Biblioteket om biblioteket: En studie om hur den fysiska biblioteksmiljön uttrycker biblioteks verksamhetsidéer
2012 (Swedish)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (One Year))
Student thesisAlternative title
The Library on The Library : A study of how the physical library environment expresses the library plan (English)
Abstract [en]
The subject of this thesis is studying how physical library
environments express ideas on the function of the library, as
stated in guiding documents. The “physical library” is
defined as everything inside the library building, and
excludes the library architecture, focusing on things like
furniture, furnishing and the arrangement of physical media.
The two questions asked in this thesis are: What aspects of
the idea of a public library’s function, as expressed in the
guiding documents of the library, are possible to study in the
physical library environment? In what ways can these
aspects be studied in the physical library environment?
The study of the thesis is divided into two parts, a “prestudy”
and a “main study”. In the pre-study aspects are
identified by reading guiding documents from different
public libraries, and analysing the result together with
previous studies on physical library environments. In the
main study three Swedish public libraries (located in
Helsingborg, Åstorp and Klippan) are visited, and their
environments are studied based on theory on what items and
means of expression can influence the experience of the
library function.
The four aspects that are identified in the pre-study are
culture, education, accessibility, and development.
According to the results of the main study, culture is
expressed in the library environment through aesthetics,
education through the environment being inviting and
stimulating for studies, accessibility by the environment
being inviting, functional and democratic, and development
by modernity. It is also concluded that the aspects are
interrelated to each other.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
University of Borås/Swedish School of Library and Information Science (SSLIS) , 2012.
Series
Magisteruppsats i biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap vid institutionen Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap, ISSN 1654-0247 ; 2012:15
Keywords [en]
styrdokument, kultur, utveckling
Keywords [sv]
biblioteksmiljö, verksamhetsidé, upplevelse, utbildning, tillgänglighet
National Category
Social Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-16478Local ID: 2320/10901OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hb-16478DiVA, id: diva2:1308366
Note
Program: Bibliotekarie
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