created on the basis of literature and the website Barnens bibliotek. To complement these instruments, written interviews are performed with librarians responsible for each reviewed website. All of the libraries have the same kind of content, which focus on learning and providing information. All of the Childrens Libraries on the Internet have several links. The form on the different websites looks a bit different from each other. One of the websites has a web structure while the others have a hierarchic structure. The different Internet based Childrens Libraries are all good at stimulating the linguistic intelligence. The largest differences between the libraries included in the study, when it comes to Gardners theory of intelligences, are the way they stimulate the interpersonal intelligence.